Category: digital literacy

This 2020 eSkills.ca interactive webinar series provided background information on the creation of learning modules focused on building English-language learners’ digital literacy. The eSkills team provided an overview of the process of planning, designing, and developing engaging online learning, outlining their digital literacy training project and resources.

In this September 16, 2021 event in the Longwood Breakfast Series Dr. Kwame McKenzie, CEO, Wellesley Institute uses examples from the pandemic to discuss how we can produce more effective and efficient health systems.

In this September 23, 2021, Alan Turing Institute webinar, Louise Maynard-Atem, Research Lead at Women in Identity shares her view on the importance of inclusion, when establishing an identity system for a thriving digital economy.

In this November 3, 2021, NewCanadians TV webinar, a panel of experts discuss the situation of these newest arrivals to Canada as well as provides options for those who are inclined to lend a neighbourly hand in their resettlement.

This 2020 Canadian Association of Social Workers webinar provides an overview of Family Reunification, focusing on: an introduction to the Canadian family reunification policies, the policies’ effects upon migrant clients, exploring social work’s role in immigration social policy development, and offers avenues for addressing social justice challenges and barriers faced by migrant families.

Professor Lilie Chouliaraki (London School of Economics and Political Science) delivered this keynote address on April 14, 2021 as part of the UBC Centre for Migration Studies' "New Media Aesthetics of Migration" Virtual Workshop. In this keynote, she proposes a new understanding of the refugee selfie as moral practice.

Dr. Audrey Macklin (University of Toronto Faculty of Law & Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy) presents in this online talk delivered Monday, March 8, 2021 as part of the UBC Centre for Migration Studies' Winter 2021 Speaker Series. Her presentation presents preliminary findings from research that involved over 500 online surveys and 85 in-person interviews with sponsors.

On September 22, 2021, The WE Value Partnership project held their WE Value Partnership Final Forum. Project staff provide a recap of where we have been and a sneak peek into some of the work that they hope to undertake in the coming months. I was honoured to provide a keynote presentation covering the potential and future of technology in the sector.

In this All Tech is Human July 15, 2020 webinar, Mutale Nkonde (CEO of AI for the People and Standford Digital Society Lab fellow) and Charlton Mcllwain (author of Black Software: The Internet & Racial Justice, From the AfroNet to Black Lives Matter & Vice Provost for Faculty Engagement and Development at NYU) discussed the challenges and opportunities in implementing anti-racist technology.