Dave Cormier
@davecormier.bsky.social
Currently wondering how we can adapt our education system to help people face uncertainty. #ShrugCon
Author, Learning in a time of Abundance.
https://www.amazon.ca/Learning-Time-Abundance-Community-Curriculum/dp/1421447797/
http://davecormier.com/edblog
Author, Learning in a time of Abundance.
https://www.amazon.ca/Learning-Time-Abundance-Community-Curriculum/dp/1421447797/
http://davecormier.com/edblog
What is the word for things that are both embarrassing and exciting at the same time? As I head off for a short vacation, I, for the first time, am leaving behind a totally empty inbox.
June 21, 2025 at 3:58 PM
What is the word for things that are both embarrassing and exciting at the same time? As I head off for a short vacation, I, for the first time, am leaving behind a totally empty inbox.
Adorbs
for anybody interested in Canadian spy history or in, uh, secret comms & resistance of times past...
in 2018, my kid did a national history fair project on my grandfather, a WWII BSC agent. a museum reached out this week for info so we put the video online. enjoy!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Y4h...
in 2018, my kid did a national history fair project on my grandfather, a WWII BSC agent. a museum reached out this week for info so we put the video online. enjoy!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Y4h...
The Spy From PEI
YouTube video by dave cormier
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June 10, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Adorbs
Reposted by Dave Cormier
excited to be back in Inverness to share my research on belonging & place via the LTA Connect: Compassionate Pedagogies series.
open online presentation, tomorrow June 10: 3-4pm Scotland time, 10-11am EDT for those playing along at home :)
ALL WELCOME - sign up here: www.uhi.ac.uk/en/learning-...
open online presentation, tomorrow June 10: 3-4pm Scotland time, 10-11am EDT for those playing along at home :)
ALL WELCOME - sign up here: www.uhi.ac.uk/en/learning-...
LTA Connect: Compassionate Pedagogies - Pedagogies of place: Exploring digital and cultural belonging and not-belonging
www.uhi.ac.uk
June 9, 2025 at 3:17 PM
excited to be back in Inverness to share my research on belonging & place via the LTA Connect: Compassionate Pedagogies series.
open online presentation, tomorrow June 10: 3-4pm Scotland time, 10-11am EDT for those playing along at home :)
ALL WELCOME - sign up here: www.uhi.ac.uk/en/learning-...
open online presentation, tomorrow June 10: 3-4pm Scotland time, 10-11am EDT for those playing along at home :)
ALL WELCOME - sign up here: www.uhi.ac.uk/en/learning-...
@downes.bsky.social I'm watching stuff on your presentation and wondering if i can sneak in!
June 2, 2025 at 5:39 PM
@downes.bsky.social I'm watching stuff on your presentation and wondering if i can sneak in!
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how we talk about digital practices in education. a caveat, a relic, a reckoning, and a rant walk into a bar...
thinking aloud. how do YOUR experiences of digital practice/discourse align? with so much appreciation to Donna Haraway & Ursula Franklin.
bonstewart.com/belonging/po...
#blogging4life
thinking aloud. how do YOUR experiences of digital practice/discourse align? with so much appreciation to Donna Haraway & Ursula Franklin.
bonstewart.com/belonging/po...
#blogging4life
findings 3a: how we talk about digital practices in education – the belonging project
bonstewart.com
May 13, 2025 at 6:20 PM
how we talk about digital practices in education. a caveat, a relic, a reckoning, and a rant walk into a bar...
thinking aloud. how do YOUR experiences of digital practice/discourse align? with so much appreciation to Donna Haraway & Ursula Franklin.
bonstewart.com/belonging/po...
#blogging4life
thinking aloud. how do YOUR experiences of digital practice/discourse align? with so much appreciation to Donna Haraway & Ursula Franklin.
bonstewart.com/belonging/po...
#blogging4life
I heard rumour that this book review might be coming out. I can't say that there has been anything else about writing this book that had me more concerned than how this might go. I really, really hope he liked it. You can read it with me :)
www.irrodl.org/index.php/ir...
www.irrodl.org/index.php/ir...
View of Learning in a Time of Abundance: The Community Is the Curriculum, by Dave Cormier (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2024)
www.irrodl.org
May 8, 2025 at 5:49 PM
I heard rumour that this book review might be coming out. I can't say that there has been anything else about writing this book that had me more concerned than how this might go. I really, really hope he liked it. You can read it with me :)
www.irrodl.org/index.php/ir...
www.irrodl.org/index.php/ir...
