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4 Quadrants of Teaching
4 Quadrants of Teaching
The Effective Application of Pedagogy and Power
steve wright
Nov 21, 2023
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We Are Being Asked To Contort Ourselves Into The Shape of Machine
We Are Being Asked To Contort Ourselves Into The Shape of Machine
Artificial Intelligence, Teaching and Learning
steve wright
Aug 18, 2023
Keep your Artificial Intelligence out of our very Real Classroom
Keep your Artificial Intelligence out of our very Real Classroom
It is not enough to insist upon the necessity of experience, nor even of activity in experience. Everything depends upon the quality of the…
steve wright
Jun 25, 2023
Oakland Unified SD Strike
Oakland Unified SD Strike
A reply to a post by board member Sam Davis
steve wright
May 27, 2023
Angel
Angel
Angel seemed angry. She looked at me without looking at me — more through than at — patient but wishing she didn’t have to be. Maybe…
steve wright
Jan 16, 2023
Education is the American Compliance Engine
Education is the American Compliance Engine
We built what we have on purpose. We can build something better.
steve wright
Feb 15, 2022
The “Great” Experiment
The “Great” Experiment
Time to stop drinking the Kool-Aid
steve wright
Feb 5, 2022
We Don’t Feel Like Pieces
We Don’t Feel Like Pieces
Back to School in a Pandemic
steve wright
Sep 11, 2021
Paddling Between the Dancers
Paddling Between the Dancers
A poem
steve wright
Aug 14, 2021
The Curtain Raises
The Curtain Raises
An ode to the multi-purpose room
steve wright
Jul 6, 2021
Austin, Nevada
Austin, Nevada
A road trip from Oakland to New Mexico and back again.
steve wright
Jun 20, 2021
An Epistemological Explication of the Ontology of Meaning (satire)
An Epistemological Explication of the Ontology of Meaning (satire)
Steve Wright, Stephen Wright and Stevie Wright University Department of Academia, Freedom Road May 15, 2021 (not updated Oct 28, 2023)
steve wright
May 16, 2021
Broken
Broken
He just left. It hurt too much or was just too much. Mom was dying and he drove to Chicago to deliver a boat.
steve wright
Apr 24, 2021
Part 6: We Can Build That
Part 6: We Can Build That
This is the last of several Intro, Part 1, Part 2. Part 3, Part 4, Part 5
steve wright
Feb 13, 2021
P5: Behavioral Economics and The Algorithm
P5: Behavioral Economics and The Algorithm
Two barrels of the shotgun pointing at our heads
steve wright
Jan 24, 2021
Part 4: Our Own Best Interests
Part 4: Our Own Best Interests
The most radical freedom we can embrace I now (12:03pm, Jan 10th, 2021) understand simply as the freedom to exist. The freedom to be one…
steve wright
Jan 10, 2021
Part 3: Difference Defines Us
Part 3: Difference Defines Us
In difference there is fertility.
steve wright
Nov 21, 2020
Part 2: Incentivizing the Health of the Human Neighborhood
Part 2: Incentivizing the Health of the Human Neighborhood
American Capitalism pits us against each other in a desperate and meaningless competition to get the most money. Hundreds of years of…
steve wright
Nov 1, 2020
Part 1: The Neighborhood
Part 1: The Neighborhood
Focusing our economic incentives on the health of the market and not the wealth of the individual
steve wright
Oct 23, 2020
Replacing Milton Friedman with All Of Us
Replacing Milton Friedman with All Of Us
Maybe, in this moment, we are experiencing the shockwaves of tectonic change — a world lurching against artificial constraints
steve wright
Sep 14, 2020
The Home Row
The Home Row
A po em about my writing group
steve wright
Sep 12, 2020
The Refuge of Whiteness
The Refuge of Whiteness
We hide here, like a warm place in a snowstorm Hot chocolate We can leave but first we bundle up To brave the elements Our fingers…
steve wright
Sep 7, 2020
Ms. Rose Goes Back to School
Ms. Rose Goes Back to School
I imagine Ms. Rose’s room. It’s big, with lots of sunlight, dirty but clean in the way a place where real-things-happen can be — a place…
steve wright
Aug 22, 2020
#Back2School
#Back2School
My 1970’s #Back2School memories are filled with promises made by reams of blank pages in 3-ring binders, by aspirational personal planners…
steve wright
Aug 6, 2020
Honest about Whiteness — A Reply
Honest about Whiteness — A Reply
I need metaphors to attempt to understand the world. I have been trying to understand whiteness, my whiteness. I am trying out the idea…
steve wright
Jul 4, 2020
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