By Reverend, bavatuesdays – November 22, 2011 at 07:10AM
It is almost four years old now, and I swear EDUPUNK won’t die. Maybe that’s not a bad thing either if we can divorce it from a brand as Sarah Cunnane’s article on the topic in Times Higher Education suggests. What’s more, if it might look like anything like what Stephen Downes frames in the article that would be ideal:
“But if, by contrast, it [EDUPUNK] creates the sort of individual empowerment on a wide-scale basis that we think it can, that would be something that would be celebrated. That was punk: the message wasn’t ‘love our music’; it was ‘anyone can make music.”
But then there is also the theory that EDUPUNK is just transforming into things like ds106, I am not sure if that’s true but I must admit I like the idea of it
Image credit: I am forgetting who did this one, help me!!!
At the same time, it can’t be lost on any of us what dark days have descended upon universities in the U.S. given the militarization of campuses, completely disconnected administration, and horrific acts of violence in the placid face of peaceful protest (which in truth has been going on for well over a year in the UC system). When institutions reveal themselves to be monsters, it makes it hard to read my own quote in the THE article: “That’s why I work for universities: because I believe in them.” It’s becoming harder to believe in the mission of the university when it so stridently manifests itself as a violent extension of the military/corporate state. Sad times, indeed. Check out yesterday’s DTLT Today episode on the topic: “A Dark Moment for Higher Education.”
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