Education’s Moment of Interplay
In The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man, published almost half a century ago, Marshall McLuhan observed that the world he lived in was changing s...
Category: Creativity
University as Public Currency
A university is not a scientific hothouse with some frills around the edges – such as the humanities – generating off-the-peg ideas for business to patent and c...
Kelvin Doe, aka DJ Focus – from Sierra Leone to MIT, self-taught
A perfect illustration of the I Am Learner philosophy! This has been cross-posted from my main blog at John Connell: the blog.
Atoms to Bits, and back to Atoms
In his classic 1995 text – Being Digital – that laid so much of the groundwork for subsequent thinking on the digital revolution, Nicholas Negropont...
Publishing as a 21st Century Literacy
I have to admit that I had never heard of the five-paragraph essay until I read a piece by John Jones in DMLCentral: Teaching Publishing as a 21st Century Liter...
I Am Learner
I am learner. Just as no one can see the colours I see, just as no one can hear the music I hear, just as no one can feel what I feel when I hold something in m...