
Hanging a Question Mark on the Things We Take for Granted
|Originally posted on Dreams of Education on July 22, 2015| “In all affairs it’s a healthy thing now and again to hang a question mark on the things you take for granted.” -Bertrand Russell This. This quote is one of my new very favorite quotes ever! This is where innovation lives. In the question marks. Too often in education, we talk about innovation as if it is something that we’ve created and something that can be owned. We talk about innovation in steps and processes and
Embodied Learning and Things that Don't Have Names
|Posted originally on Dreams of Education on March 26, 2013| I’ve been thinking a lot about how we talk about education. How we prove that learning has taken place. Inevitably we talk about standards, measures, awards, grades, success. Anastasis has given me the freedom to completely redefine education. There are no limits, except of my own making. I get to decide how to talk about education. This would be easy if I was doing all of this in a vacuum, but I’m not. There