It’s a great title for your website. I’m on this journey, trying to find a suitable name for a website of my own. I’m finding very hard to do. What process did you use in finding the right title? I guess your answer would be in “The Art of Bad Titles” but the link isn’t working.

Sorry–Forgot to post the link!

I think Doug has a valid point about the political issue, but Clay also has thought of ways around this. I find myself thinking on two different tracks here:
1) I just posted about the idea of adolescence being created by society and now society is suffering the consequences by raising generations of self-absorbed, give me my dues kids. Clay, your ideas about true Web 2.0 learning–giving them the ultimate say in what they will do, discuss, and act upon gives the students ownership and pride in their learning. Really–if I had to write a persuasive 5 paragraph essay or be involved in an online global debate about the issue at hand, I know which one would teach more.
2) Web 2.0 is more than just bells and whistles. But I think this is the issue for most of us teachers who consider themselves to be on the cutting edge, but really not knowing how to cross that edge to the true potential of Web 2.0.

I know what I think learning should be and every day it gets further and further away from the traditional model we seem to be stuck in.

Keep the conversation going!

Another angle would be to choose language and terms with the audience in mind. “Waste” is less a red flag than “warming,” and “green economics and entrepreneurship” are valid and less divisive frames as well.

My school is very interested in forging connections between universities - students and professors - for “vertical” learning. That university near you…I just might ask you for some contact info at some point.

My point about “think globally, act locally” is that it’s a pre-web2.0 strategy that can (should, I say) exploit web 2.0’s free-and-easy networking to a) act locally, of course, but - and here’s the new opportunity - b) simultaneously strategize with fellow travelers globally for a more than local effect. Does that make sense yet? It seems so clear to me

All my heroes and heroines were heretics. I’ve always said, “If you want to find the true saints, seek out the heretics.” My recent favorite is Valentinus, a “gnostic” put to death by the newly-formed Roman Church for simply believing differently and, in my book, much more spiritually than the orthodox version that won by brute force, and still controls the flock today. See Elaine Pagels’ “Beyond Belief” for some fascinating learning about the Christianity that once was.

Have you ever checked out the etymology of “heresy”? It simply means “choice.” And to choose pre-supposes critical thought and reflection.

I could go on about the bad rap “rebellion” has, when most of our heroes and benefactors today were considered “rebels” in their day. Of course, they were rebels with causes. Pop culture and irrelevant schooling have tamed that type of rebellion today into silly posing.

Anyway. Thanks as usual, Doug.