Kirsten Ries 🌻

@mrsriesedu.bsky.social

International Educator from 🇦🇺 | LS Tech Coordinator @American School in London 🇺🇸🇬🇧 | Student Agency | Seesaw Certified Educator | GoogleEd2 | Common Sense Educator | CoSpacesEdu Ambassador | Canvassador | MEd Digital Innovation👩🏻‍💻👩🏻‍🏫🌏 #lifelonglearner

What an amazing Canva Community Share this afternoon with Canva for Education! Walking home with a huge smile on my face 😄 That’s the spirit of “Empower Everyone” in action 💪 Here’s to more creativity, collaboration, and courageous clicking with Canva! 💻🎨📚 #Canvassador #CanvaEd

A large group of teachers look toward a screen learning about DreamLab AI in Canva A girl with a big smile on her face wearing a Canva T-shirt A TV screen showing a slideTeachers learning in a workshop on Canva Bulk Create

#CommonSenseMedia released their Census for 2025: 0-8 Media Use Report. Some interesting similarities between 2020 & post-covid 2025 that surprised me. + More kiddos are gaming now, I do wish it broke down into detail what games. I’m sure we can make an educated guess. #MediaBalance #DigCit

The 2025 Common Sense Census: Media Use by Kids Zero to Eight

This year's report confirms that American kids are digital from day one, from the devices they navigate to the videos and games they consume.

commonsensemedia.org

BETT UK 2025✨ Day 1 was a blast! Starting with the Canvassador brekkie, tech user lab with Google & Gemini, & a huge highlight @aimafidon.bsky.social & Sir Stephen Fry in the Keynote; my Q being answered by Dr Imafidon 🙌 huge fan of her book She’s in Ctrl - check it out. 🔜 BETT Friday with Ss ✨

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Used the Reality Composer app to 3D scan models of sustainable buildings, researched, designed and built by 4th graders, to upload the 3D object files into #CoSpacesEdu to bring their buildings to the scale of a real city. Ss then got to walk through their city for the future 🏙️

A screenshot of a CoSpace scene, with share code: WTR - GSA. A sign post states “welcome to Grade Four Ville our city for the future”.

I'm so excited for Hour of Code with Ss this week! While #HourOfCode activities are amazing, it can sometimes take some maneuvering for Ss to find an activity that doesn't require an additional download, log in etc. So I've created some choice boards. I will link them all to this thread 🔗 #EduSky

A purple, pink and blue techy looking landscape slide with hour of code in the middle, and the date 9 -13th December 2024.

Virtual Reality & Immersive Education workshop with our research partner; Angela Strunks. Our lower school faculty had a 2-hour workshop this morning to dive into what virtual reality is, and how it can used as a tool for making empathic connections & global citizenship education. #ClassVR #vr

Angela Strunks, a pioneer in virtual reality education, presenting to lower school faculty at the American school in London. A teacher tries out the “walk the plank” experience within a VR headset with Angela next to him guiding him through the experience. Teachers are collaborating and trying out VR headsets during a professional development workshop.