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News

Xwi7xwa Library launches library training course on Canvas for Indigenous teacher candidates

Xwi7xwa Library has launched a new Canvas course for students in the Indigenous Teacher Education Program (NITEP), allowing students to self-enrol in the course to access a comprehensive introduction to UBC Library. The course was developed for Indigenous teacher candidates, and includes five modules that cover topics such as library resource searching, citing sources, and using research guides. Learn more

Congratulations to Dr. Blye Frank for receiving Acadia Alumni Association's 2021 Distinguished Alumni Award

The Award recognizes the outstanding achievements of Acadia University's alumni whose endeavours have distinguished them personally and professionally. Dr. Frank (’77, ’81) has served as an educator, mentor, researcher, trailblazer and administrator during his remarkable 50-year career. Learn more

Media

In Focus discussion: Bystander intervention & anti-discrimination response training

ABC4 mentioned the anti-discrimination response training program developed by Dr. Ishu Ishiyama (ECPS) that provides an active witness methodology for prejudice reduction, human resource enhancement, and organization and community development. ABC4

Speaking out against anti-trans legislation in the United States

NBC News covered a letter and petition addressed to the Biden Administration, calling for direct action on the wave of anti-trans bills targeting trans youth. The letter, which has garnered signature from more than 17,000 educators, was authored by Dr. Harper Keenan (EDCP), the Robert Quartermain Professor of Gender and Sexuality Research in Education. NBC

Events

New

Through the Lens: Finding Artful Activism at the Intersection of Race and Sexuality
Wednesday, May 12, 2021 | 10:00 am - 12:00 pm PDT

Join Love Intersections’ Jen Sungshine and David Ng who will share their experiences as local documentary filmmakers and community collaborators. Presenting their film work, they will outline the challenges and joys of the collaborative filmmaking practice, and share strategies for building social trust while upholding artistic integrity and creative activism. Learn more

Online Teaching Workshops

The Educational Technology Support (ETS) unit provides one-on-one consultations, video tutorials, workshops, resources, and more for instructors in the Faculty of Education. Each week, Education Update will highlight a selection of the many offerings ETS has designed to support your teaching in an online environment. 

This week's ETS event:

Transitioning from Collaborate Ultra to Zoom
Wednesday, April 14, 2021 | 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm PDT

Collaborate Ultra will be discontinued at UBC after May 2021, and we are here to support those of you who would like to migrate to using another web conferencing platform such as Zoom. This workshop will help you manage this change and it will cover how to integrate Zoom with Canvas, gain familiarity with how Zoom functions in Canvas, and more! Learn more

Next week's ETS event:

Academic Integrity in the Online Classroom: Traditional Practices and New Challenges
Wednesday, April 21, 2021 | 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm PDT

Within a classroom, student accountability and monitoring can be important, but in the online classroom this can be complicated. What are your thoughts on academic integrity in the online learning environment? Join us for our second event in the Viewpoints discussion series. Learn more

See the full list of ETS workshops and events.

Reminders

Where are all the Black People? Underrepresentation in the Academy
Friday, April 16, 2021 | 10:00 am – 11:30 am PDT

The presence of Blackness in Canadian academia exists on a continuum of underrepresented, significantly underrepresented, to negligible. Black academics from this field have been at the forefront of examining the reproduction of racism in academe and making anti-racism calls to action. Learn more

Empathy Education: Intersectional Approaches to Youth and Civic Engagement
Tuesday, April 20, 2021 | 10:00 am – 11:00 am PDT

Join Professor Pat Dolan and Dr. Derek Gladwin (LLED) for a presentation exploring components of empathy education through an intersectionality theoretical framework. They will also discuss how methods are woven to known frameworks for youth civic engagement including political and social justice participatory models. Learn more

Frankly Speaking – Autism Spectrum Disorder Across the Life Span: Challenges and Solutions
Wednesday, April 27, 2021 | 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm PDT

Four UBC professors will share their knowledge and experience of working to create conditions for people touched by autism to thrive across their lifespan. The panelists will bring their diverse backgrounds from Education, Medicine, and Psychology to open up debate and conversation for people and families to advance our collective understanding of autism spectrum disorder. Learn more

Annual conference of the Canadian Society for the Study of Education
Saturday, May 29 to Thursday, June 3, 2021

The Canadian Society for the Study of Education (CSSE) is hosting its annual conference online from May 29 to June 3, 2021, in conjunction with the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences and host organization the University of Alberta. The draft conference program and information about registration are now online. Please note that both Congress and CSSE have waived conference fees for Black and Indigenous students for this year’s conference. Learn more

Adult Education in Global Times Conference (AEGT 2021)
June 3rd to June 6th, 2021

The Canadian Association for the Study of Adult Education (CASAE) and the Adult Learning and Education group at UBC are hosting a virtual conference from June 3 to 6th, 2021. All seven partnering organizations from the 2020 conference will once again be co-hosting the 2021 conference. Learn more

Information on research and awards funding opportunities may now be found in the Research Funding Bulletin, published every Monday. For a list of current opportunities, visit the research and funding opportunities repository.