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CarrotSticks is an online multiplayer game that improves math skills for 1st - 5th graders as they practice and compete with peers around the world!

Participants from around the world share their cultures every week. Sharing information about your country and culture is an excellent way to improve your English speaking and writing, improve your public presentation skills, and learn how to use technology and most importantly about your own culture and cultures around the world. The moderators will help you create your PowerPoint slides, edit your English, and guide you on how to give public speaking workshops for free. For ongoing information, join the Storytelling & Cultures group. Watch all the past videos of the live online sessions on WiZiQ:

A special advisory group is expected to propose a new blueprint by February, based on such input as a tough-talking missive from the Toronto District School Board that called the curriculum "a series of overly robust subject-based documents which are disconnected, overwhelming and full of content reflective of 20th century knowledge. "The curriculum does not engage students within their own realities, nor does it integrate the skills society hopes to see in a 21st-century learner," said the recent submission by a group of principals, teachers, superintendents and trustees.

Karen Grose, the board's system superintendent, said it no longer makes sense to try to cram piles of facts into young minds.

Our kids live in a world where they are immersed in content through things like Twitter and Google, so we don't want them memorizing facts they can access easily, but we want them to think about how to apply that knowledge, and how it affects how they live as citizens and workers," said Grose

If at some point in the fairly near future just about every high school kid is going to have a device that connects to the Internet, how much longer can we ask them to stuff it in their lockers at the beginning of the day? How are we going to have to rethink the idea that we have to provide our kids a connection? Can we even somewhat get our brains around the idea of letting them use their own? At what point do we get out of the business of troubleshooting and fixing technology? Isn’t “fixing your own stuff” a 21st Century skill? How are we helping our teachers understand the potentials of phones and all of these shifts in general?