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“What’s the deal with teachers’ obsession with Twitter?”
It’s a question I often get from student teachers. Twitter? What’s the deal with teachers and their obsession with this platform? Why not Instagram or Snapchat or something else? Given all of the fundamentally problematic issues with this platform including the fact that it can feel like an avalanche of information, that it is full…
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Launching the Digital Hub Strategy: Fall 2017
Students in the Teacher Education program at the University of Ottawa will be expected, for the first time this fall, to create a professional website that documents their development as teachers. Faculty members have piloted this project over the past couple of years and in the spring of 2017, we gathered some survey data from…
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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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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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Quand je serai grande…
While cleaning out my youngest daughter’s backpack yesterday on the last day of school, I discovered this picture. For those who don’t read Kindergarten French, it says, “When I grow up… I will be a teacher.” I thought I would share this here to say thank you to all of the teachers in my children’s…
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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…