LearningReImagined

I spent some time this weekend reading Clay Shirkey’s Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations. While the book is not directly related to education or schools, it is a cogent analysis of organizations in times of dynamic change. I was struck by the similarity of the content to some reading I did [...]

Fundamentally, education, schools and learning need to be rethought on a whole different level than we are on. Most of the proposals and theories to make schools better assume schools as they are: 8 a.m. to 3 p.m., September to late May or June, classes of 30-40 students of the same age in a “classroom” [...]