#choice making

Hello and welcome to this week’s inventor’s fair! @follower-of-liliana at the helm again, wishing you a less bumpy ride!

On to the challenge! Forge an equipment with multiple functions to choose from.

Some existing equipment that meet the contest’s requirements are Umezawa's Jitte, Sunforger, Throwing Knife and Heartseeker. You can also take the tribal route and showcase an item that can be used in different ways depending on the race of the user. If you’re unsure what to design, tune in for tomorrow’s braistorming post!

I have just spent some time interrogating ChatGPT about the connections between adult education, teaching and learning. This inquiry builds on earlier work I undertook more than a decade ago by using NGRAM Viewer-where I looked at the changing use of terms like adult learning and adult education. My thought at the time was that the use of the term ‘education’ had often been detrimentally replaced…

reflections from a recent trip...next steps.

Earlier this month we (Elizabeth, Eski-the-dog and I) travelled to northern Victoria (Aus) to explore the contexts within which my ancestors made emigration choices (and to visit interesting places). This project is very much a beginning-and the trip helped me identify potential sources for future data collection. To understand this trip and intention, an explanation is needed. I discovered that…

We are already into the second month of a calendar new year (and right in the Lunar New Year period) and given that the first semester is about to begin, this remains a “New Year” by multiple measures. For me professionally and academically however this is a new beginning in several important ways. As an academic who finished my thesis fairly recently, I am very grateful to have secured tenure…