Notes

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➡ See UBC: Notes here

    Read (1958): I, Pencil
    Leonard Read (1958): I, Pencil - My Family Tree
    Statement of Reconciliation: Learning from the Past (1998)
    Text of 1998 "Statement of Reconciliation"
    Sand and Foam
    Kahlil Gibran (1926): Sand and Foam
    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
    Manual Training for All
    KF: scan images from BC Archive
    Clarke & Robertson (2001). Lifting a corner of the research rug
    Clarke & Robertson (2001): Insight into "questionable" research practices
    Babakiueria (1986) 
    Babakiueria (Barbeque Area): A 1986 Australian satirical film on relations between Aboriginal Australians and Australians of European descent.
    Educated Person Exercise
    Coulter & Wiens (2008): Why do we educate? R
    Byung-Chul Han’s Burnout Society (review)
    "Our Only Imperative is to Achieve"
    Poetter (2024) Curriculum Fragments
    Thomas Poetter (2024): Book launch
    David Whyte
    "Hiding is a way of holding ourselves until we are ready to come into the light."
    BC K-12
    News stories related to teachers and schools (mostly in BC)
    Petrina, S. (2003). The Educational Technology is Technology Education Manifesto.
    Stephen Petrina (2003): Ed Tech (ET) is Tech Ed (TE)
    The Three Rules of Humane Tech
    Metcalfe (2023): Social Media, AI, and the Battle for Your Brain
    Connell, R. (2009) Good teachers on dangerous ground
    Connell, R. (2009): towards a new view of teacher quality and professionalism
    The Therapeutic Benefits Of Wood Carving
    An interview with Graeme Hamilton, a Tech Ed teacher at Oak Bay Secondary School in Victoria
    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
    A Short History of Progress: Ronald Wright
    The 2004 CBC Massey Lectures, "A Short History of Progress"
    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
    AGI: Artificial General Intelligence
    My notes on "AI", better referred to as AGI
    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
    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
    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
    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."