Archive for the ‘Education’ Category
Zeitgeist & Zeitgeist: Addendum
Two important pieces of work in terms of understanding some of the foundational aspects of our prevailing social world. I am not sure that we can always posit a conspiracy when the system of thought forms the type of ideologies that both support ad resist its existence. In other words, the ideologies are part of [...]
A Super 8 Spectacular: Childhood Memories
A compilation of Super 8 footage from my childhood and a small tribute to Norton Buffalo, who died recently. “Thank you lord for giving me another day” says Norton. My sister Kathy is unavoidably throughout this video, just as she is in all the footage I have. She seems the one constant throughout our entire [...]
Perceiving Beauty
A man sat at a Metro station in Washington, DC and started to play the violin; it was a cold January morning. He played six Bach pieces for about 45 minutes. During that time, since it was rush hour, it was calculated that thousands of people went through the station, most of them on their [...]
Purposeful education
NBC Nightly News recently ran a short piece on students performing assignments where they were asked to engage with a current social issue. Combined with other educational like Project Based Learning (PBL), it is possible that we are seeing a move in the way that people (at least teachers and administrators) view education and curricular [...]
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