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Coming Soon! – PDday for Teachers Across Canada

Join us for ICTC’s PDday (Professional Development Day), a day to empower K-12 teachers with essential digital literacy, cybersecurity, and AI integration skills. Through five engaging scenario-based modules; teachers will explore real classroom challenges, discover ready-to-use lesson resources to help their students thrive safely and responsibly in a digital world, and receive up to 7 hours of certified PD micro-credentials.

📌 Overall Module Objectives

These modules will help teachers to:

  • Build digital citizenship and cybersecurity skills,
  • Spot and combat disinformation,
  • Implement effective AI integration in classrooms,
  • Align with curriculum standards, and
  • Get access ready-to-use lessons and activities.

Click a module title below to view its description.

When a student shares an AI-generated article, misinformation spreads across the school.

Focus: Technology ethics, misinformation, and digital verification.

By the end of Module 1, teachers will:

  • Understand what digital media literacy means and why it matters.
  • Learn how to verify and evaluate online information.
  • Recognize and address misinformation with students.
  • Model responsible and ethical online behaviour.
  • Explore key ideas like digital citizenship, footprints, and online safety.
  • Connect digital literacy skills to everyday classroom teaching.

A school network outage turns into a lesson on how computers, coding, and the internet connect us all.

Focus: Internet fundamentals, network basics, and coding awareness.

By the end of Module 2, teachers will:

  • Understand how computers create, process, store, and share data.
  • Recognize how computers and devices work together in networks.
  • Navigate the internet safely and use browsers, search engines, and email effectively.
  • Apply responsible and secure internet use at school and at home.
  • Understand network basics, including wireless connections and VPNs.
  • Troubleshoot common device and connection issues.
  • Identify how the Internet of Things (IoT) works and its related risks.
  • Apply computational thinking and basic coding concepts like loops, variables, and conditionals.
  • Introduce coding and digital systems concepts to students.

A teacher’s class fundraiser post is cloned by scammers, raising questions about online safety and privacy.

Focus: Digital security, phishing, and protecting student data.

By the end of Module 3, teachers will:

  • Apply the Triad and Three-Stage Cycle of Digital Security to detect, protect, and correct against threats.
  • Understand what personal information is collected online and how it’s stored.
  • Manage digital footprints and reduce exposure to privacy risks.
  • Adjust app permissions and use encryption for personal security.
  • Interpret privacy policies and understand how cookies work.
  • Identify and avoid phishing, scams, and manipulative online tactics.
  • Promote safe and secure digital practices with students.

A teacher’s inaccessible slides lead to an important discovery: good design is inclusive design.

Focus: Accessibility, design principles, and digital communication.

By the end of Module 4, teachers will:

  • Strengthen creativity and visual communication skills.
  • Apply key graphic design principles to digital materials.
  • Understand accessibility standards and why they matter in design.
  • Evaluate and improve accessibility in classroom visuals and resources.
  • Model inclusive and effective design practices for students.

Exploring AI tools for grading and lesson prep, a teacher learns about privacy, bias, and how to use AI responsibly.

Focus: What AI is, privacy and bias issues, and evaluating tools for classroom use.

By the end of Module 5, teachers will:

  • Understand what AI is and how it works in education.
  • Recognize privacy, bias, and ethical concerns related to AI tools.
  • Explore the social, environmental, and equity impacts of emerging technologies.
  • Apply ethical frameworks to guide responsible AI use.
  • Learn how AI supports assessment, feedback, and adaptive learning.
  • Understand how AI may shape the teacher’s role and future of education.

Curriculum Linkage Examples 🔗

Teachers can connect what they’ve learned to their curriculum:

  • Ontario Curriculum (as example):
    • Health and Physical Education (Grades 1-8): Helps students develop a better understanding of health relationships with technology and how to maintain their digital wellbeing.
    • Language (Grades 1-8): Helps students develop digital media literacy, design, and analysis skills as well as improve their understanding of the effects of technology on the world.
    • Computer Studies (Grades 10-12): Helps students understand basics of computers, the Internet, and programming.
    • Science and Technology (Grades 1-8): Helps students develop technological problem-solving skills and improve their understanding of the relationships between science, technology, society, and the environment (STSE); relevant to disinformation and AI.

Register below for PDday to gain immediate access to the series of modules as soon as they are released. ⬇️

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The Information and Communications Technology Council (ICTC) is a neutral, not-for-profit national centre of expertise with the mission of strengthening Canada’s digital advantage in the global economy. For over 30 years, and with a team over 100 experts, they have delivered forward-looking research, practical policy advice, and capacity-building solutions for individuals and businesses. ICTC’s goal is to ensure that technology is utilized to drive economic growth and innovation and that Canada’s workforce remains competitive on a global scale. ICTC’s PDday is funded by the Government of Canada’s CanCode Initiative.