More and more I wonder: is school a good place for teachers who want to make a difference in the lives of their students, and to the future of the world? Is there a way to leave the daily farce of gradebooks, attendance sheets, tests, corporate and statist curriculum, homework assignments, grade-licking college […]
Did you ever notice that we have no holidays in which we revere history’s true - in the sense of “backed up with evidence” - miracle-workers, those hard-working saviors we call “scientists”?
Think about it: scientists, through the “miracle” of human reason, have eradicated diseases for literally billions of people through medicine, created light and warmth […]
Scott McLeod from Dangerously Irrelevant tagged me with this interesting meme, so here are the rules, followed by the last five educational podcasts I listened to and/or watched:
Meme guidelines
Choose five of your favorite education podcasts. Any kind of education podcast is okay - students, teachers, administrators, professors, etc. - feel free to pick […]
“See, Hear, Speak No Evil” by AndyRamdin on Flickr
[Update: This post is extends a critique of my own teaching, and typical schooling in general, that I wrote last week in “I’m Nobody. Goodbye to All of That.” Makes sense to start there, if you haven’t read it already.]
I have a headache and a […]
Charley Tart on Consensus Trance: Wake up!
Interesting challenge to conventional notions of “conscious thought” as, instead, “consensus trance.” From the intro, a clip relevant to the Global Cooling campaign:
The relationship between the use of language and the induction of trance states might be one of the keys to understanding life in the […]
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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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