{"id":146,"date":"2006-01-07T16:40:04","date_gmt":"2006-01-07T16:40:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=146"},"modified":"2006-01-07T16:40:04","modified_gmt":"2006-01-07T16:40:04","slug":"something-viral-in-the-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=146","title":{"rendered":"Something viral in the air"},"content":{"rendered":"

Stephen Downes’ Edu_RSS is hors de combat<\/i> at the moment, but his bombshell post<\/a> was one of the first I saw in this set. Daniel Lemire<\/a> quotes and comments. <\/p>\n

Another in a similar vein is Reinventing Ourselves in 2006<\/a> from Will Richardson, and one more, A Season of Discontent<\/a>, from Dave Warwick, includes this bit of eloquence:<\/p>\n

People are voicing a growing discontent with the status quo of the education industry, its resistance to change, and our increasing unhappiness with being a part of an institution that seems more interested in maintaining its own comfort than doing its job \u2014 preparing children for their future.<\/p>\n

\nDedication to the mission is still with us. If anything it is stronger. It is the heart of our discontent. We live in an incredibly creative time with opportunities whose realization depends on our imaginations more than any other skill or character trait. Yet, we work for an institution that remains grounded in industrial age notions of itself, and we don\u2019t like it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

John Pederson really nails it with his Extinction Management – Quit Your Day Job 101<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Today, I\u2019m riding free. I gave up a job that I completely loved, but a job that was seriously conflicting with the creative, idealistic, and passionate part of my personality.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Now and again I find myself near a cutting edge, thinking about or working on something that suddenly gets Attention<\/b> from others. My feeling of prescience usually doesn’t last long, but it’s a pleasant bask while it lasts. This time around, it seems like my decision to retire and to follow my nose into whatever seemed most interesting was<\/i> prescient, and it’s gratifying to find that others are sufficiently frustrated with the institutions in which they are immured to actually do<\/i> something about it. I look forward to what they’ll invent.<\/p>\n

\nMy basic sense is that educational institutions (and especially those of “higher” education) are pretty uniformly dysfunctional, and that the real fun is to be had in creating and promulgating alternative modes of self-education. The missing link is how to make a living at it, but I don’t have to solve that one. One advantage of being of a certain age…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Stephen Downes’ Edu_RSS is hors de combat at the moment, but his bombshell post was one of the first I saw in this set. Daniel Lemire quotes and comments. Another in a similar vein is Reinventing Ourselves in 2006 from Will Richardson, and one more, A Season of Discontent, from Dave Warwick, includes this bit […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}