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Nuking the fridge

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Photo by Erich Ferdinand on Flickr Nuking the fridge is a strange phrase, and you may never have heard of it - but in the popular culture context it means something. Nuking the fridge by Steve Wheeler was written in Plymouth, England and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0

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Old technologies don't die

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Photo by Steve Wheeler We connect with each other and with information in many ways. You can see just about everyone in the photo is using a smartphone in some way. You can see just about everyone in the photo is using a smartphone in some way. It has become a familiar scene in many industrialised cities across the globe.

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6. Frankenstein's well-meaning monster

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Photo from Wikimedia Commons What's that coming over the hill? The scarred, cadaverous monster portrayed by Boris Karloff in the movie Frankenstein (1931) is actually a misrepresentation. Why he was portrayed in the movies as the 'monster' seems quite baffling, but it probably all boils down to xenophobia.

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Future sense

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Photo by Fosco Lucarelli on Flickr The celebrated American physicist Michio Kaku claimed that it is impossible to accurately predict the future, and he is right. Similar predictions were made about motion pictures (movies) by none other than movie mogul Harry Warner who in 1927 opined: 'Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?'

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Chance encounters

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We talked all day, as we walked around the Lord of the Rings movie locations, and probably focused more on what we had in common than we did on the tour. Dermot and me recreating the Frodo Tree scene It turned out that Dermot had studied my work, especially the work I'd recently published on wikis and education. Unported License.

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Coach class

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There's a wonderful scene in the 1981 movie Chariots of Fire. Photo from Wikimedia Commons Coach class by Steve Wheeler was written in Plymouth, England and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's.

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Bowie, Prince and teacher legacy

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Each of these stars has left behind a legacy of their work, in the form of sound recordings, movies, interviews and videos of their performances. Many teachers don't leave movies or videos or sound recordings behind when they shuffle off this mortal coil do they? This got me wondering: What about teachers? What are our legacies?

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