film studies – David Cooper Moore

1 Apr 2013

Post at In Media ResThis week I'm participating in a weeklong conversation on nonfiction and reality television over at In Media Res. Enjoyed the opportunity to link to Chris Cagle's work on…

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10 from the ‘10s 15 Jan 2020

Here is a one-stop post for education writing I’ve done here over the last decade. Not exactly a Top Ten, but ten pieces that I think capture some of the range of my thinking about education over the course of the last ten years. 2011: Pace Invaders A reaction to Mary Kennedy’s _Inside Teaching_ and seeing the classroom as a minefield of intrusions and distr […]

Transcript from “Shape of Education to Come” podcast 19 Dec 2019

I was recently a guest on the Shape of Education to Come podcast hosted by Devin King. I like to transcribe these, especially when I’m talking in a semi-professional (as opposed to formally professional) context. (It turns out that when I’m not transcribing audio for a living I find it relaxing in small doses.)This is lightly edited for relevance (I snipped […]

Survival Literacy 25 Jun 2019

I’m not sure what I think students “need” at a minimum level of competency to be considered to be “done” with school – and my use of scare quotes here should give you a sense of the turmoil that I’ve been feeling around some very foundational beliefs I’ve long held about school itself, its fundamental purpose and role in students’ lives. I’ve been teaching i […]

Seeing and unseeing 15 Oct 2018

Sometimes I’ll come across an idea or a metaphor in fiction writing that single-handedly restores my faith in literature to do what non-fiction can’t, to illuminate by stepping just outside of what is understood, re-frame radically within a fictional universe that shakes things so hard that my world shifts, too. That was the impact I had reading China Mievil […]

What is wrong with math? 26 Mar 2018

My school started using a blended curriculum model (which I won’t name here) recently, and I have a lot of thoughts about it, some pro- and some anti-, none of which would be totally appropriate for me to share here yet. The one thing that it has undoubtedly done, though, is dramatically improve our math curriculum. In the pre-blended days, our long-sufferin […]