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Opinion: Draft curriculum adds vital building blocks for computer science

April 17, 2021

Secondary Education professor Cathy Adams and colleagues write about the importance of digital literacy and computing sciences in K-12 education.
Draft Alberta Education Curriculum Media Commentary Roundup

April 09, 2021

Secondary Education professor Dwayne Donald shares his expert comment on the released drafts of the Alberta Education curriculum for K-6 in multiple media.
Comics and the dreamy, anxious underworld of teacher education

March 22, 2021

Secondary Education professor David Lewkowich looks at ways to explore the discomfort of imperfection in teaching and learning
Unsettled Podcast: Antidotes to Colonialism

March 16, 2021

Is the hand of colonialism still at work in public policy, even while governments, other institutions, and individual Canadians try to do the right thing? Dr. Dwayne Donald, a member of the University of Alberta's Faculty of Education, certainly thinks so. Find out more about his work and ideas, as hosts Jessica Vandenberghe and George Lee talk with Dwayne.
Alberta curriculum: End the failed partisan politics over what kids should learn

February 16, 2021

Professor Kent den Heyer writes that what kids should formally learn in schools via a provincial curriculum is a perennial political football and is often used to avoid other classroom concerns such as class size and inequitable access to enrichment activities.
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