A lens on the week in Ed: May 2011, iss. 4 -
Another week's re-cap of ed-related content via symphily:
• Beyond idealism: University-level training in free technology - bit.ly/mI7uUN
• Students banned from high school graduation because of lightsaber battle - on.io9.com/j4ISy5
• Israel prevents university lecturer from traveling to Jordan - bit.ly/mbmNXk
• Teaching with integrity: Refusing our cooperation - bit.ly/mjxPX3
• Should US look abroad for education reforms? - bit.ly/miYlX9
• The New School for Social Research [Arendt, Kant, aesthetics, Nietzsche, Hegel, autonomy] - bit.ly/mQAwsf
• Digital Zizek: A bibliography of Slavoj Zizkek's audio/video resources on the web - bit.ly/kMBLSO
• Moving on up: Women in the academy - bit.ly/lQXHc7
• California teachers, students protest against education cuts - bit.ly/k8d7Ap
• NYC budget cuts set to decimate libraries - bit.ly/kHfnXj
• Inside the infant mind - bit.ly/jdhTO1
• Surprised? || Job stress in teachers linked to student achievement - bit.ly/lXvn34
• Intuitions regarding geometry are universal, study suggests - bit.ly/mRcgwk
• Study: Video games reduce brain response to violence & increase aggressive behavior - bit.ly/lV1fo5
• New technology & the zombification of higher ed - bit.ly/lKplnz
• US education spending & performance vs. the world [InfoGraphic] - bit.ly/js2vMd
• High school students are well behaved ... especially in Japan - bit.ly/k5iU7D
• 6 reasons to end (almost) all timed exams - bit.ly/lSpTvf
• Student finds universe's 'missing' mass - bit.ly/kGj0Qv
• Seattle: Teachers take 1.9% pay cut, funding for higher ed slashed - bit.ly/lvg2ro
• Tablets, yes; e-texts, maybe - bit.ly/mxjgos
• Parents of Cal Poly student who died in hazing incident settle w/ fraternity - bit.ly/lcoMvR
• University of Nottingham suspends professor in major assault on free speech - bit.ly/j3UeOw
• Following more budget cuts, tuition to increase at California's public colleges - bit.ly/kQtTUc
• Give students agency & they'll flourish: The Independent Project - bit.ly/mMFk9D
• Explaining gender income gaps by education & age - bit.ly/iOxNWK
• Is doing math for 'ugly' girls? - bit.ly/mm5zH2
• For-profit colleges spend much less on educating students than public universities - huff.to/knhgiQ
• Some 'problems' with ebooks in schools - bit.ly/jOn5vg
• The Earth is flat, and creativity can't be trained - bit.ly/m6y9hK
• Schools struggle to 'recover' amid years of [vicious] budget cuts - huff.to/iE0sXd
• Ebooks & public libraries: Growing demand, confusing rules - bit.ly/ipxJgv
• University of Michigan apologizes, settles lawsuit w/ dismissed professor for $550k - bit.ly/iZfqta
• Images of Saskatchewan teachers on the picket line - bit.ly/iLuoN4
• Academia: Utopia or Dystopia? - bit.ly/kMUgtI
• Managing summer school expectations - bit.ly/j7Wk69
• Professor may be tried over scientific report - bit.ly/mUJtcq
• Thousands gather in Michigan to oppose education cuts - bit.ly/k3l0yr
• Does grading distort, bastardize our love for learning? - bit.ly/lfRTl6
• Slavoj Zizek & politicos on Middle East uprisings (eng. subs) - bit.ly/jRFg9R
• Career advice for grad students: Ah, Bartleby; Ah, Humanities - bit.ly/lU2DGy
• Controversy over Scholastic's corporate donors; discontinues pro-coal curricula - huff.to/kTCZAZ
• Poorer reading skills following changed computer habits of children - bit.ly/j9CGom
• Los Angeles teachers union seeks to halt new evaluation pilot - huff.to/jKiPOt
• Is Harvard worth all the fuss? - huff.to/irg1it
• Study: Children learn language in moments of insight, not gradually through repeated exposure - bit.ly/jT7Pov
• Georgia State Uni students denounce slanderous attack - bit.ly/k1OnRP
• How do teachers matter? Not as cause agents but as learning opportunities - bit.ly/lyjm3V
• The who, why & how of Twitter [InfoGraphic] - bit.ly/kwj6EY
• Report: National testing push yields few advances in learning - huff.to/mgtvJo
• America's digital library takes shape in the Cloud - bit.ly/k0XvWN
• Brutal state budget cuts hit schools in Philadelphia - bit.ly/jhwfk1
• The International Journal of Critical Pedagogy, 3(1) - bit.ly/is2qEW
• Sri Lankan university teachers demand pay raise - bit.ly/j8betG
• Irony or tragedy?: Happy graduation, suckers! - bit.ly/lM0RX1
• Is academic corruption on the rise? - bit.ly/lzoxpX
• Half of med students study w/ Wikipedia - bit.ly/mzH7YO
• More '21st-century education' lit arrived in the mail today. 2 very different streams, 2 very different myopias - both in play in Canada:
• Abbott, J. & MacTaggart, H. (2010). Overschooled but undereducated: How the crisis in education is jeopardizing our adolescents.
