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Thinking Tech with new Teacher Candidates at the University of Ottawa
Ed Tech at the University of Ottawa Faculty of Education Back-to-school means I get to meet another group of new teacher colleagues this week. It also means I get to talk with them about our Digital Hub Strategy in the Faculty of Education and about Making as a promising pedagogical approach. I’ve put together two…
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Empowering Kids Online While Minimizing Risks
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New Publication: Implementing a Digital Hub Strategy
This fall, the Faculty of Education at UOttawa decided to formalize the requirement for all B.Ed. candidates to create a professional website. In this article, which I co-authored with Jessica Coleman who, at the time of data collection and writing was a B.Ed candidate herself, we document perspectives that informed the design of this programmatic…
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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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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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LittératiesNumériques.ca | DigitalLiteracies.ca
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The Digital Hub Project: New Data and Analyses
Many students in the University of Ottawa professional teacher preparation project have created professional digital portfolios as part of their program. This project was introduced at student orientation as an optional thing — not required of everyone, but encouraged. I created a website to support that work and some colleagues integrated the initiative into their…
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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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EdInnovation 2016 Summit
The EdInnovation Summit 2016 starts tomorrow and I’m looking forward to sharing two talks with local teachers, students, school administrators, technology integration specialists, College and University Faculty. Fear No More: Developing Digital Literacies for Courageous Digital Citizenship. In this talk, I invite teachers to think critically about how we define digital literacies in schools and…