Have books, need hashtags
My book, Rewire: Digital Cosmopolitans in the Age of Connection, comes out on June 10th on Kindle, June 17th in hardcover. My publisher, W. W.… Read More »Have books, need hashtags
Beyond “The Crisis in Civics” – Notes from my 2013 DML talk
Two weeks ago, I gave the opening keynote at the Digital Media and Learning conference in Chicago. The conference, which explores how digital media is… Read More »Beyond “The Crisis in Civics” – Notes from my 2013 DML talk
Harper High School, and finding solutions to complex problems
Every few years, This American Life puts forward a piece of radio reporting that raises the bar for journalism as a whole. A few years… Read More »Harper High School, and finding solutions to complex problems
Is civics in crisis? Or just changing its shape?
In late January of 2012, Austin Oberbillig and Evan Ricks, students at Olympia High School in Olympia, Washington made a video called “Lunch Scholars“. The… Read More »Is civics in crisis? Or just changing its shape?
The Globalization of Sumo – My talk at MSR SCS 2013
Microsoft’s Social Computing Symposium is one of my favorite conferences of the year. It’s small, invitation only, curated by some of the smartest people in… Read More »The Globalization of Sumo – My talk at MSR SCS 2013
The flywheel in the farmer’s field, or why innovating around infrastructure is so hard
So we’re in the Home Depot, which we’ve visited almost every day since Colin’s been staying with me. That’s because we’re building a cabin, and… Read More »The flywheel in the farmer’s field, or why innovating around infrastructure is so hard