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Climate Science Digital Literacy SDGs EDIA
Climate Science
Climate change may be taking over the news and our conversations, but how do you explain it to kids? How do you show them that there is hope in action? Listen in and learn tips for breaking it down into simple, fun, and easy to implement activities.
Environment and Literacy
Time Magazine "Hero of the Planet" winner Simon Jackson talks about weaving environmental literacy into K-12 curriculum and empowering students to discover the "power of their voices".
Engaging Students in Climate Action with the SDGs
Award-winning environmental keynote Beth Eden discusses how the United Nations SDGs help create Climate Action at a local level.
Digital Literacy
Digital literacy is a combination of digital tool knowledge, critical thinking and social engagement, and it is a necessary skill for youth to become the next generation of innovators. But how do you integrate it into the curriculum alongside writing and math? Listen in as experts across the spectrum offer bite-sized tips for utilizing it effectively.
Game to Learn: Empowering Future "Game-Changers" Through Digital Gaming
In this episode Melissa Burns shares how video games, esports and digital reality is crucial to developing global competencies, digital literacy and critical thinking skills.
Learning Online Through Play, Safely
Listen in as Meeno Rami shares tips for leveraging the Internet to create positive online learning experiences where students can absorb vital digital literacy, coding and technology-related skills.
The Common Thread: Weaving Information Literacy Skills to Engage Learners
Award-winning educator Kathy Schrock will inspire you with her techniques for engaging students and increasing your students' knowledge retention by weaving information literacy across the curriculum.
Spark student curiosity with wonder links!
In this episode, Dr. Wesley Fryer - a media literacy and computer science teacher, author, digital storyteller, and speaker – discusses how to ignite student creativity and curiosity with media.
Sustainable Development Goals
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) developed by the United Nations, are part of a blueprint for making the world a better place. Educators and schools across the globe are working to bring these goals to classrooms to empower students' voices and passions, connect classrooms and communities, and inspire positive change through action. Listen in to hear ideas for incorporating these goals into practice.
Interconnected Learning: STEM and SDGs across the Curriculum
Hear education leader Dr. Jennifer Williams for practical tips on incorporating STEM and SDGs across the K-12 curriculum.
Engaging Students in Climate Action with the SDGs
Award-winning environmental keynote Beth Eden discusses how the United Nations SDGs help create Climate Action at a local level.
EDIA
Implementing principles of equity, diversity, inclusion and accessibility (EDIA) have incredibly positive outcomes and can contribute to large-scale transformation in STEM education, which will help to diversify the workforce and support the development of engaged citizens needed in a sustainable and transforming world. Listen in as experts share strategies that start in the classroom and prepare students to take inclusivity principles and concepts beyond it and into their communities.
Teaching All Students is Not More Work; It’s Different Work.
Join Shelley Moore, sought-after Canadian educator, and learn how to deliver lessons and activities in a positive-first environment where every student feels safe to overcome challenges and participate.
Weaving Braiding Sweetgrass for Young Adults Into your Class and Around Your Dinner Table
Join Monique Gray Smith on the journey of adapting Robin Wall Kimmerer’s New York Time Bestselling book, Braiding Sweetgrass.
Cultural Contexts of Computing
During his keynote, jon corbett will explore how different cultures are represented and included in the field of computer science, technology, and media.
Learning from Mi’kmaw Elders: Stories of mathematics teaching and learning in Mi’kma’ki
Dr. Lisa Lunney Borden shares stories from her research and teaching life that have been influenced by the knowledge learned from time spent alongside Elders and knowledge keepers within the Mi’kmaw community in Mi’kma’ki.