Our building materials have changed. This is an irrevocable change, short of some apocalyptic event or techno-jihad. Read more – ‘Solid State Vernacular’.
The right word for interactive is 'unfinished'. Unfinished stuff is powerful. So, in lots of cases, is being wrong. Being usefully wrong is a mightily underrated skill. Read more – ‘The right word is unfinished’.
[callout]The second of a two-parter on “Digital Natives”. The first part is about why I think they exist. This one’s about why I think it’s dangerous to deny their existence.[/callout] [headline]Stereotypes[/headline] As a man, one of the things I find irritating is the way that some women assume that I’m incapable of looking after children. [...] Read more – ‘Myths of Digital Natives’.
[callout]I wrote bits of this six months ago so the beginning refers to something as if it happened a couple of days before. Which it did. This is a two-parter. In which I explain why I think, although the term itself is – to put it mildly – suspect , “digital natives” do, in fact, [...] Read more – ‘Natives’.
[callout]This post is for the awesome Purpos/ed project kick-off. It’s a day late. Because the dog ate it. What is the purpose of education?[/callout] All abstract nouns are weasel words. I’m with Brenda Dervin here — nouns freeze reality for the purposes of control. brainwash*, brief, civilize, coach, cultivate, develop, discipline, drill, drum into, edify, [...] Read more – ‘The Purpose of Education’.
[callout]This post doesn’t make much sense if you don’t read the quotations too.[/callout] [headline h="3"]Painting by Numbers[sub_title]Theory vs Practice[/sub_title][/headline] [quote cite="Albert Einstein"]It’s the theory that decides what can be observed.[/quote] Einstein shows us why it’s theory versus practice. The one determines the other. Theory allows us to focus our attention more narrowly than we otherwise [...] Read more – ‘Theory vs Practice’.
This is a talk I gave the other day at Reading Geek. It’s about: Education and Training for Cyborgs It might not make much sense (though I’ve done quite a lot of editing to add captions so it does make some sense – I’ve also removed all references to personal stories and things which relied [...] Read more – ‘Educating Cyborgs’.
[callout]I’m jealous of people working in advertising.[/callout] I have a professional crush on somebody called Russell Davies. He works in what we would probably call ‘advertising’. I saw him talk at a conference called Playful in 2009. He talked about Barely Games and I learned more about my job there than I did at any [...] Read more – ‘Account Planners: how I fell in love with advertising’.
