about
This open educational resource project is a collaboration between Tamaka Fisher and Elizabeth Handford in the ETEC 523 Mobile and Open Learning course taught by Dr. David Vogt in the Master of Educational Technology program at the University of British Columbia, dated July 31, 2022. It has been optimized for viewing on mobile devices.
Territorial land acknowledgements and authors
Tamaka Fisher (she/her)
Hello. I am an uninvited settler to Turtle Island. I respectfully acknowledge that I am communicating from the traditional and unceded territories of the Kwantlen and Katzie First Nations and Coast Salish peoples. I am grateful for their stewardship of the land and for the privilege of living, recreating, working, and studying in this beautiful place, also called the Fraser Valley, in British Columbia, Canada. The traditional language of the Kwantlen people is Halkomelem, and the word, Kwantlen, means ‘tireless runner.’
I am committed to humbly learning about how I can contribute to decolonizing education with my words and actions. I work in post-secondary as an accessibility adviser to students with diverse abilities that are experiencing barriers to learning.
My interest in the subject of transhumanism is piqued as it questions our responsibility as a society to create equitable access for all learners, not just those with the desire and means to access new technology.
Elizabeth Handford
Hi, my name is Elizabeth.
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Growing up where the shield meets the plains, where wildlife outnumbers the domesticated, and where managed roads thinly thread through the uplands developed my self-reliance and love of freedom.
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As you may guess, my expression of self was rarely appreciated and often mislabelled by my teachers. I was somewhat slow in learning how to align with the constraints of formal education.
Luckily, I work in Language Instruction for the newly arrived in Canada, which advocates a responsive learning environment reflecting the needs of the individuals.
Each student needs to feel important in that learning space that they are heard, their needs are met, and they direct their learning to apply the outcomes to better their lives in the host country of Canada.
And I still have not achieved all my dreams or developed all my skillset.