L'École branchée, un organisme à but non lucratif
ADVERTISEMENT
0.00 $

No products in the cart.

Les #Édubrèves - week of June 13, 2021

In this edition of #Édubrèves: scientific and playful boxes for children, an application to facilitate the routine, cards on the functions of assistance in the processing of information, a youth rally for the National Indigenous Peoples Day, activities learning, and much more!
Martine Rioux
Martine Rioux

Published on :

Posted in:
Newsfeed
Subscribe to the magazine >
ADVERTISEMENT
9 min.

This week, we present you with many resources to have fun with your family or to recharge your batteries during the summer. We also underline a beautiful personal project of the pedagogical advisor of the École branchée, Maxime Laflamme. Take the time to savor your #Édubrèves, before starting the last days with your students!

Please note that the use of animated GIFs in this short news digest is for entertainment purposes only!

Special mention to our educational advisor, Maxime Laflamme

The École branchée educational advisor, Maxime Laflamme, and two of his friends, Louis-Pierre Fortin and Gabriel Tremblay Grenier, worked together to create scientific and fun sets for children.

The Tire-Bouchon Island boxes are made up of mysteries to be solved and machines to be built as a family. Each box includes a story, technical discoveries and a wooden machine to assemble. In all, 10 adventures were produced. Children aged 6 to 12 can receive them, each month, directly at home.

In less than a year of existence, 10,000 copies have been sold and the team translated the sets into English to set out to conquer North America.

The trio recently made talk about him on the airwaves of a Charlevoix radio, their region of origin.

A playful application attracts the attention of the Dragons

Image de l'application Kairos

The KAIROS app, a mobile video game that aims to facilitate the family routine, charmed the dragons Christiane Germain and Isabèle Chevalier during their recent appearance on the program Dans l'oeil du dragon, presented on Radio-Canada. The application integrates the family routine in order to increase the autonomy of the children. Thus, children can receive a notification indicating certain tasks to be carried out. The parent can then validate that these have been carried out. The app can be downloaded from Apple Store and Google Play via a monthly subscription, after a two-week free trial period.

Sheets on information processing assistance functions

The RÉCIT national service in special education has developed 18 new files on information processing assistance functions.

On the subject of technological aids, we invite you to read the new dossier published this week on the École branchée website: Dys disorders, 10 years after the introduction of technological aids.

A virtual youth gathering for National Indigenous Peoples Day

To mark National Indigenous Peoples Day, the Council of the Atikamekw Nation (CNA) and the Digital spring (PN) are inviting young people to come explore the potential of digital technology and celebrate traditions. The Code Avenir - Indigenous Memory event will allow people to come together in an immersive universe, like in a video game, and discover how technology makes it possible to preserve the language and bring culture to life. Youth aged 13 to 29 are invited to subscribe to receive information which will allow them to connect to the virtual platform on June 21 at 10:30 am.

Free icons, what do you think?

Iconduck is a library of free, downloadable, royalty-free icons and illustrations. Enough to allow you to illustrate many presentations.

Turnkey learning activities

The RÉCIT national personal development service offers two new learning activities: 

Podcasts are more than entertainment tools

Carrefour education presents three thematic guides to discover and use podcasts in the classroom:

To read

  • The dark side of screens presents Stéphane Labbé's essay on an exhaustive review of the effects of daily and prolonged exposure to screens. Yes, there is some negative, but the conclusion is interesting: “Society in general will find a balance, says Stéphane Labbé, confident. We have done this with every major technical innovation. "

To listen

  • #reallyTrue is a series of 4 video clips with journalists specializing in disinformation or science who share their thoughts on their profession and tips for verifying information. 

Jobs available

In closing, nostalgia or relief, the year 2020-2021 will soon be behind us!

See you soon! Until then, don't hesitate to “tag” us (in good French…) on Twitter (@millaudrey or @riomarti) so that we can talk about your project / resource in a future review of the week! Have a great weekend!

About the Author

Martine Rioux
Martine Rioux
After studying public communication, Martine worked as a journalist for various publications, before pursuing her career as an interactive communications consultant at La Capitale, a financial group, then at Québec Numérique, an organization she took over as general manager before making the jump. as political advisor in the office of the Minister for Digital Government Transformation. Today she is the online Editor-in-Chief and Special Projects Manager at l'École branchée. Her dream: that everyone has access to technology and can use it as a tool for learning and opening up to the world.

Your comments

To comment on this topic and add your ideas, we invite you to follow us on social networks. All articles are published there and it is also possible to comment directly on Facebook, Twitter or LinkedIn.

Do you have news to share with us or would you like to publish a testimonial?

Publicize your educational project or share your ideas via our Opinion, Testimonials or Press Releases sections! Here's how to do it!

Receive the Weekly Newsletter

Get our Info #DevProf and l'Hebdo so you don't miss out on anything new at École branchée!





Martine Rioux
More articles by Martine Rioux

You might also like:

Balado Rencontres numériques – La production médiatique

In this podcast, Martine Rioux talks with Denis Martel, a podcast producer. He discusses the podcast phenomenon, which is far from being a dying trend. He argues that this medium allows for the development of virtually every dimension of the framework for digital literacy in schools.

A podcast that allows students to get to know each other better

In September 2022, Dina Isber and Karla Mendez, both English teachers at Polyjeunesse High School in Laval, proposed a podcast project to their Secondary 1 students. For the students, who were entering high school, it was a great way to get to know each other at the beginning of the year.

Classroom project: A podcast to raise awareness of environmental noise

Here is proof that a simple idea can go a long way. This past school year, Lysiane Dallaire explored sound with Secondary 2 students as part of an enriched English class. It all started with listening to the podcast The Digital Plan. We tell you the whole story!

The digital tools experienced during the pandemic are here to stay

The transition to distance learning has been an opportunity for teachers, lecturers and professors at all levels (primary, secondary, college and university) to experiment with new digital tools. Now that students are back in the classroom, actors in the education sector are taking a look at the uses of these tools to ensure that some of the lessons learned remain.
©