Tag: KF Notes

(Feb 12, 2024) AI Could Actually Help Rebuild The Middle Class https://www.noemamag.com/how-ai-could-help-rebuild-the-middle-class/ Although artisanal expertise was revered, its value was ultimately decimated by the rise of mass production in the 18th and 19th centuries. Mass production meant breaking the complex work of artisans into discrete, self-contained and often quite simple steps that could be carried […]

(Sept 27, 2024) Naloxone, AED’s to be added to Richmond schools, facilities https://www.richmond-news.com/local-news/naloxone-aeds-to-be-added-to-richmond-schools-facilities-9578590 (Sept 5, 2024) Enhanced resources available at UBC to help prevent overdoses https://ubctoday.ubc.ca/news/september-09-2024/enhanced-resources-available-ubc-help-prevent-overdoses (June 22, 2024) Richmond students, parents divided on proposed naloxone kits in schools https://www.richmond-news.com/local-news/richmond-students-parents-divided-on-proposed-naloxone-kits-in-schools-9115237 (Jan 3, 2024) Why B.C. trades workers are demanding nasal naloxone on construction sites https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/bc-trades-workers-nasal-naloxone-construction-sites The New PPE […]

Header image: KF in Dall-E Nathan Gardels interviews Yuval Noah Harari about his new book Nexushttps://www.noemamag.com/al-will-take-over-human-systems-from-within/ the truth is a very rare and costly kind of information. If you just flood the world with information, truth is bound to lose. If you want truth to win and to acquire knowledge and wisdom, you must tilt […]

Header image: KF in Dall-e Seemann, K. W. (2009). Technacy education : Understanding cross-cultural technological practice. In J. Fien, R. Maclean & M. Park (Eds.), Work, learning and sustainable development (pp. 117-131). Springer Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-8194-1_9 Technology studies are both highly visible but rarely valued in almost every national curriculum. It is often spoken about and […]

Some Knowledge is Sacred and Only Shared With Permission and/or in Certain Situations “Exploring Indigenous knowledge in the classroom was challenged and struck down in the court case Servatius v. Alberni School District No. 70, where it was deemed that a smudging ceremony which took place in a Port Alberni, BC school was not a […]

Header image: Screenshot of home page of Indigenizing Shop Jeremy O’Shea is a Tech Ed teacher at Edward Milne Community School, SD#62 Sooke. In 2021, he completed his MEd at UVic, submitting the following project: The project was to create “an online website that will act as a resource for technology educators to guide in […]

Header image: Foundation for Economic Education A charming story which explains how something as apparently simple as a pencil is, in fact, the product of a very complex economic process based upon the division of labor, international trade, and comparative advantage. [source] The pencil details the complexity of its own creation, listing its components (cedar, […]

Header image: KF – personal pic [in progress] Kahlil Gibran: Sand and Foam (1926) I have learned silence from the talkative,tolerance from the intolerantand kindness from the unkind.I should not be ungrateful to those teachers. Remembrance is a form of meeting.Forgetfulness is a form of freedom. One may not reach the dawn save by the […]

Professional Autonomy Lens (2023)https://www.bctf.ca/classroom-resources/details/professional-autonomy-lens “Autonomy refers to thinking for oneself in uncertain and complex situations in which judgment is more important than routine. For teachers, the nature of their work and its social context complicates this definition. Teaching involves placing one’s autonomy at the service of the best interests of children.”—Anne Phelan and Alice Pitt. […]

Meaning in context: is there any other kind? (Mishler, 1979) “knowledge is personally constructed, socially mediated, and inherently situated” Vignette #1: ‘study over-runs’ Vignette #2: ‘key information absent ‘‘the critical issue is not the determination of a singular ‘truth’ but the assessment of the relative plausibility of an interpretation’’ (Mishler, 1986, p. 112) five points […]

Header image: Screengrab from YouTube Video Babakiueria (Barbeque Area) is a 1986 Australian satirical film on relations between Aboriginal Australians and Australians of European descent. BabaKiueria https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BabaKiueria Notes below video: ∞ KF Lesson ideas Paired with / preceded/ succeeded by Recall…🤦🏻‍♂️

Header image: KF photo – Alex Janvier’s Morning Star Coulter, D., & Wiens, J. R. (2008). Prologue: Why do we educate? Renewing the Conversation. Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education, 107(1), 5–18. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1744-7984.2008.00126.x The Educated Person Exercise {DFN} [People] who wonder about the world they inhabit [KF: Roy]. Many are voracious […]

Byung-Chul Han’s Burnout Society: Our Only Imperative is to Achieve https://philosophybreak.com/articles/byung-chul-han-burnout-society-our-only-imperative-is-to-achieve/ Hyperattention Self-exploitation.  Auto-exploitation is more efficient than allo-exploitation [i.e. external-exploitation] because a deceptive feeling of freedom accompanies it. The exploiter is simultaneously the exploited. Exploitation now occurs without domination. That is what makes self-exploitation so efficient. The capitalist system is switching from allo-exploitation to […]

