The winners of the digital revolution include hairdressers, plumbers, care and service workers and professions that have something to do with creativity and responsibility (1). It's starting to work in my head. If that is the case, then it is fair to ask whether we still need compulsory education. Why should we all be forced to go to school and learn things that we don't need in our lives?
The education crisis - just a symptom of general social failure (tags)
One aspect of our society, which is oriented towards self-interest rather than the common good, is that the systemic relevance of education is increasingly taking a back seat to being a market to be served and a nice playground for endless political debates and reforms with little substance, the main aim of which is to preserve the market and the hereditary farms...
Children suffer strongly from homeschooling in Lockdown (tags)
The situation, which UNICEF described as a "catastrophic education crisis" at the beginning of March, continues. In addition, errors, stereotypes, misjudgements and trivialization prevail in the discussion about children, Corona and digital distance learning.
From senseless working to senseless learning (tags)
Up to the threshold of modern times, work - as the traditional term for externally determined action(!) - had been perceived from the perspective of the biblically mediated, divine curse. It was regarded as a bitter necessity imposed on people.
VIDEO: Neil Postman on "Technopoly," 58 min (tags)
If you don't teach history, learning may become a consumer product. What we think we know is a product and will change in the future. Learning is an historical process. Anything we know will be modified. There's psychology in what is seen first and second or not at all.
Javascript / General Programming Class Forming (tags)
Forming a local JS/general programming class. If you're interested, send an email.
Newspeak Rules: How Neoliberalism Explains the World (tags)
Originally positive terms were devalued in the last decades (social state became "welfare dictatorship") Social dislocations are charged to the impacted themselves. The scandal of poverty mutates to the scandal of the poor themselves.
East Jerusalem Schools: Failing Grade (tags)
Israel
Education and Democracy (tags)
education
Chicago Teachers Union Sellout (tags)
education
University of Ottawa Systemic Racism and Abuse (tags)
racism
Abolish Teenage Sexual Abstinence (tags)
The truth about the destructive effects of teenage sexual abstinence has been suppressed for more than 100 years. Religions have promoted unhealthy attitudes toward sexuality for thousands of years. The truth must be heard, and honest dialogue encouraged.
exercise in learning
New Funding for Early Learning in President Obama's Budget Proposal (tags)
President Obama's budget proposal includes almost $1 billion in new funding for Head Start and Early Head Start. The funding would help early learning programs in LA increase access and improve quality.
The Hands...A Must See Today (tags)
The Dumbing-Down of America (tags)
The Endless Loop of Public Education: "Is Our Children Learning?"
Unemployed ? some thoughts that may help. (tags)
Out of a job ? again ? or suddenly scared of losing that job you complained so much about just recently ? You are not alone. Some thoughts of an unemployed. Share your comments and suggestions here too.
LA Welcomes Obama! STOP the RAIDS NOW!! (tags)
On March 19, 2009, President Barack Obama visited the Mexican/Central American community where Miguel Contreras Learning Complex is located. The community came out to demand 1. STOP the ICE RAIDS and 2. FULL LEGALIZATION for ALL PEOPLE NOW!
LA Welcomes Obama! STOP the RAIDS NOW!! (tags)
On March 19, 2009, President Barack Obama visited the Mexican/Central American community where Miguel Contreras Learning Complex is located. The community came out to demand 1. STOP the ICE RAIDS and 2. FULL LEGALIZATION for ALL PEOPLE NOW!
Community Centers: Learning from O Canada! (tags)
The mosaic works in Vancouver, B. C. Community centers provide a buffer and cushion from the brutal and commodifying market. In happier days before Reagan and market fundamentalism, the Carnegie Center was bursting with activity, counseling, classes and circles.
Local Soldier, Rowan D. Walter, Killed in Iraq (tags)
Rowan D. Walter died Feb. 23 of injuries suffered a day earlier when a roadside bomb exploded in an ambush attack in Ramadi, west of Baghdad. He had left his tank to help soldiers in an earlier attack.
Advocacy Workshop for Special Needs Children (tags)
Recognizing the need for further parent training and education, parents and community groups, including Learning Disabilities Association of Orange County and California Safe Schools, are organizing the free Parent Workshop at the Goldy S. Lewis Community Center in the city of Rancho Cucamonga.
The Web: Become a Harvard man -- online (tags)
Capitalists make workers obtain degrees online by making them spend their own money.
Standardizing Early Childhood Education? (tags)
In Washington state new benchmarks will soon be released for preschoolers. The Washington State Early Learning and Development Benchmarks have many early childhood professionals concerned.
Walking on Water: Reading, Writing, and Revolution, by Derrick Jensen (tags)
A Review by Adam Fletcher, Director of The Freechild Project
RESIST THE STANDARDIZED TESTS (tags)
------------------------------------------------------------------------ WHAT OUR CHILDREN ARE LEARNING Resist the standard tests David Rapaport Tuesday, May 13, 2003 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ As California continues to operate in fiscal peril, we must seek to be innovators. But there seems to be no will to look at testing as a place to cut expenditures. So why not save hundreds of millions of dollars statewide and millions locally by permanently invalidating the highly disruptive state testing process?
Drug Abuse, Left Alone, is a Self-Limiting Problem. (tags)
From the book "The Origin of Social Dysfunction" by E. Allie.
LEARN SPANISH WHILE SUPPORTING ACTIVISM (tags)
Activists to Host Language Learning Expedition to Guatemala