Shift Your Thinking -- Learning Differences Resources

Shift Your Thinking is dedicated to helping parents, youth, and educators, along with other professionals to support the success of children with learning disabilities, dyslexia and ADHD, so they can flourish in the classroom and at home. We bring in guest experts (Professors, Psychologists, SLP's, Scientists, Authors, Educators etc.) to cover a wide variety of topics that relate to learning differently and working with youth with learning differences. We cover learning disabilities, anxiety and worry, executive function, ADHD, comorbidities, resilience, emotions, assistive technology, accommodations, motivation, the science of reading, and more.

We have many low-cost or no-cost resources and virtual events available. Two specific programs of note would be:

1. Our FREE SYT Support Library which is full of curated video content from a wide variety of experts in their field. These Masterclasses are free to access and would be a phenomenal supplementary resource for students.
2. Our Annual Summit which is coming up on November 4th and 5th. It is an online Summit with a variety of guest experts there to provide insights, answer questions, and help to share the best ways to support our kids who learn differently while at home or in school.

Please see the poster below for additional information.

Culture Awareness

 

Lakehead University lecture explores the pedagogies of digital learning

 

Media Release: Lakehead University lecture explores the pedagogies of digital learning

The 21^st century digital classroom will be front and centre as Lakehead University’s Research Centre for Sustainable Communities (RCSC) opens its 2022/2023 Speaker Series on Tuesday, Oct. 11.

 

Visiting scholars, Dr. Sara Osuna Acedo from the Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED) and Dr. Carmen Marta Lazo from the Universidad de Zaragoza in Spain, will focus on creativity, methodology, and participatory cultures in the ICT-R (Information and Communication Technology - Read, Write and Relate) era in their talk, “The 3rd R of ICT: Read, Write and Relate: Digital competencies, digital learning and digital citizenship”.

 

Acedo, a professor of communication and education and director of the Paulo Freire Chair in Educommunication, and Lazo, a professor of journalism and the director of the Digital Communication and Information Research Group, will discuss their experiences with massive open online course (MOOC) design and implementation including their involvement with the European ECO Learning portal.

 

The 3rd R of ICT: Read, Write and Relate: Digital competencies, digital learning and digital citizenship

Date: Tuesday, October 11

Time: 5 to 6 pm

Location:

·      In-person: OA 2018, second floor, Simcoe Hall, Lakehead University Orillia Campus, 500 University Ave., Orillia ON

·      Virtual: https://lakeheadu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJApdeuvrzgqGNS-CYFQS3przXRl21qTKaj8

 

This session is free and open to the public. For further information or to RSVP for the in-person presentation, please contact Dr. Nanda Kanavillil at nkanavil@lakeheadu.ca.

 

Lakehead University established the Research Centre for Sustainable Communities in 2014 to focus on interdisciplinary research that supports sustainable communities. The centre’s unconventional approach to research, with an emphasis on multi-disciplines and collaboration, will be a catalyst for research funding and community partnerships.

 

Teacher Mental Health Online Webinar

 

Therapy Dogs at Heritage Place Campus

 

Questions about Graduate Studies at Lakehead University?

 

Bike Parking at Heritage Place

This is a reminder to all B.Ed Professional Program students that parking and locking bicycles at the front of the Heritage Place building at any time is not permitted.  

There is a bike rack that is available for student use located at the back of the building.

Thank you for your co-operation.