Colin W. 🇨🇦 🇦🇺🇩🇪🌻
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"Change is not progress; it's merely the alteration of direction." Canadian educator for over 32 years, news junkie, Twitter refugee and edu-change skeptic, perilously embracing progressive politics, research-based education & the #Canucks.
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"Restructure faculty roles from content experts to experience designers and judgment coaches."

Lmao as if we don't already do this.
Wow. Just wow.

"Students pay premium prices for information that AI now delivers instantly and for free. A business student can ask ChatGPT to explain supply chain optimization or generate market analysis in seconds. The traditional lecture-and-test model faces its Blockbuster moment."
When Knowledge is Free, What are Professors For?
Higher Education Must Stop Competing with AI on Information and Start Teaching What Machines Can’t Do
www.forbes.com
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This sure gives me 1932 "Weimar gerentocracy" vibes.
83 year old Senator Mitch McConnell just tripped and fell while being asked about ICE
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It's super weird that this project is like an hour's drive from my house and almost no one here knows about it
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That’s crazy. I wonder what happened in January
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All seven obstetrician-gynecologists at Kamloops hospital resign

“It is fairly unprecedented for an entire group of physicians to depart, but with the state of obstetrics in our community…we see no viable way forward.”
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/briti...
Seven OB/GYNs at B.C. hospital resign, citing unsafe workloads, lack of support
Years of challenges have made the situation untenable, doctors say in letter obtained by The Globe
www.theglobeandmail.com
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This is the first publicly released polling on Alberta education issues from a professional pollster in a while, and the results are super interesting.

ARI poll suggests contract dispute support for teachers: 58%
Support for AB govt: 21 %
Neither: 18 % #AbLeg #AbEd
New poll suggests bulk of public back Alberta teachers in contract dispute | CBC News
A new Angus Reid Institute poll suggests locked-out teachers have more public support than the Alberta government as a contract dispute cancels classes for a second week.
www.cbc.ca
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With Braeden Cootes being reassigned to the WHL, #Canucks head coach Adam Foote said that the team will be calling up Max Sasson for the upcoming road trip.
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I just read an article saying that a legal resident was given a $130 ticket because he "didn't have his papers".

So, we're now at the "papers, please" stage of things. I'm a natural-born US citizen, and I'm carrying my passport now because of this crap.

How far we've fallen...
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ICYMI: “And now, a response from the leader of the frog resistance...” 🐸 🎵 #Colbert
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“Bruised feelings”? Is that what you think this is about? Good lord, what a poorly researched, tone deaf piece. Your president threatened- and continues to threaten- the very existence of our nation. We are defending ourselves, our sovereignty and our economy by taking our business elsewhere. FAFO.