In my endless quest to find interesting education-flavored nuggets for you all to digest, I now and then stumble across other blogs in the genre, whether wonk-written or teacher-penned or student-run or otherwise.
Today's discovery (on the recommendation of my go-to ed blog, This Week In Education) is of the latter category.
Dubbed Students 2.0, it appears to be authored by about 9 different students from different states (and in one case from another country) and has of late touched on topics from philosophy to experiential learning to something called mini-term (wherein the student's school offered four-day sessions that encouraged teachers to "teach their passion).
One of their most recent posts, though, by a girl named Lindsea, addresses a concept being called edupunk, which she says is "sweeping the edublogosphere" and defines as "DIY education." She cites examples, courtesy of Wikipedia, including Legos, chalk and Moodle and trends like "students teaching their teachers how to use technology."
So apparently anything that at all turns traditional notions of education on its head qualifies as part of the edupunk movement.
Any edupunks lurking around here in the South Bay? If so, give a shout and let's talk. I'm going to continue my research herein, but as I just ran across this new-to-me-term, I wanted to toss the concept out there for y'all to nosh on until I can report back with more.
Leave a comment