CSBA President Floyd Martens will be speaking at the IoT Big Data Education Summit taking place October 17-18. This is a one-of-a-kind conference focused on challenges our education system is facing today and the opportunities and challenges of applying new technologies in education. Hear from senior educators from School Boards & Universities across Canada as…
Media Literacy Week takes place this year from November 7-11 across Canada. Canada’s youth are exposed to media content on a daily basis, and are continually asked to understand the “nature, techniques and impacts of media messages and productions”. Media education is essential to providing guidance to develop knowledge and critical thinking skills in order…
We’re blogging from the CSBA Congress 2011 in Ottawa. Yesterday was an extraordinary day of professional development. A few quotes from our plenaries yesterday: “Leadership is action, not position.” “Schools are places of hope and we need to communicate that every day.” “Critical thinking is what’s needed to move educational reform forward.” “We need to…
How do school boards and districts define digital citizenship? What does it mean to be a responsible digital citizen? How do boards and districts infuse the concept of digital citizenship into the school community and the curriculum? These are questions that the Lester B. Pearson School Board, an English school board located in the Montréal…
This April, Speak Up 2010 released its national findings in the United States on the use of emerging technologies for learning. “The New 3 E’s of Education: Enabled, Engaged, Empowered: How Today’s Students are Leveraging Emerging Technologies for Learning” is the first report in a two- part series on the results of the Speak Up…
