It’s important sometimes to realize that while we are blazing new trails in mainstream education, we are really dealing with the dam of industrial culture finally breaking.
We’ve been paying attention enough to know why it’s breaking. We deserve credit for that.
In fact, we’ve been waiting for it to break.
But the ideas that fuel me (and [...]
Dec
13
2007
13
2007
SPACEWAR Is Still My Metaphor
Dec
11
2007
11
2007
Flexible, User-Constructed (non-metaphorical) Spaces
From email from my co-worker, Jenny Darrow:
I’ve done some thinking about the physical space that we will need to promote and support technology and engagement pedagogies. I’m concerned that our emphasis has been so focused on learning, teaching, and curriculum that we’ve been delinquent in addressing physical space requirements….
She goes onto link to Stanford’s Wallenberg [...]
Dec
3
2007
3
2007
Social Reboot
Might be time to get off Facebook, depending on the level of violation you feel about the recent Beacon revelations.
Far more interesting to me though is Cory Doctrow’s observation that you are going to want to get off Facebook at some point anyway, no matter how much you like it. As he points out we [...]