Author: Kieran

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

“[E]ntities whose information is included in knowledge panels are self-authoritative…”

“Adequate” is the goal

Bruce Maxwell (2023):

Header image: You Were On My Mind, by Thomas Lerooy (2014) “First the man takes the drink, then the drink takes the man.” Bread at the hardware store Looking back it’s a little bit clearer His folks never had it to give So he grew up without, ~ Feelin real small within And learned best […]

World maps

Short BCIT course in Jan 2024

Background and favourite excerpts

I am Thermi but you might be Thermi too.

Privacy, access to information, and technological safety materials for educators in primary schools.

Gratitude

Doug Stowe was recognized as an Arkansas Living Treasure in 2009 for his woodworking and role in craft education.

…and Linguistic Racism

My first solo publication

60 minutes away from becoming a Canadian citizen

Recalling Pinar’s (2019) Moving Images of Eternity: George Grant’s Critique of Time, Teaching, and Technology

Prep for the citizenship test

In which I learn of lathe and mill

Map of “these islands”

Shoshana Zuboff (2022)

Casa Forde Menu

More speed, less velocity.

My presentation about “Metaphors for Teaching”

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?)

In which I go on and on and ɐup ou ɐup ou ɐup ou and on about Möbius strips

There is something very interesting to this idea that I can’t yet articulate…

Google did another thing for me.
That’s like 5/6 things now.

“You Were On My Mind,”

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 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 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 Shulman, L. S. (1997). Teaching as community property: Essays on higher education. Jossey-Bass. 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. […]

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 […]

Header image: KF in Midjourney We Teach Who We Are Good teaching requires self-knowledge: it is a secret hidden in plain sight. Technique is what teachers use until the real teacher arrives Teaching is the intentional act of creating conditions that can help students learn Chapter I The Heart of a Teacher: Identity and Integrity […]

Header image: KF in Dall-E Inoue, Asao B. (2019). Labor-Based Grading Contracts: Building Equity and Inclusion in the Compassionate Writing Classroom. https://wac.colostate.edu/books/perspectives/labor/ Grading, because it requires a single, dominant standard, is a racist and White supremacist practice. Let me pause for a moment and explain why I will be using the terms, “White supremacy” and “White […]

Header image: Triskelion Ireland, with permission, by ChipperDesigns by Fintan O’Toole This was the great gamble of 1958: everything would change economically but everything would stay the same culturally. 1984−1985: Dead Babies and Living Statues The revelations that week were disturbing. Irish culture was perfectly fine with transformations and translations, with negotiating between contexts.

Header image: KF in Dall-E Also:  On Ireland’s “malignant shame” by Dr. Garret O’Connor, former Director, Betty Ford Clinic https://www.mixcloud.com/rt%C3%A9-radio1specials/michael-littleton-memorial-lecture-2010/ The need to keep [shame] repressed often drives people toward perfectionism, withdrawal, diffidence, ombativeness. Guilt Is About Transgression; Shame Is About the Self If guilt is about behavior that has harmed others, shame is about not […]

Header image: KF in Dall-E Floridi, L. (2014). The 4th revolution: How the infosphere is reshaping human reality (First ed.). Oxford University Press. we need a philosophy of information as a philosophy of our time for our time. ╬ 2. T I M E Hyperhistory Memory half of our data is junk, we just do not know […]