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Day 143 (of 2025/26) 3 News Stories you may have missed – no smoking for those born after 2008; screen time limits; Ontario financial literacy… (thanks @krushowy) Bonus wonder about Mythos… Bonus… doom? Anthropic announced an AI model so powerful, it’s not being released widely… Mythos is a neat example of the balancing act needed…

Day 142 (of 2025/26) #tEChursdAI look at the idea of leaning in… Huh? I only knew that for the test. Then I forgot all about it. <— I’ve heard (and said) that too often when recounting long term learning. With Ontario dusting off standardized final exams as their education post-season, it has me wondering about…

Day 141 (of 2025/26) #EarthDay A Conversation on Earth Day, Attention, and What We’re Still Deciding to See Human: Me: ugh day 141 is earth day – what ought I promote on the Wednesday blog… Will Richardson’s view/warning about the unsustainable future of our climate and ecosystem and how that ought to be the number…

Day 140 (of 2025/26) World Creativity and Innovation Day On World Creativity and Innovation Day, we tend to celebrate big ideas. The breakthroughs. The inventions. The “aha” moments that change everything. But in schools, creativity rarely looks like a lightning bolt. It looks like: Innovation isn’t always loud. Sometimes it’s a quiet refusal to do…

Day 139 (of 2025/26) 4/20 and the ongoing impacts of legalization… I’ve got biases. Mostly this one: the longer we can delay the use of substances, the better for neurological development. Full stop. But since the legalization of cannabis in Canada, I’ve been paying closer attention… and I’m not sure we’re looking in all the…

Day 138 (of 2025/26) 3 news stories you may have missed (but definitely should not have) Ontario returns final exams; A couple of provinces doing a business model look at school boards; teacher training timeframes…  Bonus: Canada Reads sees a book featuring The Cure for Drowning by Tegab Quin is a historical fiction novel that follows Kit McNair,…

Day 137 (of 2025/26) #tEChursdAI look at corrective eyewear… We’ve spent decades helping students see better. Now we’re worried about what happens when they can see too much.  Received a heads up from another online resource with a new alert – eyewear… specifically meta eyewear – smartglasses… an upgrade on my previous note of certain…

Day 136 (of 2025/26) 🧡 the visit with Shane Safir and Crystal Watson I feel very fortunate that our district is doing some work with Shane Safir around the book Pedagogies of Voice…  Our recent focus was looking at the 10 toxins that undermine learning… with the credo: we decolonize the classroom at every level.…

Day 134 (of 2025/26) Back to the Future? Or Inspired by Playoffs? – Ontario Education Edition New for 2026/27… a return to 1967. Inspired, perhaps, by playoff season, Ontario is bringing back the idea that learning culminates in a final exam — a single, time-bound performance on what someone else has decided is “most important.”…

Day 134 (of 2025/26)  a Clippy by another name… There’s something oddly familiar about the current moment in edtech. As Microsoft rolls out Microsoft Copilot across its ecosystem, I can’t help but think back to Clippy — that well-meaning paperclip that appeared when software became more complicated, not more intuitive. Clippy didn’t solve the problem.…