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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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