Articles in Technologies for Learning
Shoreline Project connects the local and global
I grew up in Alberta and part of my story of becoming Québécois includes the year I spent on the Îles de la Madeleine working as a Language Monitor at the Polyvalente des Îles. In …
Leveraging Fortnite in Education: What can educators learn from games?
Fortnite has quickly become all consuming for many of our youngsters in 2018. They play for hours on end, discuss complex strategies at lunch tables, worship the ritualized character “dances”, will do whatever chores you ask …
Supporting the (Online) Student as Individual
This year, I had the opportunity to work directly and almost daily with the online teaching team at LEARN. My job: to facilitate and guide (heaven help them!) the design, development and delivery of our …
Teacher Reflections on LEARN’s Self-Paced Blended Learning Year 1
This is Part 2 of a two-part post. You can read the first part here.
My last post described the creation stages and final product of our first year in what we called the Self-Paced Blended …
Avoir le courage d’être vulnérable
Alors qu’un jour, des collègues et moi, tous conseillers pédagogiques en intégration des TIC (technologies de l’information et de la communication), étions animés d’un grand enthousiasme lors d’une rencontre, j’ai lancé une question dont les …
Preparing Students for an Ever-Changing Workforce
Our students are living in a period of rapid global, cultural and technological change, all of which impact not only their daily lives, but also their futures. In fact, students today live in a time during which simply being “good” at school …
She Said, He Said: On Makerspaces
Last year, LEARN started exploring the idea of Makerspaces as a way to increase students’ engagement in school. The idea itself is not new. Originally incubated by hackers and computer tinkerers, Makerspaces have taken hold …
Film and your Students: Exploring NFB Campus
Most would agree that there are two organizations that for several decades have helped to tell and shape Canada’s story: the CBC and the NFB. In a media landscape dominated by the U.S., it is increasingly important that …
The Students Have Spoken: Virtual Communities & Changing Learning Styles
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Editor’s note: Happy New Year 2016!
In our second edition of The Students Have Spoken, LEARN turned once again to its online students to get their authentic voice on a few pertinent questions. This time, we asked two questions to …
Learning to Code is Learning to Learn
Are we preventing students from accessing a basic education by denying them the opportunity to learn to code and program in school? Is “Learning to Code” as important as learning to read, write and understand …
