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,
Author: Kieran
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
….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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Bread at the hardware store
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 […]
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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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Protected: Update 15: Christmas 2023
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“Teachers teach; pedagogues teach while also actively investigating teaching and learning.” “Right now I’m having amnesia and déjà vu at the same time. I think I’ve forgotten this before.” ― Steven Wright “Chinese exceptionalism and American exceptionalism are quite similar with one key difference : Americans think everyone SHOULD be like them, And Chinese think NO […]
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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 […]
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 […]
…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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Update 13: Back to Changchun
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 […]
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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) […]
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More on Maslow
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 […]
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Northrop Frye (1984) The Scholar in Society
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?)
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Möbius musings
In which I go on and on and ɐup ou ɐup ou ɐup ou and on about Möbius strips
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Averted Vision
There is something very interesting to this idea that I can’t yet articulate…
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Using my Right to Be Forgotten
Google did another thing for me.
That’s like 5/6 things now.