Connect2017

As an attendee @CanConnectEd, Canada’s Learning and Technology Conference, in Niagara Falls Ontario, I was able to make to some great contacts, reflect on what I could share with my colleagues, and identify my own learning needs. Thank you for two great days and the highlights of my sessions were:

Shiza Shahid, @Shiza ‏-  empowering women and girls through business, philanthropy and innovation, cofounder and global ambassador of Malala Fund

Kyle Kitchen @thekylekitchen  - ‏exporing various technologies, learn how Makerspaces and Genius Hour are changing the way we teach

Vickie Morgado @vickiemorgado1 - Transforming PD for Instructional Leadership –lead and offer more engaging and self-directed PD for teachers

Mistene Clapp @LDSBTech  - Robotics to Encourage Social Skill Development –in primary students

Lisa Anne Floyd @lisaannefloyd ‏ - Computational Thinking –investigate the connections between coding and digital making and Creative Coding and Making with the mirco:bits learning how to

Brian Aspinall @mraspinall ‏ - Beyond the Hour of Code – Computational Thinking For The 21^st Century!