• Trilling, B. & Fadel, C. (2009). 21st century skills: Learning for life in our times.
• Abbott's a huge force in BC (& UK), via his '21st century learning initiative'. Text is dreadfully shallow, conceptually thin yet agreeable.
• Trilling & Fadel are advocates of US-based Partnership for 21st Century Skills. Their idea of public schooling = incubator for capitalism.
• Did you know? || Canadian Council of Ministers of Education <3 '21st-century learning models'
• Did you know? || Canadian School Board Association <3 '21st-century learning models'
• Did you know? || Apple, Dell, Cisco, HP, IBM, Microsoft, Pearson, Scholastic, Ford, Disney, McGraw Hill, Texas (cont) tl.gd/anqnde
• "The number of FTE teaching positions in BC public schools has fallen steadily since 2005-06, (cont) tl.gd/anruvr
• "Funding for independent schools is increasing at a much faster rate than public schools‘ funding. (cont) tl.gd/anrvih
• Nearly 1 in 7 Canadian workers w/ a university degree, aged 25-64 years, earned less than $12 per hour in 2007 (Statistics Canada, 2008).
• Canada has the highest proportion (18%) of highly-educated individuals earning less than half the median wage - worst of 27 OECD countries.
• In BC in 2008 the average family income of the wealthiest 10% of families with children was $248,701.
• In BC in 2008 the average family income for the 10% of families in the lowest income group was $17,367.
• In BC increase in income from 1989-2008 for wealthiest families = almost 5X total income poorest 10% of families lived on for all of 2008.
• Dear @BCPSEA, @ChristyClarkBC, @GeorgeAbbottBC: We haven't forgotten. || Liberal cuts & (cont) tl.gd/ansde3
• "Historical data show the trend of declining enrolment in [BC's] public schools is coming to a close. The (cont) tl.gd/antcgp
• BCTF plans for strike vote in June - bit.ly/kEgqaA
• BC Poll: Low trust of Vancouver Board of Education - bit.ly/iu1Pam
• BC: Another rally over Burnaby's homophobia/heterosexism policy - bit.ly/ljGkh4
• Vancouver Island student to deliver school-construction petition to @GeorgeAbbottBC - bit.ly/myg7Sw
• BC: Mom files human-rights complaint against Surrey school district - bit.ly/lkY1Yt
• Why is BC gov't using same buzzwords as Rupert Murdoch?!? - bit.ly/lnHrRz
• BCeSIS: $90 million & counting - bit.ly/iQNvv0
• "Of the 24 [Canadian] cities [surveyed], Vancouver has the highest % of population with low income; the highest (cont) tl.gd/alsrhf
• "[In Vancouver] Much of day-to-day life on welfare is about survival - a constant and frequently unsuccessful (cont) tl.gd/alssec
• "A disturbing number of women in [BC] either returned to or remained in abusive relationships or engaged in (cont) tl.gd/alssop
• "[In BC] Only a small fraction [leave] poverty. Those who remain on assistance remain very poor, even if (cont) tl.gd/alst74
• 'BC has the highest rate of poverty and the highest rate of child poverty in Canada[;] yet unlike 6 other (cont) tl.gd/alstvc
• [ #Foucault ] "There is no specific moral action that does not refer to the unity of a moral conduct; no moral (cont) tl.gd/akh01o
• "I do not mean that they [individuals] chose what is customary, in preference to what suits their own (cont) tl.gd/akh0tg
• "In this age the mere example of non-conformity, the mere refusal to bend the knee to custom, is itself a (cont) tl.gd/akh1iu
• "Never engage in polemics." - Foucault
• [ #Deleuze ] "It's very simple: philosophy is a discipline that is just as inventive, just as creative as any (cont) tl.gd/akpe1h
• "I say that I do philosophy, that I try to invent concepts." - Gilles Deleuze
• "Everything has a story. Philosophy also tells stories. Stories with concepts." - Gilles Deleuze
• "Capitalism never solves its crisis problems; it moves them around geographically." - David Harvey
• [ #Nietzsche ] "The state is the coldest of all cold monsters. Coldly it lies, too: and this lie creeps from its (cont) tl.gd/an40u5
• [ #Foucault ] "There is a battle 'for truth,' or at least 'around truth' - it being understood ... that by truth (cont) tl.gd/aogq0b
• [ #Foucault ] "The essential political problem for the intellectual is not to criticise the ideological contents (cont) tl.gd/ap4sgt
• [ #Foucault ] "It is through revolt that subjectivity (not that of great men but that of whomever) introduces (cont) tl.gd/ap4spm
• [ #Deleuze ] "Very small children all resemble one another and have hardly any individuality, but they have (cont) tl.gd/apb0ir
• [ #Wittgenstein ] "I should not like my writing to spare people the trouble of thinking. But, if possible, tl.gd/aovhgh
• [ #Wittgenstein ] "Human beings are profoundly enmeshed in philosophical - i.e. grammatical confusions. tl.gd/aovkgk
• [ #Wittgenstein ] "The aspect of things that are most important to us are hidden because of their simplicity and familiarity."
