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Header image: From https://harrypotter.fandom.com/ This post was prompted by my remarking to another teacher that, as in schools in British Columbia, they use a proficiency scale for grading at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.In the end, I worked out my point: “adequate” is the goal. I get the reasoning behind proficiency scales but, in […]
Header image: KF in Dall-E Maxwell, B., Senécal, M., and Waddington, D. (2023). Pedagogical freedom and sensitive issues in school: A companion guide for teachers and school leaders. Centre d’intervention pédagogique en contexte de diversité.[Available for download at Bruce Maxwell’s Academia.edu page] “Primary and secondary school teachers don’t have full academic freedom, but they do […]
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All models are wrong, but some are useful. George Box The map is not the territory Alfred Korzybski Gall–Peters projection https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gall–Peters_projection South-up map orientation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South-up_map_orientation
Header image: KF personal pic Did this course at BCIT in Jan. Two 3-hour online sessions, one either side of a full day (Sat) on-site at the shop at BCIT. https://www.bcit.ca/courses/basic-vehicle-maintenance-and-operation-auto-1050/ The instructor (Naveen Jit) was great; I would recommend this course.
Some background: Bäuchle (2021) John O’Donohue: The Fateful Years of a Priest To Come Home To Yourself May all that is unforgiven in you,Be released. May your fears yieldTheir deepest tranquilities. May all that is unlived in you,Blossom into a future,Graced with love. from Benedictus: A Book of Blessing Journey of The Soul One of […]
Header image: KF in Dall-E Deep within every life, no matter how dull or ineffectual it may seem from the outside, there is something eternal happening. This is the secret way that change and possibility conspire with growth. John Henry Newman summed this up beautifully when he said, “To grow is to change and to […]
Header image: BC Freedom of Information and Privacy Association Logo FIPA For Teachers https://fipa.bc.ca/fipa-for-teachers/ Senior High Schools (Grade 10-12): British Columbia Digital Privacy Rights for Youth
A dear friend just gifted me this lovely book, Begin Again, by Oliver Jeffers. Check it out here: https://www.oliverjeffers.com/begin-again Art’s purpose is to imperceptibly shift the ground under people’s feet. Science, technology, engineering, and maths are how we do things. Art is why we do them See the beautiful poem from it below. The Heart […]
Header image: KF personal image Jan 1, 2024 I just got 2024 off to a great start with my regular 8-9 meeting. One of the readings was about the concept of “home” and I shared that, having recently become a Canadian citizen, I am now “home”. But also, more than that, channeling John O’Donoghue, I feel […]
Header image: KF in Midjourney I made my annual donations this month to: I also made my first donation of blood to the Canadian Blood Services. Ireland had been on the ineligible list on account of Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease (vCJD) but this restriction was lifted Nov 27, 2023. Now a citizen and no longer considered a mudblood, I […]
(May 6, 2024) Maybe Even Build a Boat: Rediscovering the lessons of craft https://hedgehogreview.com/web-features/thr/posts/maybe-even-build-a-boat “Objectives are likely to be much more effective if teachers conceptualize what students might and ought to know, feel, and do at the end of a lesson rather than the beginning”. Petrina, S. (2007). Advanced teaching methods for the technology classroom. Information Science Publishing. https://blogs.ubc.ca/dandt/files/2014/07/Petrina2007.pdf […]
Header image: Google maps This page is to record my time and learning in and around SW9 at the British Columbia Institute of Technology April 22, 2024: Bowl 1 – “Roy’s bowl” The wonderful Rory Brown offered to give me a few hours of instruction on the wood lathe and I jumped at the chance.➡ […]
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Nicholle is on her Community Field Experience (May 15-June 2) The key purpose of the Community Field Experience is for teacher candidates to experience teaching and learning in a new context that provides a more holistic view of teaching and enhances the teacher candidate’s formal teaching experience.We also anticipate this experience will provide teacher candidates […]
u/ArtfuIhacker UBC and IKEA partner in “Light up your Life!” student programs. Fictitious sources announced today that, as part of the new Strategic Harm Avoidance Mechanism (SHAM) campaign promoting anti-racism on campus, UBC has partnered with IKEA to “leverage and synergize student visibility for remote invigilation through Proctorio”. The exciting offer, billed as the more […]
Header image: Decolonizing Teaching Indigenizing Learning. https://indigenizinglearning.educ.ubc.ca I curated this site from July 2021 to December 2023
Header image: KF in Dall-E My first solo publication came out in December 2023. It was the end of a writing process that began with a paper for a course in autoethnography in 2020 which, eventually, developed into one of my comprehensive exam papers in 2021. Forde, K. (2023). Currere: The agentic (re)writing of the self. Currere Exchange Journal, […]
