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The digital classroom
At this year's Teaching and Learning Festival, staff and faculty explored ways to incorporate forward-looking technologies and techniques.
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Hebrich suffered several misfortunes that night, including falling victim to the bystander effect, which may have cost him his life. The lesson to take away from this tragedy is that we have a shared responsibility to help one another in an emergency.
Theresa Bianco. A dying man and the "bystander effect".
While the settler population of the Sault region may look with pride upon the cross, it is a reminder of the claims of Empire over a continent and peoples by mere right of discovery. For many Anishinaabeg, this cross represents an ongoing legacy of colonialism and subjugation.
Karl Hele. A French cross in Sault Ste. Marie.
People are spending a lot of time with their advanced technological devices such as an iPad, iPod, iPhone, tablet, androids, and living in their iHome. Is simply being together, speaking to each other, and sharing time with people lost? Is it more enhanced with all our new technology or has it been reduced? iWonder.
Suzanne Reisler Litwin, life in a new techy “i” world.
Je crois qu’il y a plusieurs effets convergents : la créativité de certains acteurs, l’arrivée d’Ubisoft qui a professionnalisé toute une génération d’employés et le fait que Montréal demeure un endroit assez peu cher, avec une grande qualité de vie. Ça permet aussi de créer un écosystème de développeurs indépendants qui peuvent se permettre de se retirer du système pour développer des projets indépendants très risqués, mais à très grand potentiel créatif.
Jonathan Lessard, Montréal, une capitale du jeu vidéo.
