Not that anyone noticed, but I took a couple weeks off. I actually thought to myself that the last three weeks of school would go smoothly. Along with this my son’s going through some heavy stuff. Here’s what I missed while I was away.

Apparently a whole movement started while I decided to stop writing. Behold, EduPunk.

Here’s the basic tenets as I understand them:

1. Course management systems suck and teachers can do it better on their own.
2. D.I.Y. (Do It Yourself) creates better stuff for students than canned courses or templates

Not sure that I agree, or care, about either one of these.

Here’s what’s missing:

• doing everything that you can for kids and teaching them to do something revolutionary… think for themselves
• and something not so simple: realizing the stacked odds our students face and doing everything in your power to reset the balance in their favor. Everything.
• Finally, subverting the traditional power-structure of teacher/student, administrator/teacher, school/society.

I was punk, once.

And a fun band said “You’re only punk once. So you better do it right. Before you become the system we’ve all sworn to fight.”

Here’s to my second chance. Not to mention The List.

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