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Are Educators Winning The Argument For Self-Determinism?

 I met one of my sons just before I came out to Australia. “How’s it going?”, I asked. “I don’t know”, he said, “but I think I’m on the cusp of something.” “That’s great”, I replied, “cusps are always good.”…Read more ›

How OPEN Is Your Organisation?

NOTE: This is just the first draft of a crowd-sourced post. I need your input to flesh out the ideas! One of the unexpected delights in the reaction to my new book, Open, has been the number of schools and…Read more ›

3 Ways We Stifle Student Voice(s)

Schools will frequently claim they’re big on ‘student voice’. And many are. Too often however, what we believe to be ‘allowing’ young people to voice their wants and needs (why do we think they need permission?), can actually dial the volume…Read more ›

Teachers Are Doing It For Themselves

An important report, ‘A Rich Seam’, written by Michael Fullan and Maria Langworthy, was published earlier this year. It signals the potential for a long-awaited decoupling of research and political pressure. It suggests that teachers as a profession are now…Read more ›

I Wrote A Book: Here’s What I Learned And How I Did It

Writing my book ‘OPEN: How We’ll Work, Live and Learn In The Future’ has been the biggest learning experience of my life. I’d like to share the key lessons with you, in the hope that it might encourage you, or…Read more ›

PODCAST: Episode 2 – Ron Berger in Conversation (Pt 2)

This is the second part of the conversation I had with Ron Berger last summer. Here he talks about ways to secure parental engagement, authentic learning and the balance between project, problem and lecture-based learning. He also shares an analogy…Read more ›

PODCAST: Episode 1 – An Interview with Ron Berger

This is part one of an interview with Ron Berger, founder of Expeditionary Learning schools and author of ‘Ethic of Excellence’. Here he talks about his early life as an elementary teacher and the start of his interest in multiple…Read more ›

Why Pedagogy Is No Longer Enough

In my new book, OPEN, I  speculate on the shift in learner motivations and dependencies brought about by the revolution in how we learn socially. I argue that places where formal learning happens (in education and the workplace) have to…Read more ›

Three Myths of Student Engagement

My friends at Mindshift asked me to do a guest post on their blog. Once again, you should see it in its original form (not least because you’ll see loads of connecting posts) but if you’d rather see it here,…Read more ›

Accountability Is A Poor Substitute For Trust

2014 is likely to see greater call for ‘stricter accountability’ for all kinds of public and private services. We seem to feel reassured if, say, doctors, or hedge fund traders are made more accountable for their actions. It’s entirely understandable…Read more ›