Irwin DeVries

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Open/online learning, open educational practices, critical and hope-full approaches. Associate Faculty, Royal Roads University, Canada. Guitars, audio recording. Former hitchhiker. PhD Education. Living on the unceded lands of the Coast Salish peoples. He/him. -- #OER #OEP #OpenLearning #HigherEd #HigherEducation #OpenEducation #OpenPedagogy #Guitars #Recording

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Bloghttps://idevries.com/
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Musical effortshttps://irwindevries.bandcamp.com
Irwin DeVriesJan 17, 2024
@blamb @dnorman Brian introduced me to this restaurant during my recent visit to Kamloops, and it was awesome.
Irwin DeVriesJan 7, 2024
your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦Jan 7, 2024

CONGRATULATIONS CORY DOCTOROW @pluralistic 🥳

"2023 Word of the Year is “enshittification” – American Dialect Society

https://americandialect.org/2023-word-of-the-year-is-enshittification/

2023 Word of the Year Is “Enshittification”

Sheraton New York Times Square Hotel, New York, NY–Jan. 5—The American Dialect Society, in its 34th annual words-of-the-year vote, selected “enshittification” as the Word of the Year for 2023.

American Dialect Society
Irwin DeVriesJan 5, 2024
"The Claudine Gay Debacle Was Never About Merit" - Tressie McMillan Cottom in NYT. Paywalled, but few a gift reads available https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/04/opinion/claudine-gay-resignation-harvard.html?unlocked_article_code=1.LU0.Xu0c.PBH6cCi38Cpg&smid=url-share
Opinion | The Claudine Gay Debacle Was Never About Merit

Merit, itself, cannot be defined. That is why the concept is so useful for slippery slopes.

The New York Times
Irwin DeVriesJan 5, 2024
From the “No comment” dept.
Irwin DeVriesJan 4, 2024
@dynode @nic đź’Ą
Irwin DeVriesJan 3, 2024
@nic When you feed a bananafrog to a restipulated frapulator, you will then see a remarkable heliotropic transmogrification take place, including a complete magulificent inversion of the unknown universe. Stars will explode. Suns will implode. Mushrooms will talk and undertake wondrous deeds. .
Show threadIrwin DeVriesJan 3, 2024
@KenJeffery My kind of university!
Irwin DeVriesDec 30, 2023
@danberger @pivic Excellent!
Show threadIrwin DeVriesDec 28, 2023
@Strandjunker Knavery
Irwin DeVriesDec 26, 2023
I suspect there’s an endless circuit of regifted boxes of liquor-filled chocolates circling the globe, re-emerging Christmas after Christmas to horrify new victims, who then store them for regifting the following year.