Remember, this is a man with that old-fashioned European humanist faith in the library as a model of good society and spiritual regeneration – a man who once went so far as to declare that “libraries can take the place of God.” –Lee Marshall, “The World According to Eco,” Wired.com I have a hallway for [...]

Life is physically and mentally too cramped for me to write the posts I’ve been planning about Pink’s Whole New Mind and Shirky’s Here Comes Everybody.  I’m tutoring three days a week, finishing up my change of visa status (I never thought I’d need a Green Card, but there it is), and moving into our [...]

[UPDATE 2: 10 Nov. 2008: Downloading the AirPort Extreme Update 2008-004 (1.0) did the job for me.  Two days in and no drops, much faster load speeds. From the Apple Downloads site: "This update is recommended for all Intel-based Macintosh computers running Mac OS 10.5.5." NOTE: I don't have Airport Extreme. I have an old [...]

Just spreading the love to my fellow Mac users by sharing Monolingual, a free open source program that saved me 4Gb of hard drive by removing the hundreds of languages localized on all my software, and by stripping the PowerPC files from my Intel MacBook.  (If you have Adobe Creative Suite, you’ll easily save 2 [...]

In my third month of writing here about 21st century education, way back in March 2007, I put the pom-poms down, stopped cheerleading, and started thinking about all the ways schools can kill the learning that is possible when students have a simple laptop and a blog. This snippet from a post from back then [...]

It’s been about six weeks since my last update on the ten-week-old Networked Learning class I created with the help of so many of you in the initial Open Thread post and Twitter. Students are still grading themselves and justifying it – and showing the same fondness for grade inflation as so many of our [...]

One for the MiniLegends [Update: I was out of the loop preparing for my wedding when Australian Al Upton's MiniLegends and Qatar's Jabiz Raisdana got hit by two shockingly reactionary hammers. Since this podcast features Noel Thomas, an Australian high school principal representing all that is most forward-thinking and impressive about Australia's educational system, I'd [...]

As my 1:1 MacBook laptop school drives further into 21st century education – attempts to, anyway, despite getting stuck in the deep mud of 20th century teachers, parents, and students – I’m more and more realizing that it’s the early adopters who are the exponential change-agents. Among the adults at my school, the early adopters [...]

[Update: Download link is fixed. Thanks!] In this one-hour podcast (edited down from 90 minutes, and enhanced with chapter titles and quick navigation if you download it to iTunes), Dean Shareski, District Technology Coordinator in Saskatchewan, Canada, talks with me here in Seoul about NATURAL, “unschooly” global collaboration via student networked learning projects. Topics: Natural [...]

I gave this presentation at the Apple Distinguished Educators Institute in Bangkok in December of 2007. The conference room was freezing, to explain the ski cap. Not only does it tell the story of how the international school I work at went 1:1, how that groundswell was created, how admin was persuaded to choose Macs [...]