Books That Made Me An Educator: a Forgotten Classic
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...
Tag: knowledge
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 ...
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...
Fixing Education’s Historical Fixation
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...
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 ...
What is a good teacher today? [part 2]
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...
What is a good teacher today [part 1]
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...
The Dictatorship of No Alternative
‘The dictatorship of no alternative’ is a phrase used by Brazilian social and political commentator (and politician) Roberto Mangabeira Unger. He ar...
Learning in Abundance
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...
Knowable Networked Communities
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...