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category: technology
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title: An aside on Education
date: '2009-01-07T10:33:00.000-05:00'
author: Anna Wiggins
tags:
- education
- Technology
modified_time: '2013-10-22T11:19:50.660-04:00'
blogger_id: tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4209116010564764361.post-4480323441727822265
blogger_orig_url: http://www.stringofbits.net/2009/01/an-aside-on-education.html
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I first encountered Clay Burell on his blog <a href="http://beyond-school.org">Beyond School</a>, where he had started a series of <a href="http://beyond-school.org/2008/08/26/gilgamesh1/">Unsucky English Lectures</a>.  These posts were brilliant, engaging, and poignant, and I followed them to their tragically early conclusion. (Clay, if you're reading this, pick those back up, man!)  It turns out that Beyond School was actually a blog about revolutionizing education.  I just happened in while he was doing a special series.  I kept following his blog, though.<br/><br/>At any rate, Mr. Burell now has a new blog at <a href="http://education.change.gov">education.change.org</a>.  In particular, one recent post impressed me, and I wanted to increase its distribution, at least by the tiny amount that people actually view this blog :P<br/><br/><a href="http://education.change.org/blog/view/why_schoolwork_doesnt_have_to_suck_learning_20">Why Schoolwork Doesn't Have to Suck</a><br/><br/>There's some important ideas here.  The concept that our technology could (should, must) become the medium through which we engage in learning is as groundbreaking as it is obvious.  Enjoy.