and had spent a full half hour in vain efforts to climb on his own back.
I tried reading this aloud to my wife and could not control my giggling when I came to the last sentence. Vainly I tried several times but just burst out in uncontrollable, breath-robbing laughter. I was about to copy it and text her when I finally managed to choke out the last five words one at a time. Tears are still rolling down my cheeks.
tear it down and start from scratch
I say the same thing about American educational institutions.
expertise is a defensive posture
I love the rare experts who are not defensive I'm expected to be an expert in my edTech role in our CTL, but I often have to say, "I don't know but I can help you find out."
transform schools toward human-centered policies that promote well-being and learning
one of the strategic pillars of our college's transition to a polytechnic university is "learning centred." I have had a few conversations around the question of how that relates to learner centred.
envisioning, with students, new ways to exist online.
Open access and open education resources are the beginnings of an interweb for the majority. Extending the infrastructure is part of an international political project to extend real democracy.
web is broken
The interwebs work, most of the time. They have been colonized by capital and neoliberalism. The "commons" is growing and resisting the colonizers, but without international political support will remain at the margins.