Poetter, T. S. (2024). Curriculum Fragments: A Currere Journey through Life Processes. Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/Curriculum-Fragments-A-Currere-Journey-through-Life-Processes/Poetter/p/book/9781032595771 Foreword [BP] The past is never dead. It’s not even past. All of us labor in webs spun long before we were born, webs of heredity and environment, of desire and consequence, of history and eternity.” (William Faulkner, Requiem for a […]

David Whyte (2014) – Consolations: The Solace, Nourishment and Underlying Meaning of Everyday Wordshttps://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24108839-consolations Hiding is a way of staying alive. Hiding is a way of holding ourselves until we are ready to come into the light. Hiding is one of the brilliant and virtuoso practices of almost every part of the natural world: the […]

Header image: Screenshot of Discipline Outcomes page Starting in 2024, I’m making a list of “teacher stories” here for reference. See the BC Commissioner for Teacher Regulation Discipline Reports: https://teacherregulation.gov.bc.ca/ProfessionalConduct/DisciplineOutcomes.aspx ∞ (Sept 4, 2024) Youth training program grows by 11% in one yearhttps://burnabybeacon.com/p/youth-work-in-trades-program-burnaby-2024 (Oct 20, 2024) Burnaby high schools eyeing longer day, staggered classes to […]

Header image: KF “DALL·E-2022-09-29-08.11.45-A-painting-in-the-style-of-Rubens-of-Sisyphus-rolling-his-boulder-uphill-while-Albert-Camus-smokes-a-cigarette-watches-from-afar” Connell, R. (2009). Good teachers on dangerous ground: towards a new view of teacher quality and professionalism. Critical Studies in Education, 50(3), 213-229, https://doi.org/10.1080/17508480902998421 Part 1: the changing idea of the good teacherFrom servant to scholar-teacher In an admirable study called The Good Teacher, Moore (2004) finds three competing discourses in […]

Header image: Justice Laws Website The Criminal Code (Cr.C )https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criminal_Code_(Canada) 318 – Hate Propaganda Re: Bill C-19: the Budget Implementation Act (June 15, 2022) Paula Simons: We cannot fight hate by criminalizing speech, no matter how vile https://nationalpost.com/news/paula-simons-we-cannot-fight-hate-by-criminalizing-speech-no-matter-how-vile Ernst Zündel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Zündel Malcolm Ross (school teacher) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm_Ross_(school_teacher) James Keegstra https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Keegstra

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 Waiver Program and Learning for Future Grant brochure ⬇

Header image: DALL·E 2024-01-03 – a sci-fi image of an Ouroboros Important, I think, to use the term LLM (large-language model) and to refrain from using the misleading term “Artificial Intelligence” (AI). The term “LLMs” highlights the fact that the output is an assemblage of data, reconstituted as knowledge, and presented as wisdom: AI, AI, […]

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 important questions about the bill remain unanswered. (March 14, 2024) EU Parliament passes AI Act in world’s first attempt at regulating the technology https://therecord.media/eu-parliament-passes-ai-act-regulation We finally have the world’s first binding law on artificial intelligence, […]

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 the session⬇ My notes ⬇ Enshittification: 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 […]

Header image: KF photograph – Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, as seen on a wall in a church sacristy in Changchun. 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 […]

(Feb 23, 2024 – L. M. Sacasas) Secularization Comes for the Religion of Technology: Or, how to make sense of techno-optimist manifestos, the Open Ai/Altman affair, EA/e-acc movements, and the general sense of cultural stagnationhttps://theconvivialsociety.substack.com/p/secularization-comes-for-the-religion The moment it became an end in itself, that is to say, the moment technology became the dominant partner in the religion […]

Header image: KF in Dall-E Maxwell, B., Senécal, M., and Waddington, D. (2023). Pedagogical freedom and sensitive issues in school: A companion guide for teachers and school leaders. Centre d’intervention pédagogique en contexte de diversité.[Available for download at Bruce Maxwell’s Academia.edu page] “Primary and secondary school teachers don’t have full academic freedom, but they do […]

All models are wrong, but some are useful. George Box  The map is not the territory Alfred Korzybski Gall–Peters projection https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gall–Peters_projection South-up map orientation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South-up_map_orientation

Header image: KF personal pic Did this course at BCIT in Jan. Two 3-hour online sessions, one either side of a full day (Sat) on-site at the shop at BCIT. https://www.bcit.ca/courses/basic-vehicle-maintenance-and-operation-auto-1050/ The instructor (Naveen Jit) was great; I would recommend this course.

