School trustees aren’t perfect, but the Ford government’s supposed fix is worse

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Opinion: When schools ban politics, what are students really learning? Not allowing students to express disagreement and dissent is undemocratic

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Ontario to overhaul teacher training in move to fix educator shortage www.thestar.com/gift-redeem?...

Muffin the Cat visits Dorval Library in Quebec and is now a card carrying member

Muffin the cat visits the Dorval Library every day. Now he’s a card-carrying member #Montreal #Canada

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Scientists invented a fake disease. AI told people it was real Bixonimania doesn’t exist except in a clutch of obviously bogus academic papers. So why did AI chatbots warn people about this fictional illness?

Scientists invented a fake disease. AI told people it was real. Bixonimania doesn’t exist except in a clutch of obviously bogus academic papers. So why did AI chatbots warn people about this fictional illness?
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School bathrooms have gone down the toilet – and that’s a serious problem The dire state of bathrooms in Ontario’s public schools is a sad reflection of how the province handles education

School bathrooms have gone down the toilet – and that’s a serious problem

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The public is being shielded from Donald Trump’s deranged blatherings
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Live and work as a medical doctor in Canada Learn how to immigrate to Canada as a doctor

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‘No fail’ policies need to go, new poll on Canadian education says A new survey suggests that more Canadians believe the nation’s education system is headed in the wrong direction and a return to more “traditional responses” toward unruly students may be needed.

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The New Reality for Toronto's Crossing Guards | The Local Once a job for local retirees backed by the police, today's crossing guards are poorly paid contract workers employed by private companies. As they confront growing road rage and speeding drivers, the...

Privatizing Toronto's crossing guard services was supposed to save the city money. It hasn't. Between 2017 and 2024, the number of locations with crossing guards went up 46 percent—but the budget in that time ballooned by 300 percent, reaching an annual $30 million. thelocal.to/crossing-gua...

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The ‘Pandemic Babies’ Are Now in 1st and 2nd Grade. How Are They Doing? Achievement is still lower for kids who were toddlers during the pandemic—even though they didn't experience school closures.

Even kids who were just babies and toddlers during the early years of the COVID-19 pandemic are scoring lower on math and reading exams than their pre-pandemic peers, suggesting that the pandemic led to fundamental changes in the U.S. educational system that continue to shape children’s learning.

Sweden brings back traditional learning and gets better results Physcial books and handwriting are being prioritised in Swedish classrooms to get reading back up to scratch

Adults are likely to benefit from spending less time relying on technology too. I doubt the use of AI will be as revolutionary as some imagine it could be, and certainly not cost-effective when its energy use is taken into consideration.

Guidelines for teachers to foster digital literacy and tackle disinformation To ensure the effective development of digital literacy and tackling disinformation through the education and training process, teachers and educators need further support with guidance and hands-on e...

New guidelines for teachers to foster digital literacy and tackle disinformation.

From @ec.europa.eu, designed for teachers working in primary and secondary education levels, with little to no prior experience with digital literacy or disinformation

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Library and Archives planning deep cuts to access to information team, document shows Cuts will put at risk ability to comply with access and privacy laws, department acknowledged in a document

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The French lesson that Canada needs More needs to be done to improve the teaching of French as a second language

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The Province Took Over Ontario’s Biggest School Boards to Fix Their Finances. The Numbers Tell a Different Story | The Local Analysis by The Local shows Ontario’s largest boards receive some of the lowest per-pupil funding in the province—raising questions about whether the real problem is mismanagement or the funding formu...

Analysis by The Local shows Ontario’s largest boards receive the lowest per-pupil funding in the province—raising questions about whether the real problem isn’t mismanagement but the funding formula. @wencyleung.bsky.social's latest from our School Board Takeover series. thelocal.to/ontario-scho...

The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents | Fortune Neuroscientist Jared Cooney Horvath said older generations “screwed up” giving students access to so much technology: “I genuinely hope Gen Z quickly figures that out and gets mad.”

As a parent of two children who have recently been given tablets and laptops to by their schools, I agree 100% with this. I even recently met with the district’s tech administrators and conveyed this concern—and they mostly agreed.

But still, it’ll be tablets and chromebooks, because tech.

Is the textbook dead? Inside Ontario schools’ shift to digital — and the hidden trade-offs of paper-free classrooms The shift has put new burdens on teachers, students and parents and raised questions about the impacts on learning and fairness.

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Babies Born During COVID Are Now in Kindergarten. Here’s What Educators Are Learning Gaehde: Kindergarten teachers say the generation of children born during the pandemic is a cohort unlike any before.

Opinion: Babies born during COVID are now in kindergarten. Here's what educators are learning

Swedish schools said they didn’t need books. Pupils proved them wrong Screen-based learning led to falling literacy rates, so the authorities are spending millions changing course. The children are delighted

“‘The feeling of holding a volume and reading it makes it much easier for the student to immerse themselves in the world of the book…’To see the words, how they are written, to feel the words, to feel the text in a different way.’”

We distracted from and desensitized children to reading.

AI writing just isn’t good enough – and if you’re using it, everyone can already tell As the differences become more and more obvious, the question we should be asking is no longer ‘Will anyone notice?’ but ‘Would it matter – and why?’

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Is ‘core’ or ‘rotary’ better for students? Why this teaching debate is bigger than the turmoil at one east-end Toronto school Many Ontario schools have moved away from rotary model, where students move between classes taught by different teachers. But it has its supporters.

Is ‘core’ or ‘rotary’ better for students? Why this teaching debate is bigger than the turmoil at one east-end Toronto school

AI chatbots give bad health advice, research finds Despite now being able to ace most medical licensing exams, artificial intelligence chatbots do not give humans better health advice than they can find using more traditional methods, according to a s...

"Despite all the hype, AI just isn’t ready to take on the role of the physician. Patients need to be aware that asking a large language model about their symptoms can be dangerous, can give wrong diagnoses and can fail to recognize when urgent help is needed."
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Yeah, now do menopause🤪

The look on a girl's face when someone tells her she should smile more often.

Also, "underage women" isn't a thing. If they're under age, they're not women. That's what under age literally means.

Sometimes, I guess, there just aren’t enough rocks.
- Forrest Gump