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New Article: Digital literacies learning in contexts of development
In July of 2018, the International Development Research Centre of Canada invited me to conduct an external review of key findings in a set of 44 reports of research on digital learning. The reports, funded between 2016 and 2018 were incredibly diverse in their methods, questions, and findings. That report (currently in press with the…
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Pedagogical Designs for Digital Literacies Learning in Schools
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New Resource: Choose a Path that Includes Math Website
The Province of Ontario has just launched a new resource for teens, their parents and for teachers. Focused on the many ways that we use math in school, in careers and in life, the Choose a Path that Includes Math website is a super useful toolkit of resources for helping teens make choices that will…
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TC Question: “How do I create a digital hub without feeling like a shameless self-promoter?”
Teacher candidates have asked me this question in a variety of ways. Sometimes, they say they’re not comfortable putting themselves “out there”. Other times, they tell me they’ve never really shared their ideas publicly before, and this makes them nervous. Sometimes, they say they just want to keep their thoughts private. In conversation with experienced…
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LittératiesNumériques.ca | DigitalLiteracies.ca
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The Canadian Institue for Digital Literacies Learning
The Canadian Institute for Digital Literacies Learning | L’Institut canadien pour l’apprentissage des littératies numériques is an exciting blended learning experience for Canadian K-12 teachers focused on exploration, collaboration and innovation. For me, this Institute represents years of thinking, of working, of building understandings and developing relationships with scholars whose work has inspired me to…
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DigitallyLiterate.net
As part of an open research project on teachers’ uses of technologies to teach literacies in their classrooms around the world, Heather Woods, Ian O’Byrne and I created the Teaching Literacies with Technology Survey. We posted it on our website, DigitallyLiterate.net last spring and have shared it out, inviting responses for about 5 months. Based…
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Teachers Teaching Teachers @UOttawaEdu
The final week of the teacher education program is upon us at the University of Ottawa Faculty of Education — and it is punctuated by a two-day series of professional learning seminars for teacher education candidates. I’ll be presenting to a group of students today on online inquiry. My presentation brings together some of my…
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Using Social Media for Patient Advocacy and Learning: A conversation with Rebecca Hogue
I spent some time speaking with Rebecca Hogue @rjhogue this morning about the e-patient advocacy work she does on her blog http://bcbecky.com Rebecca is a Doctoral Student at the University of Ottawa and her dissertation will document and analyze the impact of her blog on readers. It’s important, inspiring work that sits at the intersections…