Notions on How to Proceed

To kludge is to learn is to discover that which is fundamental but now obscured.

My Great-Grandchildren

In search of a one-liner for use at a wedding.

On Salvaging Learning

Entertaining, erudite, powerful … but disappointing? That’s my reaction to John Michael Greer’s post about learning and why it needs to be salvaged.

No Alternatives

All plans are off if tomorrow diverges sharply from today.

Chaos, Social Change, and Limits to Theory

To paraphrase Clay Shirky with substitution, “it isn’t newspapers (read education) we should be worrying about, but news (read learning).” Which could, by extension, be sub-titled the limits of theory.

Global Warming Reader

What does climate change have to do with institutional change in education? Everything.

Net Freedom

It’s vintage Moglen: “Every morning I see people wearing dog collars recording their location every 90 seconds.”

Differential Pricing

Maybe it’s time higher education institutions experimented with differential pricing.

Naming or Doing

We all place bets on tomorrow. Here are mine.

The Grip of the Immediate

The word learning is but a name, albeit one founded in biology, everyday activity, individual aspirations, and human rights. Perhaps that offers hope for shared imaginations. Actual realized progress seems more distant.