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The Oath

Posted June 30th, 2009 by mrmoses

But I liked the retweet better:

Once a week, from here until the first week of January.
Here we go.
Technorati Tags: into the narcissistic - er i mean reflective - void i go, twitter is for sissies

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Among the Many Things We’ve Gotten Wrong

Posted June 28th, 2009 by mrmoses

via: http://dump.com
Which is directly related to this:

via: http://gapingvoid.org (seriously, buy the book Ignore Everybody)
Which begs the question:
What is the real point of what it is we do in education?
Technorati Tags: when you are tired of contemplating your navel think about this for a second

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Common Technology Knowledge

Posted June 27th, 2009 by mrmoses

The educational technology community is a funny one. It’s one that a consider myself to be on the periphery of, although I’ve worked in the heart of it. While working with kids and technology something that’s run across my mind, and that I think about a lot, is the assumptions we make about [...]

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Erin McKean redefines the dictionary (and tells you what’s wrong with school’s while she’s at it)

Posted June 26th, 2009 by mrmoses

My wife is into words. I mean really into words. I mean almost took out a loan to buy a complete set of the OED into words. It’s a weird thing to be into, but most of things that people are into and I mean really into, are weird things to be [...]

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I’d Rather be Happy

Posted June 25th, 2009 by mrmoses

The study in this oped piece finds that capitalism is really good at producing rich bankers but socialism is good at producing happy people.

I’ll state right up front that I’d rather be happy. I’d rather that my students be happy.
One of my favorite poems takes it a step further:

it’s like being sick all [...]

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