Paula Waatainen
@sosopolitical.bsky.social
Socials Studies teacher ed & researcher at Vancouver Island University. EdD Learning Sciences. Designing authentic assessments of competency, civic education, historical thinking, deliberation, and place-based learning. Music fan! BC history nerd!
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I'm happy to introduce a civic education game that is close to my heart, as I'm one of the original designers. Dr. Kirstin Funke-Robinson and I had an assignment to design an educational game in our 2019 doctoral design seminar with Dr. Douglas Clark at the Werklund School @ucalgary.bsky.social 1/
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Did not expect one of the best paragraphs I’d read about baseball would come from an Irish newspaper
www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...
www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...
November 2, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Did not expect one of the best paragraphs I’d read about baseball would come from an Irish newspaper
www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...
www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...
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Give Vladdy even more money. #Jays #WorldSeries
November 2, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Give Vladdy even more money. #Jays #WorldSeries
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This photo of rookie Yesavage casually walking off the mound as future Hall of Famer and helmet-less Ohtani is still in motion striking out is everything. #WantItAll
October 30, 2025 at 2:02 AM
This photo of rookie Yesavage casually walking off the mound as future Hall of Famer and helmet-less Ohtani is still in motion striking out is everything. #WantItAll
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How long before Koufax pitches? He’ll be 60 years rest.
October 28, 2025 at 4:49 AM
How long before Koufax pitches? He’ll be 60 years rest.
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Turn on this World Series game if you’re not watching it. Incredible drama
October 28, 2025 at 4:46 AM
Turn on this World Series game if you’re not watching it. Incredible drama
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Everyone who studies research methods just had an aneurysm
RFK Jr on Tylenol and autism: "It is not proof. We're doing the studies to make the proof."
October 9, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Everyone who studies research methods just had an aneurysm
It’s that time of the semester when it’s lunchtime and I can’t remember what the opening activity was for the 3 hour class I taught this morning.
I have 24 minutes until I teach the same lesson to another cohort. Any guesses, haha?
I have 24 minutes until I teach the same lesson to another cohort. Any guesses, haha?
October 9, 2025 at 7:37 PM
It’s that time of the semester when it’s lunchtime and I can’t remember what the opening activity was for the 3 hour class I taught this morning.
I have 24 minutes until I teach the same lesson to another cohort. Any guesses, haha?
I have 24 minutes until I teach the same lesson to another cohort. Any guesses, haha?
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Troops to Portland? Illegal and absurd. But the absurdity is the point. Trump policy is to ignore real threats to US security coming from abroad and use the armed forces to pursue imaginary threats from within, thereby creating an atmosphere suitable for personal rule. (1/2)
September 27, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Troops to Portland? Illegal and absurd. But the absurdity is the point. Trump policy is to ignore real threats to US security coming from abroad and use the armed forces to pursue imaginary threats from within, thereby creating an atmosphere suitable for personal rule. (1/2)
Soon the rainy, shorter days and higher daytime tides will make it hard to get to the dog beach. Until then, I will be lucky to take time off from screens to be here. #Nanaimo
September 24, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Soon the rainy, shorter days and higher daytime tides will make it hard to get to the dog beach. Until then, I will be lucky to take time off from screens to be here. #Nanaimo
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Build Canada Homes is a step in the right direction, but we're here to present a 🧵on why building more homes will never be the silver bullet many Canadians are hoping for. Read on for info and links! (1/11)... #cdnpoli #buildcanadahomes www.gensqueeze.ca/build_canada...
September 23, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Build Canada Homes is a step in the right direction, but we're here to present a 🧵on why building more homes will never be the silver bullet many Canadians are hoping for. Read on for info and links! (1/11)... #cdnpoli #buildcanadahomes www.gensqueeze.ca/build_canada...
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This is Finny. He doesn’t go chasing waterfalls. He carefully studies their timing and arrives in advance. 14/10 very impressive (TT: jordancain70)
September 15, 2025 at 4:41 PM
This is Finny. He doesn’t go chasing waterfalls. He carefully studies their timing and arrives in advance. 14/10 very impressive (TT: jordancain70)
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Ok its ‘feed it off an aux, speak, grunt no strength, the ladder start to clatter with fear fight down height, wire in a fire representing seven games, a government for hire and a combat site’.
September 5, 2025 at 4:13 AM
Ok its ‘feed it off an aux, speak, grunt no strength, the ladder start to clatter with fear fight down height, wire in a fire representing seven games, a government for hire and a combat site’.
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"The education system needs to be fully funded. When we do that, we can teach [and] feel respected within that work." BCTF President Carole Gordon discussed the top issues for teachers on CBC News yesterday. Watch the full video here: www.cbc.ca/player/play/...
Classroom workload a top issue for B.C. teachers as school year starts
B.C. school teachers returning to classrooms this fall are facing a number of growing challenges, according to the B.C. Teachers' Federation. President Carole Gordon said trying to meet the needs of a...
