1. “Lord Knows it needs Something.” 

Mady blurted out in her naturally poetic voice to address the challenge, “How do we fix education?” Her words echo universally, our educational system needs to change.

  1. An Unlikely Revolutionary 
  2. Leonardo’s Math 
  3. “That would be crazy!” 
  4. Instagram 
  5. A Broken Business Model 20
  6. Educating the Future 
  7. The Venerable Alarm Clock 
  8. Technology Levels the Playing Field 
  9. Effective, Efficient, Relevant 
  10. The Structure of Revolutions 
  11. Books vs. Courses 

 

Chapter 1. Explorations

Black Elk Speaks: Visual Storytelling

Black Elk Speaks is one of my favorite books. I am particularly fond of its opening paragraphs. When the Web was new in the 1990’s… Read more

The Great American Probability Machine

This program started my career in digital learning. I bought my first computer, an Apple II in February 1978 on their first anniversary. I talked… Read more

The Challenge of New

One hundred years ago my father at age 9 entered America. He had traveled from his birthplace in a town in what is now Ukraine… Read more

Rows and Columns

This picture from a recent blog post sends shivers down my spine. It is our picture of a “modern” classroom with the desks lined up… Read more

Personalizing Learning

The Bill & Melinda Gates (Gates) Foundation and the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) have recently initiated a joint effort to envision breakthroughs in education. While… Read more

Is the Textbook Dead?

It caught my eye, this headline/story posted on EdWeek recently. Seems there was a panel at a conference that was supposed to debate what they… Read more

A Book or a Course

I have long loved Maxwell’s Equations as the epitome of beauty in physics and as the source of inspiration for my teaching. But though the… Read more