Sunday, October 30, 2016

Great quotes from TAASA

Here's a quote that Debbie Morrison highlighted in her review of the book.


“The function of the What’s-Worth-Knowing Questions Curriculum is to put two ideas into clear focus. The first is that the art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge…The second idea is that question asking…has to deal with problems that are perceived as useful and realistic to the learner.” Teaching As a Subversive Activity (p 81)


She ends her review with links to the following pages


2019: Let's organize a major online conference about "Teaching as a Subversive Activity." #50yearsOfSubversiveTeaching

Let's celebrate the 50th anniversary of the publishing of Teaching as a Subversive Activity (TAASA) by Neil Postman and Charles Weingartner.  
1.  The conference does not need to be in a place

http://50yearsofsubversiveteaching.blogspot.com/2016/10/2019-lets-organize-major-online.html   =   tinyURL.com/postman50

2.  We don't even need to wait until 2019 to start the celebration


You can find this post at tinyURL.com/50yearspostman
Highlights of the next three years could include

>> Let's make a list of blogposts and reviews that help newcomers learn more about the Postman approach.

>>  #50yearsOfSubversiveTeaching   Let's come up with a better hashtag than  #50yearsOfSubversiveTeaching

>> Let's spread the Wikipedia article about inquiry based instruction.
GO HERE

>> Let's come up with a better name for the method that does not use the word "-based".  Can we find a phrase that does not use a hyphen?
LINK TO THE BOOK on Amazon Let's collect clicks and encourage classes of students to post videos to review this blog and the blogposts mentioned here.   

Let's encourage the next two million teachers to each spend some time reading chapter 12 of TAASA.  

>> Let's give a THANK YOU to the web managers who have posted PDF copies of the book for us to download.   Search "neil postman teaching as a subversive activity pdf" and you'll see Arjutatoys.com.  THANK YOU!
ALSO a site in ZAMBIA Please send additional 

Here is the start of the LIST of reviews and blog posts.  Please suggest more links by writing to ManyPosters@gmail.com  and Trintaanos2015@gmail.com.   Send me a text message to make sure I hunt for your email message.  Phone (+1) 954 646 8246

Steve McCrea
Fan of Postman   ManyPosters@gmail.com

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author   Arnold Dodge
title  Teaching as a Subversive Activity
link http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arnold-dodge/teaching-as-a-subversive-_b_5724706.html
GO HERE

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author  Debbie Morrision   May 12, 2014
title  Three Bold and Fresh Ideas for Education in ‘Teaching as a Subversive Activity’
link https://onlinelearninginsights.wordpress.com/2014/05/12/bold-and-fresh-ideas-for-education-in-teaching-as-a-subversive-activity/
EMAIL  debbiemorrison505@gmail.com
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