Danu Poyner

Danu Poyner

Auckland, New Zealand

Danu is a writer, thinker, and enthusiast of human systems who delights in facilitating others towards flourishing. He brings these threads together as a social entrepreneur and founder of Grokkist.

119 posts
Scholé Supplement #8

Scholé Supplement #8

✍🏼 What is a grokkist? 🎙 Curiosity and chronic disadvantage with youth work researcher Kat Daley 🪧 Notice Board - events and announcements 🍬 Snackables - assorted awesome links

Scholé Supplement #6

Scholé Supplement #6

🎬 Redefining education: Old School School music video ✍🏼 The space between people 🎙 Still Curious Podcast - Conscious, creative and caring virtual learning with Seth Fleischauer 🍬 Snackables - assorted awesome links

Deschooling the mind

Deschooling the mind

If we want to avoid letting school interfere with education – that is, if we want to avoid confusing how we do learning with what it's for – we will first need to deschool our minds. This is easier said than done.

What's at stake in education

What's at stake in education

Over the next decade, long-overdue digital transformation means that tech money and the aims, aspirations and assumptions that come with it are likely to fundamentally reshape what education looks like. Software eats the world and education is next on the menu.

Scholé Supplement #5

Scholé Supplement #5

✍🏼 Oh, but darling, what if you fly? - by Danu Poyner 🎙 Still Curious Podcast - Navigating the passing of a loved one with estate planning lawyer and author Robert Kabacy 🤲 Grokkist Guide To The Beatles - by Trevor Poyner 🍬 Snackables - assorted awesome links

Scholé Supplement #4

Scholé Supplement #4

✍🏼 Best, Bored, Bad, Becoming 🎙 From classroom to corporate with TESOL teacher and instructional designer Diego Boada 5️⃣ Links - Danu Poyner's 5 links for grokking Pixar 🍬 Snackables

Scholé Supplement #3

Scholé Supplement #3

✍🏼 Old School School 🎙 TikTok teaching and activism with philoso-rapper Nathan Dufour Oglesby aka 'Nathanology' 5️⃣ Links - Charlotte Perry-Houts' 5 links for grokking humane technology

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