I got an early birthday present today from the Bionic Teacher, and all I can say is thank you, thank you, thanks you. Tom is not only one of the most creative dudes I have had the pleasure of working with in this field (despite him being K12 and everything ), but he may [...]
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From the latest issue of Wired:
Who knew it was a noun?
Thanks to Jerry Slezak for getting me started all over again
Looks like Minor Threat has a new front man…
Published by September 20th, 2008 in edupunk and fun. 2 CommentsHat tip to Mikhail Gershovich for the link.
This ain’t no comeback, EDUPUNK has been here for years!
Published by September 11th, 2008 in edupunk. 4 CommentsFinding Steve Wheeler’s presentation on EDUPUNK for a F-ALT fringe meeting today was a nice reminder for me that so many of the associations this idea took on over the course of a couple of months really do still resonate deeply with me. I believe Steve’s idea of “unleashing the anarchy of the web” is [...]
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“As technology advances, it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again. The age of automation is going to be the age of “do it yourself.” Marshall McLuhan, from the Essential McLuhan. Edited by Eric McLuhan & Frank Zingrone. Routledge 1997. Page 283.
I started my morning off with an IM [...]
Sorry, we’re open used courtesy of oknovokght.
I have to be honest with you, I’m getting more and more confused with the term “open” when used in the context of educational technology these days. The term has been popular in software development for decades, particularly in relationship to free and open source software (FOSS). This [...]
To quote the inimitable Luke Waltzer, Frank “It ain’t about me!” Sobotka is “one of the great characters in TV history.” I have to wholeheartedly agree, the stevedore who “knew he was wrong, but believed for the right reasons,” was an amazing presence on television—a working class guy whose not a ridiculous stooge like The [...]
I picked up a friend from Italy at Dulles airport this evening, who will be staying with us for a couple of weeks, and we had a pretty interesting conversation on the ride home. The conversation immediately erupted into news about Barak Obama’s candidacy for president. And there was a real energy in the conversation, [...]
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