by Jennifer Casa-Todd | Feb 8, 2021 | #socialLEADia, Engaging in Courageous Conversations, Promoting Collaborative Learning Cultures
I left New York City in 2019 after the incredible Google Innovator experience with the idea to create a Student Digital Leadership Playbook after engaging in the design thinking process around the challenge of fostering student mentorship when it comes to using social...
by Jennifer Casa-Todd | Sep 11, 2018 | #socialLEADia, Engaging in Courageous Conversations
Common Sense Media just released a report called, Social Media, Social Life: Teens reveal their experiences. The report is a nationally representative survey of more than 1,000 kids age 13 to 17, in the US and tracks changes from 2012 to today, showing how...
by Jennifer Casa-Todd | Jun 24, 2017 | #socialLEADia
In the concluding thoughts in my book, Social LEADia, I call upon my favourite poem by Robert Frost to talk about the decision that stands before us in Education when it comes to using social media: So it seems to me that stand before two roads diverging in a wood....
by Jennifer Casa-Todd | Jun 11, 2017 | #socialLEADia, Aligning Resources with Practices, Aligning Resources with Priorities, Engaging in Courageous Conversations
Google’s Be Internet Awesome is a newly released resource that combines internet safety with gaming. It looks like it would work well for upper primary/junior students. It uses a Quest motif and an imaginary land called, “Interland” and its purpose...
by Jennifer Casa-Todd | Aug 12, 2016 | Engaging in Courageous Conversations, Promoting Collaborative Learning Cultures
I had a really interesting conversation last night with Diana Hale, a teacher in the Toronto District School Board about the negative experiences she had in her classroom and her subsequent reflection that Digital Citizenship cannot be taught as a discrete unit. She...