“A New Culture Of Learning”: Dewey Redux
Two of the gurus of the Internet age have written a charming, compelling, and ultimately romantic book about what learning could be. In the opening pages of A New Culture of Learning: Cultivating the Imagination for a World of Constant Change, Douglas Thomas and John Seely Brown lay out the dimensions of “arc of life” […]
Understanding the Kahn Academy
In Learning 2.0, I reference the Kahn Academy, the wildly successful and growing open-source video tutoring program. Here Salman Kahn talks about how his video lectures have penetrated regular classrooms. By removing the one-size fits all classroom, the teachers have used technology to humanize the classroom. His TED speech here. Listen to his notions about […]
Learning 2.0
“Why, one might ask, should California, the headwaters of the digital revolution, be stuck in the eddies of an early 20th Century school design?” Starting this week, I will be posting a series of pieces about the what I believe to be the essentials of 21st Century learning and the changes in educational politics that […]
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