matt damon

thank you Peter:

the things that make me who i am can't be measured...

mary ann reilly

on rhizomes - Mary Ann’s image from post, 2 definitions, her chapter

..has no beginning or end; it is always in the middle, between things, interbeing, intermezzo. The tree is filiation, but the rhizome is alliance, uniquely alliance. The tree imposes the verb 'to be,' but the fabric of the rhizome is conjunction, 'and . . . and . . . and' (pp.24-25)

Break the rhizome anywhere and the only effect is that new connections will be grown. The rhizome models the unlimited potential for knowledge construction, because it has no fixed points…and no particular organization (p. 389).

..a tangle of tubers with no apparent beginning or end, constantly changes shape, and appears to be connected at every point with every other point (p. 389).

When I asked my son what he had been learning he said he’s learned how to work with
others, how to search, locate, and evaluate information, how to run an effective server,
how to explain an installation process of mods to others, how to anticipate a partner’s
play in a game, how to build a structure together, how to imagine a place and build it,
how to give and take ideas, how to make mistakes and fix them, how to build a design
based on someone’s idea, how to script, how to model, how to resolve problems when
they arise, how to use resources to guide building, how to make games inside of games,
how to make films and upload to YouTube, and how to narrow the focus of a film.
During this learning, the boys are also learning about one another: siblings, where they
live, currency, geography, food, politics, and all things Minecraft. My son is adamant that
this playing is not learning.

It's not like school, he tells me repeatedly. Sadly, I think he's right.

this is huge Mary Ann... thank you

big big part of be you book

in explanation of a quiet revolution

simon sinek

advantage in disadvantage
spot on Simon..

what is normal..

ivan illich

http://www.preservenet.com/theory/Illich/Deschooling/intro.html

be you bus

old green

new green

thanks Al

campaign for commons

thank you Bernd and George Por

rhizomes

and the be you book..
working on this:

glossary/table of contents of sorts

ivan illich

A common complaint about schools, one that is reflected for example, in the recent (book was published in 1972) report of the Carnegie Commission: In school, registered students submit to certified teachers in order to obtain certificates of their own; both are frustrated and both blame insufficient resources - money, time, or building - for their mutual frustration. 

I believe that the contemporary crisis of education demands that we review the very idea of publicly prescribed learning rather than the methods used in its enforcement.

                                                            - Ivan Illich, Deschooling Society

huge. very huge..

chris brogan

salt and pepper simplicity

Simplicity allows us to appreciate the execution more than the cleverness of our plan. Complexity is mostly about being clever, if you’ve never noticed. Simplicity is about execution.

yaacov hecht

from a convo he was having on facebook

Hava Ben-Horin Abramsky writes:
מסכימה לגמרי, מערכת החינוך התמחתה לאחרונה בהנחתות חדשות לבקרים על המורים (ועל התלמידים וההורים), בצורה שמצמיתה מחשבה חופשית, יצירתיות והנאה מהתהליך


Totally agree, the education system has specialized recently laying regularly on teachers (and students and parents), a permanently free thought, creativity and enjoyment of the process

seth godin

more or less

choice...

so cool.

be you house and happenings

320 east 3rd

notice. dream. connect. do.
be.

seth godin

the facts

what is real anyway... no?
who keeps deciding these things?

for us.
for you.

mindfulness.
huge.

correct? right?
or life changing.
actionable...
does it matter?
is it awesome?

hangout

@PaulAllison of edtechtalk ttt had us share some of our detox convo last night on his show:



thanks Paul..
thanks guys..

be you house

someone came into the be you house yesterday. wondering if we could help them with their ged or transcript. i'm guessing their age was upper 20's.
when i asked why they wanted a ged or transcript.. they said..

they told me that would mean i'm educated..

we spend too much time fixing things that aren't even necessary things. we're convinced that what people say (have been saying) is what is best.
we need to be about respectfully questioning everything. so that we can start doing things that matter.

what if 75% of transcripts/diplomas represent a false statement? do they? could they?
per youth i've been working with, they suggest 75% either cheat or cram before tests, so that one/two weeks later, their brain has no growth in regard to what that paper work stands to represent. and it's not just kids in school, it's everywhere. perhaps it's a coping mentality - because in our souls we know that much of it is bunk.

let's bag the time we spend on documentation to prove ourselves.
let's spend that time on getting to know people. getting to know ourselves.
let's spend that time finding what we can't not do.
let's become indispensable.
away with the papers of pretense.
no?

seth godin

Mark Zuckerberg isn't Mark Zuckerberg

make difficult choices, do hard work that matters..

ivan illich

oh how i wish you were alive...

seth godin

short-term capitalism

at work on a quiet revolution

seth godin

when ideas become powerful

at work with thomas edison

1093 patents, and yet determined to steer clear of them

shelly blake plock

options