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Welcome to Dark Times Academy!
These are hard times for those of us who love learning for the joy of learning and teaching for the joy of teaching. Dark Times Academy aims to offer a bright spot in all of this darkness–a place for affordable learning of the liberal and useful arts. A place where students can explore the world…
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Finding Truth: Tools and Techniques for Citizen Journalists and Researchers
This course has been postponed until 2025 Focusing on the US and New Zealand, this course will cover basic and intermediate tools and techniques to conduct community benefit OSINT investigations. From ethics to OPSEC to coding–we will take you through how to find, document, and analyze the info you need to report on what your…
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How Does This Keep Happening? Sex, Power, and the Public
Course AimThis course aims to critically examine public disclosures of sexual victimisation, exploring the psychological, social, and cultural factors that shape the process of publicly disclosing sexual abuse/assault as well as the general public’s reaction to them. By looking at disclosure through a comprehensive framework, participants will develop a deep understanding of the complexities involved…
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Building Relationships that Matter: Strategies for Success
Building Relationships that matter: Strategies for success It’s a no-brainer to believe that effective relationships are key to both business and individual success. But how do you build connections like that — and even more, how do you keep them going? Renowned PR expert Chris Galloway will give you workable answers to these questions and…
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Instructor spotlight: Phill Simpson
Your class is titled A Pedagogy of Possibility – critical reading and writing. What do you think is the most important thing for people to know about this course? Essentially, the most important thing for people to know is that the course is designed to expand their understanding of both the process and purpose of…
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Innovation without Disruption–Visiting Risingholme and the Hagley Adult Literacy Centre
Last week has been an absolute whirlwind for us at Dark Times Academy. In addition to our amazing classes, we also were invited to deliver a counter disinformation workshop for the adult and community educators down in Christchurch. During our visit we were hosted by the lovely folks at Risingholme and we delivered our workshop at the Hagley…
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Instructor Spotlight: Piers Locke
Your class is titled Future Thriving: Meeting the Challenge of Post-Growth Transition. What do you think is the most important thing for people to know about Future Thriving? The course is about the planetary limits organised human life is breaching, the direct and indirect risks and consequences they are producing, and the attempt to transition toward…
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What I’ve Been Learning – Painting
I spent the weekend with a paintbrush in my hand, which is my favourite way to spend a weekend these days. About 3 years ago I decided to learn how to paint. I had been “art curious” for a while, but one weekend I decided to go ahead and just learn how to do it.…
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Fighting Disinformation: Disinformation, Propaganda and how to reclaim our information system
Register here. Your Instructor Brooke Binkowski is a veteran, award-winning journalist with a background in breaking news reporting, the U.S.-Mexico border, Indigenous rights, environmentalism, and post-conflict and humanitarian issues. After twenty years of reporting, she left those beats in 2015 to focus full-time on disinformation and propaganda campaigns, then called “fake news,” which were just…
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A Pedagogy of Possibility – critical reading and writing
Register here. Your Instructor Dr. Phill Simpson is an award winning author, teacher and educational consultant with over 20 years teaching experience in the classroom. He holds a Doctorate in Education and a Masters degree in Creative Writing. He is particularly interested in the writing process, and is a strong advocate of literacy in both…
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Future Thriving: Meeting the Challenge of Post-Growth Transition
Register here. Your Instructors Piers is an environmental anthropologist, a former fellow of the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, a sustainability consultant, and post-growth advocate. As a university researcher, Piers pioneered an interdisciplinary approach to the interconnections of society, history, and ecology in South Asia, particularly in human-elephant-environment relations. His teaching career expanded…
