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This teacher is bringing the world – and a few big name celebrities – into local classrooms
This is the first in a series of stories featuring the six teachers and authors of “Teaching in the Fourth Industrial Revolution: Standing at the Precipice”. All were finalists for the Varkey Foundation’s Global Teacher Prize.
Inmates learn life skills for an increasingly complex digital world
It's back to school for some Indigenous prison inmates who are learning critical thinking skills to help them navigate an increasingly complex digital media and financial environment once they are back in their communities. Ashley Nash and Karen Paul, who lead the...
Angee Acquin has built her career improving the lives of at-risk kids. Now she needs her community’s help to save her own.
Angee Acquin dreams one day of being a little old woman with traditional regalia and shawls hanging over head in her tent, her grandchildren running around and laughing in her home in St. Mary’s. But the 41-year-old youth support worker now worries that may not be the...
Commentary: Who has it worse is the wrong question; ask how to work together to make it better
People under oppression should be kind to one another because any form of oppression bends the soul. I hate seeing people use my family’s pain as stories to say Canada isn’t as oppressive to Indigenous people as the United States is to the Black population. My mother...
Sixth grader Kendra Levi-Paul is stepping up and speaking out on Feb. 13 in support of equal access for First Nations children in care
Eleven-year-old Kendra Levi-Paul is demanding that First Nation youth no longer be forgotten – and on Feb. 13 she's taking her message to the Legislative Assembly. The Alaqsite’w Gitpu School sixth grader is traveling to Fredericton from Listiguj First Nation, which...
Playing around with their future: Hands-on fun with science and tech can forge a career path for Indigenous students
A chair made of nails sits in the room, inviting children to have a seat. It's a science experiment, one of many at Science East in Fredericton and on this particular day the grades three through five students from Chief Harold Sappier Memorial Elementary School are...
Hey KV and Moncton teens – there’s a new after-school leadership workshop coming to your town
For teens and the people who love them – Wicked Ideas friend and collaborator Rachel Mathis is hosting two, 10-week leadership programs this winter for teens in the Kennebecasis Valley and in Moncton. Rachel's company Invigorate Leaders provides leadership training...
Imagine NB is challenging immigrant youth to make their communities better
A new series of retreats geared at keeping young immigrants in New Brunswick is focused on building leadership skills in its 28 teenaged delegates representing 10 nationalities to help them start projects that will make life better in their communities. “We not only...
Teaching kids to critically assess what they watch on social media is hard enough. Then YouTube went and promoted a video of a dead body to my daughter.
My mom is an expert at writing finally crafted letters of customer dissatisfaction. Throughout my childhood and beyond whenever my mom received poor service, she would sit down and compose a letter (these days it's an email) and send it off to whatever corporate giant...
The Curious Thing About Oprah
Oprah Winfrey's recent Golden Globes speech has got people talking. She was at her best when she took to the stage that Sunday night to accept the Cecil B. DeMille Humanitarian Award, illustrating to the rest of us how to leave your mark by following that age old...
The Truths About New Brunswick
Oh New Brunswick, you are predictable in the stories you tell. To the surprise of absolutely no one the province once again had a rather bad showing in Stats Can's latest monthly labour markets survey. If we have any hope of changing this story arc, we're going to...
Mi’kmaq Heather Condo’s tribute to basket making is Vimeo’s first staff curated Indigenous film
Mi'kmaq filmmaker Heather Condo's short doc 'My Father's Tools' is Vimeo's first-ever Indigenous-made film to be selected for its popular staff pick premieres. “I hope it opens doors for other Natives to step into that [filmmaking] realm and I’m very honoured,” said...
Getting student heads in the cloud: Local ICT firm develops teaching tool to encourage digital literacy
Increasing digital literacy in the province’s K-12 public schools is a priority for New Brunswick and other jurisdictions as people become increasingly dependent on their devices and technology brings a variety of changes to the way people learn and work.
Oscar Wants a Library for Elsipogtog: Meet Wicked Ideas’ new journalist.
I was just a toddler when I’d ask mom to tell me the story of Moses again and again. I’d be sitting bedside with my little brown feet swaying, wide eyed as I heard the tale of Moses floating away in a basket surrounded by reeds. When I was seven I was already aware...
Changing Education – What we can do for love
We're getting ready to launch our new series, which will examine how we can build an education system for New Brunswick kids that gets them ready for a world that is changing rapidly. We're going to look at what we're doing really well, consider what we could do...
Nouvelle initiative lancée le 26 octobre lors d’un événement à Saint John avec Candy Palmater et Radio Radio en vedette
Les adultes tentent de résoudre le déclin démographique de la province depuis vingt ans maintenant. Le 26 octobre, les jeunes s’adresseront au problème. Joignez-vous à nous le 26 octobre 2017, à Harbour Station, à Saint John, Nouveau-Brunswick, pour le lancement de...
New initiative launches October 26 with event in Saint John featuring Candy Palmater and Radio Radio
Adults in New Brunswick have been trying to solve the province’s population decline population for two decades; on Oct. 26 young people are taking it over. Join us Thursday October 26, 2017 at Harbour Station in Saint John, N.B. for the launch of My NB 150, a Canada...
Présentation de Mon N-B 150
Joignez-vous à nous le 26 octobre 2017, à Harbour Station, à Saint John, Nouveau-Brunswick, pour le lancement de Mon NB 150, un programme dans le cadre de Canada 150 NB. Mon NB 150 est un programme par, pour et à propos des jeunes gens du Nouveau-Brunswick et de la...
Introducing My NB 150
Join us Thursday October 26, 2017 at Harbour Station in Saint John, N.B. for the launch of My NB 150, a Canada 150 NB initiative. My NB 150 is by, for and about young people in New Brunswick and how they want to make their communities better. Who is it for? All middle...
Mapping our way back to the centre. Turn left, then right, then straight up the middle.
World, I love you but I really need a member of the skinny-legged chinos developers' brigade to create a Trump commentary filter for social media. I get it. You don't like him. I don't either but seriously can we dial down the story sharing about back-stabbing in the...