Presenter(s): Ashleigh Ramson, Joshua Sollak, Jeremy Nason and Holly Sharpe
Target Audience: Grade 6-8, Grade 9-12
Description: Join us for a focused session on using PDF Reader to support students with the new Mathematics Curriculum. The session will focus on a Geometric Spatial Reasoning lesson using several tools from the PDF Reader extension. We will demonstrate the tools through a lens of Universal Design for Learning (UDL). Tools that will be showcased include: Text-to-speech, voice note, shapes drawing tool, typewriter (voice-to-text & prediction), push pin, and annotation tools.

Presenter(s): Suk Wu and Allister Geonanga
Target Audience: Grade 1-3. Grade 4-8
Description: BrainingCamp is an interactive Math manipulative website that offers tools to make Math learning FUN! Come learn how to use base ten blocks, pattern blocks, algebra tiles, rekenreks, and many more to make your Math lessons interactive and engaging! Don’t have an Interactive white board - no worries! There is one embedded in the tool. Furthermore, you can push questions to your students using whatever online platform you use (e.g., Brightspace or Google Classroom) and have students share their Math thinking with a simple code! We have something for everyone, no matter your teaching assignment: primary, junior, intermediate, ESL, Special Education, French Extended or French Immersions, etc.

Presenter(s): Georgia Petinarellis
Target Audience: Grade 1-3
Description: What is to subtract? In math, to subtract means to take away from a group or a number of things. How do emergent math learners conceptualize this concept? How do we build students' critical thinking and incorporate problem solving about subtraction as comparing and difference? Through Marian Small's MathUP resource and Brainingcamp, a powerful digital tool, you will build your confidence in developmentally appropriate strategies that transform student learning and increase communication in number sense.

Presenter(s): Sheridan Hay
Target Audience: Grade 9-12
Description: This short session will explore how to use Google Maps to collaboratively build a dynamic and interactive resource to better understand racism as an historical reality in Canada and the long struggle against it. This application also lends itself to many other collaborative projects, which we will also discuss.

Presenter(s): Darek Kocan
Target Audience: Grade 1-12
Description: The use of Minecraft for Education is very engaging to a variety of learners in a classroom setting. Most students have played, seen or been introduced in some form into how Minecraft works. If these students hadn’t heard of Minecraft then they most certainly had some exposure to the world of computer gaming. In our Gr. 3 class, we used this tool for a variety of activities. We built bridges as part of our structures unit of study. Students practiced subtraction facts, built arrays to learn about repeated addition and multiplication. They explored the Anishinaabe ways of living in addition to learning about sustainable farming during Earth Week. Using this tool allows students to engage deeply, it’s a great resource for some students with special needs and it’s just plain old fun. Students can use their “gaming” skills to excel, express their knowledge and build on their confidence.