The Future Skills podcast series explores the impact of technology, new business models, climate change, the COVID-19 pandemic and other factors on workforce trends and emerging in-demand skills. Hear Future Skills Council members and invited guests share ways to take action to help Canadians get training and develop the skills they need to succeed and to support business growth now and in the future. Discussions include priorities and action areas to help build a skilled, agile, and inclusive workforce.

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Episode 1: What is Future Skills
Part 1: Why Future Skills is important
Part 2: Canada: A Learning Nation, a report by the Future Skills Council

Libby, by Overdrive is a books app that allows kids to browse and borrow ebooks and audiobooks from public libraries for free. Kids will need a library card to download or stream the books they want to borrow. The app connects users to their local library's ebook and audiobook collection. Users can link multiple library cards from different branches to access a wider collection. Kids can sample books before deciding to borrow them. If they're not immediately available, they can put titles on hold, and the activity tracker lets them track what they've read. Search for a specific title or explore different collections, including Kids, Teens, What's Popular?, and Subjects. Little kids can access picture books with read-along audio, making some books more accessible to early readers. Even though Libby, by Overdrive gives users access to a wide range of books, grown-ups can activate a juvenile or young adult filter in order to limit kids' access to the entire collection.

DON'T FORGET YOU CAN ACCESS BOOKS ON SORA AS WELL ALL YEAR LONG (if your school has Sora)!

Use the search feature to find what you're after, or browse by author, title, genre, collections or readability.

"Lit2Go is a free online collection of stories and poems in Mp3 (audiobook) format. An abstract, citation, playing time, and word count are given for each of the passages. Many of the passages also have a related reading strategy identified. Each reading passage can also be downloaded as a PDF and printed for use as a read-along or as supplemental reading material for your classroom."

You can find the passage as well as the audio of the material.

Stream audio books for free.

Use the menus on the left side to find the book you'd like by genre (including non-fiction), language, or popularity.

Free online books for kids.
You can listen to free books here - and follow along with the book.

You are allowed to read 1 book for free each month (but you can pay to access more).

Night Sky Star Stories Makinak: The Turtle
We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts.

Listen to Elder Hazel talk about Kôhkom, her conundrum and how she cleverly comes up with a solution during her walk through the forest. Based on Vera Trembach's Moss Bag Stories

"The myShakespeare learning tools are FREE for everyone! Encourage deeper classroom engagement and gain a richer understanding of Shakespeare’s most popular plays by creating a free account."

Students can listen to mdeida-rich full text editions of the plays with interactive content.

With a free account you can use notebook study tools to check comprehension, write responses, annotate text, save etc.

A large user friendly OER search engine that allows for users to search by subject or by course material type (e.g. textbooks, simulations, audio).

Find:
videos
podcasts
textbooks
courses
modules
books
learning objects
primary sources
interactive simulations

This collection provides a list of free educational resources for K-12 students (kindergarten through high school students) and their parents and teachers. It features free video lessons/tutorials; free mobile apps; free audiobooks, ebooks and textbooks; quality free mobile apps; free audiobooks, ebooks; free foreign language lessons; test prep materials; and free web resources in academic subjects like literature, history, science and computing. This newly-released list is a work in progress.

library2go helps keep students reading. Students can access ebooks and audiobooks from the provincial library system if they have a library card. This is an opportune time for students to develop fluency and stamina for reading independently. Invite them to explore titles in different genres and to find nonfiction titles that build on their interests. If students don’t have a library card, they can check out their regional library’s membership tab. Many libraries have an online application option so that students can gain a temporary library card number to borrow materials

"Every week, celebrities and PBS KIDS authors are reading aloud their favorite books."

There are some fabulous books here!

Watch world-renowned storyteller Robert Munsch perform The Paper Bag Princess in this You Tube video.

Learn French by listening to podcasts on many different topics:

-débutant, beginner
-vocabulaire
-nombres
-textes (culture et société)
-questions pour communiquer
-prononciation
-dictées
-conjugaison, etc.

Réseau de podcasts de culture générale

«Des podcasts courts et efficaces pour développer vos connaissances au quotidien. ...

Choses à Savoir est un réseau de podcasts de culture générale. 27 podcasts différents pour vous permettre de développer vos connaissances jour après jour.

Créé en 2015 par Louis-guillaume Kan-Lacas, Choses à Savoir rassemble aujourd’hui une équipe de passionnés (journalistes, professeurs, auteurs, scientifiques) bien décidés à partager leur savoir avec le plus grand nombre.

Chacun de nos épisodes est conçu avec en tête les 3 objectifs suivants: clarté, concision, stimulation intellectuelle. Nous en publions plusieurs centaines par mois.

Nous sommes aujourd’hui le réseau de podcasts le plus écouté de France (source ACPM) avec plusieurs millions d’écoutes mensuelles.»

«Bonjour à tous and welcome to Easy French Poetry where I read some of the most Classic French Poems. I will read them twice: once slowly - so you may repeat after me - and once at a more natural reading pace. I will sometimes also talk about the life of the author, explain the vocabulary or do an analysis of the text using simple, everyday French. You will find the full text of the poems accompanied by the audio on my website FrenchToday.com as well as much more audio material such as The Easy French Poetry Readings and Analysis series, Classic French Tales, French Verb Drills, reachable audio novels...»

«Bonjour à tous et bienvenue à Easy French Poetry, où je lis certains des poèmes français les plus classiques. Je les lirai deux fois : une fois lentement, afin que vous puissiez répéter après moi, et une fois à un rythme de lecture plus naturel. Parfois, je parlerai également de la vie de l'auteur, expliquerai le vocabulaire ou ferai une analyse du texte en utilisant un français simple et quotidien. Vous trouverez le texte intégral des poèmes accompagné de l'audio sur mon site web FrenchToday.com, ainsi que beaucoup plus de matériel audio tel que la série de lectures et d'analyses de poésie française facile, des contes français classiques, des exercices sur les verbes français, des romans audio accessibles, etc.»

Residential Schools is a three-part podcast series that aims to honour the stories of First Nations, Métis, and Inuit Survivors, their families, and communities.

Based on the book Roots by Brie Philips, Sun West School Division created this bundle of resources to help guide the infusion of Indigenous perspectives into early years classrooms.  The Roots bundle encourages students to learn about the land they are on and form personal connections to the natural world around them through literacy, exploration, and play.

Check out these 19 categories of great science podcasts that you can listen to with kids. Many of the categories have a number of podcasts within. Topics include oceans, dinosaurs, light, sound, space, senses, animals , plants and much, much more!

Did you know that there’s a listening app with ONLY content for kids?! It’s called Kids Listen, and it features a playlist curated especially for educational shows! Check it out at https://app.kidslisten.org, or as an Apple or Google Play app. What a great way to let your kids discover what they love.