Day: October 17, 2013

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Employment

Open rank position at University of California – Irvine‏

Two open rank positions in the School of Education at the University of California, Irvine. One with a focus on early childhood and another in cognition and learning. We are a very interdisciplinary and innovative program in a coastal city, with fabulous weather all year long!Please circulate/consider applying.
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EARLY CHILDHOOD AD_11.8

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Stephanie M. Reich, Ph.D.
Secretary, Society for Community Research and Action
Associate Professor, Education
University of California, Irvine
(949) 824-5970
smreich@uci.edu

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CTLT Learning week: Teaching Through Visual Cognition in an Immersive Online Environment‏

CTLT Learning week: Teaching Through Visual Cognition in an Immersive Online Environment

Venue: Lillooet Room, Irving K. Barber Learning Centre

Time: October 25, 2013 3:00 pm to 4:30 pm

This event is not just a lecture; it is also a discussion forum. The first 30 minutes will feature a short lecture on how to teach in an immersive online environment through visual cognition. More specifically, this lecture will illustrate how visual elements in a 3D animated virtual world can hook students’ interests to facilitate their learning. During the one hour discussion time, participants will have the opportunity to try out the virtual learning environment and take part in a forum where ideas and views can be exchanged on the benefits and/or disadvantages for teaching and learning in such an environment. The facilitators are subject specialists in math education, language education, music education, and art education.

This is a free event open to Public, Recommended For UBC Faculty and Students

Information can also be found at: http://celebratelearning.ubc.ca/2013/09/teaching-through-visual-cognition-in-an-immersive-online-environment/

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Announcements Speakers

Visiting Scholar Lecture “Historical Thinking for Effective Citizenship”

The Centre for the Study of Historical Consciousness 
Visiting Scholars Program

Dr. Christian Laville
Professor Emeritus, Laval University, Quebec

“Historical Thinking for Effective Citizenship:

A Perspective on the Concept of Perspective”

Monday 4 November 2013, 4:30-6:00 p.m.
UBC, Scarfe building, room 310

Nietzsche has written: “A concept is an invention to which nothing exactly corresponds, but which many things resemble” (Posthumous Fragments). Thus the meaning of a concept is neither absolute nor univocal.  It varies according to culture, context, personal experience and other factors. From this situation comes the importance of assuring understandings, and, insofar as possible, avoiding ambiguities, if not misunderstandings, among different people discussing the same realities.
In 2012, Peter Seixas and Tom Morton published The Big Six Historical Thinking Concepts / Les six concepts de la pensée historique.  Their overarching goal was to clarify basic elements of historical thinking, in order to inform the teaching and learning of history.  But the problem is complex.  This presentation will draw attention to the variety of meanings emerging from some of the historical thinking concepts found in The Big Six, in order to deepen and clarify our comprehension of the nature and learning of historical thinking.
Christian Laville is Professor Emeritus of Université Laval. His research has focused on the social function of history education, on the theory and practice of history textbooks, and on the obstacles to learning how to think historically. Professor Laville was a major contributor to recent, controversial revisions of the Quebec history curriculum, and is author or co-author of numerous publications, including textbooks on the history of Quebec and Canada, Western and World history, and on research methodologies in the social sciences.
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No RSVP necessary.
 
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Announcements Graduate Program Opportunities

Oct 17 – GSS Weekly Newsletter

Dear Graduate students,

You are not under the gun. There is no gun. Not in this newsletter anyway. Read it, it will make you feel better. So, there are multiple ways to do Halloween this year, and GSS is written all over at least half. It will be reward for hard work. If you deserve reward sooner, Koerner’s Pub is Officially Open!

– Our GSS Halloween party is on November 1st. Volunteer! Get Tickets! Also are you anAwesome DJ? We need to talk.

– Coffee’ll Fix it! – Meet your Department Representative!

– Wanna Go Bowling on Halloween?

– Interested in Exploring Vancouver? Come, let’s talk

– Play Whodunit with us on Halloween!

– Last Chance to become a GSS Advocacy Officer (deadline extended!)

– You Can Still Sign Up for Our GSS Art Class

– You can still learn Mandarin too!

Thinking about life after UBC? Consider this:
1. Today Oct 17th: Can I do this for a Living? A panel that explores careers in community service
2. Oct 22nd:  Interactive case studies about community grant projects over brunch

There are a few other events around campus that we think might interest you:
– Today Oct 17th: Elizabeth May of the Green Party speaks at Green College
– FireTalk: Indegenizing the Academy is Oct. 23rd
– Lecture: The Enigma of Galileo
– Performance and Lecture on Embodying loss
– Lecture: The Universe – its Structure and its Support of Life

You are now more relaxed. You can go back to work.

Ngwatilo

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Service Opportunities

Nov 5 – CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS

The Department of Physical Therapy at UBC is in need of patient model volunteers for an upcoming practical exam:

Tuesday, November 5, 2013 from approximately 7:30am to 6:00pm.

This is a great way to find out more about physiotherapy!  Lunch, snacks, and refreshments will be provided on the day, and volunteers will also receive a Chapters gift card as a small token of our appreciation.

Please review the attached volunteer requirements and contact me by reply email at cailen.ogley@ubc.ca by no later than October 27, 2013 if you are interested in this opportunity.

Please include:

·                     Confirmation that you are available from 7:30am to 6:00pm on Tuesday, November 5, 2013.

·                     Any physical limitations you may have (i.e. back/knee problems)

***NOTE: Please carefully consider your availability on this date before responding***

Further details will be provided to those interested.

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Announcements Speakers

Oct 21 UBC Straker Lecture–Barbara Herrnstein Smith

Dear Members of the UBC Community,

On Monday, October 21, we will be fortunate to have Barbara Herrnstein Smith on campus to deliver the Seventh Annual Stephen M. Straker Memorial Lecture, on “Dis/Integration: On the New Interdisciplinarity” (4:00-5:30, Buchanan A104)

Professor Smith (Duke University) is a leading literary theorist and critic, and also a major contributor to Science and Technology Studies, bringing together insights from literary and critical theory with those from history and philosophy of science. Among her honours are visiting appointments at the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study, the Stanford Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, the US National Humanities Center, and the Rockefeller Foundation Center at Bellagio. She is also the recipient of a lifetime achievement award from the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts.

She gave the 2006 Terry Lectures at Yale, published in 2009 as Natural Reflections: Human Cognition at the Nexus of Science and Religion. Here is an informative passage from Stanley Fish’s review of the book:

“The assumption [Smith] challenges—or, rather, says we can do without—is that underlying it all is some foundation or nodal point or central truth or master procedure that, if identified, allows us to distinguish among ways of knowing and anoint one as the lodestar of inquiry. The desire, she explains, is to sift through the claims of those perspectives and methods that vie for ‘underneath-it-all status’ (a wonderful phrase) and validate one of them so that we can proceed in the confidence that our measures, protocols, techniques and procedures are in harmony with the universe and perhaps with God.”

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