Header image: KF composite in GIMP I will become a Canadian citizen in about an hour. Much to write and think about. After spending 20+ years living on visas in various countries, it was something of a relief to be able to say that I am “home” again. Chambers (1999) A Topography for Canadian Curriculum Theory
Header image: KF in Dall-E (Dec 06, 2023) Bring back ‘grumpy’ George Grant and his prophetic conservative message: scholarshttps://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/george-grant-lament-for-a-nation-1.7050666 To Come Home To YourselfMay all that unforgiven in you,Be released.May your fears yieldTheir deepest tranquilities.May all that is unlived in you,Blossom into a future,Graced with love– John O’Donohue, Benedictus: A Book of Blessings (2007) KF See […]
Header image: KF in Dall-E Study Guide – Discover Canada – The Rights and Responsibilities of Citizenship |https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/corporate/publications-manuals/discover-canada.html Understanding the Oath Between 1534 and 1542, Jacques Cartier made three voyages across the Atlantic, claiming the land for King Francis I of France. Cartier heard two captured guides speak the Iroquoian word kanata, meaning “village.” The […]
Header image: KF personal photo I am really excited that I got a spot on this year’s Student Machine Shop (SMS) course: https://sms-course.phas.ubc.ca/ I applied for the last two years but there weren’t enough slots and priority is given to those in Physics & Astronomy. I’m going to use this page as a wee record of […]
Header image: KF composite in GIMP Our move to Canada was a huge decision. We’ve accomplished what we came here to do and, in the process, laid a foundation for a future here. I am close to becoming a Canadian citizen and this has given me much pause for thought. I spent almost all of the […]
Header image: KF personal photo Guide to the Uk and Ireland. Except nobody gets offended. Made by u/psycho-mouse.https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/l0n5bt/guide_to_the_uk_and_ireland_except_nobody_gets/ Laudabiliter “A bull issued in 1155 by Pope Adrian IV, the only Englishman to have served in that office. Existence of the bull has been disputed by scholars over the centuries; no copy is extant but scholars […]
Header image: KF in Midjourney Zuboff, S. (2022). Surveillance Capitalism or Democracy? The Death Match of Institutional Orders and the Politics of Knowledge in Our Information Civilization. Organization Theory, 3(3), 263178772211292. https://doi.org/10.1177/26317877221129290 “I argue that regulation of institutionalized processes that are innately catastrophic for democratic societies cannot produce desired outcomes.” The Unified Field Perspective KF: The […]
Reading: Zuboff, S. (2022). Surveillance Capitalism or Democracy? The Death Match of Institutional Orders and the Politics of Knowledge in Our Information Civilization. Organization Theory, 3(3), 263178772211292. https://doi.org/10.1177/26317877221129290Thinking about: LLMs as McLuhan’s Tetrads ╬╬╬╬╬╬╬╬╬╬╬╬ (May 18, 2023) Technology analyzing technology https://jarche.com/2023/05/technology-analyzing-technology/ ╬╬╬╬╬╬╬╬╬╬╬╬ (Jan 15, 2023) Reviewing ChatGPT Through The Lens Of Marshall McLuhan’s Tetrad https://medium.com/@dpontefract/reviewing-chatgpt-through-the-lens-of-marshall-mcluhans-tetrad-2453dbef3281
Header image: KF in DALL-E & edits in Gimp Until recently, when I saw the abbreviation AI, I thought of “academic integrity”. Now see it more often referring to “artificial intelligence”. For this post, I’m thinking about artificial intelligence as artificial learning (AL), arguing that LLM output often only offers a resemblance of learning: a substitute […]
Header image: KF screenshot from linked videoo Pre-service TechEd teachers and their conceptual metaphors of teaching and learningPresented at 2023 Virtual SoTL Summit, Kennesaw State University, GA, USA. (September 21: SoTL Briefs 4C). See the full program here. See the full session here. PowerPoint slides ⬇
Header image: KF in Midjourney Watters, A. (2015, April 25). The invented history of ‘the factory model of education’. Hack Education. https://hackeducation.com/2015/04/25/factory-model Many education reformers today denounce the “factory model of education” with an appeal to new machinery and new practices that will supposedly modernize the system. That argument is now and has been for a […]
Best to view this page on a laptop/desktop, or in desktop mode on your mobile browser. August 20, 2023I got back from China on Thursday; Nicholle won’t be back until Sept 3. We flew 13 hours to Hong Kong, 3.5 hrs to Beijing, and then took a 4-hour fast train to Changchun. My route […]
Header image: From project file 142 A 2015 collection of interviews with the late Dwayne Huebner, by William Pinar and Joseph Kyser. Edited by Kieran Forde, August 2023.
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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) […]
Header image: KF in Dall-E The readings below are listed in chronological order. Heavy Head, R. (2007) How First Nations Helped Develop a Keystone of Modern Psychology. Social Science and Humanities Research Council. Online 3-10-18. ╬ Cross, T. (2007). Through Indigenous Eyes: Rethinking Theory and Practice. Keynote Address. ╬ Blackstock, C. (2011). The Emergence of the […]
Header image: KF in Dall-E [1984] The Scholar in Society: Northrop Frye in Conversation https://www.nfb.ca/film/scholar_in_society/ KF: Not do you agree with this but why do you agree/disagree (what do you think?)
