
Michael Furdyk
@mfurdyk
Creating youth engagement programs that foster creative confidence, global competence and #digitalskills! (@TakingITGlobal/@TIGed/@AConnectedNorth) [he/him]
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๐ต Exciting news! We have teamed up with TakingITGlobal to offer Grades 5-12 students a cross-curricular learning experience involving coding, music, social justice, and Indigenous education.

After realizing in grade 12 that his passion lies in learning and that teaching seemed like his destiny, Loran Scholars Foundation Kyran Alikamik went onto university in the South. Tune in for his recent #FiresideChat โจ firesidechats.ca/video/kyran-alโฆ

We were thrilled to bring #YourVoiceIsPower Hackathons with Dakota Bear to six schools across KeewatinPatriciaDSB Calgary Board of Education over the last two weeks! Thanks to Amazon #FutureEngineer & ISED #CanCode for their support ๐๐งโ๐ป๐ถ



Excited to be connecting our network of schools live to the Nunavut Quest race this week, in Sessions led on the land by student timekeepers from Igloolik! 12 Mushers will be making a one-week trek from Arctic Bay to Pond Inlet. Thanks to Willow Fiddler for helping to prepare





Michael Furdyk of TakingITGlobal is reviving Future Friendly Schools. Let us know if you'd like your program or school featured! #ISTELive #ISTELive24 Be Future Friendly futurefriendlyschools.org





We're proud to share that #YourVoiceIsPower has been recognized with an @AnthemAwards Gold Award for the impactful coding, music & Indigenous histories program designed by @ChristineMLot, Marika Schalla, Peter Skillen & Susan Ibach in collaboration with UBCโs Cloud Innovation Centre (CIC)!


Extracurriculars are an essential part of the learning experience. So why are nearly a third of parents in Canada going into debt to pay for them? Discover the causes and solutions to this urgent issue TakingITGlobal presents The Walrus Talks at Home: Public Education and





Great talk by Werner Vogels at #AIforGood on the importance of data (and especially mapping) for social change and implementing #SDGs! Thinking about how data can help us strengthen education outcomes Connected North
