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THE WRITER’S DILEMMA
by Kenneth Harper Finton ©2015
It is said that writers “write to be read.”
Then painters paint to be seen, actors act to impress and singers sing to be heard.
If this is the case–and most often it is–the newer writers of the world are setting themselves up for great disappointment. They will not find the audience that they did on the past. They will not achieve the fame that others did in the…
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Reflection: Ch. 3 "A Pedagogical Project"
When I read, "a truly competent public-school system...does not assess the intellectual potential of lower-class children with evaluation tools created for those whose class conditioning gives them an undeniable advantage over the former"(36) it made me more confident of my thinking about the need to have a community based curriculum that finds its roots in the history and culture of the people for whom I teach. I firmly believe that I can get any student, any class, ready for state mandated tests so long as I can start with what they know and foster that in my classroom. However, it's hard to do that when the pressure of the tests weighs on me through the quad sheet, the meetings, and the need for a cannon. Granted, I believe in the cannon and also believe the cannon is flexible. However, it's hard to pull kids into a democratic and actualized curriculum when they've been conditioned to answer the test using texts that facilitate the test. I want them to answer the test using texts that they pulled from grandmother, pulled from the stories their uncles told at funerals, collected from their friends in the park.Â
 If the Freire had his way, then there would be a lot more community involvement in the day to day workings of the school. There would be more interviews with parents in terms of curriculum and what students needed to know. Granted, this might fly in the face of tests and what have you, but it would be real and it would come from the parents, the community, and from the source of our constituents. The things they learned would be directly related to who they are and where they are in time and place, and not necessarily in the time and place of the government that was generalizing knowledge and content.Â
Digg Surrenders to Mob | TechCrunch
Digg CEO Jay Adelson responded on the Digg blog earlier this afternoon but it was clear he did not yet understand the chaos that was coming. The post only added fuel to the fire. Just now, co-founder Kevin Rose posted yet again on the Digg blog, effectively capitulating to the mob’s demands: He says
But now, after seeing hundreds of stories and reading thousands of comments, you’ve made it clear. You’d rather see Digg go down fighting than bow down to a bigger company. We hear you, and effective immediately we won’t delete stories or comments containing the code and will deal with whatever the consequences might be.
If we lose, then what the hell, at least we died trying.
Until today, it seems, even Digg didn’t fully understand the power of its community to determine what is “news.” I think the community made their point crystal clear.
Vive La Revolution.
Earlier coverage on CrunchGear.
(source:Â TechCrunch)
