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Nov 27 – FIREtalk: Learning Machines

The Research Commons invites graduate students from any discipline – engineers, philosophers, computer scientists, writers, neuroscientists, artists, psychologists, social theorists, and others – to explore the boundary between mind and machine.

Join us for the next FIREtalk (bit.ly/firetalk), Learning Machines.

When: Wednesday, November 27, 4-6 pm

Where: Koerner Library, Room 216

About the Topic

What cutting-edge applications of computers and machines help improve human life? What are the different approaches to the study and design of learning and intelligence? How can systems learn from data? What natural behaviors can be simulated by a machine? Can the brain be interpreted as a computer? How do our cultural perceptions of machines influence the way we interact with them? Where can speculative fiction and other works of the imagination take artificial intelligence?

Be part of the discussion: submit your proposals for a 5-minute presentation by the 12th of November, 2013. Find more information at: http://bit.ly/FTpresent

Interested but don’t want to present? Attend as an audience member and join the discussion after the presentations! To attend without presenting, register at: http://bit.ly/27NovFT

FIREtalks: An interdisciplinary forum for graduate students, by graduate students.

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CSSE 2014 Conference-Call for Presentations

Dear Member:

On behalf of the CSSE Board of Directors, I would like to take this opportunity to invite faculty, staff and graduate students from your institution to submit a presentation proposal for the 2014 CSSE Annual Conference in St. Catharines, Ontario on 24 – 28 May 2014 (pre-conferences on 24 May 2014). Held in conjunction with the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, this bilingual conference provides an opportunity for discussion of educational issues among practitioners and educational scholars from across the nation.

We encourage participative sessions in various formats including themed, symposium/panel, small round table, multiple paper, single paper, and poster (featuring the use of graphic or other multimedia material). Presentation proposals can be submitted 25 October 2013 – 27 November 2013 by going to our website: http://www.csse-scee.ca/conference/.

We would appreciate you forwarding this invitation to other faculty, staff and graduate students, and look forward to your participation in this key event for education professionals – The 2014 CSSE Annual Conference.

Sincerely,

Victor Glickman, EdD
CSSE President – Président
Canadian Society for the Study of Education

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Presentation of “Dizionario delle Collocazioni”‏

This is a reminder about the upcoming event next week
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The Centre for Intercultural Studies at UBC invites you to attend the presentation of “Dizionario delle Collocazioni”, an event organized by the Italian Cultural Centre in Vancouver. 

Please see the detailed description of the event below. We would greatly appreciate it, if you would circulate this information to any colleagues you think may be interested in attending.

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What: Seminar Presentation on ‘Dizionario delle Collocazioni’ or how words combine in Italian. Lessons for Language Teachers
When: Monday, October 28, from 4:30 to 6 pm
Where: Italian Cultural centre — click on link for details on directions http://italianculturalcentre.ca/


Il dizionario delle collocazioni

Le combinazioni delle parole in italiano

 

In linguistics the term ‘collocation’ is used to mean a combination of lexical items that regularly or habitually occurs together, and sounds natural, in speech or writing. The way words combine in a language is not determined by rules of  syntax or grammar but is instead established through repeated context-dependent use within the language community.

The Dizionario delle collocazioni is specifically designed to help choose the right words to express ideas in an effective way. With a selection of about 200,000 collocations it is a useful tool to develop an increased range of vocabulary and facility of expression in idiomatic Italian.

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3R Workshop: Graduate Student Reading Groups

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Wellness Seminars

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Academic Skills Workshops

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Registration for TerreWEB and CTLT joint workshop‏

TerreWEB is pleased to be working with CTLT on a workshop titled “Sociopolitical Aspects of Communicating Science.” 

This workshop will take place October 31st, from 1:00pm to 4:00pm, in MCML 350.

Registration is required (but free).

Registration and event description can be found here.

Note: If you register now, you will be put on a waitlist until Friday. This is to ensure that our TW scholars have first priority.

This is, of course, a very broad topic, and this workshop is intended to get the juices flowing and explore a few different subtopics that have the potential to lead to future, more specific workshops.

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Nov 4 – Dr. Audrey Osler: Sanitized history & sanitized citizenship

Dr. Audrey Osler will be speaking at Simon Fraser University, Burnaby campus on Monday November 4th, 430-6 pm (reception to follow).
 
Dr. Osler's talk is titled: Sanitized history and sanitized citizenship: How do we address conflict in education for justice and 
human rights?
 
Please note that space is limited, so please register early.  Please find registration information on the attached flyer.

