Enhancing employability via Community Challenge

Phil JohnsonUCBC

“Nevermind the pedagogues, here's edupunk” (David Cohen in the Guardian’s Mortarboard Blog, June 2008)

“Punk was actively discouraged if not banned during 1976 and 1977… This resulted in an underground distribution and production network which turned necessity into a virtue: it was easy and cheap, go and do it. These ideals of access – which have been expanded by the internet – have become one of Punk’s enduring legacies.”(Savage, 2001, England’s Dreaming, p. xv, emphasis added)

It’s a swindle? (rough transcript from The Great Rock n Roll Swindle, 1980)

Rotten: (quietly) …coz the country’s in a right state…

Interviewer: (patronisingly) And so what do you intend to do about it?

Rotten: Make it worse

“Ever get the feeling

you’ve been cheated?”

“Flogging a dead horse”?

From the edupunk blogosphere in a debate over the term’s precise meaning.

@sleslie cited by @mweller

They got more than 16,000 views on youTube in one year.

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Everything starts with an E (learning)?

“The north-west of Britain is better known for its urban wastelands and decaying industries than its nightlife, but between 1989 and 1991 …the otherwise unremarkable town of Blackburn became the centre of a DiY party movement” (Hemment, 1998: 209)

‘anarchos’ (without rulers)

‘agogos’ (to guide)

Total Anarchy?

= guiding without rulers

http://dylanglynn.blogspot.co.uk/2010/07/utopia-dystopia.html

“This is the next era of policing… very soon we will be using a predictive policing model where, by studying real-time crime patterns, we can anticipate where a crime is likely to occur.” (William Bratton, Former Commissioner of NYPD and Chief of LAPD)

“The technology predicts where crimes are likely to occur in place-based prediction boxes as small as 500 feet by 500 feet. Officers are briefed at roll call on the highest-probability “hot spots” for that day and devote extra attention to those areas—as much as fifteen minutes every two hours.”

“In contrast to technology that analyzes and maps past crime for some hints at the future—a kind of “rear view mirror” policing—PredPol tells law enforcement what is coming.”

Customers who smash glasses also (buy/read)…

"will help more accurately deploy officers, especially after another round of staff cuts” (NBC, January 2013)

“cyber-utopianism”; “internet-centrism”; “solutionism” (Morozov, 2011; 2013)

3D printers?May 2013: 100,000 downloads of ‘the Liberator’ (27 hours to ‘make’ @ cost of £22 for materials and a £1,800 printer)

Personal remote presence drones?

Wenceslaus Hollar (1663)

B0007052 Credit Neil Webb

Employability expectations from employers:

1. Business and customer awareness

2. Problem solving

3. Communication and literacy

4. Application of numeracy

5. Application of information technology

6. A ‘can-do’ approach

7. Entrepreneurship/enterprise

(Pegg et al, 2012, Pedagogy for Employability, p19)

Edupunk?

Edupunk?

Edupunk?

Edupunk?

Degrees of edupunk

Community Challenge

A Massively Open Online Course (MOOC) or just aTOOC?

Alternative assessment?

Alternative marking?

http://techcrunch.com/tag/youtube (accessed 19 May 2013)

You tube!

“YouTube turns eight years old today, reminding each of us in some odd way how young or old we really are… the company launched back in 2005, the same year that Michael Jackson was found not guilty of child molestation, and Lance Armstrong was winning his seventh Tours De France…

A lot has changed since then, but YouTube’s growth remains strong as ever… its community now uploads more than 100 hours of video to the platform every minute… four days worth of video every sixty seconds…

YouTube claims that more than one billion people across the world come to YouTube for content each month, which comes out to nearly one in every two people who have access to the internet”

Repurposing assessments

Criminology Todayhttp://tinyurl.com/btoqvug

Justice Today http://tinyurl.com/cjgur7o

‘Educational PunKtums’

“it … rises from the scene, shoots out of it like an arrow, and pierces me… it also refers to the notion of punctuation … for punctum is also: sting, speck, cut, little hole – and also a cast of the dice. A photograph’s punctum is that accident which pricks me but also bruises me, is poignant to me” (Barthes, 1981: 26-7, emphasis added).

POSSIBILITIES FROM THE HEGEMONY OF THE WRITTEN WORD?

Course Number of

assignments

Usual word limit per

assignment

Total

HND Criminology (2 years) 20 1,750

35,000

FdA Criminology (2 years) 16 2,500

40,000

BA Criminology (per year) 5 4,000 (inc.exams) and

10,000 for the dissertation 26,000 (plus 4 exams)

Donations in 2013-14?

1:10?

Anarchogogy in action: http://communitychallenge.pbworks.com

@edupunk_philp.johnson@blackburn.ac.uk

References

Barthes, R. (1981) Camera lucida. New York: Hill & Wang.Hemment, D. (1998) “Dangerous dancing and disco riots: the northern warehouse parties” in G. McKay (ed) DIY Culture: party & protest in Nineties Britain. London: Verso, pp. 208-228.Morozov, E. (2011) The Net Delusion. Allen Lane: London.Morozov, E. (2013) To Save Everything Click Here. Allen Lane: LondonPegg, A., Waldock, J., Hendy-Isaac, S. and Lawton, R. (2012) Pedagogy for employability URL (accessed 22 May 2012) http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/resources/detail/employability/pedagogy_for_employability_update_2012 Savage, J. (2001) England’s Dreaming. London: Faber and Faber.

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