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Dear Thought Leader,
Where has the week gone? With the end of October and Halloween fast approaching, we’re thinking ahead to Media Literacy Week Nov 5-9.
Making sense of #fact vs. #fakenews is challenging for students and adults alike. It draws in all the global competencies and the C21 Canada 7C’s to make sense of it all such as communication, digital citizenship and critical thinking skills. I hope you as an educator take the time to celebrate Media Literacy Week and challenge your students with the many activities and lessons to instill ‘life ready’ skills!
I hope you enjoy this week’s top 10 and featured podcast with long-time friend and colleague, Doug Peterson, educator, blogger and EdTech guru.
I’m super excited to be preparing for a keynote at the 4th China Education Innovation Expo in November. I will be speaking on Canada's leadership in the area of 21st century skills and innovation.
Until next time, keep the digital learning curve steep!
Best,
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Robert Martellacci, M.A. EdTech
President, MindShare Learning Technology™
Chief Digital Publisher, The MindShare Learning Report™
Co-founder & President C21 Canada™
Founder & CEO, MindShare Workspace
Follow us on Twitter @MindShareLearn
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“Everyone benefits from inclusive online spaces that allow people to share their unique perspectives. If we want to build a friendly online culture for children and teens, we need to engage them as the next generation of users and creators.”
-Cathy Wing, Co-Executive Director of MediaSmarts
In honour of upcoming Media Literacy Week- November 5-9 2018
https://www.medialiteracyweek.ca/
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"Featured Podcast of the Week" |
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This Week in Canadian EdTech is Digital Storytelling
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This Week in Canadian EdTech with Robert Martellacci, Chief Digital Publisher, Mindshare Learning Report & Stephen Hurley, Founder, VoicEd Radio Simulcast on Twitter (Periscope & VoiceEd). Check us out every Tuesday at 10am est! |
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1. Doug Ford government cancels funding for post-secondary campus expansions in Brampton, Milton, Markham
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Global News - October 23, 2018 |
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The Doug Ford government has announced it will cancel more than $300 million in funding for planned university and college campus expansions in Brampton, Milton and Markham, citing a large multi-billion-dollar provincial budget deficit.
“Through our government’s independent commission of inquiry, we now know that Ontario faces a $15-billion deficit, about two and half times the estimate provided by the previous administration,” a written statement from Training, Colleges and Universities Minister Merrilee Fullerton read Tuesday evening.
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2. Nintendo president Reggie Fils-Aimé on Labo's educational potential
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Vancouver Sun- October 23, 2018 |
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Since its launch last April, Nintendo Co. Ltd’s line of Labo crafting games for Switch has inspired kids (and a few grown-ups) to create some pretty imaginative cardboard constructs.
The kits, which come with interactive in-game instructions to build some remarkably complex cardboard machines, from fishing rods to a rope-and-pulley robot suit, also feature a freeform mode called Toy-Con Garage that allows users to visually “code” behaviours into their handiwork, which has resulted in kids creating everything from working musical instruments to analogue clocks.
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3. University of Waterloo case highlights holes in Canada’s university innovation ecosystem
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The Globe and Mail- October 21, 2018 |
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In a dispute over patents, the University of Waterloo recently took legal action against an on-campus startup trying to commercialize a battery that could store power longer and more safely than standard lithium-ion batteries.
The university seeks a declaration that it owns patents which the students claim as theirs. The students invented the technology in a lab partly funded by an agreement between UW and an industry partner which gave UW ownership of the intellectual property generated from that funding. |
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4. Calgary opens testing area for drones, new technologies
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The Star - October 19, 2018 |
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CALGARY—The sky’s the limit as the city of Calgary opens what it believes is the first testing area in Canada for drones, autonomous vehicles and other technologies.
The city has set aside a 50-hectare site in its industrial southeast to offer airspace for an increasing demand from companies and educational institutions wanting to do mass tryouts of commercial drones.
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5. Students help to redesign school playground
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The Intelligencer - October 19, 2018 |
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If you’re going to build a playground, start by consulting the experts: the kids who’ll be using it.
Students and children in daycare at Georges Vanier Catholic School on Tracey Street spent Friday morning working with landscape design students from several post-secondary schools, as well as industry professionals, to redesign part of the playground.
It began with plans by officials of First Adventure Child Development Centre, who have a daycare program on school grounds, to upgrade their outdoor space in a small section of the schoolyard.
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6. Technology Gives Kids Lessons in Empathy
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Super Position - October 22, 2018 |
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Using the tools of technology, teachers promote empathy among students.
Educational technology (ed tech) is used in most classrooms in some form. Whether it is an app, software, or videos, ed tech encourages critical thinking and creativity. Now, ed tech is being leveraged to encourage socio-emotional learning and empathy.
Humans come equipped with an innate bias to empathize more with people who look like us. It is important to actively work to deconstruct this cognitive behavior in the classroom and highlight social impacts.
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7. Who's in control? U of T researcher examines why it's so difficult to disconnect from social media
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U ofT News- October 18, 2018 |
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Academics have spent the last decade studying connectivity and social media – a trend that has more than two billion people around the world on Facebook and counting.
For Tero Karppi, however, the focus has instead been disconnection.
“I always tended to go against the grain,” says Karppi, an assistant professor at the University of Toronto Mississauga’s Institute of Communication, Culture, Information and Technology who specializes in social media and media theory.
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8. Girls Learning Code Workshop teaches how to make art with math
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A parent in St. John's has started a new support group that offers resources for families with children who are deaf, hard of hearing or non-verbal.
Kimberley Churchill said when her family learned her son Carter was deaf, she didn't know where to turn. Carter was three months old, and she said there were no services in the city that taught children sign language.
Now seven-years-old, Carter still doesn't have the same resources or access that his brother Hunter has, Churchill said.
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9. Cannvas Adds Cannabis & Science Module to Cannvas.Me Education Platform - Exploring the Scientific Complexities of Cannabis
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CISION - October 25, 2018 |
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Cannvas MedTech Inc. ("Cannvas" or the "Company") (CSE: MTEC) (Frankfurt: 3CM), a leader in digital cannabis education and leading business technology company, is pleased to announce the addition of the Cannabis and Science module to the Cannvas.Me education platform, where those curious about the scientific complexities of cannabis can explore and learn about strains, the chemical makeup of the plant, and how the active compounds in cannabis make it a potential benefit to a healthy lifestyle.
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10. Want to Keep Students Enagaged? Ask, Don't Tell
Forbes- October 23, 2018
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Quick: Think about something new you learned in the last year. It could be anything – an improved swing, a management technique, a coding language, a recipe. How did you learn it? New research suggests it wasn’t through a lecture. Maybe a teacher asked you a great question that made you articulate something for the first time. Maybe you took something you learned, rolled up your sleeves, and used it to solve a different challenge. The essence, according to new research, is that you need to use learning for it to stick. |
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