Hapgood

Mike Caulfield's latest web incarnation. Networked Learning, Open Education, and Online Digital Literacy

  • Seth Godin: Blow up your Home Page

    The general 30,000 foot view from Seth Godin: The problem with home page thinking is that it’s a crutch. There’s nothing wrong with an index, nothing wrong with a page for newbies, nothing wrong with a place that makes a first impression when you get the chance to control that encounter. But it’s not your Continue reading

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  • Systemantics Thought for the Day: Loose Systems Less Hostile to Human Life

    From John Gall’s Systemantics: Since most of modern life is lived in the interstices of large systems, it is of practical importance to note that: LOOSE SYSTEMS HAVE LARGER INTERSTICES and are therefore generally somewhat less hostile to human life forms than tighter systems. As an example of a System attunned to the principles of Continue reading

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  • ePortfolios, Durability, and the Black Binder Test

    My wife has an interview tomorrow for a position at the public high school. Tonight, she is preparing by flipping through giant black binder. What’s in the binder? A lot of stuff. Lesson plans from her student teaching days. Photographs from an inner city school activity she helped direct. The curriculum she developed for her Continue reading

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  • Two Questions

    We need to stop asking how we can communicate with our college students in their idiom, which is a valid question, but ultimately a marketing and customer service issue. We need to start asking the real question, which is how do we teach our students to collaborate and communicate in ways fit for the agile Continue reading

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