It’s weird to call him a prophet, what with all the F-Bombs and other NSFW obscenities he drops, but consider that this dead jester said the below in 2005. Prophetic indeed. . (h/t to Hullabaloo)
Archives for the ‘video’ Category
“Gasland” — Poison for Profit
Wednesday, 23 June 2010
Riveting Video: 2000 Global Nuclear Tests
Tuesday, 22 June 2010
MAD=Mutually Assured Destruction. A serious Cold War joke. Don’t have students read about this in textbooks. Show them the below instead. Amazing. From Zero Hedge: Who needs a wartime nuclear exchange when you have peaceful countries nuking the gamma rays out of their own sovereign territories – now that the environmental theme is rather popular, [...]
Shiny New Ed 2.0 Video with Gratuitous Sex and Violence
Thursday, 17 June 2010
From the YouTube blurb: [Stanford Psychology] Professor Philip Zimbardo conveys how our individual perspectives of time affect our work, health and well-being. Time influences who we are as a person, how we view relationships and how we act in the world. Interesting all the way through, but the gallery below previews parts that should interest [...]
Too Cute Video: Sleepy Chinese Student
Monday, 14 June 2010
William Burroughs’ “Thanksgiving Prayer”
Sunday, 13 June 2010
Education as “Aversion Therapy”: Watchmen Author Alan Moore
Sunday, 13 June 2010
Alan Moore, author of The Watchmen, V for Vendetta, and so many other comic book masterworks, has this to say about education: All too often education actually acts as a form of aversion therapy, that what we’re really teaching our children is to associate learning with work and to associate work with drudgery so that [...]
“You Suck at Photoshop”: Paragon of Creative Project-Based Learning
Monday, 4 January 2010
I just discovered the 2008 Webby Award-winning “You Suck at Photoshop” series on YouTube. While it may not succeed at making me a Photoshop ninja, it does succeed at convincing me that this kind of project would make the classroom an awesome place. Here’s why: the series demonstrates a mastery of content knowledge — in [...]
New Tech Teaching Habits
Thursday, 31 December 2009
I think this question would make either a good meme or a good open thread: What new routines have worked their way into your teaching-and-learning life as a result of the digital revolution? I’ll share a couple of mine. I think history teachers will find the first one valuable, but teachers of any discipline can [...]
Videos: Mental Poverty, Collaboration, “Recession Skills 101″
Sunday, 27 December 2009
Watch the two videos below — I even took notes of highlights to prod the attention-deficient — and then show them to your students. 1. Randy Nelson, Dean of Pixar University, on Collaboration and what I’ve been calling Social Intelligence in the Workplace. Key concepts: Making co-workers look good, not bad; “plussing” your partners; wanting [...]






