Skeletons in Our Collective Closet
An article in the New Yorker, The Skeletons at the Lake (December 14, 2020), draws together several exciting historical currents, linking them through recent discoveries in archeological genetics.…
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Lessons from Math Class
For insight into the art of teaching as well as the use of technology in education, I’ve been diving into the dynamic microworld of the study of the…
Authenticity
Jeremy Scrivens writes about the importance of being authentic on social media. I get what he means, but the language is flawed. From what I understand authenticity is…
In This Place…
In 1998, when I was a student at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, I had the privilege of being the curatorial intern at the NSCAD…
The Universe in a Pixel of Sand
I was already thinking about self-organizing systems and emergence when I discovered the amazing Reddit Place collaborative art experiment that recently played out on the internet starting on April…
Discovering Algebra
It has been the plaintive cry of generations of high school students – What do I even need algebra for anyway? Or trigonometry? And it’s a legitimate question:…
Activity Theory
I’ve just finished a first semester of a Masters in Educational Technology from UBC. One of the great pleasures of my first classes was exploring the theoretical frameworks…
All the World’s Futures
All the World’s Futures I’ve been dreaming of going to Venice to see the 56th Biennale. I was in Venice in 2005 and the artwork on display at…
Art In My Back Yard
Art In My Back Yard Two monstrous sculptures have been on my mind lately. The first is the giant pair of sunglasses installed in Cape Town by South…
The Broken Compass
Th Broken Compass I have lived in four different countries in the last eight years, and because I’m a parent, that means I have spent a fair bit…
Little Voices
Little Voices One of the great privileges of parenthood is observing firsthand the acquisition of language by children. I remember with such fondness my own infants’ first groping…