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Safer by Design : A call for teaching practices that empower young people to become more connected, critical and compassionate digital participants
It has never been more important to consider how we are centring connection in our work in Education. In this keynote talk, I offer some insights on how we might centre connection, critique and compassion in the work we do, systemically in schools to support learners. Resilience is a complex and multifaceted process — and…
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Workshop for Graduate Students: Peer Review as an Essential Academic Scaffold
Workshop: March 1, 2018 Audience: For Graduate Students at the Faculty of Education, University of Ottawa Conference: What if? Reimagining Education to Transform Learning, Teaching & Knowing Jean-Paul Dionne Symposium 2018 Faculty of Education, University of Ottawa Slides below — with embedded links to materials used during the workshop.
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Presentation at CSSE-SCEE 2017 (Ryerson University)
Entre les mois de décembre 2015 et avril 2016, j’ai fait une étude préliminaire sur le contexte d’intégration d’un outil technopédagogique qui s’appelle WIGUP (While I Grow Up) dans un conseil scolaire dans l’est de l’Ontario. Au cours de notre enquête, les participant.e.s ont identifié plusieurs facteurs contextuels qui ont influencé leur choix d’intégrer ou de…
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Ontario Makers, Mentors and Innovators Conference
I’m thrilled to be presenting today at the Ontario Makers, Mentors and Innovators conference (ommic.ca). The focus of my talk is on Maker Mindset and how, in schools and in teacher education programs, we might provide professional learning experiences for teachers that will enable them to develop a sense of Maker Empowerment so that they…
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Créer une présence professionnelle numérique | Creating a digital professional presence
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#EduFacForum: Building Capacity for Innovation
The Education Faculty of Education Forum in Toronto has given me an ideal opportunity to curate the set of initiatives that have started to take shape in this first year of my appointment at the University of Ottawa around the idea of “building capacity for innovation”. Around the poster, I have had several productive conversations…
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Literacy Research Association Conference 2015
This morning, I will be sharing part of my dissertation research at the Literacy Research Association conference in Carlsbad, California. The symposium is entitled: Students Constructing Meaning from Multiple Internet Texts: Processes, Pedagogies and Potential. I’m really happy to be presenting work alongside two other scholars whose work I admire, Michael Manderino and Michael DeSchryver.…
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Summary of Digital Literacies Research 2004-2014
UPDATED December 5, 2014. With my colleague, Hiller Spires from NC State University, I’ve just finished a review of digital literacies research published in a set of 10 literacies and educational research journals between 2004 and September, 2014. This study will be presented next week at the Literacy Research Association conference in Marco Island, Florida.…
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#AISLsi14 At the Center of IT All: Scaffolding Advanced Information Literacies for K-12 Students in School Libraries
I’m thrilled to be presenting at the Association of Independent School Librarians’ Summer Institute at John Burroughs School in St. Louis, MO. Already, this evening, I had such terrific conversations with colleagues over tapas and sangria about the importance of information literacies at every level of curriculum and in every discipline. I think it’s going…
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Infographic: How do Theoretical Frames in Literacies Fit Together?
This week, I’m presenting at a two-day workshop for the Association of Independent School Librarians. The title of the PD session is “At the Center of IT All: Scaffolding Advanced Information Literacies for K-12 Students in School Libraries”. One of the questions that the AISL wanted to explore through this PD session is one that…