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Mario Savio

Pedagogy of the Depressed

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 04.10.2013 | College
Read More: GI Bill, Pipa, Fcc, Aaron Brady, Thomas Friedman, Edx, Public Universities, University of Phoenix, Coursera, Public Colleges, Wikileaks, Moocs, Sopa, David Brooks, Online Education, Julian Assange, Udacity, Automated Grading Software, Jeremy Hammond, Mario Savio, Aaron Swartz, Paulo Freire, College News
Joseph A. Palermo

Can students really be taught critical thinking, civics, and citizenship skills in a standardized format that values conformity? Will relying on MOOCs and automation in the long-term turn professors into "delivery managers" and students into automatons and passive consumers rather than citizens?

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Bob Costas Learns the Right Time to Talk About Guns in America: Never

Will Bunch | Posted 02.03.2013 | Media
Read More: Gun Violence, Sunday Night Football, Bob Costas, Mitt Romney, Deadspin, Gun Control, Javon-Belcher-Suicide, Fox and Friends, Barack Obama, Mario Savio, Bob Costas Jovan Belcher, Guns, Media News
Will Bunch

So if Barack Obama and Mitt Romney were afraid to talk about guns (and they were), no wonder America was so shocked when Bob Costas spoke Sunday night, shocked that a man in his position didn't know the right time to talk about guns in this great nation.

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The Police Riot at Berkeley: If They'll Beat a Poet Laureate, Will They Kill a Student?

Jesse Kornbluth | Posted 01.13.2012 | Politics
Read More: UC Berkeley, Celeste Langan, Geoffrey O'Brien, Mario Savio, Occupy, Robert J. Birgeneau. Robert Hass, Politics News
Jesse Kornbluth

Someone proposed a definition of "class warfare" you won't hear on television: "The rich are now rich enough to pay half the population to kill the other half of the population." Sickening, that -- and, I fear, prophetic.

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Authors: Throw Yourself Upon the Gears of Big Publishing

Mark Coker | Posted 07.18.2011 | Books
Read More: eBook Publishing, Future of Publishing, Mario Savio, Free Speech, Ebooks, Free Speech Movement 1960's, Free Speech Movement, Big Publishers, UC Berkeley, Traditional Publishing, Books News
Mark Coker

Until recently, if a publisher refused to publish an author's book, it limited an author's ability to reach readers. Now, the e-book printing press is free and available to all.

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Student Riots vs. Internet Attacks

Jan Herman | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media
Read More: Julian Assange, Student Riots, Bradley Manning, Internet Attacks, Mario Savio, Guerrilla Geeks, Media News
Jan Herman

Violence in the streets scares the shit out of the authorities. More than guerrilla geeks, student rioters in the streets send the authorities into a...

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Civil Rights Movement Reassembles to Ask: What's Next?

Saul Landau | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: John Lewis, Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth, Alabama, Voting Rights Bill, Governor George Wallace, Bob Moses, Sncc, Harry Belafonte, Eric Holder, Rev, Jim Crow, Martin Luther King, Civl-Rights-Movement, Segregation, Julian Bond, Tennessee, Lyndon Johnson, Mississippi, David Harris, James Lawson, North Carolina, Mario Savio, Politics News
Saul Landau

On February 1, 1960, four black students took seats at a lunch counter at the Greensboro, North Carolina, Woolworth's. The white waitresses ignored th...

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