Five Top Tips to Empower Personalized Learning
9th August 2019 -Classrooms are more diverse than they’ve ever been. But with each a melting pot of students with different strengths, challenges, as well as language and numeracy abilities, it can be difficult for teachers to cater to every student’s needs. That’s where personalized learning can really come into its own, helping students take ownership of their learning while allowing teachers to confidently support different learning styles.
Continue ReadingGiving a voice to MathematiCAL thinking from the Australian Outback
24th July 2019 -Meet Callaghan (Cal) Shepherd, a 10-year-old self-confessed maths nerd who was introduced to EquatIO for the first time this week.
Continue ReadingA Year (and a bit) with Assistive Technology
10th July 2019 -This is a guest blog post from Deanna Toxopeus, an Itinerant Teacher of Assistive Technology at Ottawa Carleton District School Board. The original can be found on Deanna's personal blog: Muffins and Shenanigans.
A little over a year ago my son was diagnosed with as being gifted, with a learning disability. Specifically, he struggled with short term memory. And, like many people with LD, organization is a challenge. I joke that God doesn’t even know where the papers my son is supposed to bring home from school have gone. I then comment that apples don’t fall far from trees, as I am also gifted LD, although my LD is in spelling.
Continue ReadingHave you POURed enough into website compliance?
2nd July 2019 -Every organization strives to provide excellence in customer service and we know that your customers and service users are at the heart of everything you do, but does your website live up to your standards?
In this blog, we identify what it means to make sure your website is perceivable, operable, understandable, and robust. In other words, truly accessible.
Continue ReadingSpeakers Flexed their Flexibility Muscles at ISTE 2019
1st July 2019 -With ISTE 2019 come and gone, it’s now time to reflect on what we learned and what takeaways we want to bring back to our communities.
The theme of this year’s conference was “bold educators activate change”. So in reflecting, I asked myself what I learned about bold educators. What do bold educators look like? What are their attributes? How do they impact their classrooms and students? Based on the sessions I attended, I kept coming back to one answer to all those questions: flexibility.
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Continue ReadingSHRM19: I look forward to work because…
26th June 2019 -Did you attend SHRM this year? Read more about our research and key takeaways in our wrap up blog.
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