The Gulf oil spill, is at the heart of the matter, a design flaw. I’m not alluding to BP’s oil extraction technology either. Certainly, it had an important role to play but it’s not the whole story, or even a central part of it. The story is bigger. And like most [...]
Not too long ago, I watched as various self-righteously indignant politicians grilled (not without justification) various BP executives about the situation in the Gulf. With stern, admonishing tones, they called for resignations and ritual disembowelment. Grandstanding was the order of the day. It all seemed very disingenuous.
I wondered what these politicians [...]
Creepy? Over-reactive? Just a bunch of crunchies being paranoid? You decide. (One of the speakers, Juliet Schor, is an author of several interesting books.) Hope this gets funded. If interested, you can help out by visiting: Documentary Home or Ground Productions.
It struck me as I was listening to John Seely Brown’s talk (below) that WoW guilds serve the same function as personal learning networks (PLNs).
It’s important to realize that the way the World of Warcraft works is it has guilds. If you get anything serious done, you’ve got to join the guild. These guilds are [...]
How refreshing it was to read Warren Buffett’s pledge in which he urges others with great wealth to consider giving a majority of their wealth to philanthropic causes, just as he promises to do. But it wasn’t just Mr. Buffett’s effort to move others along the philanthropic route that caught my attention. It was his [...]
We need a new approach to design. Schools need to rethink standard engineering practices that rely on huge energy inputs, toxic substances, high pressures, excessive heat, overuse of materials and noise pollution. The Gulf Oil Spill Disaster is a byproduct of the kind of design and engineering practices that don’t work well on planet with [...]
Someone in my PLN recently sent me this video illustrating one of Dan Pink’s talks. It addresses what I think is one of the biggest problems in schools today: a serious lack of understanding about what motivates people.
In most schools, grades have become a form of currency to be used as carrots and sticks. The [...]
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