Special events

Bilingual event

Emergencies can happen anytime, anywhere and often without warning. Keeping our campus safe is a shared responsibility, and ensuring we’re all as prepared as possible can make a difference.

• Do you know what to do when an emergency occurs?
• Do you know how to receive alerts about an emergency?
• Do you know how to report an emergency?

Bilingual event

Emergencies can happen anytime, anywhere and often without warning. Keeping our campus safe is a shared responsibility, and ensuring we’re all as prepared as possible can make a difference.

• Do you know what to do when an emergency occurs?
• Do you know how to receive alerts about an emergency?
• Do you know how to report an emergency?

Since the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada released its 94 Calls to Action in 2015, most Canadian universities have committed to Indigenize their programs and hired Indigenous curriculum specialists (ICS) to help them do so. ICS work towards weaving Indigenous Ways of Knowing, Doing and Being into research, teaching, and administrative structures and procedures. Given our higher education institutions’ long-time established practices and focus, however, these decolonization initiatives inevitably face obstacles that need to be addressed, challenged, and remedied on a collective basis, as Indigenization is collaboration, first and foremost.

As a key step towards collaborating in a good way to address these challenges, the Indigenous Curriculum Specialists Network (ICSN) will gather in October in the Kitigan Zibi Anishnabeg First Nation and the University of Ottawa. This Gathering will centre Indigenous Knowledges and Protocols, allowing for the sharing of experiences and wise practices for all to move forward in a good way...  

Many researchers have shown that the smartphone, when used by students for non-teaching purposes in the classroom, gives rise to a whole range of problems that affect academic performance. There are many debates among researchers. Are there real cases of addiction? Does the smartphone have as many negative impacts as we tend to think? Is the smartphone just another device whose consequences are exaggerated, which would be tantamount to pointing the finger at the construction of a real "media (moral) panic" around its use? Undeniably, the smartphone is seen as a real nuisance, condemned by many teachers, parents and school administrators... 

*Presentation in French, followed by a bilingual discussion.

*Activity organized in collaboration with the research unit on the Advancement of Scholarship in Teaching and Learning (ASoTL).