Author: Mr. D. Dickson

For my final project in EC&I 820 Multicultural & Anti-Racist Issues in Curriculum, I decided to choose option #2: to engage in a radical re-imagining education and to think about what race conscious, culturally sustaining, anti-racist and or decolonial teaching … Continue reading →

I started this major assignment looking at connecting digital citizenship education to curriculum to establish a resource package for teaching. I started out with grade 6 Health curriculum from 2009, and began the process of making the connections. I realized … Continue reading →

Here is the my summary of learning video link for EC&I 832 Digital Citizenship and Media Literary. I really appreciated this course and all of the discussion that we had in our breakout sessions. Thank you to Dr. Alec Couros … Continue reading →

What does an average day look like for a school principal in terms of reading and making sense of information, media, and the world affecting the the people in school community around him? I would have to say that the … Continue reading →

What does it mean to be literate today? That question just might be the most difficult question out there to answer. You see the word literate defined as a noun (Merriam-Webster) is defined as: an educated person, or a person … Continue reading →

Over the course of my career in education, I have witnessed many things come and go. Sometimes what left us seemed to be better than what replaced it, but as they say time marches on. One example of this can … Continue reading →

The 2022-2023 school year up until this weekend has been a absolute blur. Prior to the school year, I had full intentions to take the summer to relax and rejuvenate. That plan quickly turned into an unexpected house sale and … Continue reading →

A quick google search of the ripple effect led me to Wikipedia for the following definition: A ripple effect occurs when an initial disturbance to a system propagates outward to disturb an increasingly larger portion of the system. Ironically, what made … Continue reading →

What will the future of education look like in the days, months, or years to come with regards to the ever changing world and constantly evolving technological advancements? For some, there is a fear or sense of urgency to change … Continue reading →

After reading, watching, or browsing the required articles from this week as well as those from the last, I find myself thinking that there is an overall lack of responsibility/ownership when it comes to understanding technology, understanding how it is … Continue reading →