- Edupunk
Edupunk is an approach to teaching and learning practices that result from a
do it yourself (DIY) attitude.cite web | url = http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/article/3045/frustrated-with-corporate-course-management-systems-some-professors-go-edupunk | title = Frustrated With Corporate Course-Management Systems, Some Professors Go 'Edupunk'| author = Young, Jeffrey R.| publisher =Chronicle of Higher Education | date = 2008-05-30 | accessdate = 2008-06-01 ] Many instructional applications can be described as DIY education or "Edupunk". It describes inventive teaching and inventive learning.The term was first used on May 25, 2008 by Jim Groom in his blog, cite web | url = http://bavatuesdays.com/the-glass-bees/ | title = The Glass Bees | author = Groom, Jim | publisher = Weblog bavatuesdays | date = 2008-05-25 | accessdate = 2008-05-30 ] and covered less than a week later in theChronicle of Higher Education .Stephen Downes , a theorist in the field ofonline education and an editor for theInternational Journal of Instructional Technology and Distance Learning , asserts that "the concept of Edupunk has totally caught wind, spreading through the blogosphere like wildfire". [cite web | url = http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/page.cgi?post=44760 | title = Introducing Edupunk | author =Stephen Downes | date = 2008-05-28 | accessdate = 2008-06-06 ]Aspects of edupunk
Edupunk has risen from an objection to the efforts of government and corporate interests in reframing and bundling emerging technologies into "cookie-cutter" products with pre-defined application -- somewhat similar to traditional
punk ideologies . [cite web | url = http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/mortarboard/2008/06/punk_or_more_precisely.html | title = Nevermind the pedagogues, here's edupunk | author = Cohen, David | work =The Guardian | accessdate = 2008-06-16 ]The reaction to corporate influence on education is only one part of edupunk though. Stephen Downes has identified three aspects to this approach:
* Reaction against commercialization of learning
* Do-it-yourself attitude
* Thinking and learning for yourself [Citation | last = Rowell | first = Laurie | title = "Edupunk" Rocks the (Virtual) House | newspaper = eLearn Magazine | year = 2008 | date =2008-07-08 | url = http://www.elearnmag.org/subpage.cfm?section=articles&article=65-1]Examples of edupunk
An example of Edupunk is the
University of British Columbia 's course "Murder, Madness, and Mayhem: Latin American Literature in Translation" experiment of creating articles onWikipedia in spring 2008, "(having) one’s students as partners and peers" cite web | url = http://bavatuesdays.com/murder-madness-mayhem/ | title = Murder, Madness, Mayhem is so EDUPUNK | author = Groom, Jim | publisher = Weblog bavatuesdays | date = 2008-05-28 | accessdate = 2008-06-06 ] cite web | url = http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:MMM | title = Wikipedia:WikiProject Murder Madness and Mayhem | accessdate = 2008-06-06 ] A video clip illustrating an Edupunk approach produced by Tony Hirst at the Open University in the UK on 8 June 2008 illustrated how quickly the Edupunk concept has been adopted outside North America cite web | url = http://youtube.com/watch?v=fNTlescIvW0 | title = Changing Expectations| author = Hirst, A.| publisher = YouTube | date = 2008-06-08 | accessdate = 2008-06-21 ] .A website set up by Australian educators demonstrates how edupunk spread as well.cite web | url = http://edupunk.com.au | title = edupunk]References
Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.
