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Written when we still imagined that President Barack Obama would listen...
and learn about education.

Counting the Origins of Failure 
Technology, the Wrong Questions and the Right Questions 
Today's "School Reformers" vs Real Change for Education, Part 1 
Today's "School Reformers" vs Real Change for Education, Part 2 
The Toolbelt and Universal Design - Education for Everyone  
"Evaluate that!" - Schools for Children
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Designed to Fail - Education in America

  • Part One - The purpose, the design
  • Part Two - Cubberley, the author
  • Part Three - Civil Religion
  • Part Four - Social Reproduction
  • Part Five - Why we don't change

Changing Gears

  • Ending required sameness
  • Rejecting the flipped classroom
  • Rethinking Rigor
  • Its not about 1:1
  • Start to dream again
  • Learning to be a society (again)
  • Reconsidering what literature means
  • Maths are creative, maths are not arithmetic
  • Changing rooms
  • Undoing academic time
  • Social networking beyond Zuckerbergism
  • Knowing less about students, seeing more
  • Why we fight...

"Grit" vs. "Abundance"

  • 1: Paul Tough v. Peter Høeg - or - the Advantages and Limits of "Research"
  • 2: Is "slack" what kids need?
  • 3: Is an "Abundance of Possibility" what our kids need?
  • 4: Abundance, Authenticity, and the Multi-Year Mentor
  • Summarizing: The Abundance Narratives

Vision

  • The Art of Seeing 1 - Different
  • The Art of Seeing 2 - The Practice
  • The Art of Seeing 3 - Visiting Delphi
  • The Art of Seeing 4 - Opening Eyes
  • How to help students see differently

Toolbelt Theory

  • Toolbelt Theory, TEST, and RTI
  • Toolbelt Theory for Everyone
  • A Toolbelt for a Lifetime
  • The Toolbelt as School Policy
  • The Freedom Stick
  • Writing Without Blocks
  • For Whom the Medium is the Message
  • Making Windows Accessible
  • FreeTech - Free, Ubiquitous Technologies
  • What Does Assistive Technology Really Mean?
  • Architectural Assistive Technology
  • Toolbelt Theory PowerPoint Presentation

Great Schools Examples

  • Primary
  • Secondary
  • > Neil Postman High School Site
  • Post-Secondary/Tertiary
  • When Re-thinking School Itself
  • The Third Technology
  • The School I'd Like

Unlearning the School We Know

  • Believing in the Wrong Things
  • A Week Without Technology
  • If School isn't about Collaborating, Why does Anyone Come?
  • Passion-Based Learning
  • Schools that matter (to teens)
  • Instructional Tolerance and Universal Design
  • Stop Asking Questions if You Already Know the Answer
  • Platform Agnostic
  • Hulu in the Classroom: Building Literacy
  • Class War at The New York Times

Disability Theory/Retard Theory

  • Retard Theory
  • Transactional Disability
  • Constructing Disability - The Second Class Citizen
  • Constructing Disability - in Hospital
  • Reading is NOT the Goal
  • What a Good IEP Looks Like
  • Dyslexia and Life
  • The Madness of Bradley Manning
  • Technology and Equity
  • The Civil Right to Broadband
  • Humiliation and the Modern Professor
  • Sarah Palin's Disability Disability

Space: The Third Technology

  • The Third Technology
  • Why Space Matters
  • A Physical Space for Virtual Education
  • Fantastic Windows and the Classroom Telectroscope
  • Learning Space
  • The View from Here
  • Looking for Universal Design
  • Who doesn't want great school buildings?

Postcolonialism and Racism

  • Why do we read? Why do we Write? Democracy of Voices - 1
  • The Non-Anglo-American Reading and Writing. Democracy of Voices - 2
  • Pygmalion (and Common Core)
  • One Ethos, Open Culture, Many Paths, Many Tools
  • Testing cannot be anything but political and abusive
  • The Racism of Brian Williams and NBC News
  • Class War at The New York Times
  • Fried Chicken 'n Watermelon at The New York Times
  • Of handball and hurling, archery and inclusion
  • Choosing not to create change
  • The Colonialism of Michelle Rhee, or TFA v BoA
  • Commons Knowledge
  • Social Reproduction
  • "Acting Student" and Confirmation Bias
  • The Fiction of "Teach, Don't Preach"
  • Othering Students: The Digital Native Conspiracy
  • What KIPP Academies do...
  • A week without technology?
  • Carnegie v Gates: Centuries of Educational "Reform"
  • The sad story of the anti-multitaskers
  • Ideology and Education

