DER : End Of An Era ?

A shamless lift from Graham Wegner’s site though, nonetheless, a poignant moment in solidarity as we contemplate just what the heck was that promise ?…….. we so tenderly poised our voting 2008 pen over.

I even dedicated a whole category to it in this ramble of a blog.

I reckon that never has there been a time more pertinent, more urgent, more useful, more timely point to embrace and build a super connected community of learners who’s access to whatever they choose to get is heavily informed by the very educators whom we seem to respect less than the local larrikin lawyer.

Geoff Lubich, Leo Gaggl, Craig Lubich and I are exploring in our own small way some aspects of how to bring that connected learning journey through and with a mobile hive-mind in tow. It sure is a learning curve as we build and forge EDUPOV.

Edupunk : Oi Oi Oi !

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[ image : me in 2007 ]

It would seem our most illustrious educationalists are now engaged in a race to rhetoric to rid themselves of the web 2.0 moniker they so lovingly have coveted for so long ….for so little some would retort.

D’Arcy Norman threatens self immolation in a land of machines and Leigh Blackall quotes 1975 as being one of the best years in his short life, both it would seem  in their reference and abhorence to straight-edge geek-boys desiring dirt amongst tech-smarm and power hungry industrialised neck-bearded hegemonists.

Yet, on reflection, a trillion social bookmarks and three hundred billion lost passwords and associated personal information fields later, we now have a better picture of what we could perhaps should now be working away from…but how ?

Well, perhaps we could all get web 2.0 and 21st century ( finger down throat ) about it and address it as all good fcuking edu-mcationalists should in a list of ten ‘edupunk’ behaviours ( or considerations of reality ) that you think define our move away from reframing and bundling emerging technologies into cookie-cutter products with pre-defined application….

Here’s my ten;

1. Resolving The Identity Crisis – I now know who I dont know because of the technologies I find myself using day to day….what was my name again and who do you want me to be ?
2. Avoiding Robotic Gesticulations – The machine is in me
3. Head Banging For A Living – I’d shave my head and bang it only its all fallen out
4. Google Maps My Arse – I’m already covered in tattoos and they still gave me a job as a pre-school teacher
5. Beazley For President – Johnny Rotten was the last Australian Prime Minister right ?
6. Networking Mayhem – My RSS reader looks like Sid & Nancy on crack
7. Avoiding Detention – I’d happily trash a classroom if I had one
8. Business Before Pleasure – Fuck capability building…lets all get pissed and feed our learners to the factory furnace
9. Convicts – We all know that with a pardon we can get to the top and mohawks are a type of Columbian bird right ?
10. Green What ? – You seriously want me to work with this haircut ?

Ah well.

Even when I grew my hair back the attitude still remained…..so I’m told. Better we get all ‘edu’ punk as long as we refrain from waving flags and chanting stupid arse slogans invented for long dead white supremist lunatics.

Oi !

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Unending Rhetoric

Excerpt from an email I received today in response to my repeat request to gain access to the most important national database records which underpin the whole success of the flexible learning program being managed ( or rather mismanaged ) or perhaps re-managed by an unsaid body of corporate wisdom.

Read carefully for the resolve

Dear alexander hayes,

We are pleased to inform you that your reported Incident has been resolved.

Reference No.: INC000000291614
Summary: Website Unblock Request

Your reported Incident has been resolved with the following resolution:

Alexander,

Re http://docs.google.com <http://docs.google.com/>

Thank you for requesting that the above URL  be unblocked.

Following examination by the web filtering team it has been decided to initiate no action to unblock this site, at this stage.

Thank you for advising us about this site.