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September 3, 2025 at 6:54 PM
"The education system needs to be fully funded. When we do that, we can teach [and] feel respected within that work." BCTF President Carole Gordon discussed the top issues for teachers on CBC News yesterday. Watch the full video here: www.cbc.ca/player/play/...
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Dear people who are saying that the CDC directors who quit yesterday should have “stayed and fought”,
With all due respect, you do not grasp the magnitude of the problem of RFK Jr.
He is asking them to do unethical and immoral things that will actively harm the people of the United States. 1/3
With all due respect, you do not grasp the magnitude of the problem of RFK Jr.
He is asking them to do unethical and immoral things that will actively harm the people of the United States. 1/3
August 28, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Dear people who are saying that the CDC directors who quit yesterday should have “stayed and fought”,
With all due respect, you do not grasp the magnitude of the problem of RFK Jr.
He is asking them to do unethical and immoral things that will actively harm the people of the United States. 1/3
With all due respect, you do not grasp the magnitude of the problem of RFK Jr.
He is asking them to do unethical and immoral things that will actively harm the people of the United States. 1/3
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The latest from @acoyne.bsky.social arrives just in time to land on the syllabus of my contemporary threats to democracy course. Was looking for exactly this sort of up-to-the-moment summation of the state of play in the states. www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
Opinion: Donald Trump is on the brink of becoming a dictator. Can he be stopped?
As the guardrails of American democracy fall one by one, it is no longer a question of where the President is going, but how fast he will get there
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August 29, 2025 at 3:10 PM
The latest from @acoyne.bsky.social arrives just in time to land on the syllabus of my contemporary threats to democracy course. Was looking for exactly this sort of up-to-the-moment summation of the state of play in the states. www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
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🌟 We’re excited to share that #SSHRC is now on Bluesky!
Follow us here for the latest on:
🦋 Research funding opportunities
🦋 Announcements and key updates
🦋 Inspiring stories of discovery and impact
Follow us here for the latest on:
🦋 Research funding opportunities
🦋 Announcements and key updates
🦋 Inspiring stories of discovery and impact
August 27, 2025 at 8:03 PM
🌟 We’re excited to share that #SSHRC is now on Bluesky!
Follow us here for the latest on:
🦋 Research funding opportunities
🦋 Announcements and key updates
🦋 Inspiring stories of discovery and impact
Follow us here for the latest on:
🦋 Research funding opportunities
🦋 Announcements and key updates
🦋 Inspiring stories of discovery and impact
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"General sense of doom."
First Faculty Meeting of the Year Bingo
First Faculty Meeting of the Year Bingo
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August 21, 2025 at 5:19 PM
"General sense of doom."
Taking advantage of free access to National Historic Sites this summer. This is the Fisgard Lighthouse at Fort Rodd Hill.
August 18, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Taking advantage of free access to National Historic Sites this summer. This is the Fisgard Lighthouse at Fort Rodd Hill.
This was an amazing few minutes of baseball! What a story. Glad to have caught it on tv while it was happening.
Couldn't script an ending to a baseball game better than Blue Jays pitcher Mason Fluharty striking out Ohtani and Mookie Betts with the bases loaded to win.
I have no idea why he was in that situation without a screenwriter having a hand in it, but it was a thrill.
I have no idea why he was in that situation without a screenwriter having a hand in it, but it was a thrill.
August 11, 2025 at 3:10 AM
This was an amazing few minutes of baseball! What a story. Glad to have caught it on tv while it was happening.
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Researchers (including some fantastic people at UW) found that chatbots can persuade people on political issues, and that they often do so by shifting the frames of the debate: www.washington.edu/news/2025/08...
With just a few messages, biased AI chatbots swayed people’s political views
University of Washington researchers recruited self-identifying Democrats and Republicans to make political decisions with help from three versions of ChatGPT: a base model, one with liberal bias and....
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August 9, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Researchers (including some fantastic people at UW) found that chatbots can persuade people on political issues, and that they often do so by shifting the frames of the debate: www.washington.edu/news/2025/08...
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Let's integrate AI in schools, they said.
August 9, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Let's integrate AI in schools, they said.
BC Socials / Geography teachers!
(oprah voice) YOU GET A MARPOLE, YOU GET A MARPOLE, YOU GET A MARPOLE
August 8, 2025 at 10:15 PM
BC Socials / Geography teachers!
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Good morning! Is the sky really bluer here? Let's find out!
August 8, 2025 at 5:57 PM
This post resonates! I talk to my students - future teachers - about how to navigate being informed about distressing issues. We need to be, but must look after ourselves too. I share that it helps me to listen via news podcasts instead of visual images if I feel stressed, and… 1/2
I'm constantly torn between trying to aware of what's going on in the States, and trying to protect my mental health.
August 2, 2025 at 10:28 PM
This post resonates! I talk to my students - future teachers - about how to navigate being informed about distressing issues. We need to be, but must look after ourselves too. I share that it helps me to listen via news podcasts instead of visual images if I feel stressed, and… 1/2