Continuous Learning
The ongoing, voluntary, and self-motivated pursuit of knowledge for either personal or professional reasons–often overlapping with life-long learning efforts.
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What a Fictional Physicist Taught Me About Ethics in Technology
There’s a character in Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars Trilogy I think about occasionally. His name is Sax Russell, a physicist and one of the first hundred scientists sent to colonize Mars, and…
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“Collective Growth” Workbook
This is an older resource of mine, written in 2023 when TIE (now Compass Partners in Learning) published it, about moving past individual professional development toward approaches that strengthen a whole educational…
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Homegrown Learning Book (Preview)
Working as a learning designer across the Great Plains, I’ve found that conventional instructional design approaches often wither when they’re transplanted into rural and otherwise unusual contexts. That’s what started Homegrown Learning:…
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Biomimicry in Learning: Pine Cones & Released Content
This piece has been folded into Biomimicry as a Lens: Coyotes, Pine Cones, and Prairie Grass, which consolidates the four-part series into one essay. The pine cone section is there.
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How Science Fiction Can Improve EdTech & Design
I’m an unabashed science fiction nerd. My bookshelf is an embarrassment of riches: dog-eared copies of Le Guin’s Always Coming Home, Butler’s entire Xenogenesis series, and all three volumes of Kim Stanley…
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“Simplified Action Research” Workbook
In 2022, while working at Technology & Innovation in Education (TIE), I faced an interesting challenge: how could I make action research accessible to busy educators who needed practical research tools but…
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What Koan Practice Taught Me About E-Learning (and What I’m Still Figuring Out)
As an e-learning consultant and a student of Zen, I spend a lot of my professional life trying to make learning more efficient and a lot of my personal life sitting with…
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Weekly Socratic Seminars for Grades 7-12 in Rural South Dakota
A first-year teaching experiment in rural South Dakota that built weekly Socratic seminars into a scaffolded discussion system across grades 7-12, with the supporting materials later shared through a short-lived companion website.
