{"id":876,"date":"2008-06-03T09:17:30","date_gmt":"2008-06-03T16:17:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edtechpost.ca\/wordpress\/2008\/06\/03\/edupunk-merit-badges\/"},"modified":"2008-06-03T09:17:30","modified_gmt":"2008-06-03T16:17:30","slug":"edupunk-merit-badges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wordpress\/2008\/06\/03\/edupunk-merit-badges\/","title":{"rendered":"Come and get &#8217;em &#8211; edupunk merit badges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/edtechpost.wikispaces.com\/edupunk+merit+badges\">http:\/\/edtechpost.wikispaces.com\/edupunk+merit+badges<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the <a href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.com\/wiredcampus\/article\/3045\/frustrated-with-corporate-course-management-systems-some-professors-go-edupunk\">rush<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/robwall.ca\/2008\/05\/30\/the-obligatory-edupunk-post\/\">clamour<\/a> to <a href=\"http:\/\/davidwarlick.com\/2cents\/archives\/1467\">define &#8220;edupunk&#8221;<\/a> (I mean, sheesh, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Edupunk\">a freakin&#8217; wikipedia article<\/a>???) I realized what was missing &#8211; Merit Badges! What punk doesn&#8217;t love some external validation, a way to show off their true inner edupunk, be part of the club.<\/p>\n<p>And so without further ado, <a href=\"http:\/\/edtechpost.wikispaces.com\/edupunk+merit+badges\">we bring you &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>(<em>and Jim, hopefully you understand this isn&#8217;t aimed at you<\/em>) &#8211; <em>SWL<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/edtechpost.wikispaces.com\/edupunk+merit+badges In the rush and clamour to define &#8220;edupunk&#8221; (I mean, sheesh, a freakin&#8217; wikipedia article???) I realized what was missing &#8211; Merit Badges! What punk doesn&#8217;t love some external validation, a way to show off their true inner edupunk, be part of the club. And so without further ado, we bring you &#8230; (and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wordpress\/2008\/06\/03\/edupunk-merit-badges\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Come and get &#8217;em &#8211; edupunk merit badges&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[120,362],"class_list":["post-876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-rest","tag-edupunk","tag-satire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}