Greetings,

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My name is Tamaka Fisher and this e-portfolio is a project for the Master of Educational Technology (M.E.T.) program at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, B.C., Canada. The course is E.T.E.C.5.6.5.S. and the special subject matter and focus of this 5-week intensive Summer Institute is Makerspace and Inclusive Implementation: Makerspace examined through equity, diversity, inclusion, decolonization, and anti-racism (E.D.I.D.A.) frameworks.

 

I acknowledge that I am an uninvited settler, and created this work while on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territories of the qʼʷa:n̓ƛʼən̓ (Kwantlen) and  q̓ic̓əy̓ (Katzie) First Nations. I give thanks for the privilege of being able to work, study, live, and recreate here. My ancestors come from the island of Honshu in Japan, where I was born, and my grandfather was born on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) First Nation and my mother was born on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territories of the ʔaq̓am (St. Mary's) and Yaqan nuʔkiy (Lower Kootenay) First Nations. I am committed to unlearning, learning and taking action towards reconciliation and decolonization.

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Two of the most meaningful pieces of learning for me during this course were the First Peoples Principles of Learning, which is a holistic view of learning that considers the learners' identity in relationship to the land, spirituality, ancestry, family and community and Considerations for Creating Culturally Responsive Pedagogy (Ewart, 2023).

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During this five-week course in the summer of 2023, each student was responsible for choosing and completing critical learning tasks, C.L.T., that explored a variety of topics connected to equity, diversity, inclusion, decolonization, and anti-racism in physical and digital makerspaces. The fourth week of the course was spent synchronously at the University of British Columbia Vancouver Campus. During this week students were introduced to provocations and actively completed making challenges, engaged in professional learning conversations, and completed a group project, which consisted of a draft unit of learning overview and an individual lesson plan and assessment. You will find all of these within this e-portfolio.

 

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