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About jmedved

Justin started his teaching career in the inner city classrooms of London England. From there he moved on to Africa where he enjoyed shaping some young minds at the American International School of Egypt. Opportunity came knocking next from Toronto, where Justin spent the four years at the York School, one of Canada's oldest and most established full IB and 1-1 laptop programs. Summer spent in Plymouth England with the Michigan State Masters of Educational Technology program renewed and interest in returning overseas. The interest turned to reality when he and his wife moved to Thailand to help shape the vision and direction of the International School of Bangkok. Now back in Toronto in the new position of Technology, Teaching and Learning Specialists at the York School he is charged with as he puts it "keeping the school on the pulse!" You can read more from Justin here and at www.medagogy.edublogs.org
Website: http://www.medagogy.edublogs.org
jmedved has written 6 articles so far, you can find them below.


Looking For Learning In 21st Century Classrooms – Questions from leaders for leaders

Over the past year I have been working with my leadership team on re-connecting them with the teaching and learning going on within our 1:1 program. Our laptop program is over 10 years old however they felt it was time to re-educate themselves on the opportunities and best practices that they should be looking for [...]

MESH 2009 – Toronto’s answer to TED

On April 7th and 8th of next week I am really excited to be attending and speaking at Canada’s most innovative web conference MESH. This will be a great opportunity to listen, talk to and learn from some of Canada’s most forward thinking entrepreneurs, writers and web experts. More importantly I am keen to talk [...]

Internet Safety – Debunking conventional wisdom

Search Engine is a weekly podcast hosted by Jesse Brown of the CBC . It focuses on current issues surrounding technology and social media. A few weeks back this episode was aired which revealed some interesting findings from a US wide study on the online solicitation of minors.  The finding are really interesting. I have [...]

Podcast Picks – 5 Faves

People often ask me for podcast suggestions. While I do add and delete feeds from my Itunes on a regular basis there are a few that have stood the test of time. Here are some of my favorites. 1. The Economist Global news from around the world. Science, Business, Technology, Economics and more. This podcast [...]

Government 2.0 – Tired Cliché or Change on the Horizon?

I know it is cliché to add 2.0 to everything but after watching this video about one of U.S administrations dynamic new groups—the TIGR (Technology, Innovation and Government Reform) Team, its hard not to feel that some exciting changes are on the horizon. The Change.gov blog keeps blowing me away with its content. Talk of [...]

Five predictions for 09′

Greetings from Canada and happy new year! My name is Justin Medved and this is my first post for the U Tech Tips team. Jeff invited me on board along with the other ISB gurus last year while I was still in Bangkok. Since then I have moved back to Canada, bought a house, set [...]

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