by Donna Miller Fry (@fryed)
At the end of #YRDSBQuest, Michael Fullan told the educators in attendance that they need to go back and challenge the status quo. I am documenting the ongoing conversation about how to do this safely. We rarely talk about it, but in our work, many educators have told us they won’t blog because they are […]
Thank you to #YRDSBQuest for streaming keynote presentations and encouraging the sharing of learning on Twitter. It makes it much easier to learn from a distance. While working near Thunder Bay on Wednesday, I was able to keep in touch with much of the learning. I also spent time last Sunday and Monday following the Tweets from […]
I was so fortunate to be asked by the students of 3UU at Cameron Heights School in Kitchener, to sit on a panel to discuss with them the Future of Learning. Here is a wonderful explanation, written by the class, of what their class is about: “3UU is an extraordinary class, it is a Future […]
Source: Why Our Students Need Digital Leaders
Educators must understand social media, because this is where our children are: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/common-sense-media-report-reveals-new-facts-about-kids-use-of-technology-social-media/ Is shutting down the device the answer? Do our kids, and our teachers, understand how powerful social media can be for LEARNING? Isn’t it ESSENTIAL for our school and system leaders to be fully digitally literate? Here is a great guide to […]
If you were unable to attend Heidi Siwak’s closing keynote at #BIT15 this year, you missed an amazing learning experience. Let’s see if we can share the important points. Here is Heidi’s link to the resources. Here is the storify of the Twitter chat for the event.
Principals Leading the Innovative Use of Technology for Learning and Teaching A session at BIT15 – Bring IT,Together 2015 Thursday 5th November, 2015 11:00am to 11:50am (EST) Technology is a tool that enables innovative approaches to deep learning and student assessment. As lead learners, how are school leaders across Ontario integrating technology and pedagogy into […]
So many educators reading so many books that impact their practice! That was my takeaway from #satchat this morning, and #ontedleaders last week as we were challenged to share the reading that was impacting our work at this time. I can’t possibly read all of those books, but my colleagues in my […]
The OPC (Ontario Principals’ Council) PQP (Principal Qualification Program) courses were, for me, hands down the best professional learning I had ever had at the time. Taking my PQP Part 2 was, for me, an every second weekend, 20-hour, round-trip drive to Sudbury, driving a standard transmission car with a broken right arm (in a […]
At Fall SIM, we are watching the Simon Breakspear video from Leadership Congress. Here are the notes I put together at Leadership Congress last April. Here is the video from Vimeo. Ontario Leadership Congress Spring Symposium 2015 from Simon Breakspear on Vimeo.
