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Transcript: Alive Enough? Reflecting on Our Technology | On Being
Transcript: Alive Enough? Reflecting on Our Technology | On Being. Makes me nostalgic for Neil Postman.
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A letter to my colleagues after a contentious meeting
Please allow me to clarify the point I was inelegantly presenting. I believe we are witnessing an irreversible paradigm shift in theatre and higher education. I believe the rumbling beneath our feet...
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Article 7
“What is the matter with universities is that the students are school children, whereas it is of the very essence of university education that they should be adults.” — George Bernard Shaw, Misalliance
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We call it education.
When requiring students to attend theatre in an academic setting, we must adapt the theatrical event itself for it to have real impact and meaning for student audiences.
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My letter to the Center Theatre Group Student Ambassadors
Before I became an academic I was a writer for Walt Disney Imagineering. My most demanding assignment was the creation and installation of Disneyland Paris, where I served as Senior...
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Article 4
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre. — Gail Godwin
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On the road
“The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.” — Kahlil Gibran
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Theatre as Epistemology
I have just re-read Dune by Frank Herbert. I love the chapter starters, which are quotations from fictional books that look back on the events of his story. Here’s one of my favorites: “Many have...
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Deliver instruction or produce learning?
“In many schools, teaching is expected to follow syllabi that lay out what students will learn, as well as when and how they will learn it. But in a real classroom, whether kindergarten, graduate...
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Puzzles, maps, and breaking the ice
Occasionally when assembling a jigsaw puzzle you stumble onto a key piece, the correct placement of which accelerates the discovery and placement of many other pieces until suddenly, although the...
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