For the last several weeks, I've been following Ewan McIntosh's edu.blogs.com (as a matter of fact, they follow me, as I signed up to have anything he adds or write sent immediately to my inbox!) What I continue to find so striking about his blog is the way he thinks and how he manages to look at things, whether seemingly educational or not, from an educational point of view! To me, this is a true educator, the person who can find the teachable moments in everything. His latest post is about Anil Dash and a very interesting presentation he made recently as he "Defended the Indefensible." Wonderful viewpoints - many that I don't agree with, but how wonderful to get students to look at a different perspective on things! He writes, "I actually thought this whole question would make an interesting exercise with youngsters in the classroom - what have they seen that is indefensible, and can they make it completely defensible using the facts, history and a good bit of empathy?" As an English teacher, it's what I will strive to do every minute of the day!
When I first began to receive emails from this blog, I wasn't too sure - as there was a video he posted about gaming taking over the world that completely disturbed me, although he seemed to think it was cool. I was disturbed by all the images of NYC being crushed to bits of pixels (by popular, sometimes old-fashioned, video games, hence the idea of gaming taking over the world.) But I found many of his ideas intriguing and links he posts to things that he finds intriguing, so I continued on. Another one of my favorites, "Alice Born Digital: How Transmedia Storytelling Becomes a Billion Dollar Business." I'll keep up with this blog even beyond the scope of this Teaching with Technology course.
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