{"id":19898,"date":"2010-08-17T06:19:34","date_gmt":"2010-08-17T13:19:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/?p=19898"},"modified":"2010-08-16T00:29:59","modified_gmt":"2010-08-16T07:29:59","slug":"me-give-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/archives\/19898","title":{"rendered":"Me give talk: Being a teacher, the ‘idle youth’"},"content":{"rendered":"

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So I’m pretty much out the door right now – driving down to TypeCon.<\/a><\/p>\n

And this Thursday morning I’ll be speaking as an ‘icebreaker’ in the Type & Design Education Forum.<\/a><\/em> I’ll be going over a bunch of things I’ve learned while teaching; things that I’ve discovered work very well in a creative classroom. <\/p>\n

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get off your high horse<\/strong>
\nBeing a human being – instead of an authority figure is a big part of this. My talk is going to center around how to make the connection with today’s college age students. And – hopefully – get them to love typography and design as much as the rest of us do.<\/p>\n

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real change is coming<\/strong>
\nEvery<\/em> group has to do something to irritate the hell out of the last. This falls in the category of ‘generation defining.’ Been going on for thousands of years. Joseph Conrad<\/a>‘s probably written something about it.<\/p>\n

The current group – labeled by the media as ‘idle youth’<\/a> – unfortunately has had a hard time discovering their place in a world gone  . . .  hopeless.<\/p>\n

And the next group is really pissed off about it. Rightly so.<\/p>\n

If you haven’t already, see what The Tiny Masters of Today<\/a> are up to and – already a troublemaker for her frankness involving adult matters – actress\/musician Taylor Momsen<\/a> is pulling no punches.<\/p>\n

‘Vodka eyeballing’<\/a> seems to be the first trend that’s already sending shocks from the next batch of kids. Hell, it can lead to blindness.<\/em> Stupid as hell, don’t recommend anyone do something so ridiculous. <\/p>\n

But history does show – things will get more patently offensive<\/em> as time goes on. <\/p>\n

Count on it.<\/p>\n\r\n\t

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