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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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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,…
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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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“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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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…