Comments on: Change is Inconvenient

By: Tom Hoffman

Tom Hoffman — Fri, 09 Jun 2006 01:29:49 +0000

Will,
This is the last post on bloglines, for at least some of the feeds there… Not sure what the problem might be. Better nag James.

By: stephen fink

stephen fink — Fri, 02 Jun 2006 23:33:43 +0000

I saw Gore’s movie, An Inconvenient Truth, about Global Warming. If you look at it from a teacher’s point of view , he is a model student. He walks around with his Mac laptop and continues to develop his powerpoints in airports, offices and restaurants. He investigates and collaborates with others The slides are all visuals that provide evidence to support his thesis. His speech that accompanies the slides help the viewer understand the significance of the charts and graphs and photographs–no reading of lines and lines of text. In so many ways he is the poster child for project-based-learning. There is no use of technology for its own sake.

This video would be great for teacher-training.

By: Darren Kuropatwa

Darren Kuropatwa — Thu, 01 Jun 2006 04:57:41 +0000

Have you read Michael Crichton’s book State of Fear?

By: art gelwicks

art gelwicks — Wed, 31 May 2006 16:40:01 +0000

Until people see an immediate WIIFM (what’s in it for me) factor to making the necessary changes, the priority of those changes will be low on their list of things to do. For example reducing driving speed reduces vehicle fuel consumption and emissions. Nice thoughts. Reducing driving speed SAVES GAS = SAVES MONEY. WIIFM. Now I drive the limit.

To paraphrase a famous Forest…change is as change does.

By: dave cormier

dave cormier — Wed, 31 May 2006 16:28:17 +0000

you accused me of ruining your day yesterday Will… you have returned the favour with your ‘we call it pollution, we call it life commercials.’

I imagine a class where you would ask the students to take other things and replace CO2

“they say that the water that consuming the continents will drown us… but isn’t this the same water we drink? Use to wash ourselves? How could water harm us?” “They call it a flood, we call it a tasty thirst quencher”

By: Terry Elliott

Terry Elliott — Wed, 31 May 2006 10:26:59 +0000

It’s like the Randy Newman song “I’m Dead”. In it a has-been continues to wannabe.

I have nothing left to say
But I’m going to say it anyway
Thirty years upon a stage
And now I hear the people say
Why won’t he go away?

I pass the houses of the dead
They’re calling me to join their group
But I stagger on instead
Dear God, Sweet God
Protect me from the truth

CHORUS

I’m dead but I don’t know it
(He’s dead He’s dead)
I’m dead but I don’t know
(He’s dead He’s dead)
I’m dead but I don’t know it
(He’s dead He’s dead)
Please don’t tell me so
Let me, let me go

I spoke about this on my blog when I said we had best heed Will and Al’s warnings unless we would prefer to be irrelevant.