More on McCain. Whatever your loyalties, suspend them for a minute to just listen to what McCain says about his lack of understanding of basic - and vital - tools for our century. In his own words, he’s “illiterate.” (And yes, the video is cheesy and a bit mean, but the real footage doesn’t lie.)
What […]
Just saw this on Crooks and Liars, and think it’s worth sharing to teachers and students alike. Ira Glass, radio host of This American Life on (the USA’s) National Public Radio, shares how expectations - our own, and others’ - shouldn’t be too high for our media creations, because “it takes years” to bridge the […]
Life is physically and mentally too cramped for me to write the posts I’ve been planning about Pink’s Whole New Mind and Shirky’s Here Comes Everybody. I’m tutoring three days a week, finishing up my change of visa status (I never thought I’d need a Green Card, but there it is), and moving into our […]
Standing on a corner
in Hong Kong -
It ain’t so good to be alone
in Hong Kong.
–Screaming Jay Hawkins, “Hong Kong” (psst…do yourself a favor and click the little icon for a classic Screaming Jay number on Youtube, and a Wikipedia link, thanks to the very cool Apture tool)
Just a quickie to show the local flavor of […]
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Education for Well-Being gets my vote as one of the most important educational sites on the web, period. Bill Farren makes the videos he posts there, writes lucid and relevant discussions of them, and links to supplementary resources for possible classroom use. His written posts are as well-crafted as […]
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Clay Burell:
Chattanooga - Los Angeles - Eugene, OR - Wuerzburg, Germany - Shanghai, China - Seoul, Korea over 40-odd years. English, History, and ESOL teacher-geek. Apple Distinguished Educator. I hate schooliness. I love learning.
I started Beyond School on Blogger on 1 Jan. 2007. Out of love for WordPress, I divorced Blogger on 20 October 2007 to self-host here. Thanks for coming by.
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