John Dewey: America's philosopher of democracy and his importance to education

Our journal's consulting editor, A.G. Rud, Dean of the College of Education at Washington State University, has produced a short YouTube video on "John Dewey: America's philosopher of democracy and his importance to education."  As one commentary on YouTube put it, "Well done. Not an easy task to give an overview of JD and his more than 700 articles in 140 journals, and approximately 40 books."  We agree.
 



www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMh1LYuZ3B4

Top 10 most Popular YouTube videos of all time

Top 10 most Popular YouTube videos of all time

Therefore It makes a great matter for the people and the organizations to get their videos among the most popular YouTube videos on all time. So lets take a look at the top 10 most popular YouTube videos of all time till this date.

1. Justin Bieber – Baby ft. Ludacris (390,059,031 views)

2. Lady Gaga – Bad Romance (308,924,242 views)

3. Charlie bit my finger – again ! (250,586,578 views)

4. Shakira ft. Freshlyground – Waka Waka (240,347,112 views)

5. Eminem – Love The Way You Lie ft. Rihanna (208,619,393 views)

6. Miley Cyrus – Party In The U.S.A (173,879,042 views)

7. Evolution of Dance – By Judson Laipply (156,970,139 views)

8. Eminem – Not Afraid (153,188,804 views)

9. Pitbull – I Know You Want Me (Calle Ocho) (152,206,902 views)

10.Hahaha (146,748,723 views)

Video Semburan Pasir Di Arab Saudi

Video Semburan Pasir Di Arab Saudi - Masih seputar dunia, dan keanehannya. FENOMENA ALAM yang satu ini memang terbilang langka, bahkan sebagian orang menganggap bahwa kejaian SEMBURAN PASIR ini adalah Mukjizat. Namun ternyata ,fenomena ini adalah karena kebocoran pada pipa gas penambangan minyak.
Berikut penjelasan mengenai Video Semburan Pasir di Arab Saudi
Seorang, dalam Youtube berkesaksian seperti ini

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Artinya:

Assallamu Allaykum Warrahmatullahi Wabbarakatuhu


Saya berasal dari Saudi dan saya tahu mengenai hal ini, hal ini bukanlah mukjizat seperti yang kalian anggap.
Islam tidak membutuhkan mukjizat
Kejadian ini merupakan hasil ledakan pipa gas bawah tanah, pipa tersebut untuk perusahaan minyak besar di Saudi, Aramco, di bagian timur Arab Saudi.


Assallamu Allaykum Warrahmatullahi Wabbarakatuhu

Komentar dari KSA351 merupakan penjelasan langsung Yang Melihatnya. Bagi yang ingin mengobati rasa keingintahuannya, mari kita bersama -sama menonton video berikut ini,

 video semburan pasir di Arab Saudi

Demikian tentang Semburan Pasir di Arab Saudi. Semoga hal ini bisa menjadikan kita ingat pada hari Akhir.

Version 7 Unique 'conch Poison'!

Fever conch becomes increasingly likely Poisons. Song originally sung dangdut singer named Lissa is increasingly ngetop with the appearance of two virgin lipsync from Bandung, Sprott and Jojo. But it was the success of Sprott and Jojo did not stop there. After the two were well known, appears different versions of Poison conch. Starting from the action lipsync two of them Caucasian, until the arrangement has changed conch Poisons metal core, until the dancing kittens!
Conch Poison song was officially purchased Charly ST12 after seeing a big opportunity for this song. The song was later re-arrangement became quite pop melayu is sung Putry Penelope and has sung in several musical events on the water.

But do not stop there conch fever poison that has been several times Trending Topic ranks first in the world of social networking version of Twitter. Various versions began to appear. Here are a few versions of conch Poison, complete with video:

1. Lissa Keong ala Poison
In this video, which was considered some kind of 'jadul', Lissa mautnya appear to wobble like a dangdut singer. It was a response to this song not too skyrocketed.





2. Poison-style conch Sprott and Jojo
It's the fun of bringing a lipsync song created Kang Abuy, these two sweet virgin direct ngetop sudden. Sprott and Jojo appearance spelled Shop ordinary and not-Shop. But precisely because of innocence, they demand more than Lissa.





3. Poison-style conch Bule
Two beautiful bule is apparently affected by 'poison' the Keong. With the same lip movement, two known bule named Ami Sakamoto and Rita Marie, Lauren was also followed by action lipsync with techno songs dangdut this nuance.




