Last week I gave a workshop on Mindful Self-Care and started by asking the following question: Isn’t teaching so lonely? Heads nodded! I sensed the relief flooding the room – this is going to get real! Nobody ever talks about how lonely teaching is. In...
Just because someone tells me to fear something doesn’t mean that I have to. The internet is spying on you. Your microwave is watching! Silliness aside, we are a culture of media projecting fear and I wonder how that’s playing out with our students and kids. I wonder...
GIRLsmarts4tech is an outreach program aimed at inspiring girls to explore technology. Founded through the University of British Columbia’s Computer Science Department, the program is now jointly presented by UBC and an industry partner, SAP. GIRLsmarts4tech reaches...
Articles are circulating about the dangers of the ever ubiquitous Wifi. Let’s be honest, the thought that our beloved Wifi is actually harmful to our health would, well, harm our health! But take heed because the results are inconclusive. It seems to me that our...
Hello! It’s Jodi, founder of Imperative Education. You know, ever since I can remember I’ve been interested in how people communicate… how relationships are formed. At McGill University, I studied Communications so that I could take this focus from intuition to fact, and from serious interest to passion. I decided to become a teacher, like so many, to make a difference and that initial goal hasn’t paled at all throughout the years