Notes

Posting some things here to keep track of my ideas and to be able to share these with others.

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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
David White (2014): On Hiding
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."
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