Wikipedia’s Illich entry is decent, actually.

As an aside, I am hoping to jumpstart a moribund Wikipedia authoring project and would love it if you helped us build out an entry on Illich and/or deschooling:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_EduTech

Please join us…

But edupunk? Blech. I can’t think of anything less punk than education. If there is an alternative subculture brewing in educational technology, let’s call it what it is: yet another attempt to find different (cutting edge! rockin’! technological!) ways to get students achieving the goals of the establishment.

If we have to endure the oxymoronic term at all, let’s agree that someone like Illich set the bar for edupunk. If you’re working in the system, trying to use the web to get students to do better on their exams, you’re pulling off edutop40 — mainstream all the way, with some educountry in rural school districts. If you’re pushing the boundaries a bit and questioning the fundamentals of the systems that employ you, maybe you’re getting into a bit of edujazz.

So I’ve probably taken the metaphor too far, and yes, I’m being a little pedantic (melodramatic?). But do you hear what I’m sayin’?

I was hoping the mashedup anthem was already done.

YOU ARE SOOOOOOOOOOOOO EDUPUNK!