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 […]
Now that I’ve left schooling, it’s wonderful to explore things for teaching. Case in point: Annenberg Media / Learner.org’s A Biography of America series. It’s an astonishingly media-rich 26-part series - count ‘em, 26 half-hour PBS episodes featuring leading US historians, plus transcripts of each episode, plus interactive maps, photos, primary sources, and more for […]
Just doinking around with Mystudiyo. They say they’ll never make me pay for this when they leave beta, which is cool - but I always wonder what will happen to this sort of work if the company goes out of business. Is all my labor lost?
That being said, I love the ease of use. [UPDATE: […]
That Networked Learning elective “English Seminar” class I taught last semester ended two weeks ago. (Sift through the archives for related posts.)
For new readers or simply people not tuned in here during the last six months, here’s a recap: Ten students of mixed grades (9-12, ages 15-18), each with a MacBook laptop (the school is […]
They sentenced me to 20 years of boredom
For trying to change the system from within.
–Leonard Cohen
The model of education from its earliest times was one of mentorship, starting with hunter-gatherers taking their children out on the hunt 100,000 years ago, all the way up to the teaching methods employed at the university […]
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Clay Burell:
Chattanooga - Los Angeles - Eugene, OR - Wuerzburg, Germany - Shanghai, China - Seoul, Korea over 40-odd years. English, History, and ESOL teacher-geek. Apple Distinguished Educator. I hate schooliness. I love learning.
I started Beyond School on Blogger on 1 Jan. 2007. Out of love for WordPress, I divorced Blogger on 20 October 2007 to self-host here. Thanks for coming by.
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