One of the better interviews with Henry Giroux from the Media Education Foundation. ”Culture, Politics, and Pedagogy,” includes Giroux telling his story about how he got connected with Paulo Friere, questions of theory and practice, NCLB, and role of education in democracy.
I was poking around on google books tonight and thought I’d check out and see if our book, Democracies to Come, was there–not expecting that it would be. But, lo and behold, there it was! Kind of cool. So, if your just dying to add another book to your google book reading, check out Democracies to Come (shameless, I know).
Rhetorical Review, The Electronic Review of Books on the History of Rhetoric, vol. 7, no. 1 (February 2009) is now available on the internet:
Just came across this video thanks to Northland Poster Collective. I know all you union nerds like me know exactly what’s going on with the Employee Free Choice Act…but, let’s face it, the world is not filled with union nerds (nor are they filled with comp/rhet nerds). So, I love it when we see these kind of campaigns.
That’s right folks. APSCUF entered YouTube in September 2008. Here’s the link <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6EInZfXYUw> and here’s the video:
Here is the first paragraph of the article “Create, Collaborate, Communicate: Empowering Students With 21st Century Skills,” by Chris Riedel. It was published in T.H.E. Journal in January.
“We need to change the way we teach,” said Howie DiBlasi, speaking at FETC 2009 in Orlando, FL last week. DiBlasi, retired district CIO and emerging technology evangelist, pointed to a statistic from the United States Department of Commerce that left many in the audience shaking their heads: According to a study that ranked 55 industry sectors by their level of IT intensiveness, “education ranked 55 … below coal mining.”
Check out the full article here
