Author: Kieran

Ursula Le Guin (2005): A Rant About “Technology”.

The Corruption of the Best: On Ivan Illich

Further exploration of the Möbius Strip

Anne Phelan (2005): On Discernment: The Wisdom of Practice and the Practice of Wisdom in Teacher Education

Zimmerman et al. (1998): A Complexity Science Primer: What is Complexity Science and Why Should I Learn About It?

Carl Leggo (2005): Pedagogy of the Heart: Ruminations on Living Poetically

David Autor (2024): AI Could Actually Help Rebuild The Middle Class

The catch of the (inter)net

Header image: Darryl Dick/The Canadian Press Naloxone (pronounced na-LOX-own) is a fast-acting medication used to temporarily reverse the effects of opioid overdoses, also called an opioid poisoning. [source] ∞ (April 28, 2025) Inquest into UVic student overdose hears heart-wrenching testimony from mother https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/coroner-s-inquest-into-uvic-overdose-death-begins-monday-1.7520574 (Feb 18, 2025) DTES support worker says recovery-oriented approach needs to replace […]

Yuval Noah Harari (2024): Nexus

(2016) Mother who sued Port Alberni school board over First Nations smudging ceremony

Jeremy O’Shea (2021): MEd on “Indigenizing Shop”

Leonard Read (1958): I, Pencil – My Family Tree

Al-Anon

Kahlil Gibran (1926): Sand and Foam

BCTF resource (2023): “to support teachers in being consciously reflective of their professional autonomy as well as their rights and responsibilities as a teacher”

KF: scan images from BC Archive

Clarke & Robertson (2001): Insight into “questionable” research practices

Babakiueria (Barbeque Area): A 1986 Australian satirical film on relations between Aboriginal Australians and Australians of European descent.

Coulter & Wiens (2008): Why do we educate? R

“Our Only Imperative is to Achieve”

Thomas Poetter (2024): Book launch

“Hiding is a way of holding ourselves until we are ready to come into the light.”

I did not write for 25 years.

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Stephen Petrina (2003): Ed Tech (ET) is Tech Ed (TE)

Connell, R. (2009): towards a new view of teacher quality and professionalism

Notes from the machine shops

An interview with Graeme Hamilton, a Tech Ed teacher at Oak Bay Secondary School in Victoria

Modal verbs for the win

Legislation that introduced the offence of “wilfully promoting antisemitism by condoning, denying or downplaying the Holocaust through statements communicated other than in private conversation”

The 2004 CBC Massey Lectures, “A Short History of Progress”

The Provincial Tuition Waiver Program waives tuition and eligible fees for B.C. students who are current and former children or youth in care studying full-time or part-time, below the graduate level,

Header image: KF personal pic, mosaicked [writing in progress] The Irish do have a despairing quality of gaiety, but they have also a dour and brooding ghost that rides on their shoulders and peers in on their thoughts. Let them laugh too loudly, it sticks a long finger down their throats. They condemn themselves before they […]

Oh, Canada 🤷🏻‍♂️

My notes on “AI”, better referred to as AGI

….recommending stiffer sentences for hate speech related offenses and taking a new approach to combating hate speech by classifying it as discrimination under the Canadian Human Rights Act.

” First, platforms are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die.”

Header image: ﻼF photograph The Dean of Shandong: Confessions of a Minor Bureaucrat at a Chinese University (Daniel A. Bell, 2023)https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691247120/the-dean-of-shandong “Surely a full life involves serving the public in some capacity” “Confucius himself was asked for one saying that would destroy the state, and he responded “if a ruler is deficient and no one contradicted […]