Irish Education

  • School Design Questions: YourSchool
  • Heroes of the Republic
  • foghlama in Éirinn, Éire foghlama
  • Multiage Magic
  • A space for Education
  • Titanic and the Geographies of Language

Cultures of Compliance - PennState and Beyond

  • Cultures of Compliance
  • The Teaching of Tribalism
  • Darkness at Noon (Saturday)
  • the realities of the victims

Occupy Wall Street - Occupy Education

  • Among Schoolchildren
  • The conversations we need to have...
  • What have we been teaching?
  • Democracy in America
  • Occupy Wall Street is the Jacob Marley at this Christmas
  • Class War at The New York Times

Bullying

  • Redesign Your School to Prevent Bullying
  • Lord of the Flies - How Adults Create Bullies
  • Edutopia: Google+ - The Dark Side of the Circle
  • It gets better

What You Are Reading...

  • Grit and History
    "They were poor because they were lazy, they were lazy because they were Catholic, they were Catholic because they were Irish, and no...
  • Toolbelt Theory for Everyone
    How will your students communicate when they leave school? How will they gather information? How will they say what they need to say? How wi...
  • Angela Duckworth's Eugenics - the University of Pennsylvania and the MacArthur Foundation
    "The direct result of this inquiry is to make manifest the great and measurable differences between the mental and bodily faculties of...
  • Why we think 1970s Open Education failed, and considering what the truth really is...
    There are some of us who remember a time, both in the US and the UK, when education seemed to be in search for humanity. In this period test...
  • Re-thinking the Middle School
    We tend to do everything wrong for kids between 12 and 15. We pretend they are "adults" in terms of care needs and responsibili...
  • Adult Communities and School Bullies
    A few years ago while I was the soccer coach at one American high school I was doing a technology project at another. The two districts were...
  • Heroes of the Republic of Ireland
    An Open Letter to Uachtarán na hÉireann Michael D. Higgins: President Higgins: In May of this year I was privileged to be invited to Ire...
  • If school isn't for collaborating, why does anyone come?
    If your school, and your school day, is not about students collaborating, connecting, and building knowledge and understandings together, wh...
  • Stop asking questions if you know the answer
    I was working on a lesson with sixth graders and middle school teachers in doing math without any tools, just in your head. Not memorizatio...
  • Designed to Fail - Education in America: Part One
    part two     part three     part four     part five   " Schools should be factories in which raw products, children, are to be shaped...

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Posts I'd Really Like You to Read

  • Bringing the Back Channel Forward
  • Retard Theory
  • Not Getting to Universal Design
  • Constructing Disability
  • Reading is NOT the goal
  • Learning Video Games and the Cost of Failure
  • Ideology and Education
  • In Praise of Distraction
  • Text-To-Speech from the Start
  • Text-to-Speech for Writing
  • Text-to-Speech Primer
  • WordTalk and Ghotit - Word Made Accessible
  • Why "Standards-Based" and "Accountability" are Bad Words
  • The Width of the World - Social Networking
  • Free Universal Design Technologies
  • Technology and Equity
  • Real World Math
  • Changing Your School for ADHD Students
  • Back to the Future of Communications
  • Insufficiently Transformative
  • Who's Behind the Curtain?
  • The Universally Designed Workplace
  • Too Much Technology?
  • Teachers and Technology - Part I
  • Teachers and technology Part II (SEN)

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A few key technology posts

  • Free Universal Design
  • Planning for Access
  • Accessible Materials
  • Supporting Writing with Text-to-Speech
  • WordTalk and Ghotit - Word Made Accessible
  • Making the Accessible Inaccessible
  • ADHD School Solutions
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A few key posts on Universal Design

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  • Not Getting to Universal Design
  • Considering Universal Design
  • Architectural Assistive Technology
  • A Toolbelt for the Lifespan
  • Humiliation and the Modern Professor
  • Culture and Comprehension
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  • The Medium is Not the Message
  • Flexibility - the First Technology
  • What Does Assistive Technology Really Mean?
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  • The Universally Designed Workplace

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