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Week 7 (August 10th-14th, 2015): Robotics & Artificial Intelligence

  AcadeCoders Presents: Robotics & Artificial Intelligence This week’s AcadeCoders blog will feature all of the contents that the AcadeCoders provide in relation to the tasks given among the topics of robotics and artificial intelligence. Robotics and AI are prominent topics in society from various field of medicine, industry, software, and

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Week 6 (August 4th-7th, 2015): App Building

  Welcome to the AcadeCoders App Building Blog! This blog will display all of the AcadeCoders hard work in building apps and games via JavaScript throughout the entire week; complemented with an array of photos and descriptions. Various trending apps and games are designed by using JavaScript and the AcadeCoders get

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Week 5 (July 27th- July 31st, 2015): MinecraftEDU Viking Theme

Day 1 (July 27th, 2015) The basis of this week’s theme is to introduce campers to Viking themes and challenges. The campers are being split into two teams where they will face various challenges and games to build the best possible Viking Empire before they raid each other! After the

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Now Offering Summer Courses!

Summer credit courses can make it possible for all learners to achieve their individual potential! Académie de la Capitale’s summer credit courses apply the expertise, principles, and rigour of Académie de la Capitale’s day-school programme to accelerated credit programmes. Our tutors are highly specialized educators that offer individualised tutoring for

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Week 4: HTML/CSS

  This week, the AcadeCoders learn the wonderful coding language of HTML/CSS! HTML/CSS is the standard markup language used to create web pages. It is written in the form of HTML elements consisting of tags enclosed in angle brackets (like <html>). HTML tags most commonly come in pairs like <h1> and</h1>,

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Week 3 (July 13th-17th, 2015): JavaScript

This week, the AcadeCoders learn the wonderful coding language of JavaScript! JavaScript is a dynamic programming language. It is most commonly used as part of web browsers, whose implementations allow client-side scripts to interact with the user control the browser, communicate asynchronously,  and alter the document content that is displayed.

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AcadeCap Teacher and Staff Blogs

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Teachers' Blogs

Learning to take Notes

Learning to take notes is a very important skill. Many older children have difficulty taking notes and putting information they read into their own words. I often ask students to explain to me what their notes mean, and many times they are unable to do so. When this happens, I

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Classroom learning and student collaboration at Acadecap
Teachers' Blogs

L’ADN, notre carte d’identité biologique.

Les apprenants de 7 et 8 années ont travaillé sur un projet transdisciplinaire Français/Science intitulé : L’ADN, notre carte d’identité biologique.Ce projet étant en lien avec leur unité de classe de Français ‘nos racines identitaires’.#PSSP #french #DNA Source:: PSSP & OSSD

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Students involved in innovative educational activities
Teachers' Blogs

Unit Summative

​We wrapped up the first unit last week, and the students did their end of unit summative. They presented all their work from the unit in an organized and creative way. One student for example displayed his work on string that was attached to the ceiling, which he pulled down,

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Teachers' Blogs

October is Dyslexia Awareness Month

​Dyslexia is a neurobiological learning disability that affects about 23 % of Canadians. People may have difficulty with reading despite having normal intelligence and eye sight. Children benefit from a supportive teacher using a direct, multisensory, and systematic approach to reading instruction, such as with the Orton-Gillingham approach. This October,

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Students engaged in innovative classroom learning activities
Teachers' Blogs

Strengthening our ATL Skills

The Approaches to learning (ATL) are grounded in the belief that learning how to learn is fundamental to a student’s education. There are five categories of interrelated skills and associated sub-skills support students of all ages to become self-regulated learners. The Grade 2/3 students worked on developing their communication skills

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Students participating in hands-on educational experiences
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La journée du chandail orange

Dans le cadre de l’enseignement d’Histoire et de l’unité 1 du cours de Français sur le thème des racines identitaires, la classe de 7/8 a organisé la journée du chandail orange. Les apprenants ont decidé de placer cette journée sous le signe du droit à l’identité pour chacun. ​Cela nous

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