Didn't have a chance to share this in the #dreamforward keynote. If you find yourself anthropomorphizing #AI, this will show you under the hood and stop that reflex: bbycroft.net/llm #onted

The inestimable @pbeens.bsky.social the maker of more custom GPTs than any #onted teacher I know. " #AI can create the illusion of learning " Cognitive offloading. Presenting to a full room at #dreamforward on this snowy Saturday morning. #education #aiineducation

#DreamForward Loving this thoughtful and kind challenging Panel discussion by some amazing #EduRockStars @heidisiwak.bsky.social @calarmstrong.bsky.social @oamecounts.bsky.social @tk1ng.bsky.social #ictc @ecoo.bsky.social

“We need to rebuild the trust between teachers and students which has broken as a result of #AI —grade 9s @heidisiwak.bsky.social says, start with IDENTITY as humans & the choices we make around AI @ecooorg.bsky.social #dreamforward #EduSky

There is a VAST difference between #AI access in independent schools & public schools which is only widening the equity gap! That doesn’t even factor in the fact that so many voices & cultures are missing from training data! via @heidisiwak.bsky.social @ecooorg.bsky.social #Edusky #dreamforward

Kids need to understand that #AI is based on vectors and thus we need to help kids understand how knowledge is interpreted by #AI #EduSky #Math #dreamforward

@amansahota.bsky.social gets the panel started at #DreamForward. Look at these educators giving up their Saturday for PD! #onted @calarmstrong.bsky.social @heidisiwak.bsky.social @tk1ng.bsky.social

Sheena Bolton from @ictc-ctic.ca welcomes everyone to #DreamForward introducing all the organizations especially @hcdsb and @ecoo

Keynote #aiineducation panel prep at #dreamforward this snowy Saturday morning in Milton. #onted #ai #edtech #cdned @ictc-ctic.ca @amansahota.bsky.social @calarmstrong.bsky.social @heidisiwak.bsky.social

So great to see the range of experiences in this self-directed PD crowd! #Dreamforward

Loving this passage from “Oxford Soju Club” by @jinwoo-park.com

Oh, friends. Such a great thread. @banana29.bsky.social

We urge Alberta’s school boards to make public all lists of banned titles. #CAIABB #abbookban #albertabookban #abpoli #abgov #ableg #abed #bookbans #cankidlit #nobansincanada

The room is not sure what to make of the reality of Louisiana that @librarianjones.com is sharing. The idea of generational underlying festering hate is hard for a room full of Canadians to sit with. #OLASC

Highlights from #olasc #wepersist through a balance of advocacy and self-care

So lucky to be hearing @librarianjones.com talk about her experience as an "accidental activist" when advocating for books. #OLASC

Nice chat with Cory at the @onlibraryassoc.bsky.social #OLASC! 'Seize the means' indeed. Time to take back control of #tech in our lives.

@librarianjones.com was so chatty as she signed my book. Good luck fighting for @dirtbagg.bsky.social next!! #olasc

In a sea full of monsters, this speech feels like a lifeboat. www.cpac.ca/headline-pol...

“Our movement, however, needs nothing of respectability politics. Accepting — conceding, surrendering, submitting to — that will only erode our movement until it crumbles entirely.” —Lydia X. Z. Brown stimpunks.org/glossary/res... www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRmU...

Judy Heumann was known as the Mother of the Disability Rights Movement. She was a part of almost every major protest, sit in, passing of disability rights legislation, and advocacy group creation.

This 👇

The connection between fossil fuel money and anti-trans groups makes way more sense once you understand the concept of petromasculinity

It’s the degeneration of democratic institutions like public education and objective journalism that really congests my arteries — an excellent read open.substack.com/pub/chrished...

