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Beyond the Screentime Debate: NCTE Panel Presentation
With colleagues, I will be adding my perspectives on children and screentime to an important session at the NCTE Annual Convention in Houston, TX today. From our proposal: “There are legitimate concerns about children’s physical, intellectual, and emotional well-being; yet conversations about screentime focus predominantly on the time spent on devices, often overlooking fundamentally important…
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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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Presentation for students from Central China Normal University
I have the privilege to learn with some students from Central China University who are visiting the University of Ottawa this week. Link to my presentation Photos to follow 🙂
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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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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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Workshop: Designing a Scholarly Digital Presence (for Graduate Students)
(English version below) J’ai eu le plaisir de présenter un atelier sur la conceptualisation d’une présence numérique à plusieurs étudiants aux études supérieures à la Faculté d’Éducation hier. En bas je partage les diapos qui ont encadré nos discussions. Questions que les participants ont posées Q: La sécurité: Comment me protéger en ligne? R: Quelques…