Land Acknowledgement
Matt is in Menaquesk (Saint John, New Brunswick), which is situated on the traditional and unceded territory of the Wolastoqiyik/Maliseet People.
Doug is on Epekwitk (Prince Edward Island) within Mi’kma’ki, the ancestral and unceded territory of the Mi’kmaq People.
Matt and Doug are both grateful to be guests in these traditional, ancestral, and unceded lands where teaching and learning have taken place since time immemorial.
Conversation #17: I Won’t Back Down
In this Ed non-Tech Convo, I had an epic chat with multidisciplinary Kamloops author, musician, and artist Chris Bose! While we’ve talked before about his musical endeavours, and do so here as well, we are properly focused on the literary efforts for this go-round! Please join us as per your preferences! The sounds of awesomeness…
Episode 64: Discipline
Matt’s Notes Hey there, folks! We are continuing our dive into pan-and-or-interdisciplinarity! As might be ascertained, we have opinions! And then some! If you can’t handle the video, the audio is another exit from bedlam! #ednontech As with my previous comments, written relatively concurrently to these… the best thing for all involved is simply to…
Episode 63: Terraform
Matt’s Notes Welcome everyone to our second episode of the third season! New frontiers and such! And while this STEM-based episode has taken a bit to incubate, we’re sure you will find the results well worth the wait! Exercise the STEMs leading from your earholes to your brainparts! #ednontech I think my best contribution to…
Episode 62: Rock n’ Roll High School!
Matt’s Notes Gabba-Gabba-Hey, my dudes! It’s that time of year again! The fall of times, that is! And the EnT is back like a heart attack! To wit: we are pulling up awkwardly but undeterredly with this here dissemination [sic] on starting points for a new school year! So pitter-patter, let’s get at ‘er! For…
Conversation #16: Generator
One day and one month ago I had the immense privilege of conversing with San Diego, California writer Jim Ruland… AKA… LA Times Bestselling Author, journalist, and a writer across multiple formats, platforms, and genres! His latest book Make it Stop is a work of dystopian wildness which interrogates American healthcare… and is required (summer)…
Conversation #15: Truthfully Truthfully
Colleagues, friends, and passerby… The level of this here humble (meek!) podcasting endeavour has just gone up! Significantly! The reason for this is, be assured, this absolutely first-rate convo between myself and Dr. Moeketsi Letseka, UNESCO Chair on Open Distance Learning (ODL), and Professor of Philosophy of Education and African Philosophy at the University of…
Episode 61: Eight Miles High
Matt’s Notes Hey there! We’re pleased you’ve joined us for a positively Foucaultian dive into leveraging structures of education… regardless of whether you identify as structuralist, post-structuralist, or “other” for sure you should check the video and/or audio! We’re the beagles of death metal… er… overlords of #ednontech… uh… But Seriously It’s been a week…
Conversation #14: The Places You’ll Go!
Earlier this week, Doug and I had the chance to speak with Dr. Norm Vaughan, Professor with the Education and Schooling Faculty at Mount Royal University in Calgary. Norm has had an rich and varied career across a wide range of settings, contexts, and locations! He is the author of numerous articles, presentations, books, and…
Conversation #13: Learn to Fly
Everyone, I am utterly pleased to share our recent EnT convo with Dr. Rob Power, Assistant Professor of Education at Cape Breton University! Besides being an accomplished and prolific researcher, teacher, and practitioner in many diverse areas of the educational endeavor writ large… Rob and I also go back many years professionally… and this is…
Conversation #12:’Tain’t What You Do
Folks, I was expecting to enjoy my chat with Dr. Jon Dron, Associate Dean, Learning and Assessment in the Faculty of Science and Technology at Athabasca University… I was not expecting to have as much fun as I did! While we were talking about his latest book How Education Works, we ended up going many…