The creative potential of hand-crafted learning

In which I might be onto something, and in which I make an initial stab at trying to pin it down.
I’ve been journeying rather far from home for quite some time to explore a strange but compelling land where “learning” and “technology” and “education” and “change”… and people… seem to converge.
I travel with biases. We [...]

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Learning around the corners

We learned last week that the Four Corners Monument  isn’t quite at the four corners of the southwestern states of Arizona, Utah, Colorado and New Mexico. (The site is also known as marking the convergence of six governments, including the Navajo Nation and the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe.)  The early surveyors, using some pretty basic technology [...]

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CCK08: Complexity 101

In which I catch some air and put boots on the ground.

 
Every once in a while, I’m invited to work with groups or classes on history projects as a “real live historian.” (Insert your own joke here.) Several years ago, I parachuted into a group of students who were putting together a self-selected, relatively “open” [...]

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