The hardest thing about living three hours ahead of where I work is not sending text messages to @abject.ca at 6am Pacific time when I see something cool.
May 8, 2025 at 3:47 PM
The hardest thing about living three hours ahead of where I work is not sending text messages to @abject.ca at 6am Pacific time when I see something cool.
Research findings that are fun to read. Imagine.
last fall, i interviewed academic staff from the Highlands & Islands of Scotland about the intersections of digital practices & belonging
findings, part 1: digital education as bridging, weaving, entanglement, prestige & historical assimilation all wound up together
bonstewart.com/belonging/po...
findings, part 1: digital education as bridging, weaving, entanglement, prestige & historical assimilation all wound up together
bonstewart.com/belonging/po...
findings, part the first: the sociomaterial intersections of belonging – the belonging project
bonstewart.com
April 11, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Research findings that are fun to read. Imagine.
I'm presenting at TRU in 75 minutes - "One vision for thinking about Open Learning in 2025" #OEweek25
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Join conversation
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March 5, 2025 at 7:14 PM
I'm presenting at TRU in 75 minutes - "One vision for thinking about Open Learning in 2025" #OEweek25
teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-joi...
teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-joi...
Just watched "drive back home" www.imdb.com/title/tt2677... It's a story, from 1970, about a good old boy from Northern New Brunswick who has to go to Toronto to get his gay brother from jail. It's amazing.
Drive Back Home (2024) ⭐ 8.2 | Drama
1h 40m
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March 2, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Just watched "drive back home" www.imdb.com/title/tt2677... It's a story, from 1970, about a good old boy from Northern New Brunswick who has to go to Toronto to get his gay brother from jail. It's amazing.
I was today years old when I found out that Warren Zevon's song "Excitable Boy" is the story of the narrator from The Everly Brother's "Wake Up Little Susie."
I mean. That's what the Wikipedia article seems to be saying. And Zevon toured with the Everly Brothers.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_...
I mean. That's what the Wikipedia article seems to be saying. And Zevon toured with the Everly Brothers.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_...
Warren Zevon - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
February 23, 2025 at 4:48 AM
I was today years old when I found out that Warren Zevon's song "Excitable Boy" is the story of the narrator from The Everly Brother's "Wake Up Little Susie."
I mean. That's what the Wikipedia article seems to be saying. And Zevon toured with the Everly Brothers.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_...
I mean. That's what the Wikipedia article seems to be saying. And Zevon toured with the Everly Brothers.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_...
This was a fun early morning read. "A neutral toolkit? For a fundamental critique of constructive alignment" www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
"Conceptualising teaching as entrapment, CA is expressly and self-consciously a ‘pedagogy of confinement’"
"Conceptualising teaching as entrapment, CA is expressly and self-consciously a ‘pedagogy of confinement’"
www.tandfonline.com
February 21, 2025 at 1:36 PM
This was a fun early morning read. "A neutral toolkit? For a fundamental critique of constructive alignment" www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
"Conceptualising teaching as entrapment, CA is expressly and self-consciously a ‘pedagogy of confinement’"
"Conceptualising teaching as entrapment, CA is expressly and self-consciously a ‘pedagogy of confinement’"
Kamloops hike. Vol. 1
February 8, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Kamloops hike. Vol. 1
Walking in to the office this morning listening to history lectures. I'm now wondering if blindly accepting 15th century spellings for words affects the way English language speakers react to the expression "that's just the way it is". see: Knight, Gnat, enough, etc...
February 7, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Walking in to the office this morning listening to history lectures. I'm now wondering if blindly accepting 15th century spellings for words affects the way English language speakers react to the expression "that's just the way it is". see: Knight, Gnat, enough, etc...
Reposted by Dave Cormier
as the tariffs loom, i managed to process out loud (sorta)
"reading 20+ books about Scottish history this past year makes me wary of assuming that the historical distinctions of a nation perched just above an Empire can be solid things, forever."
bonstewart.com/belonging/po...
"reading 20+ books about Scottish history this past year makes me wary of assuming that the historical distinctions of a nation perched just above an Empire can be solid things, forever."
bonstewart.com/belonging/po...
beyond here there be dragons
I haven’t been able to write since US election day. I live in Canada…admittedly, a four-minute drive from the tunnel to Detroit, but still. I am writing about a university in Scotland. These are all d...
bonstewart.com
January 31, 2025 at 9:01 PM
as the tariffs loom, i managed to process out loud (sorta)
"reading 20+ books about Scottish history this past year makes me wary of assuming that the historical distinctions of a nation perched just above an Empire can be solid things, forever."
bonstewart.com/belonging/po...
