Monthly Archives: June 2008

Great observation by master-blogger Ezra Klein on what we in the education biz would call “newspaper literacy”: Every so often, an older and wiser colleague or interlocutor will ask, sighing, if I read newspapers. And I do. Sort of. I … Continue reading →

From Wired’s Threat Level: [T]wo weeks ago, the recording industry, under the umbrella group musicFIRST, sent the NAB four digital downloads: “Take the Money and Run” by the Steve Miller Band; “Pay me My Money Down” by Bruce Springsteen; “Back … Continue reading →

I found this an interesting coincidence reading these two things back to back: From a post on David Wiley’s Iterating Toward Openess: Educational reform is much like religious reform, and our openness movement and desires to innovate in higher education … Continue reading →

From Christopher Kelty’s new book, via Glyn Moody: Recursive publics are publics concerned with the ability to build, control, modify, and maintain the infrastructure that allows them to come into being in the first place and which, in turn, constitutes … Continue reading →

Everyday I wake up thinking “This is the day we kill the edupunk meme. Because even *I* am sick of it.” But then I read something like this from Brian Kelly: REST, it seems, is the punk response to the … Continue reading →

Jim Groom, in a nicely organized post: Wow, there’s a mouthful. But if you have gotten this far, the question is not so much that ideology is dead, but that our moment is projected back to us as one without … Continue reading →

So one thing the word-that-must-not-be-named craze has got me thinking about is frankly how much we all have been doing. I had forgotten. Then all these people popped out of the woodwork and assumed we were frustrated do-nothing tenured faculty … Continue reading →