Our Capacity for Error

Our capacity for error provides hope for grappling with real-world problems.

What’s It All About, Gramps?

I seem to be writing a series of posts.

First Glimpses

What might the encounter be like when we first glimpse something fundamental?

On the Right Track

If something fundamental is obscured, how do you recognize it?

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.