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Standard #9

[under construction] h/t to Isaiah Hardy for getting me thinking about this

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The Greatest Canadian

CBC Premier Broadcast (October 17th, 2004)

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PhD as Pilgrimage

Seeking reconciliation with the Other

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“My Parting Prescription for America”

Dr. Vivek Hallegere Murthy 19th & 21st Surgeon General of the United States Vice Admiral, United States Public Health Service

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UBC Pharmaceutical Sciences Building

Another “hidden tree” on campus

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Singer’s “Drowning Child”

[under construction]

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“The Shadow”

“The project raised concerns in 2017 partly due to the price tag (now estimated to cost approximately $400,000)…”

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 “The Scarfe Sculpture”

Paul Deggan (1965): Sculpture on the wall of the UBC Faculty of Education building

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Le Guin: A Rant About “Technology”

Ursula Le Guin (2005): A Rant About “Technology”.

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‘Symbols for Education’

A 54-block glass mosaic representing UBC’s faculties and departments

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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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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.

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AI Could Actually Help Rebuild The Middle Class

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

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Naloxone

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] Header image: Darryl Dick/The Canadian Press (Sept 27, 2024) Naloxone, AED’s to be added to Richmond schools, facilities https://www.richmond-news.com/local-news/naloxone-aeds-to-be-added-to-richmond-schools-facilities-9578590 DTES support worker says recovery-oriented approach needs to replace harm reduction (Feb 18, 2025) https://globalnews.ca/news/11023517/dtes-support-worker-recovery-oriented-approach-replace-harm-reduction/(Sept […]

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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

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Statement of Reconciliation: Learning from the Past (1998)

Text of 1998 “Statement of Reconciliation”

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Sand and Foam

Kahlil Gibran (1926): Sand and Foam

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BCTF: Professional Issues Advisory Committee (PIAC)

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

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Clarke & Robertson (2001). Lifting a corner of the research rug

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

David White (2014): On Hiding

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BC K-12

News stories related to teachers and schools (mostly in BC)

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Petrina, S. (2003). The Educational Technology is Technology Education Manifesto.

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

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Connell, R. (2009) Good teachers on dangerous ground

Connell, R. (2009): towards a new view of teacher quality and professionalism

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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

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An Act respecting the Criminal Law: Bill C-19

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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Melanie Mark: Provincial Tuition Waiver Program

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,

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AGI: Artificial General Intelligence

My notes on “AI”, better referred to as AGI

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2024 Canadian Online Harms Act [Bill C-63] & EU AI Act

….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.

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Doctorow (2024) McLuhan lecture on enshittification

” 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 […]

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The Nature and Art of Workmanship (1968 /1995) David Pye

“Two minutes experience teach an eager man more than two weeks teach an indifferent one.”

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Secularization Comes for the Religion of Technology

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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Pedagogical freedom and sensitive issues in school

Bruce Maxwell (2023):