It is time to perhaps articulate the digital not as tools and technologies, but as a paradigm that can be helpful in unpacking the biases and presumptions in our traditional understanding of education systems.
...be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity
Horace Mann - commencement address at Antioch College, 1859. Now repeated to each class.
PPPS - Yes, I'm still angel investing. Looking for five killer ideas to invest in this year. Tip: Only suckers write or send business plans. Real founders send URLs, mockups and apps.
via launch.is
Jason Calacanis via his tech newsletter discussing what he's looking for when investing in technology startups.
We don't just encourage risk taking at our offices: we demand failure.
The plural of anecdotes is not data
Jim Temply of the Research Alliance for New York City Schools
A tidy laboratory means a lazy chemist.
We have made a mistake by thinking that the way to value somebody is by the number of hours they put in instead of the value they generate. If you hold them accountable to generating a certain amount of value, and you measure them by the value you create, then you are shifting the focus to what really matters.
...we'll move from the classroom as the locus of the learning experience to the individual child as the focus of the learning experience.
"If we always do what we’ve always done, we will get what we’ve always got" - Adam Urbanski
All the white people I know deplore racism. We feel helpless about racial injustice in society, and we don't know what to do about the racism we sense in our own groups and lives. Persons of other races avoid our groups when they accurately sense the racism we don't see (just as gays spot heterosexism in straight groups, and women see chauvinism among men). Few white people socialize or work politically with people of other races, even when our goals are the same. We don't want to be racist - so much of the time we go around trying not to be, by pretending we're not. Yet, white supremacy is basic in American social and economic history, and this racist heritage has been internalized by American white people of all classes. We have all absorbed white racism; pretence and mystification only compound the problem.
Another post on microagressions that deals with the challenges faced by "oppressors."
This post connects with a lot of Tim Wise's work on how racism harms white people. His book White Like Me does a great job spelling that out.