This is Social Innovation Week in Vancouver, with many events planned to stimulate thinking and collaborating about … social innovations (Find out more here). I have an innovative idea to share with SIW in mind, one I perceive as arising with starker irony given the province-wide teachers’ strikes that have also arisen this week. To […]
Steve Jobs legacy as innovator has much educational merit
This week the world woke to the sad news that Steve Jobs, co-founder of Apple computers and visionary behind personal computers, iTunes, Iphones, Ipod and Ipads, has died at cancer at the age of 56. To me, Steve Jobs’ story reflects the path of a lifelong, enthusiastic “SelfDesigner” – that is, one who lives life […]
Back to School = Back to Stress?!
This past month, mainstream media has cranked up its ‘Back to School’ reporting, as per usual, concentrating for the most part on trite issues promoting consumerism. This is mainly a vehicle to sell advertising for B2S features. I suppose this exercise makes media editors and producers feel they are providing meaningful content but I think […]
Tacit, Constructivist, Mobile Learning – More, Please!
I’m just finishing an exciting book, A New Culture of Learning: Cultivating the Imagination for a World of Constant Change (2011) by Douglas Thomas and John Brown, in which the authors say pithy things like: “In our view the kind of learning that will define the twenty-first century is not taking place in a classroom […]