And why did our constructionism impulse die when it was most needed?
How to grow tomorrows
What if schools were not just sites for delivering education, but societies in miniature? Thousands of chances to cultivate a better future
Builders Club Makes Building Better · Waterloo
Develop the judgment, relationships, and momentum to turn ambitious ideas into real things at Builders Club in Waterloo.
This is how we build the future: Teaching Regenerative Economics at all levels with Jennifer Brandsberg-Engelmann
How do we let go of the sense of scarcity, separation and powerlessness that defines the ways we live, care and do business together? How can we best equip our young people for the world that is coming - which is so, so different from the future we grew up believing was possible?
AI, Oligarchs & The Commodification of Public Education With John Koyczek
No tuition, no grades, no power grid: why are people flocking to a ‘college’ in the middle of the desert?
Two hundred miles from LA, an off-grid community with roots in Burning Man offers an unorthodox educational experience – is Mars College the future?
Opinion | Silicon Valley Is Bracing for a Permanent Underclass
The people building A.I. fear that we have only a short time before advanced A.I. disrupts the labor force.
‘I hate what AI is doing to the minds and happiness of the young’: Katherine Rundell on the view from the classroom
Education is at a crossroads, argues the author and academic. Should we embrace new technology in the name of efficiency, or is it time to fight back?
We used to get excited about technology. What happened?
Innovation that truly serves us all is in scarce supply. That’s a problem.
Collective Action School
Explore how you can remake tech. Tech worker organizing, unionizing, and building different technologies
These engineering students made a self playing piano from scratch
Education in a Time Between Worlds: Essays on the Futur…
Our world is currently undergoing major transformations…
Sustainability
The sustainable University – structures, individuals and questions around institutional transformation
Teachers Are Not OK
AI, ChatGPT, and LLMs "have absolutely blown up what I try to accomplish with my teaching."
Just a professor standing in front of BlueSky demoralized because exams my students used to get a mean of 83% on prior to 2020 are now failed in large numbers. It seems that their ability to APPLY concepts to new contexts/domains has all but disappeared. I love these students & I am worried.
Lessons from Tech History
Learning from those who built before us
Burnout in Open Source (by Erlend Sogge Heggen) — Semble
Linux distributions worldwide targeted by the Copy Fail exploit
GitHub Alternatives (by Kai Jellinghaus) — Semble
Death of GitHub? (by Kai Jellinghaus) — Semble
Before GitHub
Cohere + Aleph Alpha — sovereign AI's first $20B deal (by Sensemaker) — Semble
