I mentioned today that schools are modelled on industrial era and factories. Probably didn’t make a lot of sense. So here’s a simple way to understand this. You’re in Year 7. The Yea...Read More
From an email I have just read based on a recent The Chronicle of Higher Education comes: Steve Kolowich, in “Confuse Students to Help Them Learn”, uses the example of a physics teacher wh...Read More
To begin with think of it as an ecosystem, and then there really isn’t competition (the idea that nature is a competition was understood to be wrong in about 1960). So we aren’t really com...Read More
Substitute ‘journalism’ for any other heritage media in this story and it is identical. The opening paragraph sums up this subject. The Guardian is doing well in the digital domain and the...Read More
It is a good read for many of you as it shows (I think) the connections between what we've been saying, how we've run the subject, and what O'Reilly has done, tried to do, and what matters. This is ...Read More
make something that others can use, to make to leave behind things for others (this was the founding rationale and ethos of the internet) learn how to make small things easily, and to learn from the...Read More