December 2010
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Dec 31st
Writing Here and Elsewhere →
Due, in part, to the unreliability of the Tumblr search engine and incomplete crawling of Tumblr blogs by Google, Yahoo, Bing, etc., I’ve assembled a table of contents pointing to the long and not-so-long articles that I have written here and on my class blogs. Most of these posts are about education in some way or another — learning, unschooling, teaching, etc.
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Dec 26th
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“A well-ordered humanism does not begin with itself, but puts things back in...”
– Claude Levi-Strauss
Dec 25th
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Dec 25th
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Dec 24th
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Dec 24th
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Dec 24th
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Electric Dreamers by Brian Holmes “Short documentary film shot at NAMCO BANDAI Games Inc in March 2010 in Tokyo, Japan. Features interviews with the genius creator of the Katamari and Noby Noby Boy video games, Keita Takahashi, and the man behind the strange and wonderful Muscle March, Shinya Satake.”
Dec 24th
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Dec 24th
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A strange episode from San Diego history: Unarius: Science of Life - The Restoration, Part 3 (via Gary Stager)
Dec 24th
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Dec 24th
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“You teach kids how to succeed when they successfully foil the educational...”
– Arlo Guthrie (via Kirsten Bailey)
Dec 24th
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Dec 24th
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A convergence that needed documentation →
Go see the convergence that Luke Neff documented. It involves that Di Liu post that I made the other day and an Andrew Hudgins poem shared by Alan Jacobs.
Dec 23rd
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Dec 22nd
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Dec 22nd
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Dec 22nd
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Dec 22nd
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Dec 21st
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Slowness is an act of resistance
In “Finding time”, an Orion Magazine article from 2007, Rebecca Solnit describes the merits and accessibility of slowness: The conundrum is that the language to describe the ineffable splendors and possibilities of our lives takes time to master, takes a certain unhurried engagement with the tasks of description, assessment, critique, and conversation; that to speak this slow...
Dec 21st
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Dec 20th
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Dec 20th
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Dec 20th
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Dec 19th
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Dec 19th
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Dec 19th
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Dec 19th
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Dec 19th
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Dec 19th
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Dec 18th
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Dec 13th
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Dec 13th
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Dec 13th
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“One law for lion and ox is oppression.”
– William Blake (via Caterina Fake)
Dec 12th
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Dec 11th
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“[W]hen you build a thing, you cannot merely build that thing in isolation, but...”
– A Pattern Language (via from a working library)
Dec 11th
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Dec 8th
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Dec 5th