Monthly Archives: November 2017

Collecting John’s Recommendations

John Green recommendations books on YouTube and other social media platforms.
Then someone collects a list of those recommendations, which John then shares on Facebook.
When my dissertation talks about the Vlogbrothers promoting social reading practices using social media in ways that provide space for their fans to contribute and participate, this is exactly the kind of thing I am talking about.

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STEM, STEAM, STREAM,… ?

Reading about how STEAM, which used to be STEM, is about to become STREAM with an R for Reading – and I can’t help but wonder how many more rounds of scrabble we have to play before we acknowledge that it’s just useful to be a broadly educated human being.
Maybe we should skip straight to: Civics, Reading, Engineering, Arts, Math, International History, Economics, Science, Technology. Schools can start competing over whose curriculum is the “CREAMIEST”.