Rewind to the first weekend in June. I was called down to review the Shaw Festival’s production of Sweet Charity. We bicycled through the various vineyards of the Niagara region, spent time with both sides of his family and topped it off with the season’s front-running show. It was an amazing weekend. As a Torontonian, […]
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Twitterlitterate: The Evolution of Language in the Online Era
EDible News: Mike Gyssels, Staff Writer Hidden within the riddling lines of James Joyce’s 1939 masterpiece, Finnegans Wake, (that idiosyncratic spelling is a small joke, for those (un)familiar with the text) is an urgent call to preserve the literacy of our little ones in the face of the festering mass of perpetual, torrential information that is […]
Benefits of Online Tutoring
EDible News: Ana-Maria Jerca, Contributor I always knew I wanted to be a teacher. I remember telling my parents so in the first grade. Since then, numerous other career options were explored by my young mind - in the second grade, I wanted to be an astronaut; in the tenth, a screenwriter - but I always […]
The Internet: Bridging the Global Classroom
THE INTERNET: BRIDGING THE GLOBAL CLASSROOM EDible News: Nicholas Catania News Director, FESA 2014/2015 Students have the opportunity to access information more quickly than they ever have before. As children of the 1990s and early 2000s, computers were just beginning to enter households; thus, canonizing the era of dialup Internet. Fast forwarding to the present day, […]