Most people usually lack the discipline to stick to a diet or to go to the gym three times a week.
SO TRUE
Most people usually lack the discipline to stick to a diet or to go to the gym three times a week.
SO TRUE
I want to suggest that what we need instead of a discipline called “education technology” is an undisciplining
Maybe that saved me. Maybe it didn’t.
And what about the other side of this? What if a school, like the Lyons Community School in Brooklyn practices Restorative Justice. Does that prepare those youths to deal with cops who treat them with disrespect and violence in the streets? See Act Three. The Talking Cure. of This American Life 538: "Is this Working?" October 17, 2014.
the feeling that your funky little system is cool when we're in school and all, but don't try and take it and apply it to our world. You're in over your head.
Actually listen to the whole thing to see that they also end up, like Coates, with "maybe, yes, maybe, no."
discipline, built, as Foucault tells us: by groups of objects, methods, their corpus of propositions considered to be true, the interplay of rules and definitions, of techniques and tools: all these constitut[ing] a sort of anonymous system, freely available to whoever wishes, or whoever is able to make use of them, without there being any question of their meaning or their validity being derived from whoever happened to invent them.
that the moments when students generate “education data” is, historically, moments when they come into contact with the school and more broadly the school and the state as a disciplinary system