Educational Insanity

I’m teaching a course called The Politics of Education to an awesome group of our doctoral students this semester.

The wiki/syllabus (a living, breathing document) is located HERE.

You can participate and help my students’ (and my own) learning in a couple of ways.

First, tagging…anything that you think might be related to what the course is about (see e.g. http://sites.google.com/site/edpolitics/syllabus) can be tagged with “adms707“.  I know, just about everything education-related is also about the politics of education, but that’s OK. Tag away. We will all be feeding Google Reader with a subscription to the tag and we can filter out what’s useful or not.

Second, please consider subscribing to and/or reading the blogs my students are using as reflection spaces.  You can get to individual blog posts HERE.  Or, you can see the blog URLs HERE.  Of course, comments are helpful as I want this blogging endeavor to be meaningful in a connectivist sort of way.

Thanks for considering being a part of our learning experiences this semester!

photo credit: helgasms!

1. Dr. Delaney Kirk says:

   September 30, 2009 at 3:16 pm

   Sounds like a great course!

   Are you aware of Carolyn Handler Miller’s book, Digital Storytelling? I wasn’t sure how to add to wiki list of books.
2. Fred Deutsch says:

   October 16, 2009 at 11:08 pm

   Dr. Becker, I’m a school board member from South Dakota. I read all your student’s blogs on school boards. I invested time in responding to many of them — hopefully, my experience as a school board member will give them some additional food for thought and may help with their own education. If any of your students have questions, they can certainly email me back or call me back or post comments on my school board blog at http://www.school-of-thought.net. Sure wish I could join you in the course. Sounds fascinating!
3. Jon Becker says:

   October 17, 2009 at 10:23 pm

   Fred, you HAVE joined my course by kindly taking the time to respond to my students’ blogs. Thank you VERY much for that. I will point my students to your comments as an example of the power of open and connected learning. I’ve added your blog’s feed to my reader and I will encourage my students to do the same.

   Thanks again!