A 54-block glass mosaic representing UBC’s faculties and departments
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‘Symbols for Education’
Author: Kieran
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Protected: Update 17: Christmas 2024
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Corruptio optimi pessima
The Corruption of the Best: On Ivan Illich
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More Möbius
Further exploration of the Möbius Strip
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The Enclosure of the Human Psyche
Michael Sacasas (2024): The Enclosure of the Human Psyche.
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On Discernment
Anne Phelan (2005): On Discernment: The Wisdom of Practice and the Practice of Wisdom in Teacher Education
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Complexity Science
Zimmerman et al. (1998): A Complexity Science Primer: What is Complexity Science and Why Should I Learn About It?
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Joseph ~ JT
Dec 12, 2012 The othering of nature: “a time when technology did not create an alternative to nature” Nov 21, 2024 Bonhoeffer’s Theory of Stupidityhttps://sproutsschools.com/bonhoeffers-theory-of-stupidity/ “Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness from responsibility. The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.” Stephen […]
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Rewilding the self
Some thoughts on walking the Main Mall at UBC
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Pedagogy of the Heart
Carl Leggo (2005): Pedagogy of the Heart: Ruminations on Living Poetically
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To know as we are known
Parker Palmer (1993): To Know as We Are Known: A Spirituality of Education.
David Autor (2024): AI Could Actually Help Rebuild The Middle Class
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The Shape Of Craft
Ezra Shales (2017): The shape of craft
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 […]
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Al Will Take Over Human Systems From Within
Yuval Noah Harari (2024): Nexus
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Technacy education
Seemann (2009): Technacy education
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Servatius v. Alberni School District No. 70
(2016) Mother who sued Port Alberni school board over First Nations smudging ceremony
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Indigenizing Shop: Jeremy O’Shea
Jeremy O’Shea (2021): MEd on “Indigenizing Shop”
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Read (1958): I, Pencil
Leonard Read (1958): I, Pencil – My Family Tree
Text of 1998 “Statement of Reconciliation”
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A Checklist for Evaluating our Maturity
Al-Anon
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Sand and Foam
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”
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Manual Training for All
KF: scan images from BC Archive
Clarke & Robertson (2001): Insight into “questionable” research practices
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Babakiueria (1986)
Babakiueria (Barbeque Area): A 1986 Australian satirical film on relations between Aboriginal Australians and Australians of European descent.
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Educated Person Exercise
Coulter & Wiens (2008): Why do we educate? R
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Byung-Chul Han’s Burnout Society (review)
“Our Only Imperative is to Achieve”
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Poetter (2024) Curriculum Fragments
Thomas Poetter (2024): Book launch
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David Whyte
“Hiding is a way of holding ourselves until we are ready to come into the light.”
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ﻼF Fragments
I did not write for 25 years.
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Pilot Protest
🐋
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Discipline Outcomes
BC K-12 Discipline Outcomes and associated media coverage
Stephen Petrina (2003): Ed Tech (ET) is Tech Ed (TE)
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The Three Rules of Humane Tech
Metcalfe (2023): Social Media, AI, and the Battle for Your Brain
Connell, R. (2009): towards a new view of teacher quality and professionalism
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SW9 – Metal
Notes from the machine shops
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Make: Ideas
s s https://www.pamono.eu/mid-century-wooden-bowl-by-carl-auboeck-for-werksta-tte-carl-auboeck
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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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Daily notes
(May 16, 2024) L. M. SACASAS: The Stuff of (a Well-Lived) Life https://theconvivialsociety.substack.com/p/the-stuff-of-a-well-lived-life “The experience of a [focal] thing is always and also a bodily and social engagement with the thing’s world.” Albert Borgmann When society is built to run like a machine for the optimization of profit and productivity with little regard for the […]
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 […]
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Citizens for a Canadian Republic
Oh, Canada 🤷🏻♂️
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Protected: Update 16: April 2024
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Under The Crown
☘️ 🍁
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AGI: Artificial General Intelligence
My notes on “AI”, better referred to as AGI