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I am a husband, father and teacher who loves children, learning and using technology in innovative ways to support and enhance teaching and learning. If you would like to learn about my work in education, please visit my class Website at http://www.coolclass.ca or for information about my work outside the classroom please visit http://is.gd/8Ax6hS
1990 Arctic Winter Games in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories
In Memoriam: The Honourable Flora MacDonald
In 1999 I had the honour of working with the Honourable Flora MacDonald who was then the Co-Chair of the United Nations International Year of Older Persons initiative in Canada. I’m not impressed by too many politicians, but her intellect, integrity, knowledge and passion soon won me over. As a senior herself then, she often skated down the Rideau Canal into downtown Ottawa. Ms. MacDonald was the first female Secretary of State for External Affairs in Canadian history and almost became our first ever female Prime Minister. She had a great love for Canada and a commitment for social justice and human rights in Canada around the world. May she rest in peace.
FMI, see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flora_MacDonald_(politician)
First Computer in Any Canadian Arctic Classroom Was Mine! -1982 (then) Eskimo Point, NWT
I graduated from the Concurrent Teacher Education Program at Queen’s University in 1981. One of my professors had recently returned from working with Dr. Papert at M.I.T. and subsequently got me excited about the potential of putting computers in the hands of kids, something Dr. Papert advocated for in his modest, yet revolutionary book called “Mindstorms”
I taught my Inuit students how to code using the LOGO programming that was developed by Dr. Seymour Papert and his team at the M.I.T. Media Centre.
