Writing & Podcasts
Twenty years of thinking out loud about education, technology, and change, in blog posts, articles, one book chapter, and four podcasts.
Learning is Change
I started blogging in 2005 and gave it this name in December 2007. Over 3,600 posts since, about what it means to teach, to learn, and to change.
My name is Ben Wilkoff, and I Teach. And Learn. A Lot. The line at the top of the blog since the beginning
Topics I Write About
Highlighted Posts
If you read five things here, read these. They are the ideas I keep coming back to.
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Aug 2006
The 95 Theses of Progressive TeachingFifty theses on what a teacher should be, borrowed in form from Martin Luther, from “Teachers should be the change they want to see in their schools” to “Teachers should learn.” I wrote it the summer before my third year of teaching.
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Jun 2007
The Ripe Environment“I am tired of talking about the tools.” Ten prerequisites for a place where people actually want to learn together. Everything else on this site grew out of it.
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2007 · 43 comments
Safety vs. PanicMy students were collaborating on a wiki with eighth graders in Connecticut, until one parent's complaint got every one of those kids removed overnight. I asked who failed. 43 people answered, and the conversation is still one of the best this blog has had.
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Dec 2010
Question 365 of 365: What is enough?The last of a year of questions. “My year hasn’t been about numbers. It has been about ideas. And thoughts. And change.”
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Feb 2022
Why I Left Public Education (and then came back)“Scale is a seductive myth.” Why I left a school district for a startup in 2010, why I stayed less than a year, and what I believe about change now.
In 2010 I wrote one question a day for a year, 365 of them, about technology, education, and community, and answered each one in public.
Published Work
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Book Chapter
Personalized PD: Flipping Your Professional DevelopmentA chapter in a book about letting teachers learn the way we ask students to: personally, and by choice, instead of one-size-fits-all.
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EdSurge
EdSurge ArticlesArticles on blended learning and on how teachers learn, for a national audience.
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GitHub
Educational Model SpecAn open-source spec for how AI should behave in a classroom, with learning and the teacher put first.
Podcasts
Four podcasts. Some ideas I would rather say than type.
Learning is Change Podcast
The podcast that goes with the blog, and the longest running of the four. 165 episodes of conversations and reflections on education, technology, and change, from 2007 on.
Podcast feedBoth:And Podcast
Conversations about education and technology with people who can hold two ideas at once.
Visit archiveThe Apple Hunter
Hunting apps in the Apple ecosystem since 2021. App reviews, interviews with the folks who make them, and the occasional bonus episode.
Visit archiveQuantified Ben
“The numbers tell the stories.” Short audio reflections on the data of my own life: what I tracked, and what it turned out to mean.
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