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Day 159 (of 2024/25) #TCAF #booktok share: Hockey Girl Loves Drama Boy by Faith Erin Hicks @faitherinhicks  Another of the First Round of Featured Guests coming to Toronto Comic Arts Festival,  she has also written Adventures of Superhero Girl, Pumpkinheads, One Year at Ellsmere, and Ride on. But the most recent is Hockey Girl Loves…

Day 158 (of 2024/25) #TCAF #booktok share: Ducks by Kate Beaton @kate.beaton @beatonna  Excited to be getting closer and closer to the Toronto Comic Art Festival ~ where I am excited to share the work I’ve done, and results I’ve seen to have a Comic Book library in my online school’s physical building in Powell…

Day 157 (of 2024/25) May 17th is the International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, and Transphobia #idahobit Who are the people in your neighbourhood – a great song and saying I still remember from my early years watching Sesame Street.  Despite significant progress, LGBTQIA+ people continue to face challenges in accessing their basic rights. The last…

Day 156 (of 2024/25) MooseHide Day Are you fasting? This is one way to show support. Are you walking? This is another way to show support. Are you wearing a piece of MooseHide? This too is a way to show support. Are you thinking about ‘why’ this day happens? On May 15th we come together…

Day 155 (of 2024/25) can we talk about mental wellness without using screens? I know school jurisdictions everywhere are implementing “bans” on personal screens in the hope that it would make things better – yet I do not see a sharp/any decrease in mental wellness concerns – bullying is still a regular topic… counselling resources…

Day 154 (of 2024/25) I love clickbait like this: 18 Basic Life Skills Schools Don’t Teach Anymore Let’s take a look at this ‘article’ about the remarkable transformation education has undergone…spoiler: more of a wish-it-was than ‘actuallities’  https://www.msn.com/en-ca/lifestyle/lifestylegeneral/18-basic-life-skills-schools-don-t-teach-anymore/ss-AA1yEUlY?ocid=entnewsntp&pc=U531&cvid=d24b434f4ac84a94a72a408d273d5c85&ei=72#image=1 Is there something from the before times that you wish schools still taught to all? What is…

Day 153 (of 2024/25) The holding of secrets… building off of Chris Kennedy’s share on the placing of PVPs… Chris Kennedy’s weekly-ish blog is always worth reading. Today’s was taking on the topic that is being discussed in many districts right now – the placing and moving of Principals and Vice Principals: https://cultureofyes.ca/2025/05/12/the-art-and-science-of-placing-principals-and-vice-principals/ My only…

Queens – AI as teacher assistant Try * Learn * Share (triangle, not linear) And students should know and be able to identify why they are using AI (and use manners to our future robot overlords USING AI IN CURRICULUM DESIGN Automate course overviews and unit plans Curate & differentiate content (e.g., reading levels, student…

Day 151 (of 2024/25) Digital Learning Symposium 2025 Keynote: A Metarelational Approach to Technology Dr Vanessa Andreotti Power of Place and Land; Warning of dangers of colonialism; we are all relations! Humans and non-humans…<— hmm, what is ‘humanity’ when compared to AI? What makes ‘us’ different? (Me, not keynote!) Sketchnote time!  Session 2: Supercharge Online…

Day 150 (of 2024/25) My Rant (anniversary edition with comments about Personal Screens & AI) My Rant began awhile ago… ten years ago since my ‘edited’ version: https://technolandy.wordpress.com/2015/05/01/day-150-of-188-my-anxiety-rant-edited-continued-blog4mh-anxiety/ and most of my philosophy has remained pretty much the same ~ though as the years evolve, and technology becomes more interwoven into everything we do… or…