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What is the school of tomorrow?

Posted on March 16th by Matthew Hockenberry.
If past lessons teach us anything, it probably is pretty hard to imagine. Still, there are reasonable efforts to create a dialogue about what it might look like. From School ...
Barcamp

Barcamp Boston

Posted on March 15th by Matthew Hockenberry.
Barcamp Boston is this weekend (all day saturday and until 5:30 on sunday). I'll try to stop by for some of the time - it is conveniently adjacent. The only ...
coffee

Coffee: Disrupting Social Order Since 1511

Posted on March 14th by Matthew Hockenberry.
Yesterday Calestous Juma spoke to the OLPC class about "social responses to radical technologies". He's a very interesting and engaging speaker who has been thinking a lot about the integration ...

Deep Diving with IBM

Posted on March 9th by Matthew Hockenberry.
On wednesday I went down to New York City to participate in part of IBM's Global Innovation Outlook 3.0 for a deep diving brainstorm and discussion session on media ...
mapofscience

Paradigm Synthesis

Posted on March 1st by Matthew Hockenberry.
This Map of Science (found via Information Aesthetics) suggests that ways of visualizing scientific thought and contribution can offer incredible insight into the state of the art. This ...
yearofpig

Synthesis in the Year of the Pig

Posted on February 26th by Matthew Hockenberry.
We managed to catch the end of the two week celebration of Chinese New Year in Boston's China town this weekend. We were there to celebrate the year of the ...
Mariobros

Yahoo’s Pipe-dream.

Posted on February 22nd by Matthew Hockenberry.
Pipes are fascinating. It's no coincidence that our favorite video game legend is a plumber or that the internet is actually a collection of tubes. Pipes are all about connections. ...