Okay, maybe I should just write "thinking" because that's what Michael Wesch reminds me to do. See his videos here: "A Vision of Students Today" and "Information R/Evolution"
Great stuff. But he's challenging educators to give up a bit of their status/cache as "knowers" when he asks them (us? me?) to give students tasks that are meaningful instead of teching them in a 19th-century way.
He also reminds me to tag my entries here - which I keep forgetting!
And St. Thomas University, where I'm typing this and which hosted him, has ended his talk with a spread of food that's embarrassing in its luxury: white linen table-clothed tables with bbq'ed meatballs, chicken satay, cheese and crackers, shrimp cocktail, bacon-wrapped water chestnuts, egg rolls, artichoke dip, red and white wine, pop and bottled water. All to serve 100, but only 60, max, attended his talk. I guess that private school tuition pays off.
Evacuation roots
5 hours ago
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I spent a year teaching at UST... and I was always amazed at two things... how much they'd spend on food and the fact that they'd only give us $1600.00 for a year of debate travel.
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