Notes from the machine shops
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SW9 – Metal
Author: Kieran
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Protected: Make: Ideas
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The Therapeutic Benefits Of Wood Carving
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”
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A Short History of Progress: Ronald Wright
The 2004 CBC Massey Lectures, “A Short History of Progress”
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Protected: Daily notes
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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,
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Protected: Shame
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Citizens for a Canadian Republic
Oh, Canada 🤷🏻♂️
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Under The Crown
☘ 🍁
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AGI: Artificial General Intelligence
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.”
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Bell (2023) The Dean of Shandong
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 […]
“Two minutes experience teach an eager man more than two weeks teach an indifferent one.”
Michael Sacasas (2024): How to make sense of techno-optimist manifestos, the Open Ai/Altman affair, EA/e-acc movements, and the general sense of cultural stagnation
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Google knowledge panels
“[E]ntities whose information is included in knowledge panels are self-authoritative…”
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May you be adequate
“Adequate” is the goal
Bruce Maxwell (2023):
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Protected: Bread at the hardware store
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All models are wrong…
World maps
Short BCIT course in Jan 2024
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John O’Donohue
Background and favourite excerpts
I am Thermi but you might be Thermi too.
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FIPA For Teachers
Privacy, access to information, and technological safety materials for educators in primary schools.
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The Heart of It, by Oliver Jeffers
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Gratitude
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Doug Stowe
Doug Stowe was recognized as an Arkansas Living Treasure in 2009 for his woodworking and role in craft education.
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SW9 – Bowls
My hands-on learning in SW9 started here. It’s been awesome.
“We have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and godlike power” – E.O. Wilson, It gets easier. Every day it gets a little easier. But you got to do it every day. That’s the hard part. But it does get easier. Jogging Baboon, in Bojack Horseman Here was a man who was either in total harmony with […]
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Kindle clippings
WORDS susurration: whispering, murmuring, or rustling. chary: cautiously or suspiciously reluctant to do something. termagant: a harsh-tempered or overbearing woman. Banyan Day peroration: the concluding part of a speech, typically intended to inspire enthusiasm in the audience. Scandalise a sail: To reduce sail in gaff-rigged craft by hauling up the tack and lowering the peak […]
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Protected: SM
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…and Linguistic Racism
My first solo publication
60 minutes away from becoming a Canadian citizen
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George Grant
Recalling Pinar’s (2019) Moving Images of Eternity: George Grant’s Critique of Time, Teaching, and Technology
Prep for the citizenship test
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Student Machine Shop Course
In which I learn of lathe and mill
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Protected: Update 14: Graduation 2023
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Self-identification: On Irishness
Am I still Irish?
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FYI: Britain and Ireland
Map of “these islands”
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Surveillance Capitalism or Democracy?
Shoshana Zuboff (2022)
Casa Forde Menu
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AI, AI, and chicken nuggets
More speed, less velocity.
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2023 Virtual SoTL Summit
My presentation about “Metaphors for Teaching”
“That argument is now and has been for a century the rationale for education technology.”
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Stephenson (1999) Cryptonomicon
Header image: KF in Dall-E
Header image: KF in Dall-E “In schools, we create artificial learning environments for our children that they know to be contrived and undeserving of their full attention and engagement. Without the opportunity to learn through the hands, the world remains abstract, and distant, and the passions for learning will not be engaged.” (Crawford, p. 11) […]