I work at a small, science education nonprofit in Somerville, MA (http://thesprouts.org) and spend most of my energy working to prototype tools and materials which support radically different futures of learning. Nowadays, that involves starting a high school.

But Ivan Illich said it best for me, "People need not only to obtain things, they need above all the freedom to make things among which they can live, to give shape to them according to their own tastes, and to put them to use in caring for and about others. Prisoners in rich countries often have access to more things and services than members of their families, but they have no say in how things are to be made and cannot decide what to do with them."

I hope that at my best, our work contributes to that.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I've been dormant for awhile, mostly hosted. In the interim, I've only come to appreciate more the community how missing that is from more transactional setups.

Interests

Prototyping alternative, community-driven models of learning and research.

• arts
• education
• flying
• electronics
• piano
• art history
• teaching
• history
• mathematics
• neuroscience
• physics
• science

Music, Movies, and Books

Between _Cool Hand Luke_ and _Deschooling Society_, I'm all set.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Learned how to have fun after being taught to forget it for over a decade.

Teach, Learn, Share

Some math, some physics, some electronics. Celtic art, art history, and mythology. Theory and history of education. Complex systems. Some neuroscience. Computer programming. Machining and fabrication. A little piano. Flying small planes. Learning how to have fun.

Countries I’ve Visited

Israel, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States

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