Don't be an Alchemist with Cory Doctorow Transformative Principal Special

Last updated on October 29, 2024

Cory Doctorow is a Canadian journalist and science fiction author. Follow him on Twitter, Web site, BoingBoing

Cory spoke at ASTE this week, and I am excited to share the things I learned from him.

Failing well
We tend to ignore failing.
What we should teach kids about technology
Reidentification - people can figure out who you are.
What we should teach kids
Anonymity + distance = jerky behavior
Should we be critical of the software and systems we use?
Proprietary vs. open
There’s never been a field or endeavor where scrutiny by your peers has not helped.
Adversarial peer review.
You can lock yourself into bad systems if you’re not careful.
If 10% of a group got together and spent their money on developing open source software then they would produce something better that what is available.
We did this at Kodiak Middle with our Pickr app
Collective action threshold
What is one thing that you can do to be a transformative principal? Got out of the students’ way. Employees were empowered to cost the company money if that made the experience better.
His teacher let him read all day for two days.
Electronic Frontier Foundation
National network of campus clubs for EFF. Email Shahid@eff.org for more information.