Shailene Woodley is a much-nominated (and awarded) actress who I've never heard of. Officially out-of-touch with the younger generation, I guess. Anyway, the movie (based on a well-thought-of YA book) is apparently great, & her performance apparantly amazing. Also, skimming through her twitter (assuming it's really her posting) etc. suggests potential weirdness tonight. Possibly of a good kind. we'll see. Links: wikipedia verified twitter account rottentomatoes (just 9 reviews so far) movie site movie twitter the book Weird Girls, Rejoice: The Reign of Shailene Woodley Is Coming 'Spectacular Now' Clip: Shailene Woodley Gets Her First Kiss 'The Spectacular Now' and other films coming of (a new) age: Rites-of-passage films are retooled to reflect the frazzled and often-fractured realities of modern family life. Watch the First Clip (and First Kiss) From the Summer Romance The Spectacular Now The Spectacular Now: A Film Worth Seeing. Twice.
Links: wikipedia verified twitter account rottentomatoes (just 9 reviews so far) movie site movie twitter the book
Weird Girls, Rejoice: The Reign of Shailene Woodley Is Coming 'Spectacular Now' Clip: Shailene Woodley Gets Her First Kiss 'The Spectacular Now' and other films coming of (a new) age: Rites-of-passage films are retooled to reflect the frazzled and often-fractured realities of modern family life. Watch the First Clip (and First Kiss) From the Summer Romance The Spectacular Now The Spectacular Now: A Film Worth Seeing. Twice.
From the TED.com blog: Live from TEDGlobal 2013 Reinventing education for millennials: Anant Agarwal at TEDGlobal 2013 Helen Walters, June 14, 2013 Anant Agarwal runs EdX.org, the Harvard-MIT open-education site, and he’s here to talk MOOCs, those “massively open online courses” that have generated both excitement and skepticism throughout the chattering world of the digital classes. Agarwal shows a picture of a lecture hall in MIT from 50 years ago. Then one of the scene from today. What has changed? Not much, it seems. “The seats are in color?” he offers. “Whoopdie do.” Classroom education hasn’t really changed in the past 50 years. EdX and similar programs are an attempt to be the change the education field needs to see, an attempt to disrupt a calcified industry that Agarwal says needs no less than to be shattered and rebuilt from the ground up. He wants to share some insights gleaned since the launch of EdX, when 155,000 students from 162 countries signed up for an MIT course on circuits and electronics. That’s more than the total number of MIT alumni across the university’s 150-year history. “I would have to teach 40 years before I could teach this many students,” he says... Yay! Let's put even more educators out of work! Never mind personal interaction. Or the real problems with the 'calcified industry', which might start with seeing education as a factory ('industrial') product. And of course the past several decades of investing in everything but the actual processes of education, which require no more than teachers, students, source material, and the luxury of time. Anyway. @edXonline @agarwaledu edx.org/ wikipedia
Live from TEDGlobal 2013 Reinventing education for millennials: Anant Agarwal at TEDGlobal 2013 Helen Walters, June 14, 2013 Anant Agarwal runs EdX.org, the Harvard-MIT open-education site, and he’s here to talk MOOCs, those “massively open online courses” that have generated both excitement and skepticism throughout the chattering world of the digital classes. Agarwal shows a picture of a lecture hall in MIT from 50 years ago. Then one of the scene from today. What has changed? Not much, it seems. “The seats are in color?” he offers. “Whoopdie do.” Classroom education hasn’t really changed in the past 50 years. EdX and similar programs are an attempt to be the change the education field needs to see, an attempt to disrupt a calcified industry that Agarwal says needs no less than to be shattered and rebuilt from the ground up. He wants to share some insights gleaned since the launch of EdX, when 155,000 students from 162 countries signed up for an MIT course on circuits and electronics. That’s more than the total number of MIT alumni across the university’s 150-year history. “I would have to teach 40 years before I could teach this many students,” he says...
Anant Agarwal runs EdX.org, the Harvard-MIT open-education site, and he’s here to talk MOOCs, those “massively open online courses” that have generated both excitement and skepticism throughout the chattering world of the digital classes.
Agarwal shows a picture of a lecture hall in MIT from 50 years ago. Then one of the scene from today. What has changed? Not much, it seems. “The seats are in color?” he offers. “Whoopdie do.”
Classroom education hasn’t really changed in the past 50 years. EdX and similar programs are an attempt to be the change the education field needs to see, an attempt to disrupt a calcified industry that Agarwal says needs no less than to be shattered and rebuilt from the ground up. He wants to share some insights gleaned since the launch of EdX, when 155,000 students from 162 countries signed up for an MIT course on circuits and electronics. That’s more than the total number of MIT alumni across the university’s 150-year history. “I would have to teach 40 years before I could teach this many students,” he says...
Anyway. @edXonline @agarwaledu edx.org/ wikipedia