James Shelley has been doing some interesting writing, trying to wrestle with the difference between thinking and learning within a pedagogical setting. I think he gets close ("...synergy of thinking"), but then distracts himself looking for a difference that isn't there, or that is so hard to see,…

Luke has an interesting post up today--Thinking through the Mundane Task.  It's caused me to focus for a good chunk of this evening on what it means to care for something.  Here's part of what he says: I love cutting the herbs and digging the garlic.  I love stripping the…

Today David Eaves is writing about an experience he had in a meeting recently: The day long event included 180+ leaders and interested parties from different sectors and was supposed to cap off discussions that had been going on about the future of British Columbia. But rather than be an…

Jesse Brown is guestblogging over at boingboing, and he's asking a question I've asking for a long time: The real question here is, since CBC content is funded by the public, shouldn't the public own it? Or at least have access to it? Actually, the CBC archives are just the…

Tonight I found myself rereading Chesterton's Orthodoxy.  I bought it recently, only to find that I already owned it.  And as I read it, I remembered reading it before.  I also remembered the feeling it brought to me then, since I'm experiencing it once again now. Chesterton is a great…

Today I came across a great post by Eugene Wallingford, in which he considers what it means to teach thinking, especially in the context of students studying computer science and software.  He writes: Today one of my students tweeted that he had started doing something new: setting aside time each…

so over lunch, an older guy in a big black car comes along, parks in front of my house, gets out his lawn chair and lunch cooler, and has a leisurely lunch under my tree. (ctyler on irc) Don't be fooled by people who tell you that social media like…

I'm just back from the first lecture in our Seneca Mozilla Open Source courses.  Chris and I are team teaching it this time, and we spent today introducing our way of working, and what open source is all about.  This year we're going to try and film our talks and…

This quote from Jon Stokes in a 2003 post on Ars sums up exactly where I'm at today: Even though I find it to be extremely relevant, there's simply no way to glaze over the pretentiousness of putting a Derrida excerpt on the front page of a tech website, or…

Today, as students and professors make their way to a new set of classes, we reopen Mozilla Education for Fall 2009.  Last year we had more than 60 students from around the world get involved in Mozilla projects as part of their course work.  We saw both individual students looking…