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From the Archives: Role for Initiative (opens the original)
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This article was originally published in Tipping Points Magazine on November 16th, 2018.In 1979 at the age of four, I was introduced to the role playing game Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) when my oldest brother Gregory came and fetched me and my other older brother Peter to play our first game together. It probably took years for me to play the game by the actual rules, as D&D is a complex game filling pages and pages of books with instr
From the Archives: Finding Home (opens the original)
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This article was originally published in Tipping Points Magazine on May 14th, 2024.It took me 14 years to find my home, and it wasn’t for lack of trying.Growing up unschooled I always felt like I was behind and held back from the potential I could always feel beneath my surface. It felt like it could burst out of me at any moment, but I just couldn’t find my catalyst. I have always been an artist, and a lover of creation overall, but unschooling wasn’t giving me the level of community that I so
From the Archives: Higher Education, Re-Imagined (opens the original)
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This article was originally published in Tipping Points Magazine on December 17th, 2020.University 4.0<im
From the Archives: Adult Playgrounds (opens the original)
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This article was originally published in Tipping Points Magazine on February 20th, 2020.Why don’t we have playgrounds for adults?It’s sticky in the August heat of France and I’ve been jogging for hours. I’m park surfing to soak the sun while I can roam free in it, and I stop to lounge in a field across from a big Parisian playground. I’m watching children run around, laughing, screaming. Two small children, about to collide, stop on opposite sides of what appears to be a passing butterfly. In th
De los archivos: Los Riesgos de la Educación Autodirigida (available in Spanish and English) (opens the original)
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Este artículo fue publicado originalmente en la revista Tipping Point el 18 de septiembre de 2017For English, click here (para inglés haz clic aquí).Me he dado cuenta de que muchos adultos piensan que la Educación Autodirigida es algo riesgoso. Por esa razón he tomado la decisión de escribir un poco sobre los riesgos que
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