Sunday Overview

10:00-11:00am - Concurrent Breakout Sessions 

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11:00-12:00pm - Concurrent Breakout Sessions 

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12:00-1:00pm - Lunch Break

Visit our on-campus amenities for lunch, or enjoy lunch in the comfort of your own home! ED 189 will be open for attendees on campus to eat their lunch.

1:00-2:00pm - Tent Talk - The Slippery Slope Between Technology as Novelty & Technology as Critically Integrated Tools in Teaching & Learning Join us in-person in ED 228 or online in the main Zoom room.

A conversation between Kathryn Ricketts, Ehsan Akbari and Kirsten Thompson on lawn chairs in a tent! This is broadcast live and can be joined in ED 228 or on Zoom. 

This talk series hosts dynamic conversations with chosen themes/issues around teaching and learning, in a tent on lawn chairs. Controversial topics in teaching and learning are discussed between two people with a third person who keeps the ball rolling! Going inside a tent, just as we did when we were kids with homemade forts, becomes a catalyst for bold and thoughtful conversations. The tent provides an environment that is both private and cozy and yet public with the live broadcast to the conference community.

This particular conversation is between two people Ehsan Akbari and Kirsten Thompson who both work full time in the educative realm with Digital Literacies and Digital Citizenship. We will be exploring the slippery slope between technology as novelty and technology as critically integrated tools in teaching and learning. We will ask questions such as when does it become sloppy, hurtful and dangerous and when does it become a means to enhancing curiosity and rich healthy inquiry.

This series is funded by the Faculty of Education’s CERCD fund

Closing Remarks