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ed infinitum is a blog exploring the intersections between pedagogy, philosophy, and web3
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Moral Education in Good Faith

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January 11
In this article, I begin by highlighting the ways in which teachers can instil moral values in our students (§2) before anticipating a key challenge that we may face as we try to do so (§3): what happens when we encounter a dissonance between our own values and the values we are supposed to impart to our students?
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Utilitarianism Redux

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February 17
Singer’s (1972) maximising consequentialist argument in “Famine, Affluence, and Morality” has clear utilitarian motivations. This article examines whether the over-demandingness objection against Singer’s argument calls for his utilitarian motivation to be revised or rejected.
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My Teaching Philosophy (General Paper)

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December 26
This article documents my teaching philosophy as a General Paper tutor in December 2022.
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The Last-Minute Lecture TriLemma

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December 19
In this article, I present a trilemma that beginning lecturers have to face when they are inevitably tasked to deliver a lecture with little time for preparation.
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Theorising the Ethical Grounds for Critical Literacy and Transformative Social Practice

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August 08
In Critical Literacy and Transformative Social Practice: An Ethical Grounding, Hearfield and Boughton (2019) highlight the shortcomings of several historical attempts to establish an ethical foundation to undergird the theoretical relationship between “critical literacy” and “transformative social practice” (477) before proposing their own.
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On-Chain Reputation, Soulbound Tokens, and the Problem of Deepfakes

Deepfake technology has been improving at an exponential rate, raising serious epistemological and ethical problems surrounding the veracity of information. How can soulbound tokens (SBTs) help to mitigate these challenges and what hurdles lie ahead?
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Interregnum: “Morbid Symptoms” and Emerging Opportunities in Education

Education has been in interregnum for a while. What are some of the “morbid symptoms” that characterise this period of interregnum and what are some of the opportunities that lay beyond the horizon?
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Negotiating Post-Truth Epistemologies: Integrating Traditional and Critical Literacies in the General Paper Classroom

One of the first assignments I received as a student-teacher invited us to consider the need for contemporary educators to manage traditional literacy – that is, the basic ability to communicate with language – and new or emerging forms of literacies (e.g. digital literacy, critical information literacy, etc.) within the reality of time-poor classrooms comprising students with diverse learning profiles and needs. Here is the reflection question posed to us: