In July, I presented at the 6th International Conference of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM 2021) in Education as part of a symposium panel. My section of the panel presentation can be seen below. (Full session available here: http://tiny.cc/myeiuz) Design of the Preservice Teacher’s Digital Selfhttps://youtu.be/u6wMD6WWYGQ Freedom of expression for teachers in K-12 in […]
Header image: KF in Dall-E (2019) Moving Images of Eternity Preface Intro Education is itself the purpose of our existence. George Grant Intro p9: Modern science and thought—or modern truth-seeking—has shown us that life is without purpose. 120 George Grant “The thing is to understand myself: the thing is to find a truth which is true […]
Social Media Policy (SMP) https://socialmediapolicy.cste.educ.ubc.ca One of my regular visitors BBQ weather is back!
Nicholle and I are doing great. We received an invitation to apply for permanent residency, so maybe the Canadians will let us stay in their lovely country long-term, if that’s how things pan out. We are slowly putting the application together and hope it will be successful. If it is, Nicholle will have more (and […]
Dear Friends, Nicholle and I will be thinking of ye here as we spend a quiet Christmas together. We were very lucky to be able to spend last Christmas in Galway and catch up with some friends and family there, so I’ve posted some pics of those happier times below. We are both doing well, […]
It’s been an exciting time since the last update, what with trying to get everything in place for the start of the new semester. I did a huge amount of work for the Provost Office over the last few weeks but there was a great sense of satisfaction when we managed to finish and push […]
I’m pretty excited about the paper below. We’re working on a second one and there’s a third one along the same lines in the pipeline: click on the link below for access (free!) https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/ILS-04-2020-0112/full/html
December 21, 2023: I’m here trying to resurrect my website after it died a couple of weeks ago. I began this site having no idea what I was doing. I learned as I went along and got progressively better but the whole site was built on a poor foundation so I’m going back now to […]
Header image: One of 12 signs from the Native Hosts collection by Edgar Heap of Birds – Photo: Michael R. BarrickPage name, from: Musqueam 101 https://www.musqueam.bc.ca/our-story/educational-resources/musqueam-101/See also: Lynda Gray’s First Nations 101 UBC-Guidelines-Musqueam_July-2019POINTS TO NOTE: a. Acknowledging territory is a way of honoring and showing respect to the Musqueam, who have long inhabited this land. […]
Header image: KF in Dalle-E I regularly return to an idea I had during one of my courses in 2018. We were looking at a book called Spirals of Inquiry as part of a teacher inquiry study. I piped up and said I didn’t like the title and then I had to explain what I meant. […]