Yet, teachers are being deskilled, unceremoniously removed from the process of
school governance, largely reduced to technicians or subordinated to the
authority of security guards. Underlying these transformations are a number of
forces eager to privatize schools, substitute vocational training for education
and reduce teaching and learning to reductive modes of testing and
evaluation.
Confessions of an Aca/Fan: Archives: How New Media is Transforming Storytelling: A New ... - 1 views
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Recently posted on Vimeo a fascinating series of short videos on the future of storytelling. The videos juxtapose the perspectives of some key thinkers in this space, including Clay Shirkey (NYU), Joshua Green (UCSB), Ian Condry and Nick Montfort (MIT), Dean Jansen from the Participatory Culture Foundation, Joe Lambert from the Center for Digital Storytelling, and, hmm, Henry Jenkins (USC), among others. Each video is between five and ten minutes long and tackles some of the ways that shifts in the media environment are changing the nature of stories and storytelling.
In Defense of Public School Teachers in a Time of Crisis - Henry Giroux | Paulo Freire,... - 2 views
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Teachers are no longer asked to think critically and be creative in the classroom.
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Put bluntly, knowledge that can't be measured is viewed as irrelevant, and teachers who refuse to implement a standardized curriculum and evaluate young people through objective measures of assessments are judged as incompetent or disrespectful
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teachers are being deskilled, unceremoniously removed from the process of school governance, largely reduced to technicians or subordinated to the authority of security guards. Underlying these transformations are a number of forces eager to privatize schools, substitute vocational training for education and reduce teaching and learning to reductive modes of testing and evaluation.
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