I’ve been meaning to scratch this itch of a digitized reading/writing/speaking unit for any school with basic podcasting gear for a while, but have been too busy. Busy with a new job, here in Seoul, writing and announcing radio news. I applied for it a good two months ago, and after a glacial hiring process, [...]

He wins in a Democrat landslide. Hopes are high for a progressive agenda unseen since the New Deal, and he delivers, in the first days of his presidency, an avalanche of legislation meant to fulfill those hopes. But he also inherits a military conflict that his advisers are counseling him to escalate – with a [...]

I received this comment recently on my podcast post, “My Suicidal High School Years: A Happy Ending Bullying Story.” The comment is from a teen named Jack, who is experiencing now what I experienced 30 years ago. I’m sharing it because it’s evidence that the meme I’m about to propose – voluntary, as usual – [...]

I promised in an earlier post to give the link when Teachers Teaching Teachers posted its podcast with students weighing in on “How to Be Unschooly” in blogs, Twitter, and more. Consider it done. It is so worth a listen. There’s something to say, too, about the back-story on this. Soojin, the Korean student who [...]

Jaeho and Younsuk were gracious enough to give me a half hour of their time this Monday night for this Skype interview about the Basketball Without Borders blog and podcast project. I’ll go ahead and re-embed the video interview I shot with them directly after their Skype interview with their college basketball hero KJ Matsui [...]

I just got off a live webcast with Teachers Teaching Teachers – permalink forthcoming when they post the podcast – that was entitled, I think, “How to Make YouthTwitter Less ‘Schooly’.” The really cool thing about it?  There were as many students on the episode as teachers. “Students Teaching Teachers”?  I like it. I learned [...]

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 [...]

[This is guest-post number two by my long-time global partner Chris Watson in Honolulu, with whom I've collaborated in Seoul for over a year now. See Chris' first guest post here. -- Clay] Remixing Curriculum: An Interview with Lisa Stewart Last month, I had the opportunity to attend the Learning and the Brain conference in [...]

Shifts are happening more and more quickly in my world. I’ve seen too many inspired visions crash on the shoals of reality to celebrate these shifts yet, but they do make me hopeful. They’re happening with a few select students: Lindsea in Hawaii (I often want to call Lindsea “my favorite student,” but I’ve never [...]

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 [...]