Jennifer Lalonde DTEFLA 🇨🇦

This is me. I was an IELTS instructor, materials developer, EAP teacher on a Shanghai-based platform for 7 years, and that's how I developed an interest in privacy, #DataProtection, cybercrime. I didn't know my face was on the China main page until 2019, even though I had...

@PierreBalinski @HannahWardEdu Seriously?

@JenBeOneB1 @HannahWardEdu Any good methods and books on English teaching you can recommend?

From a teaching manual written in 1885:

NEW: CityNews has cut ties with Queen’s Park reporter Tina Yazdani, @policornerca has learned, while at least two of her stories about the Ford government have quietly vanished from the web without explanation. policorner.ca/p/scoop-the-fi…

Absolutely. With the help of the (racist) Russian-Italian mafia.

@jeffcanadamson Exit data was pretty clear. The NDP collapse was proof. The youth votes conservative. The next generation is also conservative. It dosnt matter though. We are outnumbered by immortal economic boomer vampires. Canada is lost. I have 20 working years left.... to get my kids OUT.

✅ Principles. Not taking sides. ❌ The Holy See and the “magisterium” (Bishops) relies on vibes, feelings, self-interest rather than adhere to Canon Law or respecting the rules of host societies. The hierarchy are chaos agents and bandits, masquerading as “ordered” and holy.

@rodjnaquin Well said.

My blog examines a teaching paradox: some students want to read outside under trees while others need the structure of staying indoors. Drawing on Smith & Lewis's "both/and thinking" and Kennedy's work on teaching's persistent challenges, I argue this isn't a problem to solve but a paradox to navigate by honoring both needs through separate spaces, accepting that perfect balance is impossible, and modeling this tension-navigation for students. open.substack.com/pub/rodjnaquin…

@MarioNawfal We are in the Kali Yuga for sure.

🇮🇳 Factory workers in India are wearing head-mounted cameras so AI can watch exactly how humans do physical work. Every hand movement, every adjustment, every shortcut. The workers are training their own replacements in real time, on the job, getting paid to do it. The most honest description of this is also the most uncomfortable one. Source: longliveai on IG

It must serve some financial or military interest to turn a blind eye to the IRGC.

This ⬇️.

I'm going to spend the next few days tweeting MAXIMUM CANADA, because I think there should be more attention focused on the challenges of planning for growth to make it sustainable and ecological while solving Canada's problems of underpopulation.

@DougSaunders An idea whose time has come!! ⚡️⭐️

New edition! New cover! New content! New low price! Out this week. The history you never learned in school; the argument you never thought you’d make

@rodjnaquin Yep. I wrote carefully scaffolded model texts for IELTS General Training letters. No one else was doing that. Students loved them. Same with teaching syntax to build up from ‘naked nouns’ to complex NPs. But I am in Ontario, where we aren’t allowed to be excellent teachers.

I was curious to see what this paper by Kyun, Kalyuga, and Sweller said about using worked examples to teach literary essay writing, and the biggest takeaway is simple: show complete model essays way more often during whole-class instruction. The research found that studying full examples actually reduces mental overload for struggling students—it's not "giving away the answer," it's teaching them what good writing looks like. Display 2-3 complete model responses to the same prompt on the board and have the whole class annotate them together. Show multiple strong responses that take different positions on the same text, then discuss what makes each one work—specific evidence, clear reasoning, good organization—even though they reach different conclusions. This teaches students what quality looks like across different interpretations, not just one "right" answer. Right after studying examples together, assign a really similar practice task with the same text. The research showed students did best when the practice closely matched what they just studied. So if you analyze symbolism examples in Chapter 3 as a class, have everyone immediately practice symbolism in Chapter 5—not characterization, not a different book. Transfer takes forever, so you need way more repetition with similar tasks before expecting kids to apply these skills elsewhere. tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.108…

@rodjnaquin This was/is my approach with online ELLs, with few previous contact hours. The back and forth matters a lot.

My blog explains that during real conversation, our brains automatically sync up—we predict what others will say and align our language with theirs. This is why genuine understanding requires back-and-forth dialogue, not just clear emails or presentations. I argue that how educators talk with each other directly shapes student learning, yet most receive no training in professional dialogue. Better conversations among teachers lead to better thinking and teaching. open.substack.com/pub/rodjnaquin…

Sounds like the Peterborough Diocese in Ontario, which is deeply sick at the level of the entrenched conservative enclave that “has the police in their pockets” according to now-resigned Bishop Robert Bourgon.

In faith communities where harm has occurred, it can be tempting to focus on creating a redemptive story, but we must remember that redemption isn’t possible or beautiful if it’s built on the backs of the ones who are harmed.

@fatheyayallas @Tracking_Power @antaliyana3 Horrifying. Sociopaths rise. Serving power pays well.

@Tracking_Power @antaliyana3 Horrifying to watch. The complicity and coverup(wilfully destroying files) is shocking. These boys and their families deserved justice, after 50+years of agonising never ending pain not even an apology just denials. Sickening

If you haven't watched this stunning film yet - which was commissioned and then censored by the BBC - you should. Available to stream at the link below. Kincora is a major story, not just confined to the Question of Ireland. The role of the British intelligence agencies and indeed the connections to the Royals (Mountbatten in particular - yes the grand-uncle of (not)Prince Andrew), should interest all of us, and make us think about how Kincora relates to the child sexual abuse networks in the UK and - of course via Andrew and Peter 'Mossad' Mandelson - how it relates to the Epstein networks. It's important in my view also to remember the heroic role that an Ulster Protestant - who was also a Unionist - played in getting this story out. Colin Wallace worked in dirty tricks for the British intelligence services with a cover role in Army HQ in Lisburn. He suffered more than most in his determination to get the story of Kincora into public view - including being fitted up for manslaughter and spending years inside. We should all be publicly very grateful to him. I know I am. Thank you, Colin. A link to a clip of Colin Wallace on this issues is in the replies. Belfast’s Vanished Boys: A State Cover Up? | Full Documentary youtu.be/QAXRIX-Vwss?si… via @YouTube

Ha!

@Tracking_Power @Lowkey0nline Read the book by Chris Moore also.

Correct.