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Dylan Ismail

@dylanclassmate.bsky.social

EdTech Coach @ Classmate. Creative. Learning Experience Designer. I visit classrooms for a living and write about what I find. 🗞️ Newsletter: classmate.team/chronicles 🎙️ Podcast: classmate.team/imaginethis

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Dylan Ismail @dylanclassmate.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

I have an opinion: Hexagonal Thinking should be a staple in every middle years classroom. Two Grade 7 classes spent two months proving it with an ancient civilization artifact remix project.

Hexagonal thinking poster comparing ancient egypt and ancient china.

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Dylan Ismail @dylanclassmate.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Months before the park, her class practises "I can" statements and short spoken messages until communicating is a skill they actually own. So outside isn't a free-for-all with iPads. It's five-year-olds who have something to say and the words to say it.

group of kindergarteners and their teacher on a beach. facing towards the water on a sunny fall day.

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Dylan Ismail @dylanclassmate.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Jen flips it. The students go with a role. At the @vancouveraquarium.bsky.social they showed up as filmmakers making animal advocacy documentaries. Each group had iPads, shot lists and a job to do. The aquarium became a source, not the destination.

close up picture of a shot list and how to explore the vancouver aquarium.

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Dylan Ismail @dylanclassmate.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Hey #edusky! I'm Dylan, an EdTech Coach in Vancouver, BC. Where are my west coast educators? The Classmate Team supports educators all over the lower mainland. At the end of the school year our team delivers gelato and sorbetto to all our partnered schools! This year we packed 500+ tubs! 🍦

Cooler full of tubs of mario's gelato. green sorbetto tubs and blue gelato tubs.

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