1. Announcing the Opening Keynote at the 14th Canadian EdTech Leadership Summit -- Daniel Sax, CEO & Co-founder, Canadian Space Mining Corporation. Daniel will surely provide inspiration to innovating education as he and his team work with CSA and NASA to solve greater challenges beyond earth.
2. Be sure to tune into my podcast with renowned education technology expert,        Dr. Kecia Ray, MindShare TV Podcast on EdTech Trends and Unpacking the EdExec Summit for Industry and Education leaders
3.  Rosedale girls are national champs for reinventing a more sustainable Sarnia on Minecraft
4. Educators 'wholly unprepared' for student use of artificial intelligence
5. Concordians launch the first space-bound student-built satellite in Quebec
6. Canada struggles to prepare its workforce for changing digital economy
7. Thinking of making a pivot into the education technology industry and not sure where to start? Register for our soon-to-release EdTech Professional Microcredential Course Launch & Summer Institute (hybrid) August 22. Only $50 for the first 50 people! 

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During this webinar, you will explore essential concepts, analyze district resources in light of recent ChatGPT breakthroughs, and provide examples of how educational institutions and businesses are already adapting. Date: July 25th Time: 11:00 am CST

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It's not every day Grade 9 students can try their hand at operating a real lunar rover, but that’s what a class at Centre Scolaire de la Rive Sud did Wednesday. From their Cookville, N.S., classroom, about a dozen students split into teams working together to remotely maneuver the small robotic machine on a mock lunar surface located in Stratford, Ont.

A summer camp aimed at introducing young people to careers in the electric automotive industry began in Sudbury on Monday. Dubbed 'Electrifying the Future,' the camp was organized by Laurentian University in partnership with Cambrian College and Collège Boréal. The camp is free for ages nine to 14 thanks to $500,000 in funding from the provincial government designed to address a workforce gap in the automotive industry.

York Region District School Board's partnership with ComKids is helping to help bridge the technology gap for students. The program aims to provide technology to students who may not have access, and promote digital literacy skills. This year, students at Deer Park P.S., Jersey P.S. and Morning Glory P.S. benefited from the program. Hear from students about how they felt receiving their new laptops and how they are using them to support schoolwork and learning.

The EdExec Summit is a new event from Tech & Learning that brings together senior executives from companies serving the K-12 industry for a three-day networking conference dedicated to the business of education. Presenter Adam Garry, Senior Director of Education Strategy with Dell, discusses the future of generative AI in K-12 edtech.

“Since the pandemic, we have shifted the nature of how technology is used in schools,” says Garry. “Future Source data shows that 98% of school districts have a one-to-one system for their students. From one watershed moment to the next and current one—generative AI—we have changed how we utilize technology in the education process as tools for both learning and operations.”

An all-girl team of Grade 6 and 7 students from Rosedale School has placed first in Canada in a contest that required them to design a better Sarnia, create it using Minecraft, and narrate a four-minute video being shared with the world.

The challenge put to them was to study global sustainability goals as set out by the United Nations and envision what their own community would look like if it met those goals.

As students gain access to an exploding array of artificial intelligence applications — from ChatGPT to Bing and Bard AI — public schools and universities are scrambling to address the sea change to ensure academic integrity is upheld.

But instead of banning AI tools or policing student work, experts say educators must reinvent how they teach through critical thinking, comparing original work to AI outputs and providing “authentic” assessments for stronger learning outcomes.

“Educators at every level are wholly unprepared for teaching with ChatGPT or any AI app for the coming school year,” says Sarah Elaine Eaton, an associate professor and ethics expert with the University of Calgary’s Werklund School of Education.

With the future impact of artificial intelligence (AI) in educational settings still unknown, Brock experts are gathering critical data to help navigate the new technological landscape while also providing valuable insight for post-secondary institutions.

Rahul Kumar and Michael Mindzak, researchers with AI expertise and Assistant Professors in the Department of Educational Studies, are representing Brock in the Canada-wide Artificial Intelligence and Academic Integrity Study (AIAI Study), which builds on a previous AI pilot study the pair completed in spring 2022.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on a resupply mission to the International Space Station on June 5. On board was Space Concordia’s Orbital Dust Imaging Nanosat (SC-ODIN), the first space-bound student-built satellite in Quebec.

SC-ODIN was developed in partnership with the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) and Nanoracks — a satellite rideshare service provider. Its primary mission is to gather multispectral images of aerosol particles from dust storms on the Namibian coast to provide data for climate research.

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