More Fuel: Self-Directed and Customized Learning

I made a big omission earlier this week in my post about the blogs I regularly read. I forgot to mention Christian Long's blog Think:Lab. So often, I share common curiosity with the topics he covers in his blog. Today, his post "A school by any other name" sparked something in me. I have been thinking a lot about learning and instruction topics that dance around his central self-directed and customized learning themes. His post and the linked Teacher Magazine article "Don't Call It School" raises a lot of questions for me (the fuel to my own learning fire), but I can't add much in the way of commentary. I've been living in that frustrating realm for awhile now – the "there is something here, I just can't articulate it" realm. What is good is that realm usually leads to some degree of personal learning and awakening, so I'll just relax and live here awhile longer …

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