Category: Philosophy
Education and the Great Big Disruption Machine
The Internet is all things to all people. Well, almost. It hasn’t quite got there yet in Education, for instance. But it will. It must. I want to look ...
Teaching Dissent
thanks to Jennifer Murawski for the photo When you look at the long history of man, you see that more hideous crimes have been committed in the name of obedienc...
The Internet of Education Things (part 2)
This is Part 2 of a 2-part post. See Part 1 here. So, what ought the more sensible and, I would hope, somewhat more progressive, amongst us in education be look...
The Internet of Education Things (part 1)
This is the 1st part of a 2-part post. According to the Horizon Report for 2015 (Higher Education edition) the Internet of Things (IoT) has a 4-to-5-years adopt...
Technology is not ‘just a tool’
Education and technology share a number of interesting characteristics. We can agree, for instance, that education should be about affirmative transformation, a...
Deschooling YOU: The School & the Sovereignty of Knowledge
For as long as school has existed, the fundamental model of schooling has remained the same: scarcity of information and a paucity of means of access to that in...
The Learning Society: social and economic progress through education
The printing press sowed the seeds of social and economic progress, heralding a time when ‘change itself [became] the archetypal norm of social life’...
Take the TWEE out of Tweeting: teaching, learning & technology
During a recent online debate, one of those undemanding messages that so many Twitter-inhabiting educators seem to love popped up on my TweetDeck and then poppe...
Chomsky: Right and Wrong on Education
In the video, Chomsky speaks on three critical questions: on the purpose of education, on the role and place of technology in education, and on the conflicting ...