"reading 20+ books about Scottish history this past year makes me wary of assuming that the historical distinctions of a nation perched just above an Empire can be solid things, forever."
bonstewart.com/belonging/po...
I'm starting to think about how I can talk about Open Learning/Education at my new job. I definitely think that one half of that is "widening participation". Things like PLAR, ZTCs lowered barriers for entry.
the other half, open practices?Some of those practices work against widening participation
the other half, open practices?Some of those practices work against widening participation
January 29, 2025 at 12:06 AM
I'm starting to think about how I can talk about Open Learning/Education at my new job. I definitely think that one half of that is "widening participation". Things like PLAR, ZTCs lowered barriers for entry.
the other half, open practices?Some of those practices work against widening participation
the other half, open practices?Some of those practices work against widening participation
Four weeks in, still inbox zero(ish). First time in my life I've ever made it this far. Thanks to all of your who have encouraged it over the years.
January 28, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Four weeks in, still inbox zero(ish). First time in my life I've ever made it this far. Thanks to all of your who have encouraged it over the years.
This really beautiful and thoughtful review of my book came out yesterday. It’s by @brennacgray.bsky.social who works at TRU. Not with me, but still. A week in, feeling good about this place. And thanks to Brenna…a year on, feeling good about the book. journals.sfu.ca/cjhe/index.p...
View of Book Review of "Learning in a Time of Abundance: The Community is the Curriculum"
journals.sfu.ca
January 14, 2025 at 6:44 PM
This really beautiful and thoughtful review of my book came out yesterday. It’s by @brennacgray.bsky.social who works at TRU. Not with me, but still. A week in, feeling good about this place. And thanks to Brenna…a year on, feeling good about the book. journals.sfu.ca/cjhe/index.p...
A new adventure begins. First day on site at TRU. Bags got lost en route, but my enthusiasm has not. Wish me luck :)
January 8, 2025 at 3:35 PM
A new adventure begins. First day on site at TRU. Bags got lost en route, but my enthusiasm has not. Wish me luck :)
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Looking forward to @davecormier.bsky.social coming to work at TRU. @pwmartin.bsky.social is leaving some big shoes to fill, but Dave is amazing and is going to do great work.
December 16, 2024 at 1:33 AM
Looking forward to @davecormier.bsky.social coming to work at TRU. @pwmartin.bsky.social is leaving some big shoes to fill, but Dave is amazing and is going to do great work.
Hallo new peeps! I'm Dave Cormier. I alternate between talking about education and talking about my kittens at the moment. I wrote a book this year called "Learning in a Time of Abundance: The Community is the Curriculum" that talks about learning and living with so much going on.
November 28, 2024 at 5:22 PM
Hallo new peeps! I'm Dave Cormier. I alternate between talking about education and talking about my kittens at the moment. I wrote a book this year called "Learning in a Time of Abundance: The Community is the Curriculum" that talks about learning and living with so much going on.
Reposted by Dave Cormier
good morning from Pippa the fierce yet adorable
November 25, 2024 at 5:42 PM
good morning from Pippa the fierce yet adorable
Am trying to finish up my Comps in my PhD program (yes, I'm still trying to get that done) and have noticed that I currently don't have a citation that starts with A. Anyway, it's bothering me. Am talking about uncertainty. Anyone have a recommendation? At all?
November 21, 2024 at 7:12 PM
Am trying to finish up my Comps in my PhD program (yes, I'm still trying to get that done) and have noticed that I currently don't have a citation that starts with A. Anyway, it's bothering me. Am talking about uncertainty. Anyone have a recommendation? At all?
I wonder how many young people, right now, have been asked to 'go explore' GenAI (in academic, in corporations etc...) who don't actually understand the field/business context that they are being asked to do the research in.
November 21, 2024 at 5:19 PM
I wonder how many young people, right now, have been asked to 'go explore' GenAI (in academic, in corporations etc...) who don't actually understand the field/business context that they are being asked to do the research in.
Anyone have good examples of peer reviewed GenAI environmental impacts?
Good to have all of these in one place, but what stands out is the absence of a core body of peer-reviewed research quantifying the drain GenAI is having on natural resources.
Resource on the impact of GenAI on the climate. pad.riseup.net/p/Against_AI...
Note: it's not good. At all.
Note: it's not good. At all.
November 21, 2024 at 1:36 PM
Anyone have good examples of peer reviewed GenAI environmental impacts?