Tag Archives: pedagogy

Edupunking the NY Times

by Matt on 31. Dec, 2008 in pedagogy

This is old news, I know, but I will not let this blog begin without acknowledgment of the fact that the New York Times declared edupunk, the new-media pedagogical ethos adumbrated by my good friend Jim Groom, one of its choices for The Buzzwords of 2008. In the spirit of edupunk and all of my [...]

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Extracts

by Matt on 17. Dec, 2008 in origins

(Supplied by a Sub-Sub-Librarian.)   “Perhaps the greatest of all pedagogical fallacies is the notion that a person learns only the particular thing he is studying at the time. Collateral learning in the way of formation of enduring attitudes, of likes and dislikes, may be and often is much more important than the spelling lesson [...]

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