Three people stand behind a table with tech devices and materials at a conference. A poster with a sign language chart is on the wall.

Exhibit table displaying assistive technologies, including tablets with educational content and a SET-BC informational poster.

Tablet on a tripod displaying a conference selfie of three people smiling, with promotional materials and a camera on a table nearby.

We were thrilled to participate at TIE-BC's Crosscurrents Conference this year! Our team enjoyed connecting with other passionate inclusive educators and like-minded organizations from around British Columbia!

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Chapter Reflection: Digital School by Clive Thompson “As various educational analysts have joked, if you brought a bunch of surgeons from a hundred years ago into today’s hospitals, they would have no idea what was going on, because everything about …

Chapter Reflection: Digital School by Clive Thompson #tiegrad #tiebc

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The Benefits of Thinking in Public (Banksy photographed near Bethlehem by Markus Ortner CC BY-SA 2.5) I am enjoying reading Clive Thompson’s book, Smarter Than You Think.  His thoughts on public thinking resonate with me at a time w…

The Benefits of Thinking in Public #tiegrad #tiebc #sd33learns #bclearns

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Sorry #tiebc can’t make it tonight. Catch up next time. #tiegrad

The Art of Finding: An Important Digital Literacy   In his book, Smarter Than You Think: How Technology Is Changing Our Minds For The Better, Clive Thompson talks about the emergence of important new digital literacies.  He asks the question …

The Art of Finding: An Important Digital Literacy #tiegrad #sd33learns #tiebc #chilliwack

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Relieved to read this,"Evidence suggests we comprehend as much when we read on these devices as when we read on paper." @pomeranian99 #tiebc

P 135 seems to cite the use of back channelling as a distraction and harmful to retaining topic knowledge. #tiebc

"Transactive memory: two heads are better than one." Follows Meyer's Collaboration Principle of Multimedia Learning #tiebc

"While we think of knowledge as an individual possession, our command of facts is often extremely collaborative." - @pomeranian99 #tiebc

If/when 3D printing becomes mainstream will our disposable culture further hasten enviro problems by overproducing plastic? #tiebc

As a new parent, so happy to see regular people taking the beauty industry to task over their manipulation of photos #tiebc

Networked world - one person struggling to figure something out can invite several thousand people to help in hours, even minutes. #tiebc

Navalny's story reminds me of the Zone of Affordability graphic that was manipulated by supporters of public ed this summer #tiebc

It's still a good idea, even today, to step away from your laptop and work out a problem on paper:cognitive diversity -@pomeranian99 #tiebc

How are our local libraries adapting to new literacies? #tiebc

"Tools for thought often are most powerful when they become second nature, thus somewhat invisible." - @pomeranian99 #tiebc

Public thinking and sharing of ideas is valuable. It may start with a critique, but ultimately finishes with an improved concept. #tiebc

New literacies will requires us to process and extract meaning from the vast amount of data we now create #tiebc

Public Thinking made me reflect on my own online identity. I need to do less sharing and more interacting with my audience #tiebc

Interesting, "kids who message a lot appear to have have slightly better spelling and literacy abilities than those who don’t." #tiebc

Do learners who are caught up in the 'audience effect' eventually become habituated to it, and the effect loses impact? #tiebc

Great quote from chapter 2: "Our ancestors learned how to remember; we’ll learn how to forget." #tiebc

Biggest challenge of capturing and storing personal 'digital' events is retrieving events from masses of data. Think digital photos #tiebc

By @pomeranian99 reckoning, in 1981 my 100GB of storage with Google would have cost 30 million bucks! #tiebc

The stories that I share with my students definitely get more grandiose as time roles on. My episodic memory in full swing #tiebc

"Memory is one of the most crucial and mysterious parts of our identities; take it away, and identity goes away, too..." #tiebc

Would knowing that your entire life was being recorded, and your legacy unfolding in real-time make you a better person? #tiebc

Imagine if we had cameras and audio in our classrooms to record, capture, and share our practice. Would you use it? #tiebc