Aaron Fowles sent along this video from Fox 5 News in Memphis, Tennessee that highlights the MidSouth Technology Conference, which is an edtech event for K-12 teachers (warning–first 30 seconds of video is an obnoxious Xmas ad). And while I was watching the video for the EDUPUNk reference at 1:11 (it’s actually a fleeting image [...]
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EDUPUNK: A Roundtable Discussion
Published by December 5th, 2009 in Uncategorized and edupunk. 2 CommentsA couple of weeks ago I was part of a round table discussion about EDUPUNK along with David Hall, Brian Frank and Matthew Hoy, and adeptly moderated by Steve Howard. The discussion was part of a bigger project by Jim Saunders, Nicole Veerman, and Kevin Young (let me know who I am forgetting) all of [...]
EDUPUNK Interview: Educational Commodification, Origins, and the Reification of an Idea
Published by October 29th, 2009 in edupunk. 4 CommentsClick to v
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Some time this month I was interviewed by Jim Saunders, Steve Howard, and Nicole Veerman about EDUPUNK. The were interested in the idea, and they are doing a series of interviews as a part of their graduate journalism class at the University of Western Ontario. Their blog tracks the progress of a [...]
When did EDUPUNK become about entrepreneurship?
Published by August 29th, 2009 in Uncategorized. 18 CommentsI never really thought the ideas surrounding EDUPUNK led to innovation in businesses and business models, in fact I thought it brought into deep question the irresponsibility and lethargy of corporations like BlackBoard and their ilk as well as the institutions that support this bad habit like sick crack addicts. Innovation has flatlined for almost [...]
Image credit: L’Hibou’s “Le Wal-Mart de la rue Karl-Marx”
While talking with my neighbor Kent Ippolito a few weeks ago, the conversation somehow found its way to a fascinating fact I had never heard before, namely that Wal-Mart has for decades had a policy that allows RVers of all types to stay in their parking lot [...]
SXSW Zombie/Edupunk Interview #2 from Tom Woodward on Vimeo.
I’m thrilled to see the great Tom Woodward is uploading the interviews he did with random folks at SXSW about EDUPUNK and zombies. They’re a blast, and it’s awesome to finally see them. It’s also refreshing to see that no one at the EDUPUNK SXSW panel actually [...]
Beth Harris and Steve Zucker’s smarthistory is an exciting effort to re-imagine expensive Art History textbooks as open (as in free) web-based resources—with a Creative Commons share-alike license to boot. From what I understand from the original site designer, Joe Ugoretz, the first iteration of this project was built as a WordPress site under [...]
Image credit: Mike Rohde’s “SXSWi 2009: Sketchnotes: Connectivity = Poverty”
I have to say that it’s a crime that the audio of Bruce Sterling’s rant at this year’s SXSW Interactive hasn’t been posted online yet. it was one of the few highlights to an otherwise lackluster conference. SXSW was one of the most anti-intellectual conferences [...]
EDUPUNK professor may face jail time for translating Derrida
Published by March 23rd, 2009 in edupunk. 1 CommentMartin Santos just brought this to my attention.
To quote boingboing:
Horacio Potel, an Argentine philosophy professor at Universidad Nacional de Lanús,, faces criminal charges — and possible jail time — for posting unofficial translations of seminal Jacques Derrida texts to his site where his students could see them. Most of these texts were out of print, [...]
EDUPUNk Battle Royale, Part 5
Even if you’re weary, I highly recommend sticking around for the first minute or so. And just remember that when you comment on the bava, we attentively listen—you do have a voice here. Gerry Bayne rules!
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