Learn To Live Attentively In A Media Mad World (Part Two)

Just google it. Want to find out something new?  What to research something old?  Just google it. Everybody “googles” because it is a very quick and very handy means to access information. “Googling” is such a basic and widespread activity these days, that it has entered our vernacular. I am ambivalent when it comes to googling; I appreciate its […]

What is Imaginative Ecological Education? #IEE

Human beings are not refrigerators. Industrial metaphors continue to shape the way we talk and think about education.  This is a problem. Why?  Because there’s no way approaches to teaching/planning that are inspired by factories and assembly lines can support ecological understanding–that sense of one’s implicatedness in all life and the care and concern to do something […]

Learn To Live Attentively In A Media Mad World (Part One)

My kids think I’m exaggerating.   I’m not. I grew up without a cell phone. So, when I was away from home, I either didn’t talk to anyone who wasn’t with me (GASP!) or I brought a quarter and used a pay phone. (What’s that?) My first computer was practically the size of a smart car.  No, it didn’t fit […]