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Pandemic Pedagogy Chronicles Part 1: What is Exponential Growth Bias?

  By the time the York University leadership cancelled in-person classes on Friday March 13, 2020 in response to the Covid-19 pandemic, I already knew that in-person April exams would inevitably be cancelled, along with in-person Summer Semester courses: the novel virus SARS-CoV-2 was entering its exponential growth phase by the time the pandemic was […]

My Margaret Atwood Nomination for A Bold Vision Conference, Charlottetown 2014

It's 150 years since the Charlottetown Conference of 1864. But, what if the Fathers of Confederation had been the Mothers of Confederation, instead? This is the very cool idea behind the A Bold Vision Conference planned for September 2014 on Prince Edward Island.  A summer and autumn of celebration is being planned, including this conference, aimed at […]