Some background: Bäuchle (2021) John O’Donohue: The Fateful Years of a Priest To Come Home To Yourself May all that is unforgiven in you,Be released. May your fears yieldTheir deepest tranquilities. May all that is unlived in you,Blossom into a future,Graced with love. from Benedictus: A Book of Blessing Journey of The Soul One of […]

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 Columbia Digital Privacy Rights for Youth

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 purpose is to imperceptibly shift the ground under people’s feet. Science, technology, engineering, and maths are how we do things. Art is why we do them See the beautiful poem from it below. The Heart […]

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 Home To YourselfMay all that unforgiven in you,Be released.May your fears yieldTheir deepest tranquilities.May all that is unlived in you,Blossom into a future,Graced with love– John O’Donohue, Benedictus: A Book of Blessings (2007) KF See […]

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 Oath Between 1534 and 1542, Jacques Cartier made three voyages across the Atlantic, claiming the land for King Francis I of France. Cartier heard two captured guides speak the Iroquoian word kanata, meaning “village.” The […]

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 bull issued in 1155 by Pope Adrian IV, the only Englishman to have served in that office. Existence of the bull has been disputed by scholars over the centuries; no copy is extant but scholars […]

Header image: KF in Midjourney Zuboff, S. (2022). Surveillance Capitalism or Democracy? The Death Match of Institutional Orders and the Politics of Knowledge in Our Information Civilization. Organization Theory, 3(3), 263178772211292. https://doi.org/10.1177/26317877221129290 “I argue that regulation of institutionalized processes that are innately catastrophic for democratic societies cannot produce desired outcomes.” The Unified Field Perspective KF: The […]

Header image: KF in Midjourney Watters, A. (2015, April 25). The invented history of ‘the factory model of education’. Hack Education. https://hackeducation.com/2015/04/25/factory-model Many education reformers today denounce the “factory model of education” with an appeal to new machinery and new practices that will supposedly modernize the system. That argument is now and has been for a […]

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Header image: KF in Dall-E “In schools, we create artificial learning environments for our children that they know to be contrived and undeserving of their full attention and engagement. Without the opportunity to learn through the hands, the world remains abstract, and distant, and the passions for learning will not be engaged.” (Crawford, p. 11) […]

Header image: KF in Dall-E The readings below are listed in chronological order. Heavy Head, R. (2007) How First Nations Helped Develop a Keystone of Modern Psychology. Social Science and Humanities Research Council. Online 3-10-18. ╬ Cross, T. (2007). Through Indigenous Eyes: Rethinking Theory and Practice. Keynote Address. ╬ Blackstock, C. (2011). The Emergence of the […]

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 with this but why do you agree/disagree (what do you think?)

Header image: KF in Dall-E the principle that an individual’s identity should always remain, to some significant extent, revisable; that no person should be tied forever to her identity at a particular moment in the distant past, and that to the extent individuals must forever account for who they were long ago, their individual freedom […]

Header image: KF in Dall-E flyer to amplify the voice of a certain professional ethics perspective on the moral or ethical dimensions of teaching that all too often falls by the wayside in teacher education Chapter 11: Professional Autonomy v Academic Freedom ACADEMIC FREEDOM (cites Petrina 2007) KF: Gradgrindian: From Thomas Gradgrind, a character in […]

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 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/apr/01/reasserting-white-power-behind-the-psychosis-that-gave-rise-to-blackface In his 2006 book Black Like You, Strausbaugh traces the roots of blackface minstrelsy to New York’s Bowery Theatre and young Irish performers darkening their skin in comic imitations of blacks on plantations. The […]

Header image: KF in Dall-E https://ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/surveillance-and-society/index Unless we construct new “sociotechnical imaginaries,” new understandings of the goals and aspirations digital technologies should aim to achieve, the most surveillance studies and privacy scholars can hope to accomplish is a less unjust version of the technology industry’s own vision for the future. Except, perhaps, for some tech […]

Header image: KF in Midjourney 1. SHOWING UP Beast at West Point 2. DISTRACTED BY TALENT 3. EFFORT COUNTS TWICE 4. HOW GRITTY ARE YOU? 5. GRIT GROWS Part II GROWING GRIT FROM THE INSIDE OUT

Header image: KF in Dall-E Chapter 2 Matter Turns Intelligent KF: THE BOTTOM LINE: STOP 108

Header image: KF in Dall-E Chapter one: do everything faster Chapter two – Slow Is Beautiful If you want to go fast, go alone; if you want to go far, go together (origin) KF: Honoré traces historical concerns over time about the increase in the pace of our lives (ancient world on); LOL “bicycle face.” […]

Header image: KF in Dall-E https://blogs.ubc.ca/catl2022/files/2022/10/Shulman_1997-Professing-Liberal-arts.pdf Education is my profession and the education of professionals is my area of inquiry. I wish to argue that the problem with the liberal arts is not that they are endangered by the corruption of professionalism. Indeed, their problem is that they are not professional enough. Features of a […]