Audrey Osler talk announcement
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Oct 21 Spirals of Inquiry – Dr. Judy Halbert & Dr. Linda Kaser – a YTE event

http://yte.educ.ubc.ca/oct-21-spirals-of-inquiry

Monday, October 21
12:00 – 1:00 pm
Scarfe 310

Dr. Judy Halbert & Dr. Linda Kaser

How can a spiral of inquiry approach be useful in teacher education and in ongoing professional learning?
How is inquiry shifting practices through networks and through the use of a research-­-informed spiral of inquiry strategy?
How are BC educators becoming involved with the 7 learning principles from the OECD’s The Nature of Learning – and how could participation in the Innovative Learning Environments initiative (along with educators from around the world) help to transform BC educational practices?

Dr. Judy Halbert and Dr. Linda Kaser are co-leaders of Networks of Inquiry and Innovation and the Aboriginal Enhancement Schools Network. They have served as principals, district leaders and policy advisors with the Ministry of Education in the areas of innovative leadership, district change, rural education, literacy and Aboriginal education. They are co-directors of the Centre for Innovative Educational Leadership at Vancouver Island University where they currently teach graduate programs in educational leadership. They are also the Canadian representatives to the OECD international research program on Innovative Learning Environments.
Linda and Judy are the co-authors of Spirals of Inquiry (2013), Leadership Mindsets: Innovation and Learning in the Transformation of Schools (2009) and Leading Professional Inquiry with Helen Timperley (in press, 2014). They have worked intensively with educators in every part of BC.

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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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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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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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Oct 21 Resistance to Norms: Listening to Youth Indigenous Voices

Social Justice @UBC Lecture Event: Indigenous Pedagogies Social Justice
Monday October 21, 1-2:30 pm - Snacks provided!
First Nations Longhouse, UBC
1895 West Mall

Resistance to Norms: Listening to Youth Indigenous Voices Jessica Danforth Founder & Executive Director Native Youth Sexual Health 
Network The NYSHN is an organization for and by indigenous youth that works across issues of sexual and reproductive health, 
rights, and justice throughout the United States and Canada. NYSHN are resistors of violence from the state, violence on the land
and violence on bodies. Restoration of knowledge, justice, and ways to be safer in communities is critical to their work.

And yes, resistance is sexy!
 
Ronnie Dean Harris
Ronnie is a St?:lo/St'=E1t'imc multimedia artist based in Vancouver, B.C. In the past years he's worked along side many amazing 
people on equally amazing projects. Most prominently as an actor and composer for APTN/Showcase dramatic series Moccasin Flats. 
Ron has performed in numerous festivals and has opened for acts including Guru, K'naan, Abstract Rude and Snoop Dogg to name a 
few. In the last 10 years Ronnie has also been active in facilitating and crating workshop programs for youth empowerment in 
media arts and hip-hop.
 
Jerilyn Webster
Jerilyn is a Vancouver based female hip-hop artist, beat-boxer, performing artist, aboriginal educator, single mother, award-
winning actor, and member of the Nuxalk and Cayauga Nations who is using [her] words to go upwards/not backwards. She is an Idle 
No More organizer.
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Oct 28 – Upcoming CILS event

Seminar Presentation on 'Dizionario delle Collocazioni' or how words combine in Italian. Lessons for Language Teachers
When: Monday, October 28, from 4:30 to 6 pm
Where: Italian Cultural centre click on link for details on directions http://italianculturalcentre.ca/
 
 
Il dizionario delle collocazioni
Le combinazioni delle parole in italiano
 
In linguistics the term 'collocation' is used to mean a combination of lexical items that regularly or habitually occurs together, 
and sounds natural, in speech or writing. The way words combine in a language is not determined by rules of  syntax or grammar but 
is instead established through repeated context-dependent use within the language community.
 
The Dizionario delle collocazioni is specifically designed to help choose t= he right words to express ideas in an effective way. 
With a selection of about 200,000 collocations it is a useful tool to develop an increased range of vocabulary and facility of 
expression in idiomatic Italian.
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Instructional Skills Workshop October 29, 31, November 2

Registration is open for the Instructional Skills Workshop October 29, 31, November 2, 2013.  Please note that participants must be able to attend the entire 24 hour workshop.

 

The Instructional Skills Workshop is an internationally recognized program and students receive transcript notation for their participation.  It is a 3-day intensive workshop that develops participant’s teaching skills and confidence.  It is appropriate for first time teachers or those with years of experience.  Join the thousands of students who have taken this workshop.

 

This workshop is always in high demand. To register for the October 29, 31, November 2 ISW, please go to:

http://events.ctlt.ubc.ca/events/view/2953

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