4. Poison-style conch Metal Core
By using a jejesolo, a guitarist who called himself Jeje change arrangements with snails poison rock music. The result is quite good and getting a response from the fans of YouTube.





5. Poisons and conch a la Saint Johan
Confessing like Sprott and Jojo, the two men who called themselves Saints and Johan making lipsync version Poisons conch. Funny thing is, they are posing as women using the blue and blonde wig. Their action also received many responses from YouTube users.





6. Poison a la The TinkTonk conch
With the setting-style clothing doctor / nurse, who was accompanied by two girls one guy as a cameo, appearing lipsync la Sprott and Jojo. Both a scene, complete with mask perched on the face.





7. Poison-style conch Animal Abuse?
You could say the video was uploaded conch Poisons YouTube user named yusuffathony is the most widely received negative reactions from other users. Because, instead of reliable lipsync, but




Of all the videos that exist, Sprott and Jojo who gets the most clicks view. Even barely break the 3 million! Wow, great huh?

New YouTube Clip Now Online! "School to Prison Pipeline"

In the excerpt below, ACLU staff attorney Rose Spidell discusses "The School to Prison Pipeline." This term describes a disturbing national trend in which school policies and practices are increasingly pushing students out of the public school and into the juvenile justice system. It refers to the current trend of criminalizing our students rather than educating them and the disproportionate effect it has on different student populations, especially, students of color. Spidell also describes some case studies out of Washington state. The excerpt is taken from the 2009 Annual Educational Law and Social Justice Forum held at Western Washington University on April 29th. The forum is an annual event sponsored by the Journal of Educational Controversy. Readers can view the entire forum on our journal's website.



View the full video of the forum here: http://www.wce.wwu.edu/Resources/CEP/eJournal/Forums.shtml

To learn more about "The School to Prison Pipeline," visit the ACLU's website here: http://www.aclu.org/racial-justice/school-prison-pipeline-talking-points

Announcing the new Educational Institute for Democratic Renewal

Talk is one thing; action is another. We hope to engage in both. We believe that action without reflective talk is mindless and talk without action is an opportunity missed. Talk is not empty, however, as proponents of the practical and critics of theoretical knowledge sometimes charge. It is merely an opportunity awaiting reflective action. It provides the interpretive frameworks for new ways of understanding, new paradigms for restructuring our experiences, new challenges to older ways of thinking. Sometimes it adds to the growing body of knowledge that has been provided by those who went before us and on whose shoulders we stand. Other times, it confronts the entrenched orthodoxies that blind us and make parts of our experience of the world invisible to us. That is perhaps why John Dewey believed that there was nothing more practical than a good theory.

The journal is a place for talk, a place to look deeply at the tensions, perplexities and controversies of our time. But we also have an activist, progressive arm. In 2004, the Woodring College of Education and the Whatcom Day Academy entered a partnership to explore the role of schooling in promoting and sustaining a democratic society. Our work is affiliated with the League of Democratic Schools, a project initiated by John Goodlad. Our newly formed Educational Institute for Democratic Renewal incorporates our work in developing the journal and our work with the League. In a special section of our website, we share ideas and innovative practices for democratic schooling. Readers can also view our YouTube clip below of Whatcom Day Academy educator Vale Hartley as she discusses democratic practices in her classroom at the 2008 Educational Law and Social Justice Forum that was sponsored by the journal. Vale wrote the article, "The Elementary Classroom: A Key Dimension of a Child's Democratic World," for the winter 2008 issue of our journal.

On our institute's website, we write that "Our goal is to provide an alternative voice for research and scholarship on the educational controversies and initiatives that arise in teaching and learning in pluralistic, democratic societies." One might ask: an alternative to what? We believe that the language of education today has lost its bearings and its moorings. As I mentioned in my posting of March 27th below, silent assumptions underlying our language have controlled the national debate for decades. The language of the market place has become the language of education. Students are talked about as the human capital that keeps the national economy competitive. Although we give lip service to the democratic purposes of education, the language of the market place prevails and all other discourses are on the edge. In a public school system that serves both democracy and capitalism, the public deserves a deeper conversation of the tensions that exist between these two forces. And educational professionals need more public space to create a learning environment that takes seriously the democratic purposes of our schools.

