Cradle to Cradle
Posted in Education, Environment
Education is lifelong … Remaking the way we make things should apply to education and the multitude of environments in which education exists and functions.
Cost of a Car
Posted in Education
I have applications on my iPhone for Lyft and Uber but find myself reluctant to use either service; using instead a rather lame excuse that they are too expensive. Then the other day an old friend commented about his “new” car. Not new, but nevertheless a luxury vehicle with around 7,000 miles. The negotiated price…
Tags:economics
Mining Responsibly
Posted in Education
I just finished reading this article from Business North, and immediately thought you would appreciate seeing this recent development following our LSBF efforts so many years ago. The mention of “responsible” mining in the second paragraph should be enough to encourage reading what follows. MiningMinnesota, a trade advocacy group based in the arrowhead region of…
Accidental Education
Posted in Education
Education’s Ecology demands new thinking. Thinking must be outside the boxes we too casually call school, classroom, curriculum, psychology and childhood. These boxes are accidental habits of mind. As long as you keep thinking in terms of schools, there will never be adequate space for reform of education. That is because schools impose a way…
Feb
04
2022
February 4, 2022
February 4, 2022
by Bruce Lindgren
Top Down
Posted in Education
The Minnesota Education Amendment is troubling and unlikely to achieve its objective of closing the so-called GAPs.
Dec
17
2021
December 17, 2021
December 17, 2021
by Bruce Lindgren
Community Education
Posted in Education
The foundation for community education is the neighborhoods of connected communities. The power of a neighborhood is its compact and relatively small size of less than ~250 people. Within a neighborhood there exists the power of many small groups that are much like X-Teams and share externally oriented knowledge through distributed leadership. Everyone feels and…
Oct
03
2020
October 3, 2020
October 4, 2020
by Bruce Lindgren
Free Software
Posted in Multimedia
As many know, I am a strong advocate for Open Source software and applications that I personally use for my desktop and laptop computers and my iPhone and iPad. I must confess that this is in no small part due to my being cheap. Open Source software is free, as in free beer. It is…
Aug
25
2020
August 25, 2020
August 25, 2020
by Bruce Lindgren
Blender
Posted in Education, Multimedia
An exciting educational software that is both powerful and free.
May
23
2020
May 23, 2020
May 23, 2020
by Bruce Lindgren
School Futures
Schools dominate our systems of education. But schools are not an essential system. In the absence of schools, education would still go on but it would be very different from we now, almost universally conceive to be “education.” It is imperative that society take a step back from schools and schooling to explore alternatives and…
May
21
2020
May 21, 2020
May 21, 2020
by Bruce Lindgren
Ecopoetry; Another Truth?
Posted in Education
What is TRUTH? Maybe it is ONLY what mathematics does and what mathematicians decide through exhaustive argument. If so, what part of mathematics is absolute truth and what is tentative truth. What is close enough? Statistics, after all, is our way of dealing with uncertainty. Is something true, if you don’t understand it; cannot explain…