Reed said he “envisions students becoming more like
telecommuters. They might meet with faculty and peers one day a week
on campus, and then use simulations, virtual worlds and downloaded
information the rest of the week to complete coursework.” Read more
Feels like I’m on the crest of the big Kahuna wave, here….
Two articles that have me thinking we’re a long way off from the kind of schooling Dewey proposed.
Tips for getting into Magnet schools in LA
For many minorities, UC Riverside is the campus of choice
The corporate gaming industry is justifiably criticized for producing primarily “shoot ‘em up” games. It’s nice to see that there are conversations and resources for social-change games.
In Tim Lauer’s post I came upon this article: Can Social-Change Video Games Tackle Divorce, Poverty, Genocide? and I thought yes, ok, let’s hear what game developers are saying and doing.
I always appreciate the “yes, but …” voice. S/he is usually experienced and sophisticated in wisdomed way. S/he brings up those ugly things, the practical things, the idealist can’t or won’t seem to hear.
I just started a class at Claremont University. The other students are primarily k-12 teachers, in and around the LA area. Claremont is about equity education and social justice themes. It’s telling perhaps, that in a class of about 15, me being one of “oldest” by far, from the looks of their faces, I was one of 2 people taking notes on my laptop. Notebooks? Pens? But you’re 25, you’re supposed to be a net -gener?
“Other People’s Children” by Lisa Delpit and “The Schools we need and why we don’t have them” by E.D. Hirsh, introductory readings to a class on learning theories and pedagogies gave more words to my typical “yes, but…” voice. Or should I change that to “yes, and …”?
“In the end, Koster proved to be knocking the legs out from the Games for Change movement in order to champion what he cherishes most about games: their levity. It wasn’t a happy kind of levity he was praising as much as it was the fact that games are good at making no situation seem altogether dire — nor outright intractable. The problem with the world’s real-life issues, he said, is that the crisis of Darfur and the squalor of Haiti seem insurmountable. People throw up their hands in a way they don’t with problems posed in a video game.”
I’ve got big gaps, isolated dots looking for connections because I see these issues from several angles. Teaching and learning social change, being social change, being a victim, being completely isolated from poverty, or completely consumed by it. “The biggest thing social change is mostly lacking is worldwide will.” That’s probably the biggest gap. We’ve got the money, the ideals, the knowhow.
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Having one www not 2, where the corporate world controls access. Read more Fortunately there are so so many people and entities, including Microsoft and Google, who prefer the former.
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A culture of debt we are but this is the first time I’ve heard it put in these terms:
…With hefty repayments in their future, however, many students, including Boston University graduate Lowery, are walking away from low-paying government, nonprofit, and teaching jobs.”I really want to work in advocacy law,” she says, “but from a practical perspective that’s not going to happen. I just won’t be able to pay back my loans.”
From About Memorandum: Online news is changing. Increasingly, stories are broken and analyzed in near real-time and away from established news sites.
memeorandum offers you a window into this new world of news, focusing primarily on U.S. politics and current affairs.
It auto-generates a news summary every 5 minutes, drawing on experts and pundits, insiders and outsiders, media professionals and amateur bloggers.
I don’t read my Memeorandum feed too often, about once every 2 weeks or so, primarily because it’s focuses only on current events in the US. But it’s a great device for accessing several to many sides about an issue, which can then be used in a variety of ways with students.
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