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Day 6 (of 2025/26) #FASD Awareness Day shoutout to @canFASD @POPFASD @awareness_fasd  Friday September 9th – International FASD Awareness Day; a time to recognize and support individuals affected by Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder – Wear Red Shoes if you can and explore: www.fasdoutreach.ca  (BC’s provincial outreach program for FASD) and https://canfasd.ca/fasd-awareness-month/ 2025 Theme is Everyone…

Day 5 (of 2025/26) #mathmonday – highlighting the “Good Parts Edition” of senior math – History of Math 11 via Recreational Mathematics  I have a complicated history with mathematics… pun acknowledged based on the title.  I have loved math and hated it. Done very well with some part and realized the name was appropriate when…

Day 4 (of 2025/26) 3 news items education related:  @msn share on 5 things schools should be teaching… but… also a look at a cell phone ban in eastern canada… and Tylenol = ASD?!? To provide a counterpoint… here is where I think schools should focus on: Hmm – can we blend both individualizing education…

Day 3 (of 2025/26) welcome to #tEChursdAI ~ an introduction and shoutout to @kylalee for “AI Pioneers Meet Old Rules” Video: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DOMp855ko8u/?igsh=MWM5Nmt0NjZjbWV4ZQ== It started as T(ec)hursday to blend tech on Thursday classroom time. Integrating tech into much of what we did on that day of the week… then the # had to start up, and…

Day 2 (of 2025/26) Alberta book ban vs Margaret Atwood Video: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DOJ-f0JEvXh/?igsh=MXF2Zmhic2NmNTRnZQ== I love dystopian fiction (Atwood’s Oryx & Cracke is one of my all time favourites) but I really loved Atwood’s retort to the recent Albertan school library book ban… along with other similar books that feel more like ‘hiding the blueprint to authoritarianism’…

Day one-ish (of 2025/26) @ShaneSafir Pedagogies of Voice with @ejeducation (Saswan Jaber) @_crystalmwatson and @marlobagsik Can’t wait to see some of the pushback as Safir continues to unravel a personalized approach to data and education that really hits at the bedrock of the system that works for most… many?… some…? But really wasn’t ever meant…

Day one-ish  (of 2025/26) — the days of learning blog continues… year 13 I appreciate West Vancouver superintendent @chrkennedy (cultureofyes.ca) pointing out a few years back that this daily blog was a bit of an ‘iron man’ streak… as a baseball rn, I was always in awe of the longevity of Orioles Cal Ripken Jr…

Zero Hour (of 2025/26) schoolpunk future education/society thinking inspired by @willrich45 Will Richardson  Video: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DOFZ3shkTUs/?igsh=cG96NGhwYmNnOG00 I admit that I am looking forward to the future. While I hear many other Gen Xers (and +/-) complain about ‘youths today’ the same as our parents did… and was originally written down by Socrates a couple thousand years…

Day -1 (of 2025/26) influencers to know for education! Welcome to this New Media sampler package! Video: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DOElM6zkmkc/?igsh=MXA1ZGc5ZjR6Y2xxcw== My son once complained ‘if schools are supposed to prepare us for the future… why isn’t there a class about youtube?’ How to use it as a resource… how to monetize on it as a career (as…

Day -2 (of SOL 2025) Pre-Thinking about Goals & Rules… https://apple.news/Aew3SeXGlQ9GIo2EiggAI_g My bias goes to @theweirdteachers mantra: Be Cool. Video: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DN6p1htkrTV/?igsh=OW14bmF2aGRhdThv It also reminds me that rules for others also mean we gotta think about the rules for ourselves… and I got a little inspired while thinking about my personal/professional growth plan while watching this…