Praxis Commons

The document camera idea alone is terrific.

These specialty products, all of which are currently sold over the good old Internet, manage to push the boundaries of extravagance and questionable taste, simultaneously. You'd be surprised how many of them are sold out.

Download a free copy of Media Meltdown, media literacy graphic novel for 8-14 year olds. Teacher resources, media lit games and more at http://mediameltdown.net.

In Games of Empire, Nick Dyer-Witheford and Greig de Peuter offer a radical political critique of such video games and virtual environments as Second Life, World of Warcraft, and Grand Theft Auto, analyzing them as the exemplary media of Empire, the twenty-first-century hypercapitalist complex theorized by Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri. The authors trace the ascent of virtual gaming, assess its impact on creators and players alike, and delineate the relationships between games and reality, body and avatar, screen and street.

School is tests and credits and notetaking and meeting standards. Learning, on the other hand, is 'getting it'. It's the conceptual breakthrough that permits the student to understand it then move on to something else. Learning doesn't care about workbooks or long checklists.

School was the big thing for a long time. School is tests and credits and notetaking and meeting standards. Learning, on the other hand, is 'getting it'. It's the conceptual breakthrough that permits the student to understand it then move on to something else. Learning doesn't care about workbooks or long checklists.

It's all about shared intimacy that is of no value to a third-party ear who doesn't know the person babbling.

Ideas, morals, and values do not exist somewhere outside the body, ready to be examined and put to use. Instead, they exist quite literally inside the brain-and they take physical shape there.

do we want to raise a generation of kids who have the tech savvy of an Iranian dissident, or the ham-fisted incompetence of the government those dissidents are running circles around?

The proliferation of parents and teachers trawling the pages of Facebook trying to poke old schoolfriends and lovers, and traversing the outer reaches of MySpace is causing an adolescent exodus from the social networking sites, according to research from the media regulator Ofcom.

"Any high school student who has a Facebook page will tell you MySpace users are more likely to be barely educated and obnoxious… like Peet's is more cultured than Starbucks and jazz is more cultured than bubblegum pop. And Macs are more cultured than PCs."

presented at the Personal Democracy Forum 2009. The real presentation also includes 15 minutes of mashed up YouTube videos - basically a shortened but updated version of An Anthropological Introduction to YouTube

Prof. David Levy of the Information School of the University of Washington delivers his keynote address, "Head, Heart, and Hand: Cultivating the Contemplative in Higher Education" at the April 2009 conference of the Association for Contemplative Mind in Higher Education at Amherst College.

Scripted approaches to writing and all teaching and learning create students who are conditioned to become pliant, to do as they are told. But these same students have little to no experience thinking for themselves or experiencing the consequences of being free people.

I've always thought it was miserable that we take the supposed best and brightest in society, charge them up to $60,000 a year in fees, then put them to work for four years on producing busywork that no one - not them, not their profs, not other scholars - actually wants to read.

A child teacher explains a concept via modeling, direct instruction and description of his process. He also asks for "help" and critique from his audience. Talk about reflective practice.

This is a fantastic example of what we call "reflexive" teaching practice. In addition to explaining a concept via modeling and direct instruction, this child teacher solicits the help and critique

Thisi s a very good overview of the nature of paradigm shifts - and accurately describes our current moment of transition.

a new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.

Course description for JOMC 449 - Virtual Communities, Smart Mobs, Citizen Journalism and Participatory Culture

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