The soft option
Your desire to be generous to others is a great motivator to excellence: if you’re serious about ensuring that the externalities of your project are… Read More »The soft option
Stuart Patience
Externalities
We’re familiar with the externalities of industrial production and consumption. They’re fairly predictable, and often visible. Even air pollution, the silent killer, is usually visible… Read More »Externalities
Education for the future: Key tools
Here are some tools that don’t go out of date: Tools for thinking, learning and understanding (the tools that help you acquire new tools); Tools… Read More »Education for the future: Key tools
Seth Godin: freelancing and the hard work of being an entrepreneur
Freelancers get paid when they work. Using our own fingers, our own skills, we do the work. So when I’m making a podcast, it’s me.… Read More »Seth Godin: freelancing and the hard work of being an entrepreneur
Listen to the technology: Kevin Kelly and the giant copy machine
Technology often has built in biases, certain ways that it wants to be used. So the internet is the largest copy machine in the world… Read More »Listen to the technology: Kevin Kelly and the giant copy machine
Cohort
Seth Godin talks quite a lot about cohorts: “The people who get you. The ones who have been through it with you. Who see you.”… Read More »Cohort
Learning through use: Kevin Kelly on technology finding its way
I’m a big believer that the way we steer technology is through engagement, by use. I find that most of the inventors don’t even have… Read More »Learning through use: Kevin Kelly on technology finding its way
What’s it worth? (2)
The way of thinking I described yesterday also applies to buying equipment, services and training in an organisation. The question isn’t simply “How much does… Read More »What’s it worth? (2)
What’s it worth? (1)
$50 for a pair of jeans.£100 for a pair of shoes.£250 for a smartphone – if you’re thrifty. The prices of these and many other… Read More »What’s it worth? (1)
Machine. Ecosystem. (8) – classrooms as complex adaptive systems
Planning is essential in education, but it’s easy to fall into the habit of treating your session plan or presentation as a set of inputs… Read More »Machine. Ecosystem. (8) – classrooms as complex adaptive systems