Monthly Archives: March 2009

Dealing out the Uni

By alex | Published: 3/20/2009
Howard Rheingold recently tweeted something that plugged into a question I have been mulling over for a while: If I taught a truncated online version of Social Media CoLab for 6 weeks, no accreditation, what would students pay? In particular, I tried (somewhat unsuccessfully) to relocate a small grad seminar to the local Panera Bread. [...]
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Jenkins on the new pedagogy

By alex | Published: 3/18/2009
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Melting

By alex | Published: 3/7/2009
It’s 70 degrees out today. This snowman was sweating it out on West 106th Street.
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Learnable Moments

By alex | Published: 3/3/2009
Yesterday was a snow day in New York City; the first in five years, apparently. Went out walking with Jasper so he could check out the snow. Lots of dads seemed to have taken their own snow day in order to engage in large scale snowball fights and sledding in the park. A whole range [...]
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Learning from games

By alex | Published: 3/2/2009
Are Violent Video Games Adequately Preparing Children For The Apocalypse?
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Obama, Illich, & Pinky

By alex | Published: 3/1/2009
A colleague noted Obama’s call, in his un-State of the Union, his call for patriots to promise to go to higher education for a year. On one hand, I can understand why he was excited. After all, professors are a product of institutionalized education. You might even say we are the “winners” of the educational [...]
Posted in Policy & Politics | Tagged | 1 Comment

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