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Top 10 Issue #225, April 19, 2019
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Dear Thought Leader,
Welcome to the Easter long weekend edition of This Week in Canadian EdTech Top 10 brought to you by the MindShare Report.
There is no shortage of insightful and inspiring K12 & post-secondary learning & tech news from across our vast Canadian landscape and beyond this week.
Be sure to checkout our featured podcast of the week: Lia De Cicco-Remu, Director, Teacher Engagement Strategy, Microsoft Education Canada.
Save the date! Going to ISTE19? Email me to join us at our16th CanAm Celebration of Excellence Meetup, Tuesday, June 25th, Philadelphia, PA
We hope you enjoy this week's edition of This Week in Canadian EdTech Top10! Thanks for inspiring us to raise the bar with every issue we publish! Don't forget to send us your comments, news stories and upcoming events!
Until next time, keep the digital learning curve steep!
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P.S. I'm honoured to be participating in the Tech4Good hockey tournament with the Cisco Blades! Connected North is a breakthrough program leveraging interactive, high definition video to deliver education and youth mental health and wellness services to students in Indigenous communities in Canada's remote north. On April 27th, 2019, I will be among 300 players who will hit the ice at the Sixteen Mile Sports Complex in Oakville, Ontario to help raise critically needed funds to enable the program to serve more communities and add more schools and students to the network. You can help support me by making a secure online donation using your credit card. Click on the link below:
https://secure.connectednorth.org/registrant/FundraisingPage.aspx?RegistrationID=4376943#&panel1-2
Help us bring this new learning model into communities that need it most. By coming together, we can be a powerful force for change! Whatever you can do is appreciated! Thanks for your support! R.
Robert Martellacci, M.A. EdTech
President, MindShare Learning Technology™
Chief Digital Publisher, The MindShare Learning Report™
Founder, MindShare Workspace
Co-founder & President C21 Canada™
Follow us on Twitter @MindShareLearn
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| Featured Podcast of the Week: Lia De Cicco-Remu, Director, Teacher Engagement Strategy, Microsoft Education Canada |
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This Week in Canadian EdTech
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Robert Martellacci, Founder & Chief Digital Publisher, MindShare Report and Stephen Hurley, Founder of VoicEd Radio tackle the hot issues of the week in learning & innovation simulcast on VoicEd and twitter (Periscope)
Listen to VoicEd Radio Stream here!
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1. Canada aims to attract more international students by expanding presence overseas
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globalnews.ca, April 14, 2019 |
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OTTAWA — Canada plans to attract more international students by expanding its presence overseas in an effort to advance classroom diversity and boost economic benefits that already amount to billions per year.
The economic effects of foreign students nearly doubled between 2010 and 2016, when they reached a total of $15.5 billion in Canada for everything from tuition fees to rent and groceries, according to a federal analysis.
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2. Ford government stopping university, college profs from 'double-dipping'
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www.cbc.ca, April 16, 2019 |
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University and college professors will no longer be allowed to "double-dip" by drawing a full salary and pension simultaneously, if legislation proposed by Premier Doug Ford's government passes.
The provision is contained in Finance Minister Vic Fedeli's omnibus budget bill, which would change 61 different pieces of legislation, including the Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities Act.
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3. Trading tuition for a slice of future income
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Canadians who are interested in learning to code but are short on cash can now trade a stake in their future earnings for an education.
Toronto-based HackerYou College of Technology is launching a new payment option known as an Income Share Agreement, an arrangement that essentially enables a student to go to school for free in exchange for handing over a predetermined portion of their earnings later on.
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4. 4-H Canada Launches the Discover Science Initiative
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Yorkton This Week, April 10, 2019
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4-H Canada is pleased to announce the launch of its newest club outreach initiative Discover Science, offering 4-H youth members the unique opportunity to develop their skills and interest in the area of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM).
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5. BEYOND LOCAL: We need to change how we assess literacy, experts say
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elliotlaketoday.com, April 13, 2019 |
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Large-scale testing, or what many know as standardized testing, often carries important consequences for students. The results of large-scale tests may be used by schools or policy-makers to make important decisions such as grouping students by ability or assessing how well schools are doing.
Yet when it comes to literacy testing, while the competencies of literacy have changed in our digital, globalized world, the methods that many educational systems use to assess literacy have not.
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6. Ten Canadian schools win $20,000 in new technology from Staples Canada for their environmental contributions
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newswire.ca.com, April 17, 2019 |
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RICHMOND HILL, ON, April 17, 2019 /CNW/ - Ten eco-conscious schools across Canada have each won $20,000 in new technology products from Staples Canada as part of the 2019 Superpower your School Contest. The $200,000 in technology awarded by Staples Canada will provide the winning schools with tools to support students' educational growth. The ten winning schools were chosen by an external judging panel that consists of environmental leaders for their commitment to helping the environment.
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7. TED 2019: Prize to online classes project causes controversy
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The TED talk organisers have announced the Audacious Project, a $280m (£215m) prize fund to be shared across eight projects it feels tackle the world's toughest challenges.
But already one of the recipients of the funding has been criticised.
Waterford Upstart plans to provide online pre-school education to 250,000 children in the US.
The Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood (CCFC) has called on TED to reconsider the award.
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8. Concordia hosts a knowledge exchange forum on accessibility in digital learning environments
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concordia.ca, April 16, 2019
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Traditional ideas of what constitutes a normative learning environment are quickly becoming a thing of the past.
For today’s universities to be as inclusive and accessible as possible, all options have to be considered — including questions of physical design and digital pedagogical tools for people with disabilities.
With this in mind, Concordia is putting on a two-day knowledge exchange forum that will examine issues of accessibility and inclusivity in digital learning environments.
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9. Tech with a social conscience: Why you should care
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The Globe and Mail, April 17, 2019 |
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President and vice-chancellor of Ontario Tech University in Oshawa, Ont.
Want to be a tech entrepreneur? The sage wisdom is to start by solving a problem.
That is what university students Hamayal Choudhry and Samin Khan did. Through their startup smartARM, they created a 3D-printed robotic prosthetic hand for amputees that costs less than $1,000. The smartARM team competed in and won the worldwide competition, Microsoft Imagine Cup, becoming the first team to bring the award to Canada. The bionic arm invention by smartARM is a great example of tech with a social conscience.
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10. Education Technology Market to Witness Huge Growth by 2024 |
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marketresearchperiodical.com, April 17, 2019 |
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The global education technology market is expected to witness a CAGR of 15.4% to reach revenue of $34.10 billion by 2024
North America, followed by Europe, is leading the education technology market.
“Global Education Technology Market Report 2019-2025” helps the clients to take business decisions and to understand strategies of major players in the industry. The report also calls for market- driven results deriving feasibility studies for client needs. MarketInsightsReports ensures qualified and verifiable aspects of market data operating in the real- time scenario. The analytical studies are conducted ensuring client needs with a thorough understanding of market capacities in the real- time scenario.
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