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recent bookmarks from robertogrecoBuilding an Inclusive Campus2019-05-14T20:15:44+00:00
https://www.slideshare.net/jessestommel/building-an-inclusive-campus
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http://www.jessestommel.com/why-i-dont-grade/
robertogrecojessestommel grades grading assessment 2017 syllabus alfiekohn cathydavidson collaboration learning howwelearn teaching howweteach sfsh rubrics motivation participation lauragibbs objectivity gradeinflation outcomes unschooling deschooling pedagogy syllabihttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:9967a4318ebd/A Field Guide to 'jobs that don't exist yet' - Long View on Education2017-07-08T20:51:38+00:00
http://www.longviewoneducation.org/field-guide-jobs-dont-exist-yet/
robertogreco“We are too much inclined to think of careers and opportunities as if the oncoming generations were growing up to fill the jobs that are now held by their seniors. This is not true. Our young people will fill many jobs that do not now exist. They will invent products that will need new skills. Old-fashioned mercantilism and the nineteenth-century theory in which one man’s gain was another man’s loss, are being replaced by a dynamism in which the new ideas of a lot of people become the gains for many, many more.”4
Josephs’ claim brims with optimism about a new future, striking a tone which contrasts sharply with the Shift Happens video and its competitive fear of The Other and decline of Empire. We must recognize this shift that happens between then and now as an erasure of politics – a deletion of the opportunity to make a choice about how the abundant wealth created by automation – and perhaps more often by offshoring to cheap labor – would be shared.
The agentless construction in the Shift Happens version – “technologies that haven’t been invented yet” – contrasts with Josephs’ vision where today’s youth invent those technologies. More importantly, Josephs imagines a more equitable socio-technical future, marked not by competition, but where gains are shared. It should go without saying that this has not come to pass. As productivity shot up since the 1950’s, worker compensation has stagnated since around 1973.
In other words, the problem is not that Capital lacks a say in education, but that corporations and the 0.1% are reaping all the rewards and need to explain why. Too often, this explanation comes in the form of the zombie idea of a ‘skills gap’, which persists though it keeps being debunked. What else are CEOs going to say – and the skills gap is almost always based on an opinion survey – when they are asked to explain stagnating wages?5
Josephs’ essay echoes John Maynard Keynes’ (1930) in his hope that the “average family” by 1977 “may take some of the [economic] gain in the form of leisure”; the dynamism of new ideas should have created gains for ‘many, many more’ people. Instead, the compensation for CEOs soared as the profit was privatized even though most of the risk for innovation was socialized by US government investment through programs such as DARPA.6"
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"Audrey Watters has written about how futurists and gurus have figured out that “The best way to invent the future is to issue a press release.” Proponents of the ‘skills agenda’ like the OECD have essentially figured out how to make “the political more pedagogical”, to borrow a phrase from Henry Giroux. In their book, Most Likely to Succeed, Tony Wagner and billionaire Ted Dintersmith warn us that “if you can’t invent (and reinvent) your own job and distinctive competencies, you risk chronic underemployment.” Their movie, of the same title, repeats the hollow claim about ‘jobs that haven’t been invented yet’. Ironically, though Wagner tells us that “knowledge today is a free commodity”, you can only see the film in private screenings.
I don’t want to idealize Josephs, but revisiting his context helps us understand something about the debate about education and the future, not because he was a radical in his times, but because our times are radical.
In an interview at CUNY (2015), Gillian Tett asks Jeffrey Sachs and Paul Krugman what policy initiatives they would propose to deal with globalization, technology, and inequality.9 After Sachs and Krugman propose regulating finance, expanding aid to disadvantaged children, creating a robust social safety net, reforming the tax system to eliminate privilege for the 0.1%, redistributing profits, raising wages, and strengthening the position of labor, Tett recounts a story:
“Back in January I actually moderated quite a similar event in Davos with a group of CEOs and general luminaries very much not just the 1% but probably the 0.1% and I asked them the same question. And what they came back with was education, education, and a bit of digital inclusion.”
Krugman, slightly lost for words, replies: “Arguing that education is the thing is … Gosh… That’s so 1990s… even then it wasn’t really true.”
For CEOs and futurists who say that disruption is the answer to practically everything, arguing that the answer lies in education and skills is actually the least disruptive response to the problems we face. Krugman argues that education emerges as the popular answer because “It’s not intrusive. It doesn’t require that we have higher taxes. It doesn’t require that CEOs have to deal with unions again.” Sachs adds, “Obviously, it’s the easy answer for that group [the 0.1%].”
The kind of complex thinking we deserve about education won’t come in factoids or bullet-point lists of skills of the future. In fact, that kind of complex thinking is already out there, waiting."
