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The Best bits of #BIT16Reads
Today marks just 16 days away until the big event…the most stellar education technology conference in Ontario: Bring IT Together #BIT16 As such, I’m going to revisit 16 of the best conversations we’ve had inside TVO’s TeachOntario. I enter into this idea with the same ideas that support #BIT16Reads: to grow through my professional reading…
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Secret Daughter by Shilpi Somaya Gowda
Secret Daughter by Shilpi Somaya Gowda My rating: 4 of 5 stars I’m gradually working my way through the Amnesty International Book Club recommendations and this book This book is written in a simple style, at times, overstating the emotion involved in this heartwrenching tale of gendercide and survival as Asha searches to find the…
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Homework for Mom
Max started grade 7 yesterday and he came home with a sealed envelope for me. In it was a piece of paper with just one sentence on it: Homework Assignment #1 In a million words or less, tell me about your child. …and I knew it was going to be a good year. Max will…
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#BIT16Reads: Garfield Gini-Newman joins us for a Hangout on Air
We’re midway in our August book “Creating Thinking Classrooms” and author Garfield Gini-Newman has agreed to join us for a lively discussion on this topic: How schools need to refocus the goals in order to better prepare students. Join us here live at 2:30 ET or via the Twitter stream at #BIT16Reads .
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#BIT16Reads: Whose mindset is the right one?
I’ve just finished reading George Couros‘ “The Innovator’s Mindset” and I think it’s time that we addressed the elephant in the room. The word “mindset” is so five minutes ago. There I said it. What I mean is that putting the words innovator and mindset together in the same phrase is oxymoronic…it’s a contradiction in…
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#BIT16Reads: Hangout on Air!!
The TeachOntario #BIT16Reads book club is on fire over the topics in George Couros’ book The Innovator’s Mindset so we are going to come together and attempt a Google Hangout on Air tomorrow July 19th at 2pm. Facilitating with me is participant Caroline Freibauer, who will direct the conversation Participants can join in a number…
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