"Education lifts, inspires, changes lives, builds futures, starts careers, reveals new knowledge. It’s this profoundly odd and profoundly unlikely and profoundly beautiful endeavor that strikes at what humans do most naturally and best: learning."

For critical instructional design to begin, those undertaking the design of learning must themselves become more critically conscious of the work at hand.

We must remain aware of the way in which traditional classroom management and instructional strategies have a nearly hegemonic hold on our imaginations.

I was invited to speak to and work with teachers at the Iliff School of Theology in Denver, Colorado in May 2017. What follows is the transcript of my presentation to the school's core faculty. The invention of the learning management system was a mistake. And here I’

The course is an old idea. In the old days of teaching, a course was a path, a set of obstacles, or a journey through ideas toward some end. The path was marked by learning objectives, and further broken down by units and lesson plans, exercises and quizzes. Scaffolding, people

A great deal of education today is fucking absurd. Or, if not a great deal, too much. Because in truth, there should be no identifiable quantity of fucking absurdity present in education at all. Hilarity, improvisation, wit, digression, performance—these lead to critical thinking, to fresh observation, to engagement (and

> “Didn’t we have bigger dreams for instructional technology?” ~ Phil Hill at ITC 2015 [http://events7.mediasite.com/Mediasite/Play/d1292b23f34342efb3fced22bf4dc9dd1d?catalog=9331c15c-e46b-4775-9661-8b323dc957cb] It is a truism that learning can happen in any environment. Learning does not require a teacher, though traditional education relies upon

My first time working synchronously in Google Docs felt like a caffeine buzz. Cursors flew about madly on the page. My sentences were completed before I could finish them. New ideas sprung fully formed onto the page as I struggled to formulate my own. My first Twitter hashtag chat was