challenge our ways
Dec 8, 2019
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I always thought if we expect our students to challenge things, we as tutors should also challenge our ways of teaching.
– Klaus Hoek This is
some dancing
Dec 2, 2019
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Some dancing I was doing back in 2017 as part of daily practice to do with thinking about and sensing time.
strong opinions
Dec 2, 2019
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Here’s technology forecaster Paul Saffo from 2008:
Since the mid-1980s, my mantra for this process [forecasting] is “strong opinions, weakly held.”
every young person
Dec 1, 2019
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I think every young person who regularly uses a computer should learn the following:
how to choose a domain name
how to buy a domain
how to
education as a privately consumed good
Dec 1, 2019
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What I can say is common between the founding intellectual ideas and the roll out [of neoliberalism] is that the idea that only two things ought to
not about intellectual humiliation
Nov 26, 2019
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The texts I gave students were challenging, but never meant to subjugate, or, as Walter Benjamin when speaking about education more aptly phrased,
new eyes
Nov 25, 2019
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I saw this the other day: It translates to something like: “A true voyage of discovery is not to search for new land, but to have new eyes.” In
a different kind of biography
Nov 15, 2019
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I was really struck by Tamson Pietsch’s blog post on rethinking and rewriting an academic biography.1 Tamson writes, “my academic bio says very
i could have
Nov 10, 2019
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Repost from Sarah Elgart over at Cultural Weekly. Director Anna Galinova’s “i could have” It’s a simple film — like an arthouse
sally potter and the best time to start is now
Oct 14, 2019
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The best time to start is now (don’t wait)
Take responsibility for everything (it saves time)
Don’t blame anyone or anything (including
the dead
Sep 1, 2019
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What would the dead want from us
Watching from their cave?
Would they have us forever howling?
Would they have us rave
Or disfigure ourselves, or be
reliable source
Aug 18, 2019
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From wired.co.uk/article/wikipedia-fake-news-disinformation:
while other platforms are mired in debate over the borders between free speech,
civic responsibility
Aug 17, 2019
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From Roger McNamee’s book Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe:
The internet platforms have harvested fifty years of trust and goodwill
anne boyer’s rules for teachers
Aug 17, 2019
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Yesterday the artist/choreographer Paul Hughes sent me a link to this list of rules for teachers written by the American poet Anne Boyer. They are
curing affluenza
Aug 4, 2019
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Richard Denniss is an Australian economist and his book “Curing affluenza: how to buy less stuff and save the world” is well researched, clear and
data
Jul 22, 2019
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I happened across this image the other day at changeabilitysolutions.com: Given just how overwhelming it is to understand how data is changing and
shona
Jul 11, 2019
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On 18 June this year the remarkable dancer, teacher and choreographer Shona Dunlop MacTavish died in her hometown of Dunedin in New Zealand. She was
history
Jun 9, 2019
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History as “… a thin thread stretching over an ocean of the forgotten.” – Milan Kundera, The Joke (cited in Waltzing in the Dark by Brenda Dixon
the dirt
May 27, 2019
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Look for the dirt behind the shine.
– Naomi Klein’s grandfather (in the acknowledgements to No Logo)
overton window
May 12, 2019
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I was reading something recently (but can’t for the life of me track down the original source) about politics and policy and read of The Overton
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