Blending Synchronous and Asynchronous Instructional Time in Online Learning

This fall, I am continuing my master’s studies at UVIC and taking the course “Theory and Discourse on Distributed and Open Learning” while also teaching part-time at an online school in BC. A few weeks ago in class at UVIC, we discussed possibilities for blending asynchronous and synchronous instructional time as teachers and are practicing […]

A Tensioned Space with Cabbage

I was looking forward to Chapter 24: Taiko Drums and Sushi, Perogies and Sauerkraut: Mirroring a Half-Life in Multicultural Curriculum from a talk in 1990 by Ted Aoki, from the text Curriculum in a New Key – The Collected Works of Ted T. Aoki, and finally read it today. What excited me were the terms […]

Signifiers as a String of Wool

Chapter 19: “Language, Culture, and Curriculum…” that is a paper presented by Ted Aoki and Ken Jacknicke in 2000, from the text Curriculum in a New Key – The Collected Works of Ted T. Aoki. The chapter is filled with ideas that tie together many concepts from the larger text, and today, I am thinking […]

Online Teacher = Orderer

As a student in the Master of Educational Technology program at UVIC, I found chapter 5 “Toward Understanding ‘Computer Application’” in the book Curriculum in a New Key – The Collected Works of Ted T. Aoki, an interesting place to dwell for the afternoon. In my classes, we have talked about the meaning of educational […]

Rhythms of the Earth

Today I read the chapter, “Sonare and Videre: A Story, Three Echoes and a Lingering Note” from a keynote address in 1990, as I continue to read Curriculum in a New Key – The Collected Works of Ted T. Aoki. The chapter brought me back to a place in time when I intentionally connected my […]

An Inspirited Web

Today, I am thinking about the word “inspirited” helps me think differently, after reading the text, “Spinning Inspirited Images in the Midst of Planned and Live(d) Curricula” written by Ted Aoki. I am reminded of an intricate spider’s web, fastened between this and that. I included in this post a photo of a spider’s web […]

The Boundary Layer

One idea in Aoki’s writing that resonates with my experience teaching is his insight on the space between curriculum-as-plan and the lived curriculum. I am thinking specifically about how Aoki explains that things can grow in this space. When reading the description, my mind immediately thought of a space called the boundary layer where mosses […]

A Space of “This” and “That”

Ted Aoki’s chapter “Imaginaries of “East” and “West”: Slippery Curricular Signifiers in Education” from the book Curriculum in a New Key – The Collected Works of Ted T. Aoki, asked me today to stop and ponder every day and overlooked in a new way. The chapter delves quickly and deeply into abstractions that ask […]

Connection to Heart

Today I read the chapter “Layered voices in teaching: The uncannily correct and the elusively true” from Curriculum in a New Key – The Collected Works of Ted T. Aoki, while listening to the splashing of my garden pond. I planned to sit outside on this beautiful summer morning to ground myself in a thoughtful […]

Invisible Connections?

Today, I read “Understanding Curriculum Amidst Doing Curriculum Research” by my professor at UVIC, Dr. Jennifer Thom. In class, we were thinking about where we are as a person, learner, and/or teacher, and where we could be. We started thinking about key experiences in our lives that shaped who we are and about what ideas […]

Sea to School

“Innovation floats on a sea of inquiry” (Halbert & Kaser, 2013)

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