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Social Media Policy Project

Header image: Screenshot from CSTE Page This section of the Centre for the Study of Teacher Education website was created as a resource for stakeholders involved in the development, updating, and study of social media policy within K-12 in British Columbia. The resource was created because teachers today face regulation and restrictions in their use of social […]

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Update 9: January 2022

Happy New Year to you all from a snow-blanketed Vancouver. Nicholle and I are back here after spending a couple of weeks in Ontario with our friends (who are all old China hands too). We spent time with Roy and Carol Kirby in their home in Ottawa and spent many hours chatting over good food […]

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Update 10: Ireland 2022

Our Route: Landed in Dublin, bus to Galway and then up north to Leenane, Westport, Achill, and then back down south to Lahinch, and Loop Head, stopping off at a bunch of places along the way There were some clear signs that we were back in Ireland ⬆ “Minerals” on sale at the supermarket The […]

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Update 11: Christmas 2022

Dear Friends and Family, Nicholle and I will be here in snowbound Vancouver, as we spend a quiet Christmas together. It’s been a very busy year for both of us and we’ve been happily engaged in the challenges and opportunities we have encountered. We’re enjoying this quiet time, as we recharge before we get back […]

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Indigeneity 101

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. […]

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Onlife: A Möbius Trip

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. […]