Comments on: On Carrotmobs and Election-Stealing: An Edu-Activism Fantasy http://beyond-school.org/2008/07/25/on-carrotmobs-and-election-stealing-an-edu-activism-fantasy/ More education. Less schooliness. Thu, 08 Jan 2009 18:57:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Alex Steed [of Make http://beyond-school.org/2008/07/25/on-carrotmobs-and-election-stealing-an-edu-activism-fantasy/comment-page-1/#comment-4682 Alex Steed [of Make Fri, 25 Jul 2008 12:38:51 +0000 http://beyond-school.org/?p=754#comment-4682 I'd like to think that this is going to be one of the more interesting venues where on and offline activism meet. Perhaps spectators and citizen monitors will organize and spend time at known trouble areas via Meetup? I worked for the Democrats in 2006 and we had lawyers that we could call just in case anything tricky happened. It would be more helpful, though, if that action were crowd sourced. I’d like to think that this is going to be one of the more interesting venues where on and offline activism meet. Perhaps spectators and citizen monitors will organize and spend time at known trouble areas via Meetup? I worked for the Democrats in 2006 and we had lawyers that we could call just in case anything tricky happened. It would be more helpful, though, if that action were crowd sourced.

]]> By: Tracy Rosen http://beyond-school.org/2008/07/25/on-carrotmobs-and-election-stealing-an-edu-activism-fantasy/comment-page-1/#comment-4680 Tracy Rosen Fri, 25 Jul 2008 11:59:36 +0000 http://beyond-school.org/?p=754#comment-4680 Good one Clay. I have always (well, since their use really began to accelerate) thought that the existence of cellphones requires us to be more accountable. Schools ban cell phones because (for one reason) some students are posting videos to youtube of angry teachers. So we ban cell phones instead of dealing with the fact that we have an angry, abusive teacher in the classroom? (I wrote about this last year, if you are interested: http://leadingfromtheheart.org/2007/05/14/and-nowyoutube/) We are just being held accountable. Perhaps in a sneaky way, but whatever. As a teacher I am ALWAYS in the spotlight and my behaviour should reflect that. Actually, my behaviour should reflect my core values and my assumption is that most teachers do not value anger and hatred and belittling of those in their care. We are in an age of uber accountability - look at recently reported implications of facebook use --> http://tracyrosen.tumblr.com/post/42742982/implications-of-facebook-use I agree - we need (well, Americans need, I'm a Canadian bearing witness) to make this upcoming election play out in that spirit. Good one Clay.
I have always (well, since their use really began to accelerate) thought that the existence of cellphones requires us to be more accountable.

Schools ban cell phones because (for one reason) some students are posting videos to youtube of angry teachers. So we ban cell phones instead of dealing with the fact that we have an angry, abusive teacher in the classroom? (I wrote about this last year, if you are interested: http://leadingfromtheheart.org/2007/05/14/and-nowyoutube/)

We are just being held accountable. Perhaps in a sneaky way, but whatever. As a teacher I am ALWAYS in the spotlight and my behaviour should reflect that. Actually, my behaviour should reflect my core values and my assumption is that most teachers do not value anger and hatred and belittling of those in their care.

We are in an age of uber accountability - look at recently reported implications of facebook use –> http://tracyrosen.tumblr.com/post/42742982/implications-of-facebook-use

I agree - we need (well, Americans need, I’m a Canadian bearing witness) to make this upcoming election play out in that spirit.

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