Technolandy

Day 33 (of 2024/25) first they came for the audio jack… next was the “C” button… @theatlantic @ibogost I enjoyed this read from the Atlantic’s Ian Bogost… https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/10/iphone-broke-its-calculator/680271/  the loss of the “C” button in the most recent update of the calculator to iOS 18… the one that clears the input… although, from my own…

Day 32 (of 2024/25) #personsday in Canada – and thanks to @Buzzfeed for a share It was October 18th, 1929 that the government of canada finally recognized women as “persons”. It has not yet been a hundred years since this attempt at gender equity… and pretty clear that we haven’t reached equity quite yet… As…

Day 31 (of 2024/25) @shakeoutbc I do an annual assembly associated with ShakeOutBC’s Earthquake awareness campaign: https://youtu.be/Yk0SqOZJb10 I try to focus on each of the 3 major drills we need to do as a school/program – even though we are online and have mostly at-home learners… which is why we went live and allowed others…

Day 30 (of 2024/25) wait – what… a gap year before the final two years if high school? That would ruin 5 year graduation rates… but… I did NOT know that Ireland had a gap year option in the middle of secondary school… https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2024/oct/16/ireland-school-secret-transition-year-off-curriculum So let me get this ‘experiment’ right… for the past 30-50…

Day 29 (of 2024/25) Learning Leadership session: M&M Icebreaker & spirals Check in based on M&M candies! Red = something about yesterday; Orange = something you do well; Yellow = something about your childhood Blue = something you learned last week Brown = something you can’t live without Green – something you watch or listen…

Day 28 (of 2024/25) on Canadian Thanksgiving And Thanksgiving was a Canadian thing before the United States adopted the similar celebration.  But… as systemic discrimination hides in plain sight, we ought to be aware of: So we can be thankful for where we are and what the future has in store for us, but we…

Day 27 (of 2024/25) #WorldMentalHealthDay thanks to @heylandsberg for the reminder of #sicknotweak @sicknotweak  World Mental Health Day on October 10 aims to raise awareness and spotlight the importance of mental health education on a global level. The Ministry of Education and Child Care’s Mental Health in Schools Strategy has resources available to support the…

Day 26 (of 2024/25) school playgrounds… perspective plus climates… Our K-12+ school is predominantly an online learning school that supports home based learners with in person learning opportunities… so that means we don’t have a few things. No library and no playground. We are playing around with the library by exploring a comic book/graphic novel…

Day 25 (of 2024/25) @TheSpaceGal reignites Emily’s Science Lab I love following the adventures of “The Space Gal” aka Emily Calandrelli on the social medias… can’t wait to see her shares from space – yep, gets to be an astronaut! She recently she turned her experiments from Emilys Wonder Lab (10 episodes on Netflix) to…

Day 24 (of 2024/25) Comic Book Library Share: Uncle $crooge – my favourite titles in my collection – hopefully a favourite in our school library! Thanks @jasonaaron and @theatlantic and @rosehorowitch Comic books are important portals into building rigour into reading… a recent Atlantic article https://apple.news/AVNDbZdXnSLKRA0DRN8qkKQ complained about the lack of ‘big books’ being read…