Four stick figure panels: (1) baby sees mouse being chased by a cat; (2) mouse has disappearred into a hole in the wall, baby says mouse gone; (3) cat patiently waiting for the mouse to come out of the hole; (4) cat with the now dead mouse in its mouth

Object permanence: Baby vs cat

Babies at age 8 months-ish do not have object permanence – out of sight in the mouse hole, the baby thinks the mouse is gone and does not…

stick figure image of people on a mall escalator. Nearby I (as an adult) smelling the perfume my grandma .

My Grandma’s perfume

While shopping in the mall I smelled a passerby wearing something like the perfume my grandma –who passed when I was 6 years old — used to wear….

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Me and EDI at Week#5

This is me and my relationship to EDI project at week number five. I’ve shown EDI as a very huge, goddess-like figure and me as a tiny person…

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Content Auditing for EDI by Chelsea Bell Eady

Marie B sketched these visual notes for us. Thank you!!! “Content Auditing for EDI” by Chelsea Bell Eady an infographic with an eye, paintbrush, video icon, stick figure…

stick figure person drawing

Marie drawing EDI images

Selfie of Marie drawing EDI related graphics

“Not yet ready” for logarithms

All through school, I was good at math. I wasn’t brilliant at math like my genius older brother, but I was good enough to get A’s. I think…

Stickfigure drawing of me covered in cake batter splatter holding a cake pan full of batter ready to go into the oven

Batter splatter EDI cake progress

If EDI was a cake and I I was the baker My progress so far is I got out all the ingredients and made a mess mixing up…

child outside taking notes on a piece of paper

Knowing Home: Braiding Indigenous Science with Western Science, Book 1

Chapter 3 – “Coming to Know”: A Framework for Indigenous Science Education Chapter 3 – “Coming to Know”: A Framework for Indigenous Science Education

A stick figure skiing and then falling. Beside is a blank face and the words Chill out, Josie.

Chill out, J

I have been learning to skate ski the last few winters. It requires good balance and coordination, and I fall alot. I often get really frustrated and discouraged…

A figure walks down a path and after time passes returns back down the path.

Walk away

Sometimes I just need to walk away and just get distance and space from the new task.

man standing in front of a colour inside image of a human head

Consciousness: Brain hallucinations and the impact of the stories in our heads

The story in our head directs our senses to pull out sensory data to confirm our story. We call this cognitive strategy “confirmation bias.” In a way, our…

Emu in the Night Sky: Looking for patterns in the dark spaces

Australian Indigenous Elders tell stories and Emu in the Night Sky. Through Our Eyes – Dhinawan ‘Emu’ In The Sky with Ben Flick https://youtu.be/LzFYFutiwoA “Ben Flick, an Aboriginal…

4 panel simple line comic. One man wearing turban and one male Sikh child holding a 1st place ribbon for winning a spelling bee.

Ch.13 comic: Concrete operational thinking

A colleague told me this true story and gave me permission to share. I have changed some details to anonymize and protect privacy. In this story, an adult…

HenPower – raising hens improves well-being for people living with dementia

ABSTRACT HenPower is a programme that enables older people who live with dementia in care homes to take part in hen-keeping and hen-related creative activities. It was introduced…

simple line drawing of woman holding up comic of two cats

Cats make it so much easier to do comics

I have no problem scribbling out a comic if it involves my two cats. This comic cats routinely make appearances on most of the little notes I make…

Senior woman smiling

Jingle therapy helps people with memory loss

https://www.lbbonline.com/news/jingle-therapy-helps-puerto-ricans-with-alzheimers-to-remember https://www.jingletherapy.org/info JINGLE THERAPY IS AN INITIATIVE THAT TURNS PUERTO RICAN ADVERTISING JINGLES FROM THE 60’S, 70’S, 80’S AND 90’S, INTO AN ALTERNATIVE METHOD OF MEMORY STIMULATION FOR…

New Zealand Maori girl looking up in stadium at night with lights

Step up to changing internet errors

Transcript 0:10 (Questioner) who scored the most goals in International Football? 0:16 (Internet) Cristiano Ronaldo has scored 118 goals in International Football 0:22 (Questioner) What about Christine Sinclair?…

four simple line comic panels showing woman at desk creating stick figure comics

Creating stick figure comics: Easy, right?!

Guilty secret: Even though I ask folks to create a 2-minute stick figure comic in nearly every workshop and class I facilitate, I have a really hard time…

sketch of woman plus four smaller action figures

WOOP Science – Positive thinking alone is not enough

We need more than positive thinking to make changes in our life.

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You won! Hurray! Oh no!

I had a complex reaction once we found out we won the grant. All along I knew I really really wanted to work on this project and at…