Interrogating the “Medium is the Message” in Winnipeg
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This article is a collaborative undertaking on Filipino Bilingual education. We argue that Filipino Bilingual education is a counternarrative technology to white settler narratives in the diaspora. We unpack an understanding of technology that is defined as an embodied skill within the racialized processes that have advanced Eurocentrism in western pedagogy. Through heritage language learning, we argue that the continued use and teaching of the Filipino language in Canada interrogates the hegemonic myth that Canada is founded exclusively by two European nations, the English and the French. As such, we think alongside Canadian scholar Marshall McLuhan and his “medium is the message” to argue that heritage language instruction is a technology or skill that forms an “extension of man” who is also plurilingual and racialized. In Winnipeg, where Filipinos comprise the largest immigrant community in the city, the extension of the Filipino language as an official medium of instruction represents opportunities for intergenerational learning, cultural portals, and healing of the colonized psyche.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".