It was about a 45/50 split, with most of the rest going NDP in Edmonton Riverbend, so about half of his constituents voted “left” anyway. Cons won, but, in a sane system, the area would have had some sort of Liberal/“left” representation, too.
Eh… There was like a 5% vote difference in Edmonton Riverbend, with an almost exact 50/50 left-right vote split.
In a sane electoral system, like STV, the area would have something like 2 Liberal MPs, 0-1 NDP MPs, and 2-3 Con MPs.
This isn’t a great shift against local political preferences.
Educational research is a bit of an anomaly, in that it has the lowest replication study rate of any “real” scientific discipline. There are lots of reasons for that, but it means that you can cherry pick individual studies to support just about any pedagogical (teaching) practice.
That said, the evidence is pretty clear that there is higher retention for most learners when writing by hand. Even writing with a stylus on the screen seems to lead to lower retention. There’s something about the multisensory input learners get from pencil and paper that seems to make a difference.
That said, that doesn’t mean there’s no places for Ed tech. In particular, students learn how to write better when they can edit their text, which happens a lot faster with a word processor. Digital science labs allow for quick exploration of a topic in minutes instead of needing a full class period for setup and clean up.
But it should only be used when appropriate, imho as a K-12 educator and parent.
I think they mean First Nations People. In another quote in the article, he says that the British we’re seeing to not effect complete genocide on “Indians” 200 years ago, so they need to finish it. (Paraphrasing).
It’s hard to track their taking points, since the conspiracy theories they follow have limited basis in reality, but I don’t think he means immigrants from India.