Danu is a writer and founder of Grokkist, a learning community in the deepest sense. His work centres on coherence, curiosity, and helping people make sense of themselves in relation to ideas, experience, and one another.
👋You're reading Scholé Supplement, the free bi-weekly newsletter of Grokkist that celebrates learning as leisure and an end in itself. In this edition: 🎙 From guilt at leaving teaching to designing student wellbeing at scale, with Maria Fernanda Puertas | Still Curious S2 E12 🍬 Snackables - assorted awesome links --...
✍🏼 Reform, revolution and reimagining 🎙 Living life out of sequence, with engagement and experience leader Grace Liaw 🪧 Community Notices 🍬 Snackables - assorted awesome links
✍🏼 What is a grokkist? 🎙 Curiosity and chronic disadvantage with youth work researcher Kat Daley 🪧 Notice Board - events and announcements 🍬 Snackables - assorted awesome links
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Finally, an online-first school that doesn't simply try to replicate the worst aspects of traditional classroom education – lectures, textbooks and tedious assessment.
🎬 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
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.
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.
✍🏼 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