May 28
If there’s a line from the music and cultural punk themes of the 70s to the edupunk of today, it has to veer into the hacker ethos– and I’m not quite sure that it emerges distinct. When Jim and D’Arcy write about edupunk it sounds like eduhacking to my ears. DIY, unintended use, subversion, exposure, open, sharing– it’s hacking the richest possible sense. For me, the attraction lies not only in fighting the man and being subversive through alternative means, but also subverting the monolithic technologies from the inside and not forgetting all those people trapped in there.
I’m game. If I’m going to stay in this business, I’m ready for the tattoo. Subvert, disrupt, innovate… there’s a reason my card says “Disruptive Technologist.”
absolutely! edupunk is hacking. it’s disruption. it’s subversion. it’s maker culture. it’s craft. it’s fighting the man, and being the man.
I like the tattoo idea
Eduhacking makes total sense and it captures the ethos of doing and creating. Punk captures the simplicity and just making it, regardless of how it looks or sounds. Damn, I just love to think of the beuatiufl poetry you can push out on such a theme, every movement needs a poet, and every poet needs a movement?
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If there’s a downside to the punk ethos, it’s probably that it tends to be deliberately aggressive and provocative, and as such the people the anger is directed towards can all too easily cast it off as worthless.
I think maybe we are in a position to play all three sides of the game, though, do the aggressive bit and also respond to the “it’s just shallow” knee jerk response with some demonstrations of not only how it’s innovating with the technology (eduhacker ethos) but also how it’s exploring what education is in a connected world, with access to a modern day library of Alexandria and the ability to reach out by tweet or other means to some of the world’s leading thinkers, movers and shakers… and if we have to write the formal papers too, then we probably could do that as well…
maybe…
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[...] is a certain Zen-Jedi quality to his statements here. Then I read Chris Lott’s thoughts on the topic and was immediately drawn in as he stated: …[S]ounds like eduhacking to my ears. DIY, [...]
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