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This is what learning is really about
Courtesy of Kansas State University Anthropology professor Michael Wesch, in a talk that is beautiful, moving, and deeply insightful.
Read More »Spark Series: Jeff Duncan-Andrade (1.26)
What is the purpose of public schools? For Jeff Duncan-Andrade, a lifelong educator, school founder, and professor of Latina/o Studies and Race and Resistance at San Francisco State University, the answer depends on which sort of society you envision. But if you take the last 200+ years of American history as our collective answer to that […]
Read More »Spark Series: Jenny Finn
What does it mean — and require — to be free? This is the question of American history — and we are, to put it mildly, horrible at answering it. As The Guardian put it last week, “the problem isn’t that American democracy is about to be overthrown; it’s that America isn’t much of a democracy to begin with.“ For […]
Read More »My Three Priorities for 2022
OK. It’s a New Year. Now what? This feels like an especially relevant question when the problems we face – in 2022 and beyond – seem so overwhelming. Here in America, we’ve entered fascism’s legal phase. Around the world, the climate emergency advances, unabated. And for the third year in a row, the COVID pandemic […]
Read More »Seed Talk TONIGHT: Kim Carter on the future of #learning
I first met Kim Carter a lifetime ago, not long after she opened a public school in New Hampshire that remains, to this day, one of the most innovative and life-affirming I’ve ever witnessed. In response, I wrote about Kim and her school in my 2009 book, American Schools: The Art of Creating a Democratic […]
Read More »Spark Series: Rulan Tangen TONIGHT
How do you inhabit your body?
In what ways does its use connect you to the world that surrounds you — people, earth, & sky?
How might you inhabit it more intentionally?
Rulan Tangen has been exploring these questions for years, and in our next installment of the Spark Series — public conversations about the future of humanity, using nature as our guide — we all get to join her on that journey.
Read More »Seed + Spark: Kairos Meeting TONIGHT
One year ago this week (!!!), 180 Studio launched Seed + Spark with a simple query — HUMANS WANTED — and no real sense of what to expect. But then the humans started showing up, from places as far-flung as Scotland and Shanghai, and we realized it wasn’t just the chance to learn about living […]
Read More »Seed + Spark: The . . . Deck of Cards?
OK, who’s ready to play Seed + Spark? Actually, that’s not quite right. The 108 cards we’ve created are something you read (like Tarot) more than play (like Poker). That’s because the goal is not to compete, but to complete a design challenge that relates to a real-world problem, using the cards you select as […]
Read More »Spark Series TONIGHT: Annie Murphy Paul
Annie Murphy Paul has been writing about the intersection between the biological and social sciences for a while now. Her TED talk has been seen by millions. Her first book, Origins, explained how our time in utero helps shape the rest of our ex utero lives — for better or for worse. And her newest […]
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