Archive for November, 2002

Disney and McDonalds

Friday, November 22nd, 2002

Anne Sweeney is the President of ABC Cable Networks Group & President of Disney Channel Worldwide. She is also a graduate of my program at the Harvard Ed School and we had a video conference with her in my "Growing Up in a Media World" class on Wednesday. ...

Radical pedagogy

Friday, November 15th, 2002

My friend Heather, who is also wrestling with questions in education and society, recently sent me this quote: "One result of formal education is that students graduate without knowing how to think in whole systems, how to find connections, how to ask big questions, and how to separate the trivial from ...