CATCA 2021

Artificial intelligence, machine learning, and data science can be used to explore literature and communication in ELA classes. Finding patterns and meaning in text is an essential component of understanding the meaning behind what we read, hear and observe. By using natural language processing, we can analyse sentiment and story arcs, look at how characters interact, investigate changes in language over time, automate readability checking, and foster inquiry and critical thinking skills based on data from texts. We'll also talk about the growing trend in machine-generated text, including how you and your students can do this, as well as some potential issues and ethical considerations.

History Tellers - Conteurs d'Histoire - Made Fun and Easy - Canadian history in 90 seconds!    
WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT IN THIS SESSION!
1. Actively engage in this pre-recorded session and you will learn 13 of 48 Cdn. history hand actions!  (Your coffee might get cold!)
2. Experience how a successful multi-sensory teaching works.  (It will be hard not to show-off your new skill just a bit to your colleagues, family and friends) 
3. Deb will walk you step-by-step on how to teach this method in your classroom.  (Grab your bored kids at home to have a fun learning experience with you!)
4. The professional drawings are captivating, the mnemonic devices will stick in your head and the simple hand actions will keep you moving! 
5. Recorded improvisations will tickle your funny bone and teacher testimonies will make you a believer of this pedagogy. 
6. Peek at costumes, props and classroom activities ... and bloopers will add a few sprinkles to this session.  
7. You'll likely not forget this session....so spread the word and begin to equip a generation to have fun learning Cdn. history!

 History Tellers is supplemental resource for Grade 5 & 7 Canadian history Social Studies, ELL and challenged learners.. and it’s available in French!

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The Alberta Colony Educator’s Specialist Council presents a session for Hutterite Colony Educators with a focus on effective concept-based teaching on colonies. This session will also delve into the challenges of teaching in multi-grade environments, effective teaching strategies, and a sharing session to finish off. We hope you join us to learn and collaborate.
*THIS SESSION WILL NOT BE RECORDED*

Career planning is an evolving phenomenon with the modern day career plan being non linear. Youth are preparing today for jobs in the future that may or may not even exist yet! We will debunk a common myth that "post-secondary" is equivalent to only university degrees! Trades apprenticeship, certificates, diplomas, degrees and non-credit course work can all increase one's earning potential throughout a lifetime. Jill Halter (Career Advisor at Notre Dame High School) and Cindy Visser (Career Advisor at Lindsay Thurber High School) will jointly context key elements of "post-secondary planning" and provide strategies to help support students in these efforts. The session will include: important considerations in both middle school and high school, a personal values assessment, and a request for feedback for possible future sessions. Whether you are a parent or guardian, an aunt or an uncle, a teacher or a counsellor, this session will give you tools to help youth start the life-long endeavour of non linear career planning, with a focus on "post-secondary" training.

To view this session in Google Slides and to access the links we have included in our presentation, please CLICK HERE (REMEMBER TO CLICK ON "PRESENT" once in the presentation).

Make mistakes, accept failure, persevere, collaborate, empathize and consider someone else’s perspective! K-12 students are encouraged to be human in their everyday learning environments. However, integrating learning design to develop these learning outcomes is a lot harder to do. Open data science and open source programming is premised on the idea of a shared learning commons, where people intentionally share information so others can build new knowledge and expand learning beyond isolated computer files, research labs or classroom walls. This presentation will focus on how open data and being part of the open source community amplifies human-centered learning by bridging technology human interactions. Considering ethical perspectives in data science, computational thinking strategies will be used as a framework to guide human-centered critical thinking.

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The concept of humane education has been around for over 100 years, but what is it exactly and how does it fit in the current classroom? In this session we will discuss what humane education is, and how it aligns with the Alberta Programs of Study. We will look at the benefits (to both students and animals) of including humane education into teaching and offer ideas and examples of how it can be done, while meeting curricular objectives. Finally, we will explore the free resources the Alberta SPCA education department has to offer.

In this session we will discuss:
• What humane education is (and what it isn’t) and how it fits into the current classroom
• How including humane education in teaching can foster positive character traits, such as compassion, respect, and kindness in students
• Ideas and examples of incorporating humane education into your classroom while meeting curriculum objectives
• Resources available to teachers including a free book lending program that helps build literacy while promoting empathy, character education themes, and information on animals in the classroom including classroom pets and animals in science, and more!

Why is this session relevant to Teachers:
• Incorporating humane education into the classroom is relevant to teachers as it fosters positive character traits in students to help them grow and further develop into contributing members of the community
• Key take always include: discussion of what humane education is and the benefits of including it in teaching, how it can be incorporated into lesson plans while meeting curricular objectives of different subjects, examine the variety of humane education resources available for teachers
• Teachers will have an opportunity to explore the free resources available to them so they can use in their classrooms.