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Media Literacy Week Celebration! The fun of teaching through and about Media Literacy
The week of October 25 – 29, 2021 is Canada’s Media Literacy Week! Come and celebrate with the Association for Media Literacy. Teaching media literacy is fun! This session will provide K-12 educators with practical strategies to embed media literacy into their programs. Participants will explore the concept of teaching through and about media literacy …
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Choose Your Own Adventure
Harness the power of Google Slides by developing the ability to create a Choose Your Own Adventure story that focusses specifically on delivering a lesson to your students at home. Give your students the power of choice as they navigate a story you’ve created with multiple choices and endings! Through this lesson, learn how you …
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Let’s Solve this Problem! Shifting our International Languages Classes from Spoken Production to Interaction
The revised (2016) curriculum for International Languages finally has a focus on interaction, which represents the vast majority of real-life language use that our students will continue to use in their personal and professional lives. Whether our students learn Spanish, German, Italian, Arabic, Mandarin, or any of the other 72 International Languages offered in our …
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Remixing High School English
The English curriculum provides numerous opportunities for inquiry, student choice, and a wide variety of texts. How can we provide these opportunities to our students? This webinar will explore how we can meet these expectations, including an approach that combines inquiry and spiraling, lots of student choice, and a plethora of texts. It will also …
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Redefining Literacy: Getting Comfortable with Being Uncomfortable
Why are our students struggling to work with digital tools if they spoke internet before they could walk? How can we prepare students for a world they’re going to enter when we can’t even imagine future challenges? The answer is to approach each learning task and learner knowing that they must transfer to the next …