Once the demands of the growing season diminish a bit perhaps I’ll get back to the web, which certainly is as vital set of tools and the spade and fork. Though I’m not much of a digger. Most of my work in the garden is in collecting other people’s leaves, grass and other organic material and laying it down as a thick mulch. We feed the soil and the soil feeds us…which is a lot like what happens when you blog your learning.

Thanks for the shout out and rock on!

Keep the EDUPUNK examples coming. Sian offers another moment of possibility which challenges are all consuming notions of progress and laden with the possibilities of opening up moments within the life of a school to something besides the good citizen, “good government bullshit,” to quote Ray Liotta from Good Fellas.

What i dig on from both Sian and Keira’s examples is how far afield they may seem from what we do at first, but at the same time just a little discussion reveals how these are people-centered movements are based on, to steal from Candide, a “commendable plan.” For even if we don;t live in the best of all possible worlds “we must cultivate our garden.” And here are to examples that the edTech folks might learn from rather than playing roger the robot when Bb sells them back the fruits of their own labor. When you grow, tend, and smoke your own, you can sleep with a bit more peace.