Wonderful stuff relating to a certain kind of Irish father
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Labyrinth
Info below taken form the blog of Prof. Kevin Milligan The Iona Building, new home of the Vancouver School of Economics KF: There’s stained glass inside! Check it out. [more to add
“What a wise person teaches is the smallest part of what they give.”
“…a fumble for eternity, a longing for heaven, a thirst for return to the embrace of the Almighty”
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Standard #9
[under construction] h/t to Isaiah Hardy for getting me thinking about this
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PhD as Pilgrimage
Seeking reconciliation with the Other
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“My Parting Prescription for America”
Dr. Vivek Hallegere Murthy 19th & 21st Surgeon General of the United States Vice Admiral, United States Public Health Service
The Charter (esp. S.33, NWC) and some cases related to K-12
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Dwayne Huebner
The Dwayne Huebner Interviews
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Singer’s “Drowning Child”
[under construction]
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Le Guin: A Rant About “Technology”
Ursula Le Guin (2005): A Rant About “Technology”.
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Corruptio optimi pessima
The Corruption of the Best: On Ivan Illich
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More Möbius
Further exploration of the Möbius Strip
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The Enclosure of the Human Psyche
Michael Sacasas (2024): The Enclosure of the Human Psyche.
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On Discernment
Anne Phelan (2005): On Discernment: The Wisdom of Practice and the Practice of Wisdom in Teacher Education
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Complexity Science
Zimmerman et al. (1998): A Complexity Science Primer: What is Complexity Science and Why Should I Learn About It?
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Pedagogy of the Heart
Carl Leggo (2005): Pedagogy of the Heart: Ruminations on Living Poetically
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To know as we are known
Parker Palmer (1993): To Know as We Are Known: A Spirituality of Education.
David Autor (2024): AI Could Actually Help Rebuild The Middle Class
The catch of the (inter)net
Header image: Darryl Dick/The Canadian Press Naloxone (pronounced na-LOX-own) is a fast-acting medication used to temporarily reverse the effects of opioid overdoses, also called an opioid poisoning. [source] ∞ (Feb 18, 2025) DTES support worker says recovery-oriented approach needs to replace harm reductionhttps://globalnews.ca/news/11023517/dtes-support-worker-recovery-oriented-approach-replace-harm-reduction/ (Feb 13, 2025) BC Corners Service announces inquest into the death of […]
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Al Will Take Over Human Systems From Within
Yuval Noah Harari (2024): Nexus
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Sand and Foam
Kahlil Gibran (1926): Sand and Foam
Clarke & Robertson (2001): Insight into “questionable” research practices
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Byung-Chul Han’s Burnout Society (review)
“Our Only Imperative is to Achieve”
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Poetter (2024) Curriculum Fragments
Thomas Poetter (2024): Book launch
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David Whyte
“Hiding is a way of holding ourselves until we are ready to come into the light.”
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The Three Rules of Humane Tech
Metcalfe (2023): Social Media, AI, and the Battle for Your Brain
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A Short History of Progress: Ronald Wright
The 2004 CBC Massey Lectures, “A Short History of Progress”
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AGI: Artificial General Intelligence
My notes on “AI”, better referred to as AGI
” First, platforms are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die.”
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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 “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 […]
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
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All models are wrong…
World maps
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John O’Donohue
Background and favourite excerpts
Gratitude
…and Linguistic Racism
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2023 Virtual SoTL Summit
My presentation about “Metaphors for Teaching”
Met some interesting people on this course
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Social Media Policy Project
A study of social media policy within K-12 in British Columbia.
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EDUC500 Blog (2018)
My first “blog” from back in the day