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Paul Martin Martin Aboriginal Education The Right Honourable Paul Martin was the 21st prime minister of Canada from 2003 to 2006 and minister of finance from 1993 to 2002. He served as the member of Parliament for LaSalle-Émard in Montreal, Que., from 1988 to 2008. Currently, he leads the Martin Aboriginal Education Initiative, which aims at reducing the aboriginal youth dropout rate and at increasing the number of aboriginal students attending postsecondary institutions.
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Anne-Marie Mediwake Creativity and Communication CBC News anchor Anne-Marie Mediwake shares her thoughts with Dialogue Online about what 21st-century skills are essential to prepare students for their future. |
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Rob McEwen Creativity and Communication The Order of Canada recipient and gold entrepreneur shares his thoughts with Dialogue magazine on what 21st-century skills are essential to prepare students for their future.
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Juliana Rotich Technology and Innovation Co-founder of revolutionary crowdsourcing web platform Ushahidi shares her thoughts with Dialogue magazine on what 21st-century skills are essential to prepare students for their future.
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What should educators do to address the needs of an increasingly diverse community and foster inclusive schools? I believe that educators need to first candidly assess their school to see if it is indeed an inclusive climate where all students are engaged and learning. For example, how much time is spent celebrating diversity rather than [...]
What should educators do to address the needs of an increasingly diverse community and foster inclusive schools? I once asked a fine teacher I knew what the three most important things in connecting to students of all kinds were for her. She answered, “Relationship, relationship, relationship.” At the heart of providing a safe, challenging environment [...]
How important is diversity and respect for people of other cultures in today’s environment? Our reality today is diversity. Diverse worldviews and heritages are now a relative fact of existence. In today’s world, through the ease of travel, media and all forms of connection, we can now more easily see and experience the lives of [...]
What is the key to fostering diversity and stopping bullying, discrimination, hate and intolerance in our diverse school communities? The Dalai Lama has said that the greatest challenge of our time is that we’re raising a generation of passive bystanders. At the root of accepting difference, celebrating diversity and prosocial action is compassion. We live [...]
As the main theme of your term of office is accessibility, what should educators do to address the needs of their diverse school communities? The definition I have been using for accessibility is that which enables people to achieve their full potential. Accessibility is much more than wheelchair parking lots, ramps and things like that. [...]
With the growing concerns about discrimination, racism, homophobia, religious intolerance and bullying in our diverse school communities, what should educators do to foster inclusive schools that accept and respect difference? Schools have a huge responsibility because they are there to teach both curriculum and an understanding of decency. Good teachers are also major role models [...]
What new literacies will better prepare students for the future? With the Genuine Progress Index, the measurements we do on educational attainment are about what makes an educated person. So that’s beyond just being in school, and it goes beyond the standardized testing and school dropout rates that are usually measured to show whether education [...]
What 21st-century skills can better prepare youth for the future as leaders, innovators and other positive role models in society? Future leaders will need to have: • Multiple literacies (verbal, written, artistic and technological) • Multiple or at minimum two languages (two official and one indigenous), and understanding of more than one knowledge system as [...]
What key 21st-century skills can better prepare youth for the future? One of the main things we’re finding is that what we really need to do is to put more focus on developing what’s called emotional intelligence, commonly referred to as EQ (emotional quotient), involving recognizing, understanding and managing emotions and feelings. Self-discipline, or delaying [...]
What key 21st-century skills can better prepare students for the future? More than anything, students need to know how to think synthetically, analytically and critically, understanding the difference between the real and simulated worlds. They need to understand how simulations are built, and their strengths and limitations. One way to do this is to teach [...]
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| Aboriginal youth are feared to be Canada's lost generation. Read our interview with the Assembly of First Nations national chief at the education ministers' national conference and Expert Q&A section. |
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| Arts educator Alex Sarian wants to do for education what Johnny Depp did for pirates—take a failing system and make it sexy. |
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| By adopting a social media perspective in class, students become like embedded reporters and participate in a more open and accessible history as it unfolds. |
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