Dear Thought Leader, 

One of the key benefits of being in the GTA, I get the opportunity to take in many professional learning events. This past week I was back down at the awesome Microsoft Canada facilities for the Logics Academy Explore23 STEM Camp. I was impressed to see some 100 educators gather on a Saturday to hone their STEM skills. One of my fav sayings, "Passion Has No Clock." Kudos to Logics Academy & Microsoft Canada for being gracious hosts! 

I'm looking forward to the ECNO conference that kicks off this weekend! Watch for updates!

Looking ahead, we're in deep planning mode for our 14th Canadian EdTech Summit --'Empowering Sustainable and Equitable Learning Environments.' Ottawa. Speakers & Sponsors Welcome! Drop me a personal note!

I hope you enjoy this week's Top 10 Canadian EdTech Report powered by MindShare Learning. Do reach out to us to share your innovation, or digital transformation story!

Feel free to email, or call me directly to discuss how we can support your digital transformation strategy and EdTech growth plans for 2023!

Special thanks to our team, student interns and advisory board members for their incredible commitment and support in raising the bar of excellence each week! 

In closing, we are always looking for MindShareTV newsworthy stories to share around learning & innovation across Canada and beyond. And, do let us know how we can help you with you EdTech implementations as that's our wheelhouse as well!  

Until next time, stay healthy, stay safe, and keep the digital learning curve steep! 

Students at a Coquitlam middle school are learning about the dangers of online misinformation using tools to help spot the difference between fact and fiction.

Mason Foulkes, a grade 6/7 teacher at Maple Creek Middle School, says children are inundated daily with online misinformation and disinformation.

"All of your information now is coming from social media feeds. Unverified sources. Misinformation spreads like wildfire. It's the new way we need to prepare our kids for the future." 

Foulkes's lesson plan takes a non-traditional approach to teaching.

Instead of the students simply completing a worksheet, they're exploring a new world in the popular video game Minecraft. 

On Monday, May 8, Ontario teams composed of high school and middle school students will be heading to the University of Waterloo for one of Canada’s largest cyber defence competitions. Hosted by the university’s Cybersecurity and Privacy Institute (CPI), the sixth CyberTitan national finals organized by the Information and Communications Technology Council of Canada (ICTC) will challenge students with real-world cybersecurity situations.

In the rounds of competition, participants will be given test environments where they will be challenged to find cybersecurity vulnerabilities and ways to protect the system while maintaining critical services.

TORONTO, May 23, 2023 /CNW/ - Seneca Polytechnic and the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) are strengthening their existing relationship with the signing of a collaboration agreement to enhance ties between the institutions. The agreement creates a formal framework, committing both organizations to ongoing collaboration and engagement.

Through the pact, Seneca students will have opportunities to work on new NFB projects and learn from NFB-sponsored speaker sessions, workshops and presentations. Seneca will provide technical and creative consultation services, develop technical prototypes and tests and promote NFB films within its animation programs and spaces.

TORONTO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Lighthouse Labs, a tech education leader, released results from its 2022 Student Outcomes Report. The report highlights employment outcomes from its Web Development, Data Science, and Cyber Security bootcamps, including graduation rates, employment status and average starting salaries of alumni. The Lighthouse Labs Career Services team supported over 570 graduates looking for jobs from January 2022 to March 2023.

“As digital transformation continues to accelerate rapidly across every industry, the findings from our Student Outcomes Report demonstrate that regardless of external economic disruptions, there will always be opportunities for skilled tech professionals,” said Jeremy Shaki, CEO of Lighthouse Labs. “At Lighthouse Labs, we’ll continue to look for innovative ways to support the next generation of tech talent and provide high-quality tech education that’s accessible to all. We’ve recently rolled out our Flex Initiative across all programs so that students can tailor their learning experience to fit their personal circumstances. We look forward to helping transform the lives and careers of many more students in the future.”

New Brunswickers know that, in the words of Frank McKenna, we are "rocking the world of digital transformation" with initiatives like the McKenna Institute.Recent news coverage shows the province is being recognized on the national stage for its world-leading work.Institute founder Frank McKenna was recently featured by The Globe and Mail European correspondent and news veteran Paul Waldie, who highlighted McKenna's uncompromising vision of New Brunswick as a global powerhouse in technological advancement.At the same time, McKenna shared an op-ed in The Hill Times, a trusted Ottawa-based news source in Canadian politics and government.McKenna told Waldie and The Globe and Mail that he is looking to do, "something that would be truly transformational."He sees the University of New Brunswick (UNB), home to Canada's oldest English-language university, first engineering program, faculty of computer science and the Canadian Institute for Cybersecurity, as the perfect cradle in which to nurse this revolution.