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The Four Cs of
21st Century Learning

Critical Thinking | Communication | Collaboration | Creativity

Building a participatory culture*.

Definition:-

Participatory Culture: 'low barriers to artistic expression and civic engagement, strong support for creating and sharing one's creations, informal mentorship, belief that members' own contributions matter, and social connection.'

Hierospheres

Could we do with introducing spaces and places, that deliberately call in liminality? A place where one goes specifically to tap into...

Speculator vs Rentier

New idea generation is hard. Or not. What it takes really is applying new combinations to old thinking, and perceiving the underlying...

Essais: The Poacher

Of late I have been singularly fortunate in the meeting of singular people. In a previous essai you met Keiko, the Japanese tea master....

The Pulse Check of Workship

Workship definition:- noun An active, deliberative approach to cultivating a professional working relationship that is collegiate,...

The Town Square Test

Conceptualised by Natan Sharansky in his book The Case of Democracy, a test of how free a society truly is: "If a person cannot walk into...

Essais: Of Drops

We're largely all aware at this point of the 'drop' model' - a system of fly-trapping consumers with limited, time dependent releases of...

Essais: Of Haunted Houses

Living in an age that is the most recent, where history is (allegedly) behind us, and the future still pixelated from view (supposedly),...

Essais by H: Sliding Doors

The time had been set the night before; 6am. This was the time I would arise and start my tustle, or delicately orchestrated showdown,...

Hazlitt: Quarrelling with the World

'Do not begin to quarrel with the world too soon: for bad as it may be, it is the best we have to live in -- here. If railing would have...

Talking Circles: Why Round Tables Matter

The names are various - talking circles, healing circles, peacemaking circles - all have deep roots in the traditional practices of...

Essais: On the Joy of Spontaneous Running

Do you know young people? I mean the ones that are yet to gain a sense that grown ups my actually not have all the answers. Well I don’t...

Essais: Of Sundaes

Today I'm thinking about values. Mainly on a macro level, think country-level. I was reading over Hayek's The Road to Serfdom, and was...

Essais: Cell One by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

'The first time our house was robbed, it was our neighbor Osita who climbed in through the dining-room window and stole our TV and VCR,...