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Melanie Mark: Provincial Tuition Waiver Program
BCIT visit: May 1, 2024 Melanie Mark: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melanie_Mark Melanie's LinkedIn ⬇: https://www.linkedin.com/in/melanie-mark-95598b97/recent-activity/all/ Provincial Tuition Waiver Program https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/education-training/post-secondary-education/pay-for-school/provincial-tuition-waiver-program ∞ Provincial Tuition
AGI: Artificial General Intelligence
Header image: DALL·E 2024-01-03 - a sci-fi image of an Ouroboros I had been using the the term LLM (large-language
Canadian Online Harms Act [Bill C-63] & EU AI Act
Header image: KF in DALL-E (Mar 1, 2024) Five key elements of Canada’s new Online Harms Act https://srinstitute.utoronto.ca/news/canada-online-harms-five-key-aspects However, some
Doctorow (2024) McLuhan lecture on enshittification
Header image: KF in Dall-E (Jan 30, 2024) Pluralistic: My McLuhan lecture on enshittification https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/30/go-nuts-meine-kerle/Transcript of the session ⬆Video of
Bell (2023) The Dean of Shandong
Header image: KF photograph - Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, as seen on a wall in a church sacristy in Changchun.
Secularization Comes for the Religion of Technology
(Feb 23, 2024 - L. M. Sacasas) Secularization Comes for the Religion of Technology: Or, how to make sense of techno-optimist manifestos,
Pedagogical freedom and sensitive issues in school
Header image: KF in Dall-E Maxwell, B., Senécal, M., and Waddington, D. (2023). Pedagogical freedom and sensitive issues in school:
All models are wrong…
All models are wrong, but some are useful. George Box  The map is not the territory Alfred Korzybski Gall–Peters projection
AUTO-1050-HY1 – Basic Vehicle Maintenance & Operations
Header image: KF personal pic Did this course at BCIT in Jan. Two 3-hour online sessions, one either side of
John O’Donohue
Some background: Bäuchle (2021) John O’Donohue: The Fateful Years of a Priest To Come Home To Yourself May all that
FIPA For Teachers
Header image: BC Freedom of Information and Privacy Association Logo FIPA For Teachers https://fipa.bc.ca/fipa-for-teachers/ Senior High Schools (Grade 10-12): British
The Heart of It, by Oliver Jeffers
A dear friend just gifted me this lovely book, Begin Again, by Oliver Jeffers. Check it out here: https://www.oliverjeffers.com/begin-again Art's
George Grant
Header image: KF in Dall-E (Dec 06, 2023) Bring back 'grumpy' George Grant and his prophetic conservative message: scholarshttps://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/george-grant-lament-for-a-nation-1.7050666 To Come
Citizen
Header image: KF in Dall-E Study Guide – Discover Canada – The Rights and Responsibilities of Citizenship |https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/corporate/publications-manuals/discover-canada.html Understanding the
FYI: Britain and Ireland
Header image: KF personal photo Guide to the Uk and Ireland. Except nobody gets offended. Made by u/psycho-mouse.https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/l0n5bt/guide_to_the_uk_and_ireland_except_nobody_gets/ Laudabiliter "A
Zuboff, S. (2022). Surveillance Capitalism or Democracy?
Header image: KF in Midjourney Zuboff, S. (2022). Surveillance Capitalism or Democracy? The Death Match of Institutional Orders and the
Watters (2015) The “Factory Model” of education
Header image: KF in Midjourney Watters, A. (2015, April 25). The invented history of 'the factory model of education’. Hack
Stephenson (1999) Cryptonomicon
Header image: KF in Dall-E
Matthew Crawford (2009) Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry Into the Value of Work
Header image: KF in Dall-E “In schools, we create artificial learning environments for our children that they know to be
More on Maslow
Header image: KF in Dall-E The readings below are listed in chronological order. Heavy Head, R. (2007) How First Nations Helped
Northrop Frye (1984) The Scholar in Society
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
Tutt (2014) The Revisability Principle
Header image: KF in Dall-E the principle that an individual’s identity should always remain, to some significant extent, revisable; that
Maxwell (2022) Professional Ethics and Law in Education A Canadian Guidebook
Header image: KF in Dall-E flyer to amplify the voice of a certain professional ethics perspective on the moral or
Erinn (2019). Digital Blackface: How 21st Century Internet Language Reinforces Racism. 
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