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In his book, A Way of Being (1980), Carl Rogers writes:
My psychoanalyst friend, Paul Bergman, wrote that no person has more than one seminal idea in his or her lifetime; all writings by that person are simply further explications of that one theme. I agree. (p79)
I don’t know whether I agree with this, but [...]

The purpose of this course was to introduce a group of five university
students to the practice of personal webpublishing. They
were given a weblog, asked to propose a plan for its use. Weekly meetings were held to discuss issues relevant to the practice, such as how to use
the software (Manila) to link, comment, and [...]

How can we deschool society? The Teenage Liberation Handbook is a guide for teenagers on how to drop out of school and “get a real education”. “Your life, time, and brain should belong to you, not an institution.” This should be on this summer’s reading list for high school students and their [...]

After Sebastian’s entry about Ivan Illich’s Learning Webs showed up in my aggregator last month, I ran out and got a copy of the book, Deschooling Society (1971). In it, Illich argues that a good educational system should have three purposes:
…it should provide all who want to learn with access to available resources at [...]

In Ryukoku University’s Faculty of Intercultural Communications, students are have started up Livejournals in an attempt to fulfill course requirements for a reading/writing class that meets once a week throughout the year. What I’m hoping will happen though, is that through authentic conversational interaction online, they will tap into a different type of motivation, [...]

The semester is coming to a close.
Our tasks for Weeks 14 and 15:
Finish our semester-end critical reflective essays and submit in final portfolio;
Complete the self, peer, and tutor reviews and discuss.
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Well, after years of relative dissatisfaction and frustration with Windows, I’ve finally made the move to Macintosh. The final impetus came Friday when my entire OS fell apart and rendered my access moot. As most of my colleagues will be happy to hear, I now am the proud owner of a 20″ iMac [...]