Teenagers, retirement and reflections on the new abnormal
The economist and thinker Andrew Scott once said something that blew me away. He said that: The 20th century created the idea of teenagers and retirement....
Category: Politics
COVID19 & Education
Here are some of my pieces directly related to education and the COVID19 crisis. I am also part of the team behind the silverliningforlearning.org project (wher...
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...
John McCain, RIP
• • • • • • • • • John Sidney McCain III August 29, 1936 – August 25, 2018 The above image is a visual / typographic representation of one his favorite quotes f...
The reductive seduction of other people’s problems
The reductive seduction of other people’s problems, Illustration by Punya Mishra Anurag Behar forwarded an article: The Reductive Seduction of Other Peopl...
Why science teachers should care about social justice? New article
I have been editing a series of articles for iWonder: Rediscovering School Science, a practitioner orientated journal for middle school science teachers, publis...
MLK, Jan 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968
Martin Luther King, Jr. January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968
Creativity as Resistance: New article
Image credit: tshirtgifter.com The next article in our series (Rethinking technology and creativity for the 21st century) for the journal Tech Trends is now ava...
Seeing mathematics everywhere…
Dame Kathleen Ollernshaw was deaf since the age of 8. Despite this she had an amazing life as a mathematician, amateur astronomer, politician (she served as may...