Procrastination
It might have been a particularly devious form of procrastination, or an excellent life hack, but...
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Category: K12
What Happens When Kids Take Over School: Unschooling the Viking Way
What would happen if kids took over their school, booted out the teachers, designed their own...
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An Ed Tech Design Manifesto
We don’t always know what we want, or what we’ll really use. Visionaries can see what...
Read MoreHow Amazon Will Replace Universities
How do we know what anyone knows? For school admissions, for hiring… An experiment in the second category is well under way in US K12. The Common Core has landed, with children and parents boycotting the tough new exams in...
Read MoreReimagining Our Education Landscape
A wonderful piece in today’s NYTs fills my mind with metaphors: A golf ball, struck 300 yards, starting off-course by only a degree…where does it wind up? What would happen if you corrected course after just 10 feet...
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How much will I earn? How much will I learn? Cost vs. Value of Higher Education in the US
Like the forces of good and evil in a Harry Potter knock-off, educators and stakeholders are...
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Design Lessons: Focus and Mission, Elegance and Efficiency
One of my favorite design stories has nothing to do with software. Building software, especially...
Read MoreGiving Manufacturing a Bad Name: Sir Ken Robinson and Education
It is easy to slam manufacturing: manufacturing is synonymous with pollution, lost American jobs, and an overall national slide from prominence. American ingenuity is focused on big budget Hollywood films, reality TV, and...
Read MoreGoing on Faith?
When I was an RA (Residential Assistant) in college my floor got new carpets over the summer. I walked out to my first floor meeting, with my 20 or 30 freshman who would soon be (already were) smoking cigarettes, consuming vast...
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A Short Indictment
I don’t know much about standardized testing; I took the PSAT and the SAT. I was a decent...
Read MoreGood to Great: How Do Good Schools Get Even Better?
Some days you think culture is the most powerful force in the world; it is often perceived as a negative force, even though the word ‘culture’ has positive connotations. We could talk about Wall Street, or Washington. But they...
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