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Students as “Free Range” Chickens

By Morgan Benton On March 28, 2013 · 1 Comment
“Our students are kind of like ‘free range’ chickens,” I found myself saying earlier this week, when Nicole and I were being interviewed about the Burning Mind Project.  It was the first time I’d ever used that metaphor, and over the past couple of days, I’m more and more coming to see how apt it [...]
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Your Gifts: The Path of the Innovator

By Nicole Radziwill On March 25, 2013 · 1 Comment
(Image Credit: Doug Buckley of http://hyperactive.to) One of the topics that comes up often in the classes I teach is the difference between invention and innovation. The way I explain it, invention is a state of potential. You have a novel idea, or process, or technology, and it is complete in and of itself. But that [...]
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At the Gates?

On March 4, 2013 By Morgan Benton
A few days ago on the Burning Blog, Caveat Magister posted his reaction to the Burning Mind Project.  The post has received some endorsements, and some pushback.  I’d like to take the time to respond, as well. On Dictatorship and Extreme Bigotry First, I want to express my heartfelt gratitude to Caveat for [...]
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My Academic Civil Disobedience

On March 4, 2013 By Nicole Radziwill
  On February 26, Caveat posted an article on the Burning Blog noticing that academics (that is, professors and the like) are starting to self-organize within Burner culture, and “I’ve reluctantly concluded that academia per see is very, very, bad for Burning Man – and that we’d be better off if Burners engage [...]
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Seeding a Learning Community: The Results!

On February 2, 2013 By Nicole Radziwill
In a previous post, Morgan explained how (and why!) we asked 120+ students to self-organize over a break between semesters… to create their own version of the Oh! The Places You’ll Go! video. The only rule was: everyone must participate. Then we, as instructors, got out of the way to see [...]
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Seeding a Learning Community

On February 2, 2013 By Morgan Benton
So Nicole and I were sitting around together at the end of last semester, excited about getting to meet a new batch of students in the spring, when we asked ourselves: How are we going to get these people to form a community? We puzzled about it, and scratched our heads, but there was [...]
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Immediacy: A Janus-Faced Principle?

On January 29, 2013 By Nicole Radziwill
(Image credit: Doug Buckley of http://hyperactive.to) I changed the structure of my simulation and modeling class this semester to better exemplify the principle of Immediacy – contributing your gifts here and now. To do this, I increased the amount of time I was willing to spend in the “classroom” by making [...]
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Participation and Radical Self-Reliance in MOOCs

On December 9, 2012 By Nicole Radziwill
I have a hard time remembering that MOOC means “Massive Open Online Course” because I get it confused with MOOP (obviously) and, unfortunately for me, MUD (“Multi-User Dungeon”). MOOCs are gaining a lot of attention as more and more people experience them — they very effectively support the principle of participation. As expressed [...]
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Everyone Has a Gift. Or 2. Or 20.

On December 3, 2012 By Nicole Radziwill
Thorkil Sonne, from Denmark, knows how to find gifts in the most hidden of places… the autistic mind. When he discovered that his own son had autism years ago, he decided to become an expert observer, and to help his son eventually live as independent a life as possible. He succeeded with that goal… and he [...]
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Why the 10 Principles?

On November 23, 2012 By Nicole Radziwill
A couple days ago I mentioned to a friend that I was exploring how the 10 Principles of Burning Man could help us reinvent the structures, objectives, and experience of higher education. “Why did you choose their 10 Principles?” she asked. “Isn’t Burning Man a Satanic Cult?” Because this was a spirited yet honest inquiry, [...]
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