How to get a Shuttleworth fellowship
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again, the Shuttleworth fellowship is gold-dust for people interested in starting a venture at the cross-section of technology, learning, and “open”. Word seems to...
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How children (and everyone else) succeed
Paul Tough’s recent book “How Children Succeed” weaves together a broad body of research with stories of students, teachers, and principals to propose that there is hope for improving the disaster that...
View ArticleThe great ideas in edtech are old. And that’s an opportunity.
I’ve been participating in the edtech reading group here at MIT, which brings together people from the Media Lab and CSAIL (Computer Science and Artifical Intelligence Lab). We have mainly looked at...
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Good tools make you smile
I recently downloaded Sketch, an inexpensive vector drawing tool for OSX. I was actually hoping for a pixel / photo editing tool that could replace Seashore, which is free and I appreciate the fact...
View ArticleAnalytics and The Art of Learning
I posted a long piece about analytics and the (lost) art of learning over on the P2PU blog. It is quite a personal reflection and made me think about my own personal journey, and the influence my...
View ArticleLearning Like the Web
Illich wrote of learning webs that provide access to people, materials and tools to support interest-driven learning. Open source software communities have demonstrated how self-organized communities...
View ArticleP2PU Strategy post / Blog identity crisis
Last week I put up a P2PU Strategy post over at http://info.p2pu.org/2013/01/18/the-possibility-of-punk/ And I’ve increasingly been posting things related to P2PU over there. Which puts this blog into...
View ArticleWhat we can learn from Self Organized Learning Environments / Sugata Mitra
I downloaded the brochure about SOLE Sugata Mitra’s TED Prize project. It’s relevant to our work at P2PU in a number of ways: The need for facilitators The SOLE model relies on educators to model...
View ArticleHow to build a project
My friend Chris Geith asked me for five points on how to build a new project. Here is what I sent back to her. I have more questions than answers. Some of these are things I wish I’d done better at...
View ArticleReflections on philanthropy (mostly by others)
Peter Buffett, Warren Buffett’s son and chairman of the NoVo Foundation, recently posted an opinion piece for the NYT about his frustrations with philanthropy. He suggests there is a problem with...
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