Cyber Conduct: A reality Check (CTF Report)
New technologies have had a tremendous impact on learning. They have brought many benefits to students and teachers. But they have also led to some destructive behaviours.
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Think Before You Click (Professional Relations Services)
You may be checking your email quickly to respond to a family member. Or you may be checking the weather, reading the news, buying tickets, or replying to a request to “add a friend” on Facebook. There may or may not be anyone else in the room.
Professional Learning Communities Sharing Knowledge and Leadership: Collaborating and Communicating Online
Reflections on Practice is a women’s leadership institute based on the concept of professional learning communities (PLCs). Forty female teachers from all over Ontario come together for four days in the summer and two days each in the fall and spring, to learn more about PLCs, to collaborate with each other, and to refine their teaching practices. Each participant is expected to complete an action research project on a topic of her choice.
CTF Co-Sponsors First National Media Education Week (CTF Report)
Media are a powerful force in the lives of youth. In particular, digital media have changed the way they communicate, play, and learn.
www.accessibilitynow.com
To “progress” means to move for ward, and we like to think of technological progress as exactly that. Progress, however, sometimes leaves many people behind.
Visiting Mars Bloch
For the last three years, Marietta (Mars) Bloch, B.Sc. (Hon), B.Ed., has co-ordinated the Toronto District School Board's science and technology programs, from grade 1 through secondary school.
Begin with Science and Technology and Integrate
Teaching science and technology is an outstanding way to provide experiences that are valid, testable and repeatable.
Thinking Critically
Critical thinking is a disciplined process that requires the learner to conceptualize, apply, analyze, synthesize and evaluate information gathered by observation, experience, reflection, reasoning or communication.
WebQuests: The Solution to Internet-Curriculum Integration
Four young faces, side by side, stare at the computer monitor. Occasionally, they point at the screen, jot notes, discuss new information and debate. This is the image of involved, interested and integrated learning for which we all strive.
Women in the Web
In a world increasingly dependent on technology, technology is everybody’s business — or should be. Girls’ and women’s enrolment in math and science courses has improved over the last few decades.