C21 Canada Podcast AI + Land-Based Learning: Empowering Students & Educators, Rainy River DSB

I’m Robert Martellacci, Co-founder and CEO of C21 Canada, and I’m delighted to highlight one of the most compelling and community-grounded AI innovations in Canadian education. Today, we are joined by two leaders from the Rainy River District School Board, a district that has been nationally recognized for its work in land-based learning, Indigenous partnerships, and now AI-enabled capacity building. First, Heather Campbell, Director of Education, C21 Canada CEO Academy Member, who has championed this initiative from a strategic and cultural perspective. And second, Shannon Westover, the board’s Technology Enabled Learning and Teaching Contact and Secondary Curriculum Coordinator, and the technical and instructional lead behind the AI deployment. Together, they launched their AI use case last year as part of the C21 Canada × Dell Technologies project. Today, we explore how it has evolved, what surprised them, and how educators and students are responding. Heather and Shannon, welcome to the podcast.

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C21 Canada Podcast AI + Land-Based Learning: Empowering Students & Educators, Rainy River DSB is an episode from MindShare Learning Podcast by MindShareLearning.

This episode is 00:22:22 long.

This episode was published on Dec 19, 2025.

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