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Steve Wheeler recognizes that the word 'tribe' "can be a contentious term" but in this series of posts he goes ahead and uses it anyway. He could just as easily have used the terms 'culture' and 'family' and his arguments and evidence could be the same. There is certainly...

I enjoyed this article as it grapples with the question of how to close the discussion of political or controversial topics in a classroom. Two major schools of thought are presented: the idea of deliberative democracy, which aims to use rational debate to reach a...

I'm passing this along because it's interesting to see what Henry Jenkins is up to these days, but not without warning of platitudes and flatitudes in the content overall. The post is a summary of the highlights of the...

This study offers a useful and important counterweight to studies focused on U.S.-based MOOCs. "The most well-known for-profit MOOC providers are used for widening participation," writes Sarah Lambert, "but they are certainly not the whole picture." From the abstract...

After a quick introduction defining blockchain, this article then shifts to its main focus, an interview with three experts on the following potential applications:

• “blockcerts” for certifications and credentials,
• bitcoin for paying for tuition...

This is a longish and breezy discussion from Patricia Smith Churchland, one of the foremost thinkers on neurophilosophy in our time. There's not so much discussion of moral motivation as you might expect, but it doesn't matter. She talks about her influences and the factors that led...