• [ #Wittgenstein ] "A philosophical problem has the form: 'I don't know my way about.'"
• [ #Wittgenstein ] "There is not a philosophical method, though there are indeed methods, like different therapies."
• [ #Wittgenstein ] "Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language."
• [ #Wittgenstein ] When we are bewitched, we tend to stare - the hypnotic gaze. We then tend to see illusory tl.gd/aovr83
• [ #Foucault ] "[I]n Christianity the pastorate gave rise to an art of conducting, directing, leading, tl.gd/ap03g2
• "There isn't the slightest operation, the slightest industrial or financial mechanism that does not reveal the (cont) tl.gd/an9vb8
• "The realization of the world as global market, the undivided reign of great financial conglomerates, etc., all (cont) tl.gd/ana6rj
• "This more positive 'machinery of moral training' made the teacher not merely a panoptic supervisor of monitors (cont) tl.gd/ancg7u
• "There is ... a juridical power within the school which simulates - in a rather arbitrary fashion, if one (cont) tl.gd/ancgro
• "The 'disciplinarization' and restructuring of schools, which, 'with their large populations, their hierarchies, (cont) tl.gd/anchnk
• "It is not just that the insertion of the economic into the social structures the choices of the individual, but (cont) tl.gd/ancjd5
• Beyond idealism: University-level training in free technology - bit.ly/mI7uUN
• Students banned from high school graduation because of lightsaber battle - on.io9.com/j4ISy5
• Israel prevents university lecturer from traveling to Jordan - bit.ly/mbmNXk
• Teaching with integrity: Refusing our cooperation - bit.ly/mjxPX3
• Should US look abroad for education reforms? - bit.ly/miYlX9
• The New School for Social Research [Arendt, Kant, aesthetics, Nietzsche, Hegel, autonomy] - bit.ly/mQAwsf
• Digital Zizek: A bibliography of Slavoj Zizkek's audio/video resources on the web - bit.ly/kMBLSO
• Moving on up: Women in the academy - bit.ly/lQXHc7
• California teachers, students protest against education cuts - bit.ly/k8d7Ap
• NYC budget cuts set to decimate libraries - bit.ly/kHfnXj
• Inside the infant mind - bit.ly/jdhTO1
• Surprised? || Job stress in teachers linked to student achievement - bit.ly/lXvn34
• Intuitions regarding geometry are universal, study suggests - bit.ly/mRcgwk
• Study: Video games reduce brain response to violence & increase aggressive behavior - bit.ly/lV1fo5
• New technology & the zombification of higher ed - bit.ly/lKplnz
• US education spending & performance vs. the world [InfoGraphic] - bit.ly/js2vMd
• High school students are well behaved ... especially in Japan - bit.ly/k5iU7D
• 6 reasons to end (almost) all timed exams - bit.ly/lSpTvf
• Student finds universe's 'missing' mass - bit.ly/kGj0Qv
• Seattle: Teachers take 1.9% pay cut, funding for higher ed slashed - bit.ly/lvg2ro
• Tablets, yes; e-texts, maybe - bit.ly/mxjgos
• Parents of Cal Poly student who died in hazing incident settle w/ fraternity - bit.ly/lcoMvR
• University of Nottingham suspends professor in major assault on free speech - bit.ly/j3UeOw
• Following more budget cuts, tuition to increase at California's public colleges - bit.ly/kQtTUc
• Give students agency & they'll flourish: The Independent Project - bit.ly/mMFk9D
• Explaining gender income gaps by education & age - bit.ly/iOxNWK
• Is doing math for 'ugly' girls? - bit.ly/mm5zH2
• For-profit colleges spend much less on educating students than public universities - huff.to/knhgiQ
• Some 'problems' with ebooks in schools - bit.ly/jOn5vg
• The Earth is flat, and creativity can't be trained - bit.ly/m6y9hK
• Schools struggle to 'recover' amid years of [vicious] budget cuts - huff.to/iE0sXd
