An Entrepreneur in Education

I’ve been a teacher for 10 years and never thought I’d do anything but work in educational institutions. I…

Don’t just teach. Be.

Here we are, well into the 21st Century, and educators are talking a lot about what needs to change to “keep up with the future” (which is already a backwards-looking phrase), when what we really need to consider is the skills, or meta-skills, that those of us who can adapt already have…

COMMUNITY in action: Puppet Tourists

Where Students from Türkey collaborate with students from Greece.

I’m so on board with choosing an adaptive mindset G rather than reacting back to what worked before (ie. last century’s education system). I mean do we even want to have a community we can thrive in? We can’t rely on luck to give a few people the impetus/ know how to make their own gigs anymore and thus be in positions to share and contribute – so…

Digital Inclusion — what Libraries are doing right to prepare communities to thrive

My work as an educator (and previously a library assistant) over 18 years has taught me the central place that inclusion must hold in any community that wants to thrive. The 25+…

What sort of school do students want?

I teach mostly disadvantaged youngsters, teenagers who haven’t…

How can we make post-work work?

In 2013, Ross Douthat of the New York Times wrote of “a kind of post-employment, in which people drop…

We need a new big-picture way to understand technology’s accelerating complexity

Future-U manifesto part2

Super-humans? The rise of Augmentation Technologies