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I have no idea why, but the other day, I wanted to know how fast a cannonball travels.  "To calculate the speed of a cannonball," it said, "we need to know how far it has gone and how long it took to get there." The first two weeks at TGS have been either the cannonball or the cannon. I'm not yet sure which one - but I know that our...

Yep - checking in again from 12,000 metres above, well, where am I at the moment...above the North Pole, I believe. I just woke up from the most peaceful nap and while this may not be earth-shaking news to our blog readership, it was by far the best sleep I've had in the past month. When I woke up I was flooded with memories of this trip. As Johnny Cash...

I heard some expatriate kids the other day say that they should "bounce."  I mention that I wasn't on US or Canadian soil as I'm not sure that "bounce" is a perfectly current term, though it very well may be.  I don't seem to bounce terribly high or long in the world of contemporary teenage slang, refusing to lose the thread of the right term long past its expiry date....

For years I believed that we were all united by commonalities. That the fact the we all endeavoured to eat three times a day and have certain nice things and basic necessities were uniting factors (and that, as a consequence, we could latch on to these things and be brought together). But I soon realized that what drew me to people as I have traveled the world over the years...

One of my happiest reflections since we launched THINK Global School, is that both great schools and great ideas are fuelled by great coffee. I have been a fan of amazing coffee (and have stayed away from bad coffee) for as long as I can remember. I'm actually 6'9". It's only a thirty year love affair with coffee that has stunted my growth to a modest 5'10" and ended my...

One of the great points of intersection between education and entrepreneurship is that you sometimes don't know that you're looking for something until it's staring at you in the face.  The really elusive solution may have been elusive because it didn't dawn on us to focus our view close up. We at THINK Global School were invited last week to take part in the @elemenous Future of Education Global Awareness Panel....

I'm writing this from 11,500 metres above water, above solid, pure dark.  Not long after we took off from Sydney at 14.55 local time, it began to get dark and stayed dark until about two hours before landing. While those who know me well know that I have traveled over a million miles and can be very relaxed about it, getting on a plane in one city and, say, 14...

Many of us have seen the McLeod/Fisch "Shift Happens" video. Some of the ideas from this video that really grab me are: 1. We're preparing kids for jobs that don't exist today. This is hugely powerful and really important to us at THINK Global School.  We always say "Don't teach me what to think - teach me how to think."  This is the most important thing that schools should be...

First, please let me introduce our Guest Blogger, Wile E. Coyote (courtesy of Acme Products, Inc.) The genius: Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Wile E. Coyote. Genius. I am not selling anything nor am I working my way through college, so let’s get down to the basics: happiness and morality. Me: How can happiness be separated from morality? Isn’t morality a necessary condition for happiness or have we...

A great day is when you get to blog about one of your favourite things. Today, I'm blogging about two of my favourite things: my favourite song, Oasis 'Wonderwall' and my favourite charitable organization, Chicago's i.c.stars. I know that Oasis never became the next Beatles.  I've accepted that, unlike many Oasis fans.  But you can't tell me that this isn't the best song in the universe and maybe three universes...