• Ebooks & public libraries: Growing demand, confusing rules - bit.ly/ipxJgv
• University of Michigan apologizes, settles lawsuit w/ dismissed professor for $550k - bit.ly/iZfqta
• Images of Saskatchewan teachers on the picket line - bit.ly/iLuoN4
• Academia: Utopia or Dystopia? - bit.ly/kMUgtI
• Managing summer school expectations - bit.ly/j7Wk69
• Professor may be tried over scientific report - bit.ly/mUJtcq
• Thousands gather in Michigan to oppose education cuts - bit.ly/k3l0yr
• Does grading distort, bastardize our love for learning? - bit.ly/lfRTl6
• Slavoj Zizek & politicos on Middle East uprisings (eng. subs) - bit.ly/jRFg9R
• Career advice for grad students: Ah, Bartleby; Ah, Humanities - bit.ly/lU2DGy
• Controversy over Scholastic's corporate donors; discontinues pro-coal curricula - huff.to/kTCZAZ
• Poorer reading skills following changed computer habits of children - bit.ly/j9CGom
• Los Angeles teachers union seeks to halt new evaluation pilot - huff.to/jKiPOt
• Is Harvard worth all the fuss? - huff.to/irg1it
• Study: Children learn language in moments of insight, not gradually through repeated exposure - bit.ly/jT7Pov
• Georgia State Uni students denounce slanderous attack - bit.ly/k1OnRP
• How do teachers matter? Not as cause agents but as learning opportunities - bit.ly/lyjm3V
• The who, why & how of Twitter [InfoGraphic] - bit.ly/kwj6EY
• Report: National testing push yields few advances in learning - huff.to/mgtvJo
• America's digital library takes shape in the Cloud - bit.ly/k0XvWN
• Brutal state budget cuts hit schools in Philadelphia - bit.ly/jhwfk1
• The International Journal of Critical Pedagogy, 3(1) - bit.ly/is2qEW
• Sri Lankan university teachers demand pay raise - bit.ly/j8betG
• Irony or tragedy?: Happy graduation, suckers! - bit.ly/lM0RX1
• Is academic corruption on the rise? - bit.ly/lzoxpX
• Half of med students study w/ Wikipedia - bit.ly/mzH7YO
• More '21st-century education' lit arrived in the mail today. 2 very different streams, 2 very different myopias - both in play in Canada:
• Abbott, J. & MacTaggart, H. (2010). Overschooled but undereducated: How the crisis in education is jeopardizing our adolescents.
• Trilling, B. & Fadel, C. (2009). 21st century skills: Learning for life in our times.
• Abbott's a huge force in BC (& UK), via his '21st century learning initiative'. Text is dreadfully shallow, conceptually thin yet agreeable.
• Trilling & Fadel are advocates of US-based Partnership for 21st Century Skills. Their idea of public schooling = incubator for capitalism.
• Did you know? || Canadian Council of Ministers of Education <3 '21st-century learning models'
• Did you know? || Canadian School Board Association <3 '21st-century learning models'
• Did you know? || Apple, Dell, Cisco, HP, IBM, Microsoft, Pearson, Scholastic, Ford, Disney, McGraw Hill, Texas (cont) tl.gd/anqnde
• "The number of FTE teaching positions in BC public schools has fallen steadily since 2005-06, (cont) tl.gd/anruvr
• "Funding for independent schools is increasing at a much faster rate than public schools‘ funding. (cont) tl.gd/anrvih
• Nearly 1 in 7 Canadian workers w/ a university degree, aged 25-64 years, earned less than $12 per hour in 2007 (Statistics Canada, 2008).
• Canada has the highest proportion (18%) of highly-educated individuals earning less than half the median wage - worst of 27 OECD countries.
• In BC in 2008 the average family income of the wealthiest 10% of families with children was $248,701.
• In BC in 2008 the average family income for the 10% of families in the lowest income group was $17,367.
• In BC increase in income from 1989-2008 for wealthiest families = almost 5X total income poorest 10% of families lived on for all of 2008.
