Tag: culture

Travelling in Japan (Part III): Reflections and Highlights

Posted by Darcy Moore | Published on January 27, 2013

“What must be admitted, very painfully, is that this was a disaster made in Japan…Its fundamental causes are to be found in the ingrained conventions […]

Posted in Photography, Travel | Tagged culture, Japan, Kyoto, learning, Nagano, Nara, onsen, reflection, ryokan, Tokyo, Yudanka | 13 Comments

Australian Beach Culture & Change

Posted by Darcy Moore | Published on October 24, 2012

My children love Nippers. Every Sunday morning during the summer they learn more about staying safe at the beach thanks to the efforts of many volunteers, […]

Posted in Education, Featured | Tagged culture, drowning, Kiama, Nippers, skin cancer, surf lifesaving | 2 Comments

Where is the inspirational teacher in Australian popular culture, literature and film?

Posted by Darcy Moore | Published on October 1, 2012

My last session with EDGD824, my English pre-service teachers at the University of Wollongong, arrives this week and I wanted to say something to inspire […]

Posted in Education, Popular culture | Tagged Australia, culture, fiction, film, teacher, teaching | 7 Comments

The Wrong Conversations

Posted by Darcy Moore | Published on June 20, 2012

Fairfax has signalled that the future is online Fairfax cuts 1900 jobs Fairfax media, publishing the Sydney Morning Herald, since 1831, is the […]

Posted in Education, Featured, Government | Tagged culture, future, learning, reflection | 3 Comments

Sir Ken Robinson: Changing Education Paradigms

Posted by Darcy Moore | Published on October 17, 2010

Sir Ken Robinson‘s narrative about education is a powerful reading of the institutions at the heart of our societies. It is ‘a reading’ difficult to dispute. […]

Posted in Education, Government, Professional development, YouTube | Tagged culture, Pedagogy, sirkenrobinson | 5 Comments

Hung Parliaments and the Importance of Literature, Philosophy and History

Posted by Darcy Moore | Published on August 22, 2010

The political uncertainty of the election ‘result’ that Australians watched unfold last night will lead to concerned discussion about what a hung parliament will mean for our democracy. There […]

Posted in Education, Government | Tagged culture, English, history, learning, philosophy, politics | 6 Comments

David Crystal – texts and tweets: myths and realities

Posted by Darcy Moore | Published on July 1, 2010

Thanks to Ben Jones for alerting me to David Crystal’s recent talk. Like you, I have many of his books on my shelf and find […]

Posted in Digital life, Professional development | Tagged culture, English, language, literacy, Twitter | 1 Comment

Clay Shirky: How cognitive surplus will change the world

Posted by Darcy Moore | Published on June 29, 2010

Clay Shirky‘s TED talk deserves 13 minutes of your time.

Posted in Digital life | Tagged collaboration, culture, shirky, TED | 2 Comments

Lessons from fashion’s free culture

Posted by Darcy Moore | Published on June 11, 2010

Johanna Blakley‘s talk is an interesting rumination on the nature of ‘copyright’ in the fashion world.

Posted in Popular culture | Tagged copyright, culture, TED | Leave a Comment

The Empathic Civilisation

Posted by Darcy Moore | Published on May 27, 2010

Tim Kastelle posted this video talk by Jeremy Rifkin which I repost here and am sure you will enjoy. [vodpod id=Video.3625992&w=425&h=350&fv=%26rel%3D0%26border%3D0%26] more about “RSA Animate […]

Posted in Professional development | Tagged brain, collaboration, culture, empathy, neuroscience | 3 Comments

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The #Orwell quote from The Lion and the Unicorn was worthy of a run: "A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase" in The Malign Incompetence of the British Ruling Class nyti.ms/2RWEZsY #brexit

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The Malign Incompetence of the British Ruling Class nyti.ms/2RWEZsY and I do wonder if @aroberts_andrew would describe himself as a "right wing historian"?

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MIT, Stanford professors are designing a cryptocurrency to top Bitcoin fortune.com/2019/01/… ping @Downes

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In Time (2011) by Andrew Niccol is not a futuristic dystopia but informed contemporary economic analysis. Discuss. pic.twitter.com/nOBf…

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The rest of the quote: "In order to fit into these organisations, individuals have had to deindividualise themselves, have had to deny their native diversity and conform to a standard pattern, have had to their best to become automata." twitter.com/Darcy196…

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Aldous Huxley sagely wrote: "Too much organisation transforms men and women into automata, suffocates the creative spirit and abolishes the very possibility of freedom ..." #managerialism twitter.com/sdinhamu…

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