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Books That Made Me An Educator: a Forgotten Classic

Posted on October 6, 2015 by John Connell

This is the third in an occasional series of posts highlighting some of the books that led me into education or that have greatly influenced me as an educator o...

Culture/Infrastructure/Internet/Learning/Philosophy/Society/Technology/Web

Education and the Great Big Disruption Machine

Posted on July 19, 2015 by John Connell

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 ...

History/Learning/Philosophy/Society/Teaching

Deschooling YOU: The School & the Sovereignty of Knowledge

Posted on May 27, 2015 by John Connell

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...

Internet/Learning/Teaching/Technology

Fixing Education’s Historical Fixation

Posted on February 1, 2015 by John Connell

The limitless network of networks that we now inhabit, with its boundless stores of data and information, is quickly democratizing access to knowledge for every...

Learning/Philosophy/Teaching

Chomsky: Right and Wrong on Education

Posted on August 14, 2014 by John Connell

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 ...

Learning/Teaching

What is a good teacher today? [part 2]

Posted on March 25, 2014 by John Connell

This is the second part of a 2-part post – read Part 1 here. What does it mean to be a teacher today? What does it mean to teach? In an age where learners...

Learning/Teaching

What is a good teacher today [part 1]

Posted on March 25, 2014 by John Connell

This is the first part of a 2-part post – there is a link to part 2 at the end of this post. Teachers, we are told, make or break an education system. McK...

Learning/Personal/Politics/Research

The Dictatorship of No Alternative

Posted on September 10, 2013 by John Connell

‘The dictatorship of no alternative’ is a phrase used by Brazilian social and political commentator (and politician) Roberto Mangabeira Unger. He ar...

History/Learning/Society

Learning in Abundance

Posted on September 9, 2013 by John Connell

So I then came to define education as learning under the assumption of scarcity, learning under the assumption that the means for acquiring something called kno...

Culture/People/Social Technology/Society

Knowable Networked Communities

Posted on September 9, 2013 by John Connell

Raymond Williams, in The Country and the City, pondered the change in attitudes in English society, as portrayed in the literature of that country produced betw...

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