Header image: KF in Dall-E I have been fascinated by Möbius strips for several years now. It began in a Teacher Inquiry class where we were using a textbook called Spirals of Inquiry. At the time, I mentioned to the instructor that the image of a spiral of inquiry didn’t sit right with me as, by […]
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Header image: KF OCT image I went for an eye test yesterday and they took an Optical coherence tomography image of my corneas. It reminded me of this piece that I wrote a while back. It’s not complete yet, but there’s something in it that draws me back to the ideas quite frequently. ╬╬╬╬╬╬╬╬╬╬╬╬ We know that […]
Header image: KF in Dalle-E The 2016 RTBF policy brief from @article19org is an excellent overview (Mar 29, 2016) Policy Brief: The Right to be Forgottenhttps://article19.org/resources/policy-brief-the-right-to-be-forgotten/… Another overview can be found here: (Oct 5, 2023) The EU’s right to be forgotten is migrating to other countries https://www.cjr.org/the_media_today/the-eus-right-to-be-forgotten-is-migrating-to-other-countries.php ╬╬╬╬╬╬╬╬╬╬╬╬ Considering @article19org’s Requirement 1: The courts or independent […]
Header image: KF personal pic of an old Irish postage stamp “In humility we possess self-esteem, accept ourselves as we are, assets and defects alike, and extend the same acceptance to others. We are learning to recognize humility in others; we are attracted to them and we learn from them.” ― Al-Anon Family Groups, Paths to […]
Header image: KF in Dall-E the principle that an individual’s identity should always remain, to some significant extent, revisable; that no person should be tied forever to her identity at a particular moment in the distant past, and that to the extent individuals must forever account for who they were long ago, their individual freedom […]
Header image: KF in Dall-E flyer to amplify the voice of a certain professional ethics perspective on the moral or ethical dimensions of teaching that all too often falls by the wayside in teacher education Chapter 11: Professional Autonomy v Academic Freedom ACADEMIC FREEDOM (cites Petrina 2007) KF: Gradgrindian: From Thomas Gradgrind, a character in […]
Header image: KF in Dall-E https://escholarship.org/uc/item/91d9k96z#main ╬╬ (Apr 2019) ‘Reasserting white power’: behind the psychosis that gave rise to blackface https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/apr/01/reasserting-white-power-behind-the-psychosis-that-gave-rise-to-blackface In his 2006 book Black Like You, Strausbaugh traces the roots of blackface minstrelsy to New York’s Bowery Theatre and young Irish performers darkening their skin in comic imitations of blacks on plantations. The […]
Header image: KF in Dall-E https://ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/surveillance-and-society/index Unless we construct new “sociotechnical imaginaries,” new understandings of the goals and aspirations digital technologies should aim to achieve, the most surveillance studies and privacy scholars can hope to accomplish is a less unjust version of the technology industry’s own vision for the future. Except, perhaps, for some tech […]
Header image: KF in Midjourney 1. SHOWING UP Beast at West Point 2. DISTRACTED BY TALENT 3. EFFORT COUNTS TWICE 4. HOW GRITTY ARE YOU? 5. GRIT GROWS Part II GROWING GRIT FROM THE INSIDE OUT
Header image: KF in Dall-E Chapter 2 Matter Turns Intelligent KF: THE BOTTOM LINE: STOP 108
Header image: KF in Dall-E Chapter one: do everything faster Chapter two – Slow Is Beautiful If you want to go fast, go alone; if you want to go far, go together (origin) KF: Honoré traces historical concerns over time about the increase in the pace of our lives (ancient world on); LOL “bicycle face.” […]
Header image: KF in Dall-E https://blogs.ubc.ca/catl2022/files/2022/10/Shulman_1997-Professing-Liberal-arts.pdf Education is my profession and the education of professionals is my area of inquiry. I wish to argue that the problem with the liberal arts is not that they are endangered by the corruption of professionalism. Indeed, their problem is that they are not professional enough. Features of a […]
Unpublishing is an umbrella term for a set challenges that stem from requests from third parties to remove, obscure or otherwise alter accurate information published about them at some point in the past. Deborah L. Dwyer, https://unpublishingthenews.com/ (, 2022) Readers’ Ombudsman: The rights – and wrongs – of being forgotten https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/news/4817305/readers-ombudsman-newspaper-digital-archives-right-to-be-forgotten/ (Sept 10, 2021) The Media […]
Header image: KF in Dall-E Dan McQuillan https://logicmag.io/home/deep-learning-and-human-disposability/ AI is a technology for managing social murder. Under austerity, AI’s capacities to rank and classify help to differentiate between “deserving” and “undeserving” welfare recipients and enables a data-driven triage of public services. While the sharp end of welfare sanctions are initially applied to those who are […]