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Building a successful team is an art. 25 years ago I worked with the best coaches in the world to build a program that creates championship teams. What better place to savor success and learn bitter lessons than the kitchen? Participants in Too Many Cooks learn the processes and practices of successful teams. Then they…

Going online these days is like walking through a trade show in an office building full of corporate lobbies. While you’re trying to decide where to do your business – Google, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon – banner ads and pop ups constantly compete for your attention. You can’t read two paragraphs before something blocks your view…

Note: I originally wrote this post as a draft for 5PH1NX: 5tudent Peer Heuristic for 1Nformation Xchange (A slightly transmedia use case in peeragogical assessment.) David Preston, Ph.D. _________________________________________________________________ Over the last several decades technology has driven massive shifts in the way we communicate and collaborate.  Information technology, socioeconomic trends, an increasingly complex and uncertain…

VESSEL ONE Five people paid $250,000 apiece to die next to the Titanic. James Cameron (blockbuster film director, est. net worth >$700M) explained the “catastrophic implosion” of the OceanGate submersible to Anderson Cooper (Vanderbilt heir, est. net worth >$100M) on CNN: “The only scenario that I could come up with in my mind that could…

Everyone who participates in Open-Source Learning proves that it works. Sometimes the results are observably extraordinary, like when a high school student learns to fly a plane or leads an entire learning community for a long weekend of interdisciplinary wonder in Yosemite. Often, Open-Source Learning creates more subtle results. We shift our thinking in ways…

 This is the first in a series of summer reading articles about how we can reimagine learning for next year and beyond. To get the next article delivered automatically to your inbox, click HERE. ____________ You made it through another school year. It’s time for your summer reading pleasure. Cue Alice Cooper. It’s time to…

Looking closely was both the problem and the solution. I walk through my front yard at least a couple times a day but I don’t really see it. When I get the newspaper in the morning, or pull the car in and lock the gate at night, I notice the cactus and the ocotillo, framed…

The most beautiful, compelling aspect of learning is its predictable unpredictability. Sure, we have schematic neural architecture that enables us to organize and make sense of large data sets like language. And that facial expression our significant other is making as we type this. But unlike the artificial neural networks that power machine learning and…