by Jennifer Casa-Todd | Feb 4, 2024 | #RaisingDigitalLeaders, #socialLEADia, Engaging in Courageous Conversations
I have written extensively on the topic of cellphones in the classroom (including the so-called ban in Ontario in 2019) both in this blog and in my books, Social LEADia: Moving Students from Digital Citizenship to Digital Leadership and my book for parents, Raising...
by Jennifer Casa-Todd | Oct 1, 2023 | #socialLEADia, Engaging in Courageous Conversations
I an age of misinformation and social media dependence, Dr. Samantha Yammine, aka Science Sam (@Science.sam) is a Science communicator with a PhD in Neuroscience and Cell Biology who focuses not just on the negative aspects of social media but the positives of social...
by Jennifer Casa-Todd | Sep 24, 2023 | #socialLEADia, Engaging in Courageous Conversations
If you follow any Canadian News outlets on Instagram, you may have noticed the following: This is a direct result of Meta’s pushback against The Online News Act. The Online News Act (Bill C-18) states the following from Government of Ontario site (bolded text is...
by Jennifer Casa-Todd | Sep 9, 2023 | #socialLEADia, Engaging in Courageous Conversations, Promoting Collaborative Learning Cultures
The Ontario Government released the new grade 9 destreamed curriculum for this school year and I have never been so excited to see a curriculum in my life. You see, I have dedicated so much of my time and energy over the past several years impressing upon teachers the...
by Jennifer Casa-Todd | Aug 2, 2023 | #socialLEADia, Engaging in Courageous Conversations, Promoting Collaborative Learning Cultures
October marks the beginning of Media Literacy week in Canada, but if you know anything about me or my work, you’ll know that I believe every day provides an opportunity for media literacy. So whenever you are reading this is a good time to begin Media Literacy...
by Jennifer Casa-Todd | Jul 7, 2023 | #RaisingDigitalLeaders, #socialLEADia, Promoting Collaborative Learning Cultures
It has been happening for months. Teachers have left Twitter en-masse when Elon Musk took over. I am in an Edumatch group (led by Sarah Thomas) and there were several dozen posts about creating a fresh start on Mastodon: touting a decentralized social media platform....