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Category Archives: edupunk
Punk ‘n’ Pie
Hats off to the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Cinematèk once again for their upcoming Punk ‘n’ Pie film series, which looks to be an amazing retrospective focusing predominantly on the UK Punk/New Wave scene (a majority of them I haven’t … Continue reading
Duty Now for the Future
I got it Tom, thank you very much!
John McCain’s a broken down crane
I love this punk song, which is an original composition and performance by one very cool nine year old. I have to say it, Kirby is a DIY godhead, so very, very EDUPUNK!
edupunkn ur cms
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 … Continue reading
The EdTech Survivalist has been hacked!
While I was trying to record the most recent EdTech Survivalist video, I was hacked by an alter-ego I thought had been laid to rest long ago. So forgive the quality of this recent installation, but I was shanghai’d in … Continue reading
Who’s your EDUPUNK daddy now, bitches?
From the latest issue of Wired: Who knew it was a noun? Thanks to Jerry Slezak for getting me started all over again 🙂
EdTech Survivalist: Episode 1
“Fishing with Tom” In our first episode we were ever so lucky to catch up with Dixie’s most impressive edtech survivalist Tom “Catfish” Woodward. We tunneled all the way down to the swamps of Slocum, Alabama to find him, and … Continue reading
Looks like Minor Threat has a new front man…
Hat tip to Mikhail Gershovich for the link.
This ain’t no comeback, EDUPUNK has been here for years!
Finding 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 … Continue reading