Posts by: Jamie Raskin

GREEN RIDERS: Southeast Asia

By On June 3, 2012 · 2 Comments · In Design, Experiential Education, Ideas in Education, Outdoor Education, Service Learning, Travel

I haven’t been pushing it much, but in just over three weeks I’ll be on the road for the summer, riding a bamboo bike thousands of kilometers across Southeast Asia in pursuit of stories of environmental struggles and successes, as well as interesting examples of social enterprise.

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A Greener Shade of School

By On June 3, 2012 · 6 Comments · In COETAIL, Experiential Education, Ideas in Education, Outdoor Education, Service Learning

I read an article today that got me thinking about the notion of Green or Environmental schools. The Hindu, an English-language Indian newspaper, featured the school Sholai Cloaat. A small “enviro-ed” school in the mountains of Tamil Nadu.

The Sholai School is the brainchild of […]

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Midnight at the Sausage Factory

By On June 3, 2012 · 7 Comments · In COETAIL, Ideas in Education, Literacy, Technology in the Classroom

This afternoon a friend called me up and asked if I could meet him for a coffee and take a look at a paper he was writing for his Masters program. This friend is one of the clearest thinking people I know, and he was feeling really spun around by the expectations of his program.

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Economic Literacy vs. Saskatchewan Exports

By On May 26, 2012 · 8 Comments · In COETAIL, Ideas in Education

I had a conversation with Madeleine Cox a little while ago that kept wiggling around the back of my brain. At least I’m pretty sure I did. If she wasn’t there at the time, somehow she managed to squeeze wigglingly in there with it.

The conversation was about the […]

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Bring Me the Head of a VZ200

By On May 15, 2012 · 5 Comments · In COETAIL, Design, Technology in the Classroom

When I was around ten my grandfather bought me a computer. With a little research I’ve discovered it was a VZ200 (thanks old-computers.com). I plugged it into an old school 12 inch black and white TV. It had no hard drive or anything like […]

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