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Over the past few years I’ve had a growing interest in education. Something always seemed weird about the way we’ve been going about education with schools. My experience with school felt like it was going against the grain of education and the more research I do, the more obvious it becomes.

My study in systems theory has led me to completely new perspectives about the world around me and the history of that world. One of the core principles in systems thinking is learning and adaptability, and when you look at how we traditionally approach the learning process it seems almost entirely backwards.

Somewhere between seeing Ken Robinson’s TED Talk and hearing Russ Ackoff’s keynote at the National Summit on School Design I snapped and started digging deeper into the issue. It started by submitting a proposal and being accepted to write a manifesto on ChangeThis called Our Idea of Education is Fundamentally Wrong! and now I’m co-ogranizing a BarCamp event on education called EduCamp taking place at Stanford in September.

Until EduCamp, I’m going to spend the time I have for writing on my manifesto and the EduCamp blog. Once EduCamp happens and things are wrapped up, I’m going to switch my focus and try to channel the momentum into my upcoming blog Grok Systems. As for here on Blogrium, you’ll probably be hearing more of the same from me… not much that is.

However, I’m blogging much more over at the EduCamp blog, so check it out!

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