Well, my updates here have stalled. There's actually, I think, a pretty good reason for this, and that is that SARS-CoV-2 has wreaked havoc on my dissertation plans. If you've been following along, my original intent was to explore the intersection of Indigenous Education and technology, from the pe...
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Seeber, K. P. (2016). The Failed Pedagogy of Punish...
The President of Trinity Western University recently tweeted a brief recognition of the work that educational technologists have been doing over the last few weeks.
Grateful for, and proud of, Scott, Colin, and the entire TWU Online team: they saw the challenge and opportunity to help our faculty...
Yesterday, Amanda Coolidge published an introspective post in which she shares a little bit about how she is still learning to be in the world we have. You should go read it.
Amanda does great work to enable post-secondary educators and institutions to become more diverse, equitable, and inclu...
Our group engaged in a digital storytelling project using a process that has turned out to be similar to a photovoice method. As might be expected in a 3-week group project, data collection was somewhat rushed. We faced challenges with the seemingly simple process of forming a group and contacting e...
For EDCP512A, we are conducting an in-class action research project in small teams. Our group is taking an arts-based approach using digital storytelling as our method.
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Our task this week was...
I read two articles this week, each of which described an AR project, but with very different approaches and, I think, different outcomes. My rough notes on each article are available here (Pedretti) and here (Wakefield).
Pedretti describes an action research project grounded in what I have co...
For this blog discussion post discuss any 2 features of Kemmis, McTaggart, and Nixon's 10 Features of the Public Sphere found (or not) in any of the 5 papers Collins, Kaukko, Tuck, Conrad, and McLeod/Emme. List the Key Feature and describe the feature using the researc...
The task:
Find a public space (mall, library, coffee shop) where you feel comfortable observing a person or small group of people - people you don't know. Write for 10 minutes as a field note. Use descriptive language and work for accuracy. Write about you notice: see, hear, smell, feel. How di...
I am 4 weeks in to my course at UBC called Education Action Research and it has been formative so far...
One of the primary ideas that has become apparent in these 4 weeks as we have bandied about ideas of what is action research is the reason that AR, and particularly critical participatory AR...
...post a brief response that articulates your growing/changing understanding of action research in education (or some aspect of it) in the context of your own research area.
Kemmis, S., McTaggart, R., & Nixon, R. (2014). The action research planner: Doing critical participatory action research...
As an introductory post, EDCP512 at UBC has been asked to post a 6-word memoir or two...
You can find my post at grav.madland.ca/presentations.
Updated: June 22/19 (scroll down)
Tonight marks the fourth meeting of our class exploring discourses in education at UVic. We are a fairly small class or 14 new PhD and 3 MEd students who meet for 3 hours per week. We are a diverse group with people from Tanzania, Nigeria, Brazil, Mexico, Australi...
One of the things that has driven me a little batty ever since my MEd work, when I first started having to use PDF versions of articles is that copying text from a PDF for my notes and pasting into Werd works relatively fine except for the fact that the line breaks are copied too.
When you past...
A tweet showed up in my timeline, thanks to @_valeriei, from @raulpacheco talking about how he manages his workflow for printed papers. Here's my digital workflow. It takes a bit of technical setup, but it's worth it.
As I was g...
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Well, 'meeting' #1 of my PhD journey is done! As this is a seminar course focussed more on empowerment and conversation, our prof likes to call our weekly get-togethers 'meetings'. Ok.
As is standard in the first introduction to a course, there was the typical conversation about the course...