-
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…
-
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…
-
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…
-
Créer une présence professionnelle numérique | Creating a digital professional presence
-
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…
-
Fear No More: Developing Digital Literacies for Courageous Citizenship
I have the privilege to present some ideas about digital literacies and digital citizenship to Ottawa-area teachers and preservice teachers at the University of Ottawa today. To download slides with my presenter notes, see below. I also include for you use the list of references that I used to write the talk. Download slides: digitalcitizenship_sept16_v1 References…
-
What do teacher candidates wonder about on their first day?
I started my first teaching job in September of 1996 and today, 20 years later, I had the privilege to welcome students at the University of Ottawa Faculty of Education to their very first class in their professional preparation program. The course I’m teaching this semester is about Curriculum Planning, Instruction and Assessment. It’s a…
-
Cult of Pedagogy.com Makes Me a Better Teacher
CultofPedagogy.com is a rich and powerful information resource for teachers at every stage of their career, which is why it makes me a better teacher. I like to think I remember the details of every stage of my own career — how it felt to be new to this profession, the questions I asked, and…