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Day 91 (of 2025/26) Three news stories for this third week back in school this calendar year! Looking at: regressions in youth; no jobs in the future; Canadian banning youth on socials… Bonus! BC Teachers contract negotiations resume next week! https://apple.news/AvbYxYweyR4-VU4CyQ9NY7A wonder if we can tie it into Literacy Week…?!?

Day 90 (of 2025/26) #tEChursdAI thought on nostalgia Nostalgia has opopped up on me a couple times recently.  One shoutout came out that we can’t principal in the ways we did to kick off the 21st century… Another was when the Prime Minister called out and said that “nostalgia is not a strategy” – not…

Day 89 (of 25/26) Considerations for School… first principles of learning for the 22nd century There’s been a couple times I’ve encouraged staff to shift thinking from the needs of the 21st century learner (thank you Tony Wagner) and instead consider what is needed for the 22nd century. Admittedly influenced by a peak ast some…

Day 88 (of 2025/26) next week is literacy week – and first Tuesday #comicclub I do chuckle a bit that we spend a week looking at literacy, but not always at the new emerging literacies… so let me share my own plans for our Provincial Online Learning School to have available to log in and…

Day 87 (of 2025/26) #bluemonday – real or myth There are a number of things that feel real, despite what the evidence says.. full moons = crazier behaviour has been debunked… – injuries increasing after time changes for daylight savings on the other hand… confirmed.  Full moons decades of studies have failed to establish a…

Day 86 (of 2025/26) 3 news stories for the week; people misremembering the good old days of cheating; snow days; why teach English; and bc teachers contract… Are we actually worried about integrity—or just uncomfortable that cheating looks different now? 2. Snow days and perspective. My daughter confirmed that the Ontario snowstorm was definitely “close…

Day 85 (of 2025/26) #tEChursdAI look at the “A” in AI… from a chat I asked my digital collaborator: I have been shifting the definition of the A in “AI” from artificial to alternative, but what do you think of ‘ambient’ or ‘asynchronous’ – especially as the shift may be to enable more processing even…

Day 84 (of 2025/26) daydream believer https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/why-you-should-put-down-your-phone-and-daydream-instead/ar-AA1TO2vq Distractions come in many shapes and forms – and while the personal screen does a lot of this, I remain a strong advocate of boredom breaks and , as mentioned in this article, daydreaming – sometimes the kid looking out the window is more engaged than the student…

Day 83 (of 2025/26) the complicated life of some authors/cartoonists – Scott Adams… I enjoyed a lot of Dilbert over the years. The cartoon strip was a huge success and very popular (popular enough to even inspire a tv series). And unlike some (Bill Watterson) was heavily into merchandising the brand – Dilbert was even…

Day 82 (of 2025/26) #mathmonday – Math evolving in how we solve it…  Some thinking about math as we re-enter some thoughts connected to History of Math 11 (the best math ever for those of us who are called to the Arts more than the Sciences – especially as universities now welcome it… for the…