Comments for LEARN Blog – learning from each other and building a community https://blogs.learnquebec.ca/ The LEARN community of bloggers is made up of pedagogical consultants, teachers and other educators working on a variety of LEARN projects. Together, we represent a wide spectrum of professional experience and opinions about education in the 21st century, especially when it comes to the anglophone community of Quebec, Canada. Learn Teaching and Learning blog. Tue, 05 Mar 2024 18:23:11 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 Comment on On the Road Again by Craig Bullett https://blogs.learnquebec.ca/2023/06/on-the-road-again/#comment-5225 Thu, 29 Jun 2023 19:01:10 +0000 https://blogs.learnquebec.ca/?p=14263#comment-5225 It’s been quite a journey Ben and this post paints a beautiful picture of your positive impact on the English speaking community of Quebec (and beyond). Not bad for a kid from Alberta! Best of luck on your return to the classroom. The students are not better or worse than they were 15 years ago. They are just different…And, so are you!
You’ve got this Ben.
Dr. Seuss even guarantee’s your success at 98.75 %.
“Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting. So…get on your way”.

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Comment on From Teacher to Tutor by Audrey McLaren https://blogs.learnquebec.ca/2023/04/from-teacher-to-tutor/#comment-5223 Mon, 24 Apr 2023 17:51:31 +0000 https://blogs.learnquebec.ca/?p=13474#comment-5223 In reply to Christiane Dufour.

Thank you so much for reading Christiane, and for your insight!

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Comment on From Teacher to Tutor by Christiane Dufour https://blogs.learnquebec.ca/2023/04/from-teacher-to-tutor/#comment-5221 Tue, 18 Apr 2023 20:22:40 +0000 https://blogs.learnquebec.ca/?p=13474#comment-5221 What a wonderful look you have give us into you as a teacher, into the joy and excitement of teaching and the human quality of the student-teacher relationship. Computers will never give the students the wholesomeness of the experience. So glad you’re still around and kicking in education.

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Comment on The Demise of Twitter: We Can Handle This! by Audrey Mclaren https://blogs.learnquebec.ca/2022/11/12665/#comment-5216 Mon, 05 Dec 2022 23:18:28 +0000 https://blogs.learnquebec.ca/?p=12665#comment-5216 In reply to Craig B..

It took a while to build up those communities so it’ll probably be the same to rebuild. I’m confident we’ll stay connected Craig!

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Comment on The Demise of Twitter: We Can Handle This! by Audrey Mclaren https://blogs.learnquebec.ca/2022/11/12665/#comment-5215 Mon, 05 Dec 2022 23:16:21 +0000 https://blogs.learnquebec.ca/?p=12665#comment-5215 In reply to Rob Costain.

I too am on the wait list for post.news, as many of the journalists I follow are recommending it. I’m glad you found me, I’ll follow you right back!

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Comment on The Demise of Twitter: We Can Handle This! by Craig B. https://blogs.learnquebec.ca/2022/11/12665/#comment-5214 Thu, 01 Dec 2022 20:08:05 +0000 https://blogs.learnquebec.ca/?p=12665#comment-5214 Thanks for the insights on how to navigate these difficult times for online communities. I certainly want to steer away from hate and harmful people. I’ve been exploring Mastodon too but I do miss the connections and community we enjoyed on Twitter. Like many, I’m taking a pause from the bird app to see if things settle down. I hope I find you on some social media platform again (whatever that may be).

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Comment on The Demise of Twitter: We Can Handle This! by Rob Costain https://blogs.learnquebec.ca/2022/11/12665/#comment-5213 Thu, 01 Dec 2022 20:03:00 +0000 https://blogs.learnquebec.ca/?p=12665#comment-5213 Great post, Audrey! I’m still on Twitter for now, but based on recent events, I’m not terribly optimistic.

I set up a Mastodon account a few weeks ago, but I was at a loss to figure out how to rebuild the network of people I follow on Twitter from scratch. Thanks for recommending movetodon.org. It’s great. I found about 60-odd accounts to follow (including yours!). Although Mastodon is distributed, the different servers are federated, so you can find people on different servers and follow them.

I also put myself on the waitlist for post.news, which looks quite promising. We’ll see when they start accepting more new users.

Thanks for commiserating on the state of Twitter with us!

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Comment on How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Destroy What I Love by Michael Canuel https://blogs.learnquebec.ca/2022/06/how-i-learned-stop-worrying-destroy-what-i-love/#comment-5207 Mon, 04 Jul 2022 18:03:14 +0000 https://blogs.learnquebec.ca/?p=11856#comment-5207 I really enjoyed this blog…well done Michael. I wish more people would comment or add to the discussion. Blogs are meant to stimulate and provoke,

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Comment on Summertime Reads from the LEARN Team Vol. VII by Tim foreman https://blogs.learnquebec.ca/2022/06/summertime-reads-from-the-learn-team-vol-vii/#comment-5206 Tue, 28 Jun 2022 22:54:17 +0000 https://blogs.learnquebec.ca/?p=11805#comment-5206 Love it. Thanks gang! Incidentally, I read Maus (Danielle’s suggestion) three years ago, just before visiting the Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp north of Berlin. It was a profoundly moving experience. Maus should be required reading everywhere.

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Comment on Propagating our Mathematical Mindset by SYlwia Bielec https://blogs.learnquebec.ca/2022/05/propagating-our-mathematical-mindset/#comment-5204 Fri, 27 May 2022 13:44:33 +0000 https://blogs.learnquebec.ca/?p=11555#comment-5204 While I am not a math teacher, I ended up having to be one at home to my school-age daughter. We used manipulatives extensively at home, all the way through elementary. Most teachers stop using tactile learning tools after Cycle 1. However, developmentally speaking, students still need them for far longer to make sense of math concepts that, let’s face it, are quite abstract when divorced from their real world application. While method is certainly good to have (steps etc), it does not replace solid understanding, and being able to visualize the math in a real way. I would add that an in-between step for kids could be to draw pictograms of the problems they are trying to solve. I still do this.

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