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07 Jan Working and Playing with Many Others

Posted at 16:55h in Performance Movement, Play, Psychology of Becoming, Speaking Engagements 0 Comments

Social therapeutics, the psychology of becoming, performance activism, and non-knowing growing have been spreading far and wide! Here are some of the places I spoke and groups I worked and played with in 2019, with links to some talks and videos (in no particular order). University of North Carolina Greensboro Lloyd...

21 Oct Praise for The Overweight Brain

Posted at 21:59h in Overweight Brain Mini Blog, Psychology of Becoming, Publications, Reviews 0 Comments

I’m so grateful for readers’ responses to The Overweight Brain: How our obsession with knowing keeps us from getting smart enough to make a better world! “This book may disorient you – be stirred, not shaken! Lois’s book is about knowledge and knowing, and what is wrong with them. She lays down a...

15 Jun The End of Knowing???

Posted at 19:13h in Creativity, Culture, Education, Events, Human Development, Learning Environments, Psychology of Becoming 0 Comments

I'm super excited to be having a webinar conversation with one of my heroes—Sugata Mitra of The Hole in the Wall and TED Prize fame. At a time when the world’s knowledge is but a few clicks away, knowing is becoming obsolete. What, then, becomes of education? What are the possibilities...

17 Dec New Stages Where Vygotsky Works and Plays

Posted at 22:07h in Activity Theory, Community Organizing, Creativity, Culture, DSM-5, Education, Human Development, Learning Environments, Outside of School, Performance Movement, Play, Psychology of Becoming, Psychotherapy, Publications, Social Therapeutics, Social Therapy, Vygotsky, What's New, Youth Development 0 Comments

My Facebook feed this morning made me happy. Here’s why— That’s Marian Rich—long-time friend, colleague and member of the current International Class of the East Side Institute—holding a copy of the new Second Edition of my book, Vygotsky at Work and Play. I’m excited for Marian and others to read it! Here’s...

27 Oct Vygotsky Continues to Work and Play

Posted at 18:51h in Activity Theory, Community Organizing, Creativity, Culture, Education, Human Development, Learning Environments, Outside of School, Performance Movement, Philosophy, Play, Psychology of Becoming, Psychotherapy, Publications, Social Therapeutics, Social Therapy 8 Comments

I'm happy to report that the expanded second edition of my book, Vygotsky at Work and Play is just three weeks away from publication (11/17/16). To give you a preview, here's an excerpt from my Introduction to the second edition. In his thoughtful and very generous Foreword to the first edition...

02 Sep Sugata Mitra Responds to a Skeptic

Posted at 15:29h in I Like This, Look and Listen 1 Comment

A great interview with Sugata Mitra (and a feisty RT interviewer) [youtube height="HEIGHT" width="WIDTH"]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlOSLMYu1ZY&feature=share[/youtube]...

26 Apr Is a SOLE a ZPD? A Beginning Conversation

Posted at 16:07h in Education, Learning Environments, Psychology of Becoming, Vygotsky, What's New 1 Comment

I’m one of the millions of people who have learned from and been inspired by watching one or both of Sugata Mitra’s TED talks (Build a School in the Cloud, 2013; The Child-Driven Education, 2010 ). A trained physicist, Mitra is an innovative educational researcher currently located at Newcastle University...

05 Dec Words to Ponder #11

Posted at 16:52h in Education, I Like This, What's New, Words to Ponder 0 Comments

"It took nature 100 million years to make the ape stand up and become Homo sapiens. It took us only 10,000 to make knowing...

31 Jul Sugata Mitra—Build a School in the Cloud

Posted at 21:07h in I Like This, Learning Environments, Look and Listen 0 Comments

I'm a big fan of Sugata Mitra. His work creating environments for and documenting self organizing learning environments (SOLE) is stunning. And here in his 2103 TED Talk about half way into the talk he raises the question, "Is Knowing obsolete?" And answers YES! I'm going to send him Fred Newman's...