Category / View From Crossroads
Redesigning Education: Iterating Towards Mastery
I recently listened to a podcast with Scott Looney, Headmaster of the Hawken School in Cleveland, Ohio, and also the founder of the Mastery Transcript Consortium. Mr. Looney discusses not only the project-based work he has introduced at Hawken, but focuses a good deal of his time on the history and philosophy around the Mastery…
Why Design: Reading and Writing the World
(Fifth post in the “Why Design?” series. All of Garreth’s writing represents a view from the crossroads of education and design. See more of Garreth’s posts here.) I was/am an English major. The confusion in verb tense stems from a shift in how I act within the world. For years I buried my head in books. Fictional worlds…
Why Design: “They Listen and They Hear”
(Fourth post in the “Why Design?” series. All of Garreth’s writing represent a view from the crossroads of education and design. See more of Garreth’s posts here.) A few weeks ago I wrote that I would be delving into the ways I see design as a method that honors the traditions and goals of liberal education as outlined…
Redesigning Education: What’s That Type of Learning Look Like?
(All of Garreth’s writing represent a view from the crossroads of education and design. See more of Garreth’s posts here. This is a cross posting of a blog written for the website “Only Connect.)” I used to chafe at Sir Ken Robinson’s call to start an education revolution. I used to think redesigning education could…
Redesigning Education: Rethinking College Admissions
(All of Garreth’s writing represent a view from the crossroads of education and design. See more of Garreth’s posts here.) THE BEAUTIFUL DANGER OF COFFEE AFTER 2PM Saturday night, somewhere around 12:20 AM, I was searching my twitter feed and came across a post from Grant Lichtman. The tweet linked to a report from the…
Why Design: Design as Liberal Education
(Third post in the “Why Design?” series. All of Garreth’s writing represents a view from the crossroads of education and design. See more of Garreth’s posts here.) The emergence of design thinking in the twentieth century . . . lies in a concern to connect and integrate useful knowledge from the arts and sciences alike,…