It’s my pleasure to announce the publishing of Kathy Cassidy’s new book about primary learners. Kathy is a long time friend and colleague who I’ve long admired and watched her own growth as a connected learner and teacher. I was privileged to be ask to write the foreword which I’ll share here: In my personal journey with technology, there are...

I love this song. I love what Commander Hadfield has been doing as part of his mission. He’s done an outstanding job in bringing us into the world of space travel and along the way reminding us what a wonderful world we live in. I love lip dubs. I’ve been part of making a few. While they’ve been around for a while I think they represent the power...

Cross posted on The DEN blogs The other day I was in the middle one of my regular google hangouts with my teammates and my wife happened to be home over hearing the conversation. “I hate you”, she said in jest. “All your calls include lots of laughing, lots of encouragement and a bunch of new cool things you’re doing.” Yeah, that pretty...

This is the second in a four part series. Part one is here. This idea has been rummaging around is based on the ideas Susan Cain’s book Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World that Can’t Stop Talking.  There are many aspects of this book worth discussing but the one that I think is most interesting for our classrooms is the way we deal with and...

Jared Heidinger is a Science teacher from Lethbridge Alberta. I followed Jared on twitter but he gained my attention when a few months ago I asked if any high school teachers think about joy in their classrooms. Jared humbly offered an idea he uses with his students. Teaching high level science courses in Alberta means his students are subject to provincial testing...

I'm spending the day with teachers at Dakota Collegiate in Winnipeg. They've been doing some interesting work over the past couple of years and have asked me to come spend the day with time exploring their current and future practices. I'll be sharing a talk entitled, "Why Is Social Such a Big Deal?" I'm going to look at Social from a...