Travel

• Hermosa Beach. Berlin (for Kin’s API Strategy conference).
• Upcoming week: Barcelona.

Hack Education

• Hack Education Weekly News
• Hack Education Weekly Newsletter
• Raising (and Educating) “Free Range Kids”
• The Invented History of “The Factory Model of Education”

Essays Elsewhere

• The Invented History of “The Factory Model of Education” on educationfuturism.com
• What You Should Know This Week on modernlearners.com
• Men (Still) Explain Technology to Me on boundary2.org

Speaking

• Nope.

Known Notes and Fragments

• Sentences about Learning Subjectives
• The Industrial Era School
• The Invented History of Education

Other Projects

• I was named one of The Chronicle of Higher Education’s “Tech Innovators.”
• The series I’ve been writing on “The History of the Future of Education” is now available on educationfuturism.com.
• I got a nice shout-out in Deb Chachra’s newsletter.
• I pitched Bright, a new publication on Medium, a story idea. (Coming soon!)
• 25 days sober.

Reading and Viewing

• I watched Citizen Four, but I confess, I didn’t really enjoy it.
• I watched Taken 3, which was (no surprise) terrible.
• I read Report on the State of Public Instruction in Prussia, Addressed to the Count de Montalivet by Victor Cousin; The American Model of State and School: An Historical Inquiry by Charles Glenn; and Weapons of Mass Instruction by John Taylor Gatto.
• I started reading Dumbing Us Down by John Taylor Gatto.