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Profiles in Learning: Julie Payette
A textbook overachiever, astronaut Julie Payette is an experienced pilot, engineer and athlete, is fluent in six languages, and has been awarded more than a dozen honourary degrees. The latest in CCL’s series of articles about the lifelong learning experiences of prominent Canadians examines the important, and unlikely, role that music and the arts have played in Payette’s accomplished career.
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Lessons in Learning: Media literacy for children in the internet age
Today, children are born into a wired world where they are as likely to pick up a computer mouse as a book. In 2004, Canadian children aged six to 11 spent an average of two hours per day in front of a screen of some kind (including computers, video games and televisions), while adolescent children between the ages of 12 and 17 logged an average of nearly three hours per day. What are the implications? Go to article »
The Minerva Lecture Series
Dr. Clermont Gauthier, Canada Research Chair in the Study of Teacher Training and professor at the Université de Laval in Quebec, is the second scholar to be featured in CCL's Minerva Lecture Series. His topic is entitled School success and educational reforms: Why is it so difficult to increase the performance of our educational systems? The first lecture is in Vancouver on Jan. 29, 2008, followed by presentations in Edmonton, Saskatoon, Toronto, Montreal and Moncton. More on this lecture »
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