Will Richardson laments the “Khanification” of education: Which begs the questions, a) what should an education degree or a teaching certificate require when increasingly anyone with a connection can be a teacher of content, and, b) more importantly, what changes when the world begins to…
Watch this great talk from TEDxCopenhagen 2012: Many institutions we take for granted are designed from a basis of mistrust. Skip school too often? Go to jail. Run that red light, even when nobody is around for blocks? Ticket. Why do we do it? According…
John Moravec will represent Education Futures in “EduLab Live,” a three-hour livestreamed journey with educational innovators in Europe and the Americas. From Philippe Greier (organizer): Let’s connect, share and collaborate with the architects of the next generation of education. Education for the 21st century is…
In the Chronicle of Higher Education this morning, Katherine Mangan raised the alarm: Minnesota has informed Coursera it is outlawed. From the article: Coursera offers free, online courses to people around the world, but if you live in Minnesota, company officials are urging you to…
Preface: Today, the Waag Society (institute for art, science and technology) released a new publication, Spelen leren, lerend spelen (“Playing games, learning games”). I have a short article article in the magazine, which was published in Dutch. Here’s an English translation: In 1980, Seymour Papert…
Book: Makers: The new industrial revolution Author: Chris Anderson Publisher: Crown Business (October 2, 2012) The cover story of this month’s issue of Wired Magazine is all about how “the new MakerBot Replicator might just change your world.” Indeed, Wired has been pimping the do-it-yourself…
On September 15, 2011, Cristóbal Cobo and I released Invisible Learning (published in Spanish as Aprendizaje Invisible) into the Creative Commons as an open digital text. The printed edition, published by the University of Barcelona, was available since April of that year, and is still…
The bottom line: Sommers produced a volume with the word “futurist” and “what’s next” in the title, but the book has very little to do with the future.
Paul Zenke spoke with Anya Kamenetz, a senior writer at Fast Company Magazine, and the author of several thought-provoking books on education, including “DIY U.”
A girl of 8 years old in our Sudbury school replied lately to the question what the difference was between her previous traditional school and our Sudbury school: “At my previous school, I felt like a slave. Here I feel free. I feel like a lion that has broken loose.”
