From the monthly archives:

March 2011

Broken Culture is Killing Education

March 31, 2011

I was recently reading Clay Shirky’s Cognitive Surplus and had an “aha moment,” hitting a connection between what had been (at least in my head) two totally unrelated projects. Well, I don’t know that they’re actually connected; the whole thing is still completely hypothetical at this point. Since I don’t have a research department and [...]

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Pursuing Credible Ideas: Think Critically

March 29, 2011

This past week I told my story about publishing my first book and contracting my second, talked a bit about self-publishing and the value of gatekeepers, and then looked at The Domino Project as a bit of a case study about gatekeeping. For as many people who responded enthusiastically, I also managed to tick a [...]

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Domino Project: It’s Gatekeeping

March 24, 2011

Well, I’m sure we’ll step in it with this, but whatever. I’m poking the box. I probably have to find a bunker somewhere for doing so. After I told my personal publishing story, last time we talked about self publishing and gatekeepers and how gate keepers are an important part of how we find ideas. [...]

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Self Publishing, The Road to Info-Paralysis

March 15, 2011

Last week I shared a vaguely painful post about my personal experience in the publishing world as someone who has published a book with a traditional publisher and is currently partnering on a new project to do so again. If you haven’t read that story, I’d recommend you get all the dirty details. They’ll help [...]

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Publishing a Book: My Story

March 12, 2011

Later this week I’m going to post about the dynamics of publishing, the future of publishing, and the effects gate-keeping have on publishing and readers. It all relates to critical thinking, and I want to explore it with you. There’s been a lot of talk lately about the future of publishing, especially with the release [...]

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Teachers Cuffed by Culture

March 7, 2011

Students. Beyond Our Control. How many times have you heard the argument that merit pay for teachers is a terrible idea because “there are so many things that teachers can’t control”? People like to ground their argument for not paying teachers based on student outcome on this idea that there are so many contributors to [...]

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