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The Pedagogy of Radical Self-Reliance
What happens if you give a thousand Motorola Zoom tablet PCs to Ethiopian kids who have never even seen a printed word? Within five months, they’ll start teaching themselves English while circumventing...
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Everyone Has a Gift. Or 2. Or 20.
Image Credit: Doug Buckley of http://hyperactive.to Thorkil Sonne, from Denmark, knows how to find gifts in the most hidden of places… the autistic mind. When he discovered that his own son had autism...
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Participation and Radical Self-Reliance in MOOCs
yes, YOU… are responsible for your own learning I have a hard time remembering that MOOC means “Massive Open Online Course” because I get it confused with MOOP (obviously) and, unfortunately for me,...
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A few days ago on the Burning Blog, Caveat Magister posted his reaction to the Burning Mind Project. The post has received some endorsements, and some pushback. I’d like to take the time to respond,...
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Radical Self-Expression is Risky
Billy Hunt’s Screamatron (at Campoline, BRC 2013) Like 60-odd thousand other people, I’m psychologically and emotionally adjusting to my departure from Black Rock City. I’m sure I’ll post a lot more...
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Schools that Don’t Look Like Prisons, but Mixed Media Cathedrals
My friend Yana (that’s her, at left, when she was pregnant) has been thinking about the educational process lately, in part because her son is starting to become a part of it… and she’s been reflecting...
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Whose Objective Is It Anyway?
It’s almost taken for granted these days that excellent teaching begins with clearly articulated, measurable learning objectives. The standard approach is to include these learning objectives in the...
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My Easy Way to Remember the 10 Principles of Burning Man
Billy Hunt’s Scream-a-Tron, which captures the look on your face when you hit a certain decibel level. “CC DIGs LPs that are Radical-IER.” (That is, more radical than all the other LPs.) We were giving...
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How the 10 Principles Help Me Teach Statistics
Last month, I published an “informal textbook” to help people more easily learn introductory statistics with the R programming language. The process of developing the book (and refining the course that...
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Do what you DON’T love
Today I was reading Josh Whiton’s essay, Money is a Neurotransmitter and it reminded me that I needed to share a story of yet another way money has broken our educational system. Since 2009 I have been...
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The Pedagogy of Radical Self-Reliance
What happens if you give a thousand Motorola Zoom tablet PCs to Ethiopian kids who have never even seen a printed word? Within five months, they’ll start teaching themselves English while circumventing...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Everyone Has a Gift. Or 2. Or 20.
Image Credit: Doug Buckley of http://hyperactive.to Thorkil Sonne, from Denmark, knows how to find gifts in the most hidden of places… the autistic mind. When he discovered that his own son had autism...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Participation and Radical Self-Reliance in MOOCs
yes, YOU… are responsible for your own learning I have a hard time remembering that MOOC means “Massive Open Online Course” because I get it confused with MOOP (obviously) and, unfortunately for me,...
View ArticleAt the Gates?
A few days ago on the Burning Blog, Caveat Magister posted his reaction to the Burning Mind Project. The post has received some endorsements, and some pushback. I’d like to take the time to respond,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Radical Self-Expression is Risky
Billy Hunt’s Screamatron (at Campoline, BRC 2013) Like 60-odd thousand other people, I’m psychologically and emotionally adjusting to my departure from Black Rock City. I’m sure I’ll post a lot more...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Schools that Don’t Look Like Prisons, but Mixed Media Cathedrals
My friend Yana (that’s her, at left, when she was pregnant) has been thinking about the educational process lately, in part because her son is starting to become a part of it… and she’s been reflecting...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Whose Objective Is It Anyway?
It’s almost taken for granted these days that excellent teaching begins with clearly articulated, measurable learning objectives. The standard approach is to include these learning objectives in the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
My Easy Way to Remember the 10 Principles of Burning Man
Billy Hunt’s Scream-a-Tron, which captures the look on your face when you hit a certain decibel level. “CC DIGs LPs that are Radical-IER.” (That is, more radical than all the other LPs.) We were giving...
View ArticleClik here to view.
How the 10 Principles Help Me Teach Statistics
Last month, I published an “informal textbook” to help people more easily learn introductory statistics with the R programming language. The process of developing the book (and refining the course that...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Do what you DON’T love
Today I was reading Josh Whiton’s essay, Money is a Neurotransmitter and it reminded me that I needed to share a story of yet another way money has broken our educational system. Since 2009 I have been...
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