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 scan newspapers. But increasingly, I read things that take newspaper content and repackage it in 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 In the U.S.S.R” by Paul McCartney and “A Change Would Do You Good” by Sheryl 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 are much like the Reformation. When the Church was the prevailing power, it took Luther 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 their everyday practical commitments and the identities of the participants as creative and autonomous individuals. 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 pompous stadium rock of SOAP and the Web Services stack. That’s exactly right. But bigger 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 alternatives. That’s exactly right. I’m not sure if Jim knows the history here, but it 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 with an ideological axe to grind. And what that did was remind me, because of Continue reading