• Dear @BCPSEA, @ChristyClarkBC, @GeorgeAbbottBC: We haven't forgotten. || Liberal cuts & (cont) tl.gd/ansde3
• "Historical data show the trend of declining enrolment in [BC's] public schools is coming to a close. The (cont) tl.gd/antcgp
• BCTF plans for strike vote in June - bit.ly/kEgqaA
• BC Poll: Low trust of Vancouver Board of Education - bit.ly/iu1Pam
• BC: Another rally over Burnaby's homophobia/heterosexism policy - bit.ly/ljGkh4
• Vancouver Island student to deliver school-construction petition to @GeorgeAbbottBC - bit.ly/myg7Sw
• BC: Mom files human-rights complaint against Surrey school district - bit.ly/lkY1Yt
• Why is BC gov't using same buzzwords as Rupert Murdoch?!? - bit.ly/lnHrRz
• BCeSIS: $90 million & counting - bit.ly/iQNvv0
• "Of the 24 [Canadian] cities [surveyed], Vancouver has the highest % of population with low income; the highest (cont) tl.gd/alsrhf
• "[In Vancouver] Much of day-to-day life on welfare is about survival - a constant and frequently unsuccessful (cont) tl.gd/alssec
• "A disturbing number of women in [BC] either returned to or remained in abusive relationships or engaged in (cont) tl.gd/alssop
• "[In BC] Only a small fraction [leave] poverty. Those who remain on assistance remain very poor, even if (cont) tl.gd/alst74
• 'BC has the highest rate of poverty and the highest rate of child poverty in Canada[;] yet unlike 6 other (cont) tl.gd/alstvc
• [ #Foucault ] "There is no specific moral action that does not refer to the unity of a moral conduct; no moral (cont) tl.gd/akh01o
• "I do not mean that they [individuals] chose what is customary, in preference to what suits their own (cont) tl.gd/akh0tg
• "In this age the mere example of non-conformity, the mere refusal to bend the knee to custom, is itself a (cont) tl.gd/akh1iu
• "Never engage in polemics." - Foucault
• [ #Deleuze ] "It's very simple: philosophy is a discipline that is just as inventive, just as creative as any (cont) tl.gd/akpe1h
• "I say that I do philosophy, that I try to invent concepts." - Gilles Deleuze
• "Everything has a story. Philosophy also tells stories. Stories with concepts." - Gilles Deleuze
• "Capitalism never solves its crisis problems; it moves them around geographically." - David Harvey
• [ #Nietzsche ] "The state is the coldest of all cold monsters. Coldly it lies, too: and this lie creeps from its (cont) tl.gd/an40u5
• [ #Foucault ] "There is a battle 'for truth,' or at least 'around truth' - it being understood ... that by truth (cont) tl.gd/aogq0b
• [ #Foucault ] "The essential political problem for the intellectual is not to criticise the ideological contents (cont) tl.gd/ap4sgt
• [ #Foucault ] "It is through revolt that subjectivity (not that of great men but that of whomever) introduces (cont) tl.gd/ap4spm
• [ #Deleuze ] "Very small children all resemble one another and have hardly any individuality, but they have (cont) tl.gd/apb0ir
• [ #Wittgenstein ] "I should not like my writing to spare people the trouble of thinking. But, if possible, tl.gd/aovhgh
• [ #Wittgenstein ] "Human beings are profoundly enmeshed in philosophical - i.e. grammatical confusions. tl.gd/aovkgk
• [ #Wittgenstein ] "The aspect of things that are most important to us are hidden because of their simplicity and familiarity."
• [ #Wittgenstein ] "A philosophical problem has the form: 'I don't know my way about.'"
• [ #Wittgenstein ] "There is not a philosophical method, though there are indeed methods, like different therapies."
• [ #Wittgenstein ] "Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language."
• [ #Wittgenstein ] When we are bewitched, we tend to stare - the hypnotic gaze. We then tend to see illusory tl.gd/aovr83
• [ #Foucault ] "[I]n Christianity the pastorate gave rise to an art of conducting, directing, leading, tl.gd/ap03g2
• "There isn't the slightest operation, the slightest industrial or financial mechanism that does not reveal the (cont) tl.gd/an9vb8
• "The realization of the world as global market, the undivided reign of great financial conglomerates, etc., all (cont) tl.gd/ana6rj
• "This more positive 'machinery of moral training' made the teacher not merely a panoptic supervisor of monitors (cont) tl.gd/ancg7u
• "There is ... a juridical power within the school which simulates - in a rather arbitrary fashion, if one (cont) tl.gd/ancgro
• "The 'disciplinarization' and restructuring of schools, which, 'with their large populations, their hierarchies, (cont) tl.gd/anchnk
• "It is not just that the insertion of the economic into the social structures the choices of the individual, but (cont) tl.gd/ancjd5