In the past two months since the announcement of the Invisible Learning project, we have received a tremendous response in Twitter and the blogosphere. (Interestingly, most of the discussion originates from Latin America and Spain — and less from the United States and Canada.)
Much of the recent conversation has been on defining what is [...]

By John Moravec (Updated December 20, 2009)
Education Futures celebrates its first five years of exploring new futures in human capital development with a timeline of the history of modern education. This timeline provides not only a glimpse into the past and present, but plots out a plausible future history for human capital development. The future [...]

Do kids just naturally get it? Are they just good at games, computers, phones, and all things digital?
My experience and common sense says no, although I wish it were a general truth.
Do kids need to learn about games in school?
Yes, if we want to guide them in optimal usage, and maybe learn something from [...]

To do is to be
To be is to do
So Do We?
It is just good teaching
Games taught me that modeling environments and taking on the roles are powerful ways to teach and learn.
Piaget talked about roles as assimilation. You try on the role and see what part of the character is you.
Gibson talked about environment and [...]

Ah, yes… now for a moment of shameless displays of pride and self-promotion ! Desk copies of my “Chaordic knowledge production: A systems-based response to critical education” article, published in Theory of Science vol. XV/XXVIII/2006, no. 3, pp. 149-162, arrived last week.
Drop me a line if you’d like a PDF of [...]

Call for papers

Global Leapfrog Education

Volume 2, Number 1 – March 2006
(Submissions are due November 30, 2006)
Global Leapfrog Education (GLE), a new, open access journal, is devoted to exploring how, through education and human capital development, communities can transcend current problems and challenges by empowering themselves with the tools to invent their own futures. GLE [...]