[ Thanks to Barbara
Irwin for this link. ]
“One night in 2008 at a Brooklyn bar, a drunk Jim Groom
coined a term that has changed the way the world looks at
education.“The word is EduPunk and it sums up the need for educational
reform — reform that, to some extent, has already begun.“Ordinary people are taking their education into their own
hands. Using Web 2.0 tools, they have a world of knowledge at their
fingertips. And classrooms, lectures, and curriculums are changing,
dramatically.“”What we’re doing now as EduPunks is we’re kind of taking the
same concept, the same ethos of the punk era and we’re applying it
to education,” says Steve Wheeler, a self-proclaimed EduPunk
educator at the University of Plymouth. “We’re doing it ourselves.
We’re using our own tools. We’re bypassing the educational systems
that have been put in place by the corporate companies and
institutions. That’s EduPunk.””