Most of the argument about AI in education is an argument about permission. Should we restrict it or allow it? Should we prohibit it or give it a different purpose? Neither of these will transform education, not so long as we hold the same values, and those values turn outcomes into ends. At Green School we [...]
While I love writing, I struggle to begin every time. I am told openings have to be catchy in an economy that competes for attention, where the abundance of choice is only a swipe away. Hooks become provocations, tending toward outrage in order to grab the reader with a firm hand and elicit a reaction, [...]
This post was influenced by Nate Hagens. You know the feeling. You eat a doughnut and it felt oh so deliciously wonderful in the moment yet within a few short minutes the pleasure is reversed. You feel gross. Your body tells you. You didn't need to analyze anything, you sensed what happened to you when [...]
Mastery- and competency-based assessment are the same old sorting and ranking system just in sheep’s clothing.Both start from the same ontological delusion: that something can be mastered, that we stand apart from knowledge, that learning is a discrete event that can be demonstrated once and then carried across every context. It’s the fantasy of decontextualization, [...]
Coconut Thinking 