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Day 62 (of 2025/26) December Book Review: The AI Experiment by Dr Stacie Chana— @staciechan Building With AI, Not Against It – #tEChursdAI early! As someone who has long embraced emerging technologies—and who openly jokes about our future robot overlords—I approached The AI Experiment by Dr Stacie Chana with a curiosity about where this would…

Day 61 (of 2025/26) 3 education news stories to close off November! With a sad #movember anniversary a look at secularism in Quebec, being late, and it’s not just me saying we need more comic books in schools! It took me a fortnight extra to be ready to do one more share – honouring the…

Day 60 (of 2025/26) #tEChursdAI – does chatgpt dream of 0s and 1s or ABCs thanks @nymag Once upon a time, “Do Andorids dream of Electric Sheep” by Philip K Dick questioned the ‘humanity’ and intelligences of non-biological entities… spurred up a bit from the wonder “Is ChatGPT Conscious” by the NewYork Magazing: https://archive.ph/64V8s Here…

Day 59 (of 2025/26) Wizards of the West Coast – Dungeons and Dragons as an English Language Arts Unit Gamification of learning in a very real sense. Raise your avatar right and graduate early!?! Okay, maybe a tad ambitious – but there is a lot of thinking, creating, communicating, critical thinking, story building, immersion, oral…

Day 58 (of 2025/26) #movember final push @movemberCA @heylandsbert @sicknotweak @menshealthfound https://movember.com/m/ianlandy?mc=40 Again, I am not good at pushing for funds… even though I know the donations through things like Hoops for Heart, Jump rope for heart, Terry Fox, etc etc etc have brought together research that meant my cardiac experience was much more positive…

Day 57 (of 2025/26) body doubling… This week we are going to more broadly launch a live support module for our online learners… body doubling… What is Body Doubling? Body doubling is a productivity technique where simply working in the presence of others—physically or virtually—helps a person stay focused, motivated, and on task. It doesn’t…

Day 56 (of 2025/26) 3 news stories that seem a bit more ‘attack focused’ than should be in education… 1. What is a “professional degree” – definitely a focus on female majority professions…hmmm…. https://www.timesnownews.com/world/us/us-news/full-list-of-degrees-no-longer-considered-professional-by-trumps-education-department-nursing-and-accounting-article-153187736 and this impacts: How much of a student loan can be obtained; which means more will turn to private loans and…

Day 54 (of 2025/26) A new media for language arts…? And practice for #chrkennedy prompt engineering! D&D… Dungeons and Dragons… in the late 20th century, was feared and banned. I am thrilled that it has become more than just accepted in the 21st century, but even encouraged and thriving and allowing other roll playing modules…

Day 53 (of 2025/26) #toontuesday have you considered Manga? My first encounter with maga was not a traditional way… I stumbled upon my first one while expanding my comic collection as a teen: Lone Wolf & Cub was a westernized edition that caught me up in its story. But it wasn’t the same as the…

Day 52 (of 2025/26) grades clarified based on @ibogost view on grades via @theatlantic  Grade inflation – a neat article by Ian Bogost, but I think one that could use a bit of … extra information… https://apple.news/AGyQDkTXZQJGolepJCHOFWQ One of the strategies that has helped students do better on tasks (this on reports where the focus…