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Day 4 (of 2026/27) Fridays are for…. Option 1: News you may have missed, but have education connections: What exactly is the test measuring — and what changed around the people taking it?  I’ve had the test run with one of my cohorts…  It’s not a bad test… But it’s still a test being administered…

Day 3 (of 2026/27) Be late. Fight the system. Got into a social media ‘feud’ a bit over the concept of ‘being late’. The video had launched the idea of an event being set up and then the pressure the host felt with people not being on time… group had new parents… an era when…

Day 2 (of 2026/27) Social Media in the current School Year by far the most powerful media format  along with the fastest uptake of users  and compelling because it enables the OG communication styles  visual  auditory Societal – if Aristotle had instagram, written text would not have been bothered with beyond a niche boutique industry) …

Day One (of 2026/27) — Welcome back… Year 30 for me. Year 14 of this Days of Learning blog. 2,425 posts so far. Cal Ripken Jr. played 2,632 consecutive games. So apparently that’s the target now. Just over 200 to go… Lots has changed. Three of my kids have entered — and exited — the…

SOL Summer of Learning 2026: AI’ing Different(iated) I’ve just spent three days asking: How does your brain read? How does your brain math? How does your brain write? All of these are getting tightly entwined with discussions around AI – especially the knee jerk reaction to ‘ban’ it – what if we also banned teaching…

SOL Summer of Learning 2026 – Thinking about Writing Different(iated) What happens inside your brain when I say… Write a story about an apple. One person immediately sees an apple. Someone sees an entire scene. Someone hears the first sentence. Someone starts talking internally. Someone needs to talk to somebody nearby right away. Someone thinks…

SOL Summer of Learning 2026 – how the brain deals with numbers… mathing different(iated) What does your brain do when you see 7? Let’s start pulling another thread (assuming you saw yesterdays blog on reading different(iated) There is good neuroscience behind the brain thinking about numbers in different ways. But we don’t do a good…

What does your brain do when you read APPLE? This is not as easy a question as it first appears…  Reading Neurologies that we don’t often unpack and understand till later in life.  Will knowing that our brains all process text differently help with the reading process earlier in life? Read the word: APPLE. Then…

If Only We Had a Place to Teach Kids About Social Media… Bill C-34 has me wondering about an unintended question for schools: Should schools shutter their social media accounts? If Canadians under 16 are going to be restricted from having accounts on some social media platforms, what does that mean for the schools that…

SOL – Summer of Learning 2026: #2 @YongZhao Courageous Minority The call to be considered to join an international cohort of educators that Yong Zhao has since labelled the “courageous minority” has been a great push on my brain. I love thinking about all things education, and having conversations with educators from around the world…