Meet Cynthia Solomon There’s chatter from time-to-time within the edtech community about the lack of women in prominent roles. Yet, some of the most important pioneers in the field are…
Time to Make Something WITH AI
Yesterday, I led a new workshop, Computational Making & Learning, for the first time in Melbourne, Australia. Although there is always room for improvement, the workshop was a great success….
7-Minute AI
Lots of resources shared below Colleagues and fellow educators have noticed how every sentence uttered about education these days includes a noun, a verb, and AI. Grand reports on the…
Revolutions are Seldom Cute
Educational rhetoric has long been rife with obfuscation, euphemism, and verbal inflation. Teacher is no longer in vogue. Facilitator or leader are preferable. Six-year-olds are called scholars. Middle managers hold…
Wunderkammer / Gabinetto delle Curiosità
I often wonder if kids still wonder and wonder what we can do about it? – Gary Stager, Founder of Constructing Modern Knowledge Each year, Constructing Modern Knowledge begins with…
Computation Makes Learning Visible
In the previous two essays, Digital < Computational and The Case for Computation, I explore the power of computation and computational making in learning. This final chapter makes the explicit…
The Case for Computation
In this series’ first essay, I make the case that there are two kinds of computer-based projects, digital and computational ones. I assert that the greatest educational value is to…
Digital < Computational
In my essay, When You Wake Seymour Papert in the Middle of the Night, in the book Twenty Things to Do with a Computer Forward 50: Future Visions of Education…