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"Stay tuned for the tangled history of the claim if you're into that sort of thing..."]]>benjamindoxtdator 2017 inequality education credentialing productivity economics society statistics audreywatters billclinton democrats neoliberalism latecapitalism capitalism johndewey andreasschleicher kerifacer lindadarling-hammond worldeconomicforum oecd labor work futurism future scottmcleod karlfisch richardriley ianjukes freetrade competition andrewold michaelberman thomasfriedman devereuxjosephs anationatrisk sputnik coldwar okheelee michaelsalwen ussr sovietunion fear india china russia johnmaynardkeynes leisure robots robotics rodneybrooks doughenwood jobs cwrightmills henrygiroux paulkrugman gilliantett jeffreysachs policy politics globalization technology schools curriculum teddintersmith tonywagner mostlikelytosuccess success pedagogy cathydavidson jimcarroll edtech keyneshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:5c9940417f55/How To Transform a Traditional Class Into an Engaged One #fight4edu #engagedScholar | HASTAC2015-12-13T01:39:26+00:00
https://www.hastac.org/blogs/cathy-davidson/2015/12/04/how-transform-traditional-class-engaged-one-fight4edu-engagedscholar
robertogrecocathydavidson sarahendren pedagogy engagement 2015 hastac equality inclusion inclusivity accessibility access alterpodium sunaurataylor judithbutler astrataylor ability ablerism olincollege constructivism learning howweteach amandacachia activism liberationhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:107d18238e8b/Preparing Our Kids for Jobs That Don’t Exist Yet — Making DIY — Medium2015-06-30T23:17:35+00:00
https://medium.com/making-diy-org/preparing-our-kids-for-jobs-that-don-t-exist-yet-de6331afdb41#44cb
robertogrecozachklein diy.org education 2015 unschooling deschooling childhood learning howwelearn minecraft passion change creativity invention cathydavidson simcity webdesign discovery failure informallearning game gaming videogames making webdevhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:b97c9f24c8b2/9/15-9/28 Unit 1: Why We Need a Why | Connected Courses2014-09-15T22:03:15+00:00
http://connectedcourses.net/thecourse/why-we-need-a-why/
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http://www.salon.com/2014/06/14/educations_war_on_millennials_why_everyone_is_failing_the_digital_generation/
robertogrecoeducation technology edtech control reform policy power 2014 traditionalism traditionalists plagiarism pedagogy learning schools cheating multitasking highered highereducation politics elizabethlosh mimiito ianbogost jamespaulgee homago betsydisalvo amybruckman foxharrell geekingout culture play constraints games gaming videogames mckenziewark janemcgonigal gamesmanship internet youtube secrecy benjaminbratton unschooling deschooling collaboration cooperation agesegregation youth teens digitalnatives marshallmcluhan othering sivavaidhyanathan digital digitalliteracy attention engagement entertainment focus cathydavidsonhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:2a7d45193b25/Grading In The Age Of Mechanical Reproduction - Tenured Radical - The Chronicle of Higher Education2013-01-12T04:16:47+00:00
http://chronicle.com/blognetwork/tenuredradical/2012/12/grading-in-the-age-of-mechanical-reproduction/
robertogrecoclairepotter cathydavidson 2012 grades gradaing teaching learning assignments writing criticalthinking purpose meaning howweteachhttps://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:ddda0b28668e/Now You See It // The Blog of Author Cathy N. Davidson » New post on DMLcentral: Standardizing Human Ability2012-08-02T04:25:20+00:00
http://www.cathydavidson.com/2012/07/new-post-on-dmlcentral-standardizing-human-ability/
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http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1407330738/empires-the-film
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http://www.nydailynews.com/opinions/2011/09/04/2011-09-04_want_a_job_major_in_liberal_arts.html
robertogrecocathydavidson education classideas learning questioning questions inquiry teaching liberalarts technology 2011 collaboration creativity interactivity communication humanities cv toshare stem curriculum infosystems information informationscience language business stevejobs problemsolving perspective empathyhttps://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:4f2215bf2c21/Stagnant Future, Stagnant Tests: Pointed Response to NY Times "Grading the Digital School" | HASTAC2011-09-05T02:29:28+00:00
http://hastac.org/blogs/cathy-davidson/2011/09/04/stagnant-future-stagnant-tests-pointed-response-ny-times-grading-dig
robertogrecoeducation learning technology teaching cathydavidson standardizedtesting testing schools mattrichtel misguidedenergy 2011 edtech policy stagnationhttps://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:c12864ca4e39/Mobility Shifts2011-04-21T08:50:12+00:00
http://mobilityshifts.org/
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http://www.hastac.org/blogs/cathy-davidson/pointed-response-nyt-article-ipads-schools
robertogrecoipad education pedagogy 2011 edtech cathydavidson teaching cv expensivenotebooks tcsnmy schools student-centered projectbasedlearning via:preoccupations pblhttps://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:3d21bef07989/Why Doesn't Anyone Pay Attention Anymore? | HASTAC2010-11-22T02:36:16+00:00
http://www.hastac.org/blogs/cathy-davidson/why-doesnt-anyone-pay-attention-anymore
robertogreco20 years & have heard how students don't pay attention, can't read a long novel anymore, & are in decline against some unspecified norm of idealized past quite literally every year…we measure our kids' deficits by our glowing & often inflated idea of how much better "we" (our entire generation) were. This is not really a discussion about biology of attention; it's about sociology of change…Virtually all of our current institutions of learning have evolved to prepare youth for industrial age model of work…sit still, don't move, come on time, do this subject then that one in order to pass end-of-grade item-response test. Who wouldn't find video games more stimulating than a typical school day—& more relevant to challenges & obstacles ahead?…mismatch btwn way they are being taught & what they need to learn."]]>cathydavidson education learning neuroscience neurophysiology deschooling unschooling technology distraction attention brain internet teaching teens change society generations idealizedpasthttps://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:0858ca8d76e8/In Praise of Mo' Better Grading | DMLcentral2010-05-17T01:27:04+00:00
http://dmlcentral.net/blog/cathy-davidson/praise-mo-better-grading
robertogrecocathydavidson grades grading assessment education teaching learning ranking winners losers participation tcsnmy conventionhttps://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:5068dc0f3723/A Thought Experiment: Why grade? Why test? What if? | DMLcentral2010-02-09T06:52:55+00:00
http://dmlcentral.net/blog/cathy-davidson/thought-experiment-why-grade-why-test-what-if
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