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There’s No Doctor in This House, Just Someone Who Asks a lot of Questions:...
“…for most [people], the right to learn is curtailed by the obligation to attend school.” (Ivan Illich, Deschooling Society, 1970 p.xix) I’m an unabashed generalist. A near novice in any field. Now...
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From Academy to Community and Back Again: On Being a Visitor
Three times this past month I have traveled back to school all while steadily journeying far far from that world. What a strange feeling to have so much I want to say and explore with people still on...
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December Arrives: A (Quasi) Hypertext Musing on Storytelling and Stories
I’m ready for December. November unsettles me with its wild swings set beneath a heavy-lidded sky, even during years without presidential elections and collapsing dogs and intensifying troubles around...
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Getting Ready for SXSW: Thinking Aloud
This coming Sunday, I will be joining Dave Lester, Gardner Campbell, Stephen Downes and Jim Groom on the Edupunk Panel at SXSW–wow, what a line-up they are–to chime in as one who left formal education...
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In Honor of Ada Lovelace Day
A post in honor of Ada Lovelace Day What a strange thing to say: Until about ten years ago, I was not deeply influenced by women outside of my family or books. My mother and grandmother inspired me to...
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Digital Explorations: If you’re looking for me, you’ll find me here
After months of dreaming, planning and working flat-out with my merry band of advisors, board members and Fellows, and with the encouragement of so many of you, the new nonprofit, Digital Explorations...
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Dear Charles…
You’ve taken me to task. Rightfully so. I thought of you yesterday as I spent a couple of hours with a remarkable group of students (some of whom you see here) who touched my life four years ago during...
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Tacit and Tangible: Two Sides of the Creative Teacher
“…I think of how much beginnings have to do with freedom, how much disruption has to do with consciousness and the awareness of possibility that has so much to do with teaching other human beings. And...
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Learning from Writers, Learning from Readers: Hearts and Minds in Balance
What an interesting time. As I continue to shed my classroom-teacher identity, I am learning more and more about the imposter syndrome and semantic gaps in our culture between professional expert and...
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So This Is What It’s Like… Sort Of…
With a less than a week left of the Motley Group reading of Joyce’s Dubliners, I am lingering a bit too long, I realize, mid-collection, thinking about what I’ve read, how the stories talk to one...
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