ORWELL 2+2=5 - Official Greenband Trailer - In Select Theaters October 3

During this Great Regression, AFT and NEA could use some of their hundreds of millions of dollars for an educational purpose, rather than promoting AI to replace teachers and endanger children, by purchasing this amazing documentary for every high school in the U.S. 

 

"George Orwell was one of the most visionary authors of the 20th Century, whose novels 1984 and Animal Farm foretold a chilling, all-to-believable authoritarian future. Acclaimed director Raoul Peck (Academy Award-nominated I Am Not Your Negro), working in collaboration with the Orwell Estate, seamlessly interweaves historical clips, readings from Orwell's diary, cinematic references, and dynamic modern day footage to craft not only a definitive portrait of the writer himself, but an entirely fresh take on how remarkably relevant and prophetic his work has become. Peck doesn't just present the information but shows new ways of seeing it, drawing patterns and connections we might not otherwise realize, championing Orwell as a man from the past who just might hold the key to the world's future." (Source)

Add "Stealth Assessment" to the List of Crackpot Learning Terms

Just the fact that there is someone making an academic career at an otherwise respectable university out of a dystopian thought disorder called "stealth assessment" should give us all pause.  

And yet there is Dr. Valerie Shute at Florida State University, who is now traveling the world as part of the fascist alienation child crusade for gamification and personalized robotification.

I hope you will put on your high-top boots and check out this slide show here.  The bullshit is running deep.  

One of the slides:

Free Tibet: Boycott Poisonous Chinese Politics and Products

China Cracks Down in Tibet and Beyond as Protests Spread
By Mark Magnier
The Los Angeles Times

Sunday 16 March 2008

Chinese police pour into Lhasa and outlying areas as China scrambles to control the latest uprisings. Sympathy demonstrations are reported around the world.

Xiahe, China - The spread of protests from Lhasa, the Tibetan capital, to neighboring communities and now Gansu province represents a crisis for a government eager to project an image of friendly confidence and cultural refinement in advance of the Beijing Olympics.

On Saturday, a massive police presence could be seen blanketing Xiahe, a holy city outside Tibet that houses the sprawling Labrang Monastery complex, one of the most revered in Tibetan Buddhism.

By early today, the cordon in Xiahe had tightened further as English-speaking police were stopping all vehicles for miles and forcing foreigners to turn around or, if they were on local transportation, to climb down.

This followed demonstrations involving an attack on a police station by thousands of people and the raising of a banned national Tibetan flag.

Twenty people were arrested in the ensuing violence, the London-based Free Tibet Campaign said, and a local official said seven people were injured, as authorities scrambled to quell the worst protests against Chinese dominion over Tibet in two decades.

The crackdown followed efforts by authorities in Lhasa to contain six days of violence. "They are in the process of restoring order, but it is not complete," a Western aid worker living in Lhasa said.

The government has reported 10 deaths in Lhasa resulting from the protests, which it blamed on rioters setting fires. The self-proclaimed Tibetan government-in-exile, based in India, said the figure was 30, and other estimates ran higher.

Lhasa residents reached by phone said the city was under a near state of emergency with people afraid to go out. . . .