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2010

• Welcome to My Blog — October 12, 2010
• Gregory Bateson: An Introduction — October 13, 2010
• Disconnects -- A Brief Initial Exploration — October 14, 2010
• In the Heartlessland of America — October 14, 2010
• The Travesty of "Distance Education" — October 14, 2010
• Confusion -- Double Bind or Connection in the Classroom — October 14, 2010
• Children as Real People and Engaged Learners, but Schools Get in the Way — October 14, 2010
• Creativity and Kids — October 14, 2010
• Relationships, Bundles of Relationships — October 14, 2010
• Stupid — October 21, 2010
• The Problem with Hierarchies — October 31, 2010
• More on Hierarchies and Holarchies — November 7, 2010
• My Banned Word List for Teacher Education OR Questioning our Assumptions About Learning, Teaching, and Schooling — November 27, 2010
• Corporate Schooling, Not Public Schooling — June 11, 2010

2011

• The Common Core Standards – Keeping Our Kids Dumb — July 2, 2011
• Thoughts on Adopting Curriculum from Other Countries — July 2, 2011
• Online Classes — July 2, 2011

2012

• Controlled Burns – May Be Much Worse for our Health Than We Think — October 3, 2012
• Greenpeace... Book Review — October 3, 2012
• The "Common Core" of Ignorance — December 8, 2012
• More Shootings and We Still Haven’t Learned — December 14, 2012

2013

• More on the Common Core: Who Decides? — March 11, 2013
• More on the Common Core: Who Benefits? — March 16, 2013
• Problems with Reclaimed Water (… and Our Ways of Thinking and Acting) — April 5, 2013
• Psychological Violence Against Children – A Commentary on a Huffington Post Article — April 06, 2013
• Acura: Social and Environmental Irresponsibility — April 28, 2013
• Researchers at the American Educational Research Association Protest Arnie Duncan and the Corporatization of Education in the U.S. — May 5, 2013
• Learning, Testing, and the Messes We've Created — May 6, 2013
• Standardized Boycott — May 10, 2013
• D.C. Bets Big on Common Core — May 23, 2013
• Standards, Political Rhetoric, and Underestimating Children — June 19, 2013
• The Arts (in School?) — June 20, 2013
• Meditation, Suffering, Aggression, and Taking Social-Environmental Action — August 31, 2013
• The Teacher All Teachers Should Want to Emulate — September 2, 2013
• Another Banned TED Talk: “Rich People Don’t Create Jobs” — September 8, 2013

2014

• What If We Valued Questions More Than Answers? — May 21, 2014
• Double Binds and Residing in Our Own Traps — June 13, 2014
• Trap of Emotions — September 13, 2014

2015

• Linear Thinking... a Lament— April 10, 2015
• Beyond Systems Thinking… Climbing Out of Boxes & Breaking Arrows — August 31, 2015
• Beyond Systems 2: Borderless Cognition — September 7, 2015
• “Oh, Look He’s Wagging His Tail” – A Little Girl’s Exploration of Earthworms and How Current Approaches to Schooling and Systems Thinking Short-Change Students — September 14, 2015
• Meat, Veggies, Water, Sentience, and Perplexities — September 14, 2015
• Consciousness of Trees and Our Need to Move Beyond Simple Systems Thinking — September 15, 2015
• Alternatives to Consumerism in Life and Schooling — September 21, 2015
• How We Think About Animal Behavior — September 21, 2015
• Teaching, Learning, Time — September 25, 2015
• The Tragedy of Simple Science Illiteracy — September 28, 2015
• Thinking, Flexibility, and Dogma: Survival or Extinction — September 30, 2015
• Jerome Bruner Turns 100 Today, October 1, 2015 — October 1, 2015
• Play and the Killing of Children’s Spirits in U.S. Schools — October 7, 2015
• Living in Sync With Context — October 8, 2015
• Solidification, Policy, and Fear — October 11, 2015
• Being in a Learning System — October 25, 2015
• Learning Content is the Trivial Part of Learning — November 5, 2015
• Blame and Fear - a poem — November 16, 2015
• A Day in the Life … Terrorism and Bigotry — November 24, 2015
• Variation, Diversity, and Survival — November 24, 2015
• Media, Learning, Schooling, and What We Can Do — December 9, 2015
• Epistemology, Epistemological Shock, and Schooling: Part I — December 18, 2015

