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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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Design Ideas for Integrating 3D Printing in K-12 Classrooms
I teach a course at the University of Ottawa called Integrating Technology in Classrooms to second-year teacher candidates. At this point in the program, our candidates have completed months of evaluated practicum teaching experiences in schools, and have seen a lot of digital technologies used in classrooms for diverse purposes. So far, however, it has…
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Empowering Kids Online While Minimizing Risks
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Pedagogical Designs for Digital Literacies Learning in Schools
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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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Digital Hub Q & A for B.Ed. Students
If you’re a B.Ed. student at UOttawa designing a Digital Hub, but at this moment feel like you would benefit from a little guidance, and the opportunity to hear other students’ questions…please join our Q & A session on Zoom. When: Wednesday, February 28, 2018 at 2 PM Eastern time. Where: https://zoom.us/j/6711552822
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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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Destination: Mars
My friend Lisa Lewis who teaches Chemistry at Albion College in Albion, Michigan shared this terrific way to be a part of the Insight Mars Lander program. Members of the public can add their name to a list that will be onboard the Insight Lander when it sets course for Mars in May 2018. I…
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Open Houses and Parent Teacher Conferences: Tips for Teacher Candidates
One of the most memorable and useful professional learning workshops I did as a classroom teacher focused on building constructive parent-teacher relationships. The independent school at which I then worked hired Dr. Michael Thompson, a psychologist, to help us (the teachers) think deeply about who independent school parents are, who their children are, and how,…