Gardening and teaching.. for a better community

“Kids should not have to leave their community to live, learn and earn in a better one.”

The Story of Change

The Peeragogy Project – Self- Learning

“Learning is a social, active, and ongoing process.” Howard Rheingold

For more infomration The Peeragogy Handbook

Visual Notetaking on the iPad

Great tips on how to use various drawing programs to sketch on your iPads. This tutorial also includes how to record and add audio.

Motherboard TV: Douglas Rushkoff in Real Life | Motherboard

“For someone who likes to talk about the virtues of disconnecting, the media critic Douglas Rushkoff seems surprisingly always on.”

Alex Pasternack has written a great article about Douglas Rushkoff. He talked to our Howard Rhiengold alumni group a few months ago and he is well worth listening to.

Motherboard TV: Douglas Rushkoff in Real Life | Motherboard.

Peter Senge – Navigating Webs of Interdependence

Peter Senge, author of The Fifth Discipline, Senior lecturer at MIT and Founder of the Society for Organizational Learning shares his perspectives on leadership and systems thinking with IBM.

The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of the Learning Organization

He studies decentralizing the role of leadership in organizations so as to enhance the ability of employees to work productively toward common goals, and the managerial and institutional changes needed to build more sustainable enterprises—those businesses that foster social and natural as well as economic well-being. Senge’s work articulates a cornerstone position of human values in the workplace: namely, that vision, purpose, reflectiveness, and systems thinking are essential if organizations are to realize their potential.

Steal Like an Artist

“Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different.” T.S. Elliot

Steal Like An Artist Book Trailer from Austin Kleon on Vimeo.

Talk from SWSX.

Everything is remix.

ideas from BrainPickings

Zack Matere: Growing Knowledge

The was shown by Gopi Kallayil at the Wisdom 2.0 conference. The “Wisdom 2.0 Conference is a one-of-a-kind event in Silicon Valley that brings together people from a variety of disciplines, including technology leaders, Zen teachers, neuroscientists, and academics, to explore how we can live with deeper meaning and wisdom in our technology-rich age.”

“Gopi Kallayil works at Google on the marketing of Google+. He founded and teaches a weekly yoga program for Googlers called Yoglers.”

This is great, it shows really how we can all talk with each other.. with technology.

‘We Are The Future’ – 10 years from now…..

This was a marketing video, but these children are not only consumers of goods, but of education too.

Interview with Stanford Libraries Curator Henry Lowood

” ..in order to transfer one’s knowledge more effectively while preserving one’s reputation, is very interesting.”