Canada’s non-predatory comedy style is renowned the world over from @charlieangus104.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/charliea... @nobleknits2.bsky.social @tk1ng.bsky.social

Donald Trump’s threats to make Canada the fifty-first US state may just be a play for what lies beneath our soil and in our lakes. Journalist Christopher Pollon investigates what the US might want, what Canada stands to lose, and why the stakes keep rising: thewalrus.ca/the-us-badly-nee...

Such a good read! uhttps://open.substack.com/pub/thewalrusca/p/the-us-badly-needs-rare-minerals?r=o1inz

Wayne Chan with the University of Manitoba sent me this picture of a project he completed over the holidays. It is the log cabin from the Laurentien pencil crayon package built with toothpicks! Very cool!

Image of library book display labeled: “It's A Warning Not An Instruction Manual.” Books on display: • On Tyranny • Twenty Lessons From The 21st Century • 1984 • A Handmaids Tale • Diary of Anne Frank • Parable of The Sower • Fahrenheit 451 • Animal Farm • Brave New World ~TAiLS of a Bookworm

This cause is close to my heart - please sign: you.leadnow.ca/petitions/pr...

Teaching Spoken Word this week and I've been working on my own expression about onset disability.

A moody raspberry cider

From a friend “Seeing Kieran and Downey together was like a dude version of The Substance” 🤣 #Oscars

The winners for Animated Short Film said that their plane arrived three hours ago, and almost didn't make it because they didn't have their visa yesterday, and they just won an Oscar, that's definitely a miracle. So happy they made it. #Oscars

Colourist Deidre (Dee) McClelland details how she helped shape the distinct look and feel of whimsical Oscar-nominated stop-motion film, Memoir of a Snail #Oscars #Oscars2025

One of the reasons I left Meta… Meta bending the knee so low, he’s kissing his feet. Reported originally in the WSJ. www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

I just want to call out the awesomeness of the Canadian Black Music Archives during #BlackHistoryMonth . They are doing AMAZING things : thecbma.com

#BlackHistoryMonth Teacher Resource: The Black History in Canada Education Guide is available as a free download here: education.historicacanada.ca/en/tools/40

Canada just signed a trade deal with Ecuador so the orange juice options will increase now Florida Oranges aren't being bought. Oasis is a Canadian brand in the mean time and Minute Maid is bottled here using Brazilian oranges.

I'm sharing an image a day to celebrate the vibrant and unique culture and history of Canada. Today, it is Jackie Burroughs (Hetty King on Road to Avonlea) and Gordon Pinsent performing at the Stratford Festival in 1975. #ProudlyCanadian 📸Robert Ragsdale

Diana doing what librarians do best: making an avalanche of information accessible & understandable - something we desperately need in the 24 hour media onslaught we face. Why are we shutting down libraries just when we need them most? #OLASC #TMC8 mondaymollymusings.blogspot.com/2025/02/trea...

Hi, I am @motherjones.com' disability reporter. In the following weeks, I am very interested in hearing how tariff nonsense impacts getting your meds and medical equipment. My email to get in touch is [email protected]. Reposts appreciated.

Can we put a tariff on American media? Its books, its television, its films? Can we choose not to import its rhetoric and misinformation? #chooseCanadian

I love how this song samples the old theme song from the Canadian game show “Definition”.

Reminder: They're trying to demoralize you, and they're doing a great job of it. Part of resisting is making time for joy despite the attempts to make you feel this is not the time for it. Love your people. Dig the art that speaks to you. Go to the places where life flows into you. You deserve joy.

For #BlackHistoryMonth we're offering 40% OFF Haymarket Books on the Struggle for Black Liberation

Where did all of the school library researchers go? Thoughtful spotlight to begin our morning thinking via Dianne Oberg and Diana Maliszewski #tmcanada2025

Where are all of the people? #tmcanada2025

An important conversation about ability and ways to prioritize inclusion over accommodations via @banana29.bsky.social #tmcanada2025

"I'm a storyteller. If I have to write it on the walls, on my arms...." Catherine Hernandez at #OLASC . Hair standing up on my arms.