The integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become a topic of considerable debate and scholarly interest across academic disciplines, particularly in relation to education and teaching methodologies. Within visual arts education, this debate takes on added urgency, as artistic production itself has been profoundly reshaped by digital and computational technologies. In the context of adolescent … Continue reading Revisionist Pedagogy – Integrating Artificial Intelligence in Visual Arts Education: A Modern Pedagogical Call-to-action
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Taboo: The Art of Tiki, edited by Martin McIntosh with an introduction by Sven A. Kirsten
"Taboo: The Art of Tiki" is at once a curatorial flourish and a cultural document: a small, handsome volume that archives a particular late-20th-century fascination with Pacific iconography as refracted through the sensibilities of Lowbrow and pop-surrealist artists. Edited by Martin McIntosh with an introduction by Sven A. Kirsten, and credited with contributions from figures … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Taboo: The Art of Tiki, edited by Martin McIntosh with an introduction by Sven A. Kirsten
Revisionist Poetry – Out of Sight, Out of Mind?, v.3 – brevity
Kindling rises.Sadness eats the bright.Wood → coal → ash. Expectations burn—joy becomes a black scrap. Flames learn the wind;memories linger like dust. Out of sight, they go;not out of me.
Revisionist Pedagogy – The Future of Adult Learning: Harnessing AI Responsibly (a.k.a. Integrating Artificial Intelligence into Adult Education: A Compelling Pedagogical Imperative, v.2)
The Future of Adult Learning: Harnessing AI Responsibly The integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is reshaping how adults learn, retrain, and advance in workplaces and communities. Adult learners bring prior experience, competing time demands, and immediate vocational goals; the question is not whether to use AI, but how to deploy it so that it respects … Continue reading Revisionist Pedagogy – The Future of Adult Learning: Harnessing AI Responsibly (a.k.a. Integrating Artificial Intelligence into Adult Education: A Compelling Pedagogical Imperative, v.2)
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Masters: Earthenware: Major Works by Leading Artists, Curated by Matthias Ostermann and edited by Ray Hemachandra
Masters: Earthenware arrives not as a dry handbook but as a museum catalogue written in the idiom of the studio. Curated by Matthias Ostermann and edited by Ray Hemachandra, the volume assembles compact, richly illustrated mini-retrospectives that together argue for earthenware as a lively, experimental, and emotionally capacious medium rather than a mere step on … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Masters: Earthenware: Major Works by Leading Artists, Curated by Matthias Ostermann and edited by Ray Hemachandra
Revisionist Poetry – Out of Sight, Out of Mind?, v.2
The flames rise and begin to danceon fresh kindling—thin, obedient tongues. Sadness eats the space happiness left;thoughts hold the matches. From wood to coal, from coal to ash—the slow machinery of the night. Expectations burn like paper money,joy folded and scorched into denial. Flames leap into open air, drink the wind;they take the smell of … Continue reading Revisionist Poetry – Out of Sight, Out of Mind?, v.2
Revisionist Pedagogy – Navigating the Pedagogical Horizon: Debating the Integration of AI in Elementary School Curricula, v.2
AI in Elementary Education — Responsible Integration As our world becomes increasingly digitized, elementary education faces a consequential choice: how to integrate artificial intelligence in ways that advance learning without compromising equity, privacy, or the teacher’s central role. This essay argues that AI should be adopted in elementary curricula only as a teacher-empowering tool governed … Continue reading Revisionist Pedagogy – Navigating the Pedagogical Horizon: Debating the Integration of AI in Elementary School Curricula, v.2
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – The Man Who Planted Trees by Jean Giono
Jean Giono’s The Man Who Planted Trees (original French L’homme qui plantait des arbres) is a tiny masterpiece of moral imagination: an elegant parable that compresses a century’s worth of catastrophe and repair into a single, quietly luminous tale. First published in 1953, the story trades the grandiloquence of polemic for the modesty of witness, … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – The Man Who Planted Trees by Jean Giono
Revisionist Poetry – “I Love my Baby, My Baby Don’t Love Me… R. Johnson”, v.4 (blues lyrics)
I love my baby — I love her like a lamp left on,light thinning into the room when everything else goes quiet.But she don't light for me. We sit and watch the ceiling listen to the radio,its needle crawling small, the station a far country.Her mug cools, a moon of coffee left alone. We walk … Continue reading Revisionist Poetry – “I Love my Baby, My Baby Don’t Love Me… R. Johnson”, v.4 (blues lyrics)
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – The Sacred Balance, 25th Anniversary Edition, by David Suzuki
David Suzuki’s The Sacred Balance returns in a thoughtful 25th-anniversary edition that reads less like a retread and more like a conversation re-opened across decades. This edition—issued by Greystone with a new foreword by Robin Wall Kimmerer and an afterword by Bill McKibben—pairs Suzuki’s lucid synthesis of ecology and ethics with two contemporary interlocutors whose … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – The Sacred Balance, 25th Anniversary Edition, by David Suzuki
The New Renaissance Mindset 