Several years ago, I was invited to work with a school in Georgia to help the administration address very serious problems relating to student motivation and engagement, teacher burnout, and what they described to me as…
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by: Michelle
May 2, 2012As an age-old joke goes, it is difficult to know what fish talk about, but you can be sure it is not water. – Peter Senge Senge’s reflections about goldfish are…
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by: LauraApr 25, 2012We are the stories we are told. Each of us alone and all of us together are the living embodiment of all the stories we have heard and all the stories we have told each other….
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by: Ewan
Apr 19, 2012Henry Jenkins (pictured above), a former MIT Professor and the person who coined the term “transmedia,” defines it as “a process where integral elements of a fiction get dispersed systematically across multiple delivery channels.” In plain…
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by: Konrad
Apr 18, 2012[…] inspiration is not the exclusive privilege of poets or artists generally. There is, has been, and will always be a certain group of people whom inspiration visits. It’s made up of all those who’ve consciously…
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Apr 11, 2012Schools, by and large, have tamed the canon. They have made it into the stuff of tests, multiple-choice answers, and standardized responses. Everyone now, finally, has access to the canon at a time when schools have…
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Apr 5, 2012“Rationing college by social class and ethnicity results in a higher education system that will increase the gap between the 1% and the rest in ever more extreme ways.” -Gary Rhoades Center for the Future of Higher…
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Mar 29, 2012The language of transmedia might hold it back. Education’s language holds it back, too. Transmedia is disrupting industry’s view of how it communicates with young people. Shouldn’t it also disrupt the way teachers see their…
