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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
Bruce Maxwell (2023):
World maps
Short BCIT course in Jan 2024
Background and favourite excerpts
Privacy, access to information, and technological safety materials for educators in primary schools.
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Doug Stowe was recognized as an Arkansas Living Treasure in 2009 for his woodworking and role in craft education.
Recalling Pinar’s (2019) Moving Images of Eternity: George Grant’s Critique of Time, Teaching, and Technology
Map of “these islands”
Shoshana Zuboff (2022)
“That argument is now and has been for a century the rationale for education technology.”
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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?)
Header image: KF in Dall-E the principle that an individual’s identity should always remain, to some significant extent, revisable; that no person should be tied forever to her identity at a particular moment in the distant past, and that to the extent individuals must forever account for who they were long ago, their individual freedom […]
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 Dall-E https://ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/surveillance-and-society/index Unless we construct new “sociotechnical imaginaries,” new understandings of the goals and aspirations digital technologies should aim to achieve, the most surveillance studies and privacy scholars can hope to accomplish is a less unjust version of the technology industry’s own vision for the future. Except, perhaps, for some tech […]
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 2 Matter Turns Intelligent KF: THE BOTTOM LINE: STOP 108
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 […]
Header image: KF in Dall-E Gesine Borcherdt 02 December 2021 ArtReviewhttps://artreview.com/byung-chul-han-i-practise-philosophy-as-art/ Undinge (Nonobjects) Byung-Chul Han Undinge proposes that the age of objects is over. The terrane order, the order of the Earth, consists of objects that take on a permanent form and provide a stable environment for human habitation. Today the terrane order has been replaced by the digital order. The digital […]
Header image: KF in Dall-E https://web.archive.org/web/20210117034441/https://www.bl.uk/restoration-18th-century-literature/articles/newspapers-gossip-and-coffee-house-culture (1675~1750) Late 17th-century coffee-houses were noted for their egalitarian and democratic character; people of all ranks sat alongside one another, actively engaging in debate with both friends and strangers alike. The layout of many coffee-houses fostered this rich social mixing. Many coffee-houses possessed long communal tables where patrons were expected […]
Header image: KF in Dall-E Dunbar’s number https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar%27s_number The Limits of Friendship https://www.newyorker.com/science/maria-konnikova/social-media-affect-math-dunbar-number-friendships There’s no question, Dunbar agrees, that networks like Facebook are changing the nature of human interaction. “What Facebook does and why it’s been so successful in so many ways is it allows you to keep track of people who would otherwise effectively disappear,” […]
Header image: KF in Dall-E https://www.mediastudies.press/pub/james-self/release/2 (A) the self as known, or the me, the ‘empirical ego’ as it is sometimes called (B) the self as knower, or the I, the ‘pure ego’ of certain authors. A. The Self as Known: The Empirical Self or Me Between what a man calls me and what he simply […]
Header image: KF in Dall-E 4· Faith as a Character Trait 5 The Moral Powers in Man Our moral problem is man’s indifference to himself. It lies in the fact that we have lost the sense of the significance and uniqueness of the individual, that we have made ourselves into instruments for purposes outside ourselves, that […]
Header image: KF in Dall-E (May 25, 2021) How Michel Foucault Lost the Left and Won the Righthttps://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/25/opinion/michel-foucault.html?smid=tw-share (May 24, 2021) Review: How a California acid trip made Michel Foucault a neoliberalhttps://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2021-05-24/review-how-a-california-acid-trip-made-michel-foucault-a-neoliberal (Summer 2021) How We Forgot Foucault by Geoff Shullenbergerhttps://americanaffairsjournal.org/2021/05/how-we-forgot-foucault/
Header image: KF in Dall-E The nature of the self (12:00) ╬ 16:30: Wilde” one who could play gracefully with ideas but had arrived at violence of opinion merely— 18:00 Memory: ~ the more you engage with social media (the more you write your own profile) the more constrained [written upon] you become – the fixed […]
Header image: KF in Dall-E Moeller, H., & D’Ambrosio, P.J. (2021). You and your profile: Identity after authenticity. Columbia University Press. Identity enables us to accept the face we see in the mirror as our own. We need it for coming to terms with the “grotesque mask” that we see there, which cannot be stripped away. We […]
Header image: KF in Dall-E What might be the future of the curriculum in the digital age? Williamson, B. (2013). The future of the curriculum. School knowledge in the digital age. MIT Press. https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/9457.001.0001 2 Curriculum Change and the Future of Official Knowledge 3 Networks, Decentered Systems, and Open Educational Futures 4 Creative Schooling and the […]
Header image: KF in Dall-E Muls, J., Thomas, V., De Backer, F., Zhu, C., & Lombaerts, K. (2019). Identifying the nature of social media policies in high schools. Education and Information Technologies, 25, 281– 305. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10639-019-09971-7 The existence and extent of social media visions, policies and guidelines in high schools in Flanders (Belgium, Europe) and how these policies are embedded in the schools. 47 high schools: Results […]
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Header image: KF in Dall-E Han, B. (2017). Psycho-Politics. Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power. Verso. 1. The Crisis of Freedom [Reddit commentary] 2. Smart Power 3. The Mole and the Snake 4. Biopolitics 5. Foucault’s Dilemma 6. Healing as Killing 7. Shock 8. Friendly Big Brother 9. Emotional Capitalism 10. Gamification 11. Big Data 12. […]
Our argument in this book—that human life is being colonized by data and needs to be decolonized The underlying question on which this book will focus: should human beings in the twenty first century accept a world in which their lives are unceasingly appropriated through data for capitalism? although the modes, intensities, scales, and contexts […]
Header image: KF in Dall-E Iftody, T. (2013). Letting experience in at the front door and bringing theory through the back: Exploring the pedagogical possibilities of situated self-narration in teacher education The qualities of the world are there for those who have the skills to take them (Eisner, 1988, p. 15). St. Pierre, E. (2000). Poststructural […]
Header image: KF in Dall-E WATCH: The Philosophy of “As If” with Kwame Anthony Appiah https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ec80Gtqrj48 (90 mins) 1 Useful Untruths Lessons from Hans Vaihinger A simple statement is bound to be untrue. One that is not simple cannot be utilized. ― Paul Valéry, Analects, 1970 The Philosophy of “As If” with Kwame Anthony Appiah https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ec80Gtqrj48 […]
Header image: KF in Dall-E AAACS 2021 Keynote Address William Pinar and Ying Ma (@7:22) “If historical colonialism was an appropriation of land, bodies, and natural resources,” Couldry and Mejias (2019, 85) explain, “data colonialism can be understood as an appropriation of social resources … [that] operates in ways that replicate relations re-create a colonizing form […]