Energy Constrained Learning

With climate change and the imminent peak in crude oil, the world sits between a rock and a hard place. The implications for learning and educational institutions are likely to be significant.

Does a Researcher’s Tablet Exist?

My impression is that portions of a device designed for the researcher/writer exist currently, but I’m not aware of anything that pulls all the pieces together into a single product.

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.

An Example of Tomorrow’s University?

Is BioCurious a precursor of a new non-institutional model for learning?

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.

Context for Educational Change

Questions we should ask ourselves about any imagined future.

Net Freedom

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