2016

• Responsibility and Relationships: From You and Me to Society — March 9, 2016
• Brainwashing — April 21, 2016
• “Knowledge and Thought Have Parted Company” — May 17, 2016
• Corporatization of Colleges and Universities — May 18, 2016
• Habits of Mind — June 12, 2016
• When Things Go South -- Schismogenesis — June 28, 2016
• What Do Schools Teach Children? — August 3, 2016
• Communication and Information - Norbert Wiener's Paradox — August 26, 2016
• Mullings on the Pathological — October 15, 2016

2017

• Losing Our Nation — February 8, 2017
• The Dissolution of the Institution of Education — March 19, 2017
• All Sizzle — July 16, 2017
• Books Everyone Should Read — July 26, 2017
• Most Influential Books — July 30, 2017
• The Myth of Teaching & the Myth of the Teacher — August 6, 2017
• Words That Teachers Use — August 10, 2017
• State of the World & Education — August 14, 2017
• Schools, Prisons, and Workplaces — August 16, 2017
• NPR & Diarrhea "News" — August 17, 2017
• The Problem With "Tolerance" — August 20, 2017
• A Brief Look at Warm Data in the Contexts of Natural Sciences, Social Sciences, and Education — August 28, 2017
• Intelligence and Context: Epistemological Errors — September 1, 2017
• As (a poem) — September 4, 2017
• Inquiry, Systems, Relationships, and Learning – and the Loss of Integrity in Science Education — September 10, 2017
• Linearitis — September 17, 2017
• The Assumption of Linearity in Education — October 1, 2017
• Linearity 2.0 – Crushing Insight and Creativity — October 8, 2017
• Connecting to Another — October 14, 2017
• Federal and State Standards, and Local Curriculum Guidelines – Disturbing Documents — October 22, 2017
• The Corporate—Institutional Connection in Education — November 1, 2017
• Schooling and How Schools Don’t Prepare Children for Life — November 17, 2017
• Living in Layers – Part I – Introduction — November 26, 2017
• Among Friends — November 26, 2017
• Living in Layers – Part II – Living in Layers — November 29, 2017
• Living in Layers – Part III – Power and Control — December 1, 2017
• Living In Layers – Part IV – Seeking Security and Stability — December 10, 2017
• Living in Layers – Part V – Fear and Loathing — December 19, 2017
• Living in Layers. Part VI. The Great Disconnect — December 24, 2017

2018

• Dumbing Down America — January 6, 2018
• Living in Layers – Part VII – Where’s our Humanity? Heart or Mind? And Other Centers — January 7, 2018
• Schools and the Forces of Anti-Democracy and Bigotry — January 13, 2018
• Cell Phones in Classrooms — January 20, 2018
• “A Fake Society of the 21st Century” – A Must-Watch Video — January 20, 2018
• Living In Layers – Part VIII – Relating to the Other: Clashing Beliefs and Cultures — January 20, 2018
• Living in Layers – Part 9 – Courage, Compassion, and Intellect — January 29, 2018
• The New Koch School — February 5, 2018
• Living In Layers – Part 10 – Emergence and Ownership — February 10, 2018
• Living in Layers – Part 11 – A Sense of Place: Beyond a Whole and Its Parts — February 16, 2018
• The Nature of Communities -- Part 1 — March 6, 2018
• The Untimely Death of Integrity: And the Effects of Cold Data vs. Warm Data — March 23, 2018
• Saving Ourselves: The Nature and Importance of Communities in Schools, Businesses, Societies, and Ecosystems — May 6, 2018 — This post has been published in the journal, Explorations in Media Ecology (2019) volume 18 (issue 1 & 2), pages 7-22. DOI: 10.1386/eme.18.1-2.7_1 — PDF available here
• Politics, Lemmings, Ostriches, and the Problem with American Thinking — June 14, 2018
• Fear & Sentience -- An Answer to a Quora Question — June 26, 2018