Posted in Intrepid Classroom on Jun 26th, 2008 1 Comment »
I wanted to create several video stickers. With the proliferation of video and the ease of embedding video on social networking sites, I wanted to create short video Public Service Announcements (PSA) My hope being that people will “stick” these videos on as many cyber-walls as possible. I want people to share them with as [...]
Posted in Philosophy, education on Jun 12th, 2008 No Comments »
Here is a comment I recently left on a post by Ken Caroll called, Is Teaching a Subversive Act?
Good to see you again Ken. I find your posts and subsequent conversations very thought provoking. They linger in my head for days as I try and work out my arguments. Perhaps it is because [...]
Posted in Intrepid Classroom, Networking on Jun 11th, 2008 1 Comment »
A few days ago, I was chatting with Lindsea on Skype about a variety of topics: music, education, and the need for adults to communicate more often and more in depth with students. We briefly brainstormed a few ideas we each had for the EduPunk challenge, when we arrived at the following slogan for her [...]
Posted in Intrepid Classroom on Jun 4th, 2008 5 Comments »
Tired of all the intellectual masturbation, err ..I mean discourse, I have decided to see what this little ideology can do. No grades, no school, no instruction. Just youthful exuberance, a defiance of authority, and the need to change the world! Idealistic pipe dream or the rumblings of yet another movement.
I recently posed a challenge [...]
Posted in Philosophy, education on Jun 3rd, 2008 4 Comments »
It is depressing how even “new” ideas labeled as punk, as in EduPunk, can quickly become mundane water cooler banter in this incestuous and quickly homogenizing edublog echo chamber. Like starving piranha we all latch on to the latest term, tool, or idea and beat it to death, till there is nothing left of it [...]
