Learning Futures: The Podcast
What if education systems were doing more and thinking differently about preparing learners to thrive in the future? The Learning Futures Podcast (from Mary Lou...
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Embracing failure (in a first year technology course): New article
In his book The child and the curriculum; and The school and society John Dewey identified four key impulses for learning that he placed at the foundation of th...
Education in a pandemic: A crisis (and possibly) an opportunity
Last year I was in Israel to present at the Meital Conference. When I was there I was interviewed by Lior Detal, the education correspondent for TheMarker ̵...
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Each man’s death diminishes me,For I am involved in mankind.Therefore, send not to knowFor whom the bell tolls,It tolls for thee. John Donne Over the Memo...
From being to becoming: Keynote by Dr. Shawn Loescher
It is rarely that I hear a talk that blows me away. We have all seen the TED talks, and their mutant offspring. The over-hyped music and catchy taglines; the sp...
Measuring what matters: A convening
All of us involved in social design (and I include education in among those as well) ask ourselves, or are asked this question: How do we measure the impact of ...
Beware of science envy in designing the future of learning
Mike Crowley has a guest post on the silverlingingforlearning.org site titled: If we need to be right before we move. (If you haven’t read it, I recommend it st...
1.5 billion learners out of school: A global educational crisis
The scale of the COVID19 crisis and its impact on global education is hard to comprehend. UNESCO has a website (COVID-19 Educational Disruption and Response) pr...
Corona virus: Silver lining? For learning? #silverliningforlearning
A week or so ago, Yong Zhao reached out to Chris Dede, Curt Bonk, Scott McLeod and me with the question: What would happen to our global and local educational s...
From artifacts to culture, my journey through design: Keynote at IDC, School of Design
Design is core to my identity, to who I am. Education is the space within which I function but I try to approach everything I do as a designer. This was not alw...