“Facebook is being sued for $15 billion for tracking users, even after they have logged out of the social network, and violating federal wiretap laws. If that sounds familiar, that’s because it is: Facebook faces nationwide class action tracking cookie lawsuit.”
This idea became part of an assessment over A Tale of Two Cities with my freshman Eng. I Pre-AP/ TaG students. The assignment was to use six elements from the novel in order to create a “brain scan” for one of the characters.
Graphic evidence for the dire need to change educational paradigms – a week of a student’s electrodermal activity, showing flatlines during class. As MIT Media Lab’s Joi Ito points out, it’s just a single student’s activity and thus generalization would be frivolous, but it still gives one pause.
“We live in a system that espouses merit, equality, and a level playing field, but exalts those with wealth, power, and celebrity, however gained.”
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One Of These Things Is Not Like The Others of the Day: Hint: It’s the one with the cover story about how it’s completely okay, if not beneficial, to feel unease about future uncertainties, as opposed to, say, riot in the streets until sh*t gets done.
Sadly, this is a fairly common occurrence.
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Propaganda.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lv8nae5rdA1qzpwi0o1_500.jpg)
One Of These Things Is Not Like The Others of the Day: Hint: It’s the one with the cover story about how it’s completely okay, if not beneficial, to feel unease about future uncertainties, as opposed to, say, riot in the streets until sh*t gets done.
Sadly, this is a fairly common occurrence.
[@ggreenwald.]
Propaganda.
“Someday, someday, but certainly not now, I’d like to learn how to have a conversation.”
What strikes me about the quote above is that the 16-year-old still find value in conversation. He’s aware that there is something missing.
From “The Flight from Conversation” printed in the New York Times that is fraught with irony and implications for teaching.
This is how I write assessments.
I hardly ever post gifs, but this one was too good to pass up.
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So much of this lecture applies directly to teaching. The quote below was what hooked me. It got me thinking about so much of the work teachers do that has little to do with teaching. Even some of the assignments we have to give make us feel more like cogs in a system than educators. Yet, we hammer away because we think we’re doing what is best for the budding humans in our classroom.
FYI: There is a little language that isn’t work appropriate, but just a little.
“[If] you wind up taking work that, at the end of the day, you’re not very proud of, then over time that will eat your soul.”
What are you afraid of? Fantastic Creative Mornings talk on creative entrepreneurship by Jim Coudal.
This is an incredible documentary. If you’re a fan of The Wire it’s a definitely a must see. If you teach film, this a great example of craft from a relevant and well-known show. As you might imagine, The Wire has some NSFW language. In this documentary, it is minimal, but it is there.
Enjoy
Simon has said that he never wanted to see the camera “fish” on the show: ”I never wanted to see the camera know more than it ought to know.” The result is, for example, that during a conversation, the camera moves to the next speaker after he has started speaking, not before, as it would in a documentary.
A Norwegian academic breaks down the visual style of The Wire and in so doing, illustrates why creative integrity matters. Read on->
“time is running out” by anatol knotek
