eLearning Student Help Resource
This Canvas course is designed to house useful guides, information, and links to resources to assist students in their use of learning technologies.
Ally Pilot
The Faculty of Education is taking part in a pilot of the accessibility tool Ally. All 2022W2 Canvas courses within the faculty will include this tool.
Low-Bandwidth Teaching and Learning
Thinking about the bandwidth and immediacy of tools can help in designing accessible courses that can support students with limited Internet access.
Oral Traditions
“The Elders would serve as mnemonic pegs to each other. They will be speaking individually uninterrupted in a circle one after another. When each Elder spoke they were conscious that […]
Decolonization
“It is not converting Indigenous politics to a Western doctrine of liberation; it is not a philanthropic process of ‘helping’ the at-risk and alleviating suffering; it is not a generic […]
Learning with Community
“Community-based education begins with people and their immediate reality. Above all, it allows them to become meaningfully involved in shaping their own futures through the school and other agencies in […]
Truth and Reconciliation
“A decolonizing place of encounter between settlers and Indigenous people … by making space for collective critical dialogue – a public remembering embedded in ethical testimonial, ceremonial, and commemorative practices” […]
Holistic Learning
“The interrelatedness between the intellectual, spiritual (metaphysical values and beliefs and the Creator), emotional, and physical (body and behaviour/action) realms to form a whole healthy person” […]
Intergenerational Learning
“Elders are gaining their rightful place as cultural teachers as they tell stories to students in band and public schools, to postsecondary students, and to adults who ask” […]
Multimodal Learning
“The term multimodal literacy describes communication practices that use two or more modes of meaning…is dynamic and able to be modified by users, rather than being a static code” […]