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Day 152 (of 2025/26) a #tEChursdAI check in on Bans Canada is weighing a social media ban for under-16s. Here is how that experiment is playing out in the first country to try it — Toronto Star As much of an advocate and believer I am in #edtech, I don’t disagree with scaffolded guided, gradual…

Day 151 (of 2025/26) The benefits of D&DThanks to CBC News and Simon Little for this great article on “goblin therapy” Loved this article on the therapeutic benefits of Dungeons & Dragons and neurodivergent learners: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/dungeons-and-dragons-kids-therapy-neurodivergence-9.7178879 I loved playing D&D growing up. I’m less certain I love being the Dungeon Master. But don’t tell my…

Day 150 (of 2025/246) my annual ‘anxiety rant’ with an update to include AI (in italicized bold) – social media additions in italics This is my annual rant on anxiety. I have worked with ‘these’ learners for years and even have one at home! It’s not ever easy, but I have had many successes. It’s…

Day 149 (of 2025/26) May the Fourth Be With You May the Fourth has become one of those delightfully odd school-day phenomena: once a quiet wink between a few nerdy educators, now a full hyperspace jump into classrooms everywhere. It is also, unexpectedly, a pretty useful metaphor for learning. One of the persistent myths in…

Day 148b (of 2025/26) in space nobody can hear you… – a wordless graphic novel: Viewfinder by D.U. Chung and Salwa Majoka ( @dudechung & @salwa.majoka ) I’ve been loving hearing reactions to wordless graphic novels. We’ll actually be exploring this in a session at our upcoming Comic Con. My librarian daughter highly recommended Viewfinder…

Day 148a (of 2025/26) Dear Teachers – a share on James Patterson love letter to teachers (thank you “co”-author Matt Eversmann Huh. Nobody’s story highlighted finding the right textbook and curating the perfect exam that worked for all learners to be successful because of the single set of explicit instructions… I kid. I appreciated Pattersons…

Day 147 (of 2025/26) #BCEDL on #tEChursdAI Yes – the conference focused on distance and digital and online learning is hybrid, but does encourage the in-person opportunity as the connections continue to be a lot easier when in lineup for a coffee refill than in a breakout room… we trust that at some point the…

Day 146 (of 2025/27) evolution of eThinking Those of us who have seen the benefits of technology augmenting meaning and helping reframe the many ways that learning can be shine… other than tests and essays…  vs https://www.ctvnews.ca/ottawa/article/ontario-tech-restrictions-could-mean-no-phones-on-school-grounds/ I mean, it is one way to avoid disruption… ban it and hope it goes away. Though I…

Day 145 (of 2025/26) #GreatPoetryReadingDay and a shoutout to @crashtestdummiesofficial @ctdsband I like to recount a story connected to poetry… I was in my first year English class tutorial at UBC and our prompt was to discuss Earle Birney’s “The Bear on the Delhi Road” https://canpoetry.library.utoronto.ca/birney/poem4.htm  – and I thought that I would finally be…

Day 144 (of 2025/26) rigor.  Loved this share I heard to start the week: Partners In Education sometimes has “too much flexibility” There’s a familiar refrain drifting through staff rooms and comment sections: kids today have less. Less stamina. Less focus. Less grit. Maybe. But that feels like diagnosing the weather by looking at one…