The Educational Institute for Democratic Renewal at the Woodring College of Education at Western Washington University is an attempt to achieve both the goal of talk and the goal of action. It is the home of both the journal and our work in creating a laboratory for democratic practices. The Institute is in its early stages and we will be sharing our progress with our readers of this blog in the future. In the meantime, we would appreciate thoughts and ideas from our readers on what they would like to see from such an Institute. How would it be beneficial to you. Please add your comments to this posting and let us hear from you. Also, does anyone have ideas of Foundations and other organizations that would be interested in joining our efforts and working collaboratively with us?

New YouTube clips online!

We have four new YouTube shorts from our April 30, 2008 Educational Law and Social Justice Forum, "Schooling as if Democracy Matters."

Clip 1: ACLU Staff Attorney Aaron Caplan discusses the history of legal decisions leading up to the Supreme Court's 2007 decision in Morse v. Frederick, also known as the "Bong Hits 4 Jesus" case.



Go to the video on YouTube.

Caplan's original article, "Visions of Public Education in Morse v. Frederick," first appeared in our Winter 2008 issue, "Schooling as if Democracy Matters."

Clip 2: Whatcom Day Academy educator Vale Hartley discusses democratic practices in her classroom as part of the academy's participation in the League of Democratic Schools.


Go to the video on YouTube
Hartley's original article, "The Elementary Classroom: A Key Dimension of a Child's Democratic World" first appeared in our Winter 2008 issue, "Schooling as if Democracy Matters."

Clip 3: Western Washington University Professor Bill Lyne discusses his article "Beautiful Losers."



Go to the video on YouTube

Lyne's original article, "Beautiful Losers" first appeared in our Winter 2008 issue, "Schooling as if Democracy Matters."

Clip 4: Our panelists respond to audience questions in a brief Q & A session.



Go to the video on YouTube

View the full forum here.

Come back in a few weeks for clips from our 2009 forum, and the latest installment in our "Talking with the Authors" series!

What was the "Bong Hits 4 Jesus" case all about?

We have posted our second teaser interview from our "Talking With the Authors" series on YouTube.

In it, ACLU staff attorney Aaron Caplan discusses the Morse v Frederick case, in which a student in Alaska held up a banner titled "Bong Hits 4 Jesus" during the 2002 Olympic Torch Relay, and was subsequently suspended for 10 days.

Frederick, who argued that his right to free speech had been violated, took his case to the U.S. Supreme Court, which ruled against him in 2007.


Go to the video on YouTube.

Caplan's original article, "Visions of Public Education in Morse v. Frederick," first appeared in our Winter 2008 issue, "Schooling as if Democracy Matters."

To view Caplan's full interview, visit: http://www.wce.wwu.edu/Resources/CEP/eJournal/AuthorsTalk.shtml

The Journal is now on YouTube

In the interests of getting these educational issues to the largest audience possible, we have begun posting excerpts from our "Talking With the Authors" series. First up is former Ballard High School principal David Engle.

In the fall of 2000, David Engle became the principal of Ballard High School in Seattle. At the time, the Seattle School was implementing an integration plan that allowed families to choose which high school they would like to attend. In the event of high enrollment at a particular school, the district had made provisions for a "racial tiebreaker" to be used, giving minority groups priority over the substantial population of white students in the area. When, after the protests of many of the white neighborhoods in the Seattle area, the 9th Circuit Court ruled against use of the "racial tiebreaker," Engle resigned his position in protest.

Stay tuned for excerpts from our interview with Aaron Caplan, and our forthcoming interview with Bill Lyne.


Go to the video on YouTube.

David Engle's article, "As Our Students Watched," first appeared in our Winter 2007 issue "Jonathan Kozol's Nation of Shame Forty Years Later."

Click here to watch our full interview with Engle.

A Scholar and a 14-Year-Old Take on the Issue of Poverty

With our winter 2009 issue on "The Hidden Dimensions of Poverty: Rethinking Poverty and Education" now being read and discussed by our readers, we thought we might add two more sources that we recently found on the web. One is by a scholar, the other by a 14-year-old on YouTube. We invite your thoughts.

David Berliner's report, Poverty and Potential: Out-of-School Factors and School Success

14-Year-Old Student, John Wittle, looks at his school's invitation to Ruby Payne on YouTube, Ruby Payne Does Not Understand Poverty

Check them both out.