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The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins
The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins My rating: 4 of 5 stars Being a librarian, I rarely buy books anymore just for me but every now and then one leaps out at me, circulates through my family, and then makes its new home in my library where I recommend it to my secondary…
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#BIT16Reads Presentation: Building school cultures that support the integration of technology
The full presentation is here: http://prezi.com/jgeyqwqmql4d/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy Our live results are here: Made with https://embed.polleverywhere.com/multiple_choice_polls/oJYnHTfT4LSoN7L?controls=none&short_poll=true
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Any Known Blood by Lawrence Hill
Any Known Blood by Lawrence Hill My rating: 4 of 5 stars I can’t help but say that I was hoping that this book would be the perfect addition to my secondary school library collection because once again Lawrence Hill tackles challenging topics of race and discrimination. In Any Known Blood Hill spends a devoted…
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The Best Bits of #BIT16Reads
Trying to grow and sustain a book club over 5 months has been a real experiment. It all culminates in the biggest and best conference on educational technology in Ontario (maybe Canada!) which is the Bring IT Together conference. If you’ve never been before, you’ll find a whole bunch of people who want to enable…
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Best BITs: Preventing discrimination in schools
This week I’ve been focused on the overall message when reading pages 98 to 113 about how discrimination is embedded in the structures of our schools. I feel very protective of public education and how it needs to be accessible to all who attend. Specifically, authors Zac Chase and Chris Lehmann highlight the barriers to…
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Best BITs: Wrestling with math in School 2.0
I wrestle with math. There was a time when I was almost deemed gifted in math in grade 7 and then my grade 8 teacher proposed the concept of integers and it just blew my mind apart. Later in grade 10 there was that time when I skipped math 23 times and obviously missed a…
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