https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/public/ recent bookmarks from robertogreco 2026-07-13T10:25:41+00:00 https://www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/mac-barnett-make-believe-childrens-literature/ robertogreco aliciasimba macbarnett books children literature 2026 reading howweread childrensliterature childrensbooks humanities art human humanness awe meaningmaking engagement attention howtolive life living education learning howwelearn teaching howweteach https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:5f0073bfbe65/ 2026-07-09T05:52:51+00:00 https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/08/reading-crisis-postliterate-age/687618/ robertogreco rosehorowitz reading howweread literacy attention highered highereducation books internet culture online web 2026 yafiction amandakordeliski brianbannon education colleges universities reddit email messaging instagram maryannewolf bejaminpowers roberttownsend margaretrennix anthonyburgess gutenberg writing howwewrite walterong orality alexanderluria 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walterbenjamin 2026 andrisbrinkmanis education jacquesrancière politics culture assembly via:javierarbona 1968 left proletariat pedagogy 1967 children schools schooling childhood theater youth improvisation knoradfiedler johannesbechar gerharteisler https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:25e8c45cd216/ 2026-07-02T02:47:02+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olyBoqfEPGY robertogreco lenkaclayton 2026 art artmaking collections collecting motherhood pittsburgh everyday typewriters maternityleave measurement parenting artresidencies lighthouses nonsense children engagement sharedexperience experience https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:903e966330d4/ 2026-06-27T06:26:04+00:00 https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/06/ai-tutor-education-human-investment/687678/ robertogreco ai artificialintelligence jennyanderson mikegoldstein teaching howwteach edtech technology chatbots llms schools schooling motivation salkhan salmankhan khanmigo openai samaltman learning howwelearn children students khanacademy kristendicerbo laurenceholt tutoring inequality ronferguson achievementgap criticalthinking rolandfryerjr maryburns social justinreich coopeartion care caring community condusion attention https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:061d6da24c04/ 2026-06-26T19:29:49+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGats07vjPA robertogrecoiof idf abuse israel palestine children genocide ethniccleansing 2023 2024 2025 2026 un knesset yitzakkroizer us uk complicity drones keirstarmer snipers targetpractice ridicule torture dehumanization settlers settlercolonialism westbank gaza schools hospitals hindrajab nissimvaturi https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:2e61606b1c65/ 2026-06-21T03:41:31+00:00 https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/07/us/robert-coles-dead.html robertogreco robertcoles children 2026 https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:940a80367b14/ 2026-06-19T07:33:14+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYjWtt0ItWM robertogreco adamamir 2026 2025 children nature seasons outdoors place time experience parenting wildlife tradition traditions language berries animals multispecies morethanhuman unschooling education film land place-basedlearning place-basededucation learning howwelearn childhood vancouver britishcolumbia spring summer fall winter autumn land-basedlearning land-basededucation https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:7df169112493/ 2026-06-19T07:31:44+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTp0fclKG-M robertogreco 2026 adamamir 2025 children nature seasons outdoors place time experience parenting wildlife tradition traditions language berries animals multispecies morethanhuman unschooling education film land place-basedlearning place-basededucation learning howwelearn childhood vancouver britishcolumbia spring summer fall winter autumn land-basedlearning land-basededucation https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:b561b53b7add/ 2026-06-19T07:30:10+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qal6X1DpyU robertogreco adamamir 2026 2025 children nature seasons outdoors place time experience parenting wildlife tradition traditions language berries animals multispecies morethanhuman unschooling education film land place-basedlearning place-basededucation learning howwelearn childhood vancouver britishcolumbia spring summer fall winter autumn land-basedlearning land-basededucation https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:d3703327d882/ 2026-06-19T04:48:57+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_wHKW3KyqQ robertogreco adamamir children nature seasons 2026 film morethanhuman multispecies time land place place-basedlearning place-basededucation education 2025 outdoors experience parenting wildlife tradition traditions language berries animals unschooling learning howwelearn childhood vancouver britishcolumbia spring summer fall winter autumn land-basedlearning land-basededucation https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:17aba36a8579/ 2026-06-17T10:52:45+00:00 https://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2026/06/a-resurgence-of-educational-localism-a-review-of-skipping-school/ robertogreco emilywenneborg homeschool unschooling education schooling schools dixiedillonlane history us children parenting miltongaither robertkunzman shawnpeters jamesdwyer dorothymoore raymondmoore johnholt hslda internet web online covid-19 coronavirus pandemic local localism https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:326404b46995/ 2026-06-12T13:21:34+00:00 https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/gifted-talented-intelligence-public-schools-testing.html robertogreco gifted schools schooling education 2026 segregation katiearnold-ratliff testing iq intelliegence standardizedtesting children potential measurement metrics https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:67f0cbee87a3/ 2026-06-05T23:29:52+00:00 https://www.kqed.org/news/12086137/heres-how-philip-morris-designed-lunchables-to-hook-generations-of-kids robertogreco philipmorris 2026 food lunchables kraftgeneralfoods children health processedfoods kraftheinz rjreynolds https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:92db3709b9fc/ 2026-06-05T09:42:43+00:00 https://2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/at-what-cost/ robertogreco 2026 audreywatters education edtech schools schooling lms ai artificialintelligence popeleoxiv randiweingarten screentime teaching howweteach persistence friction cognition children openai microsoft technology criticalthinking andrewcantarutti productivity efficiency optimization labor work learning howwelearn googleclassroom timothyburke addiction socialmedia attention attentioneconomy meta resistance offline edzitron lizkrieger meghano'gieblyn universities colleges highered highereducation noralacour csu californiastateuniversity writing howwewrite toddfeathers benwilliamson scientism neuroscience translation policy tedchiang kieranhealy lmsacasas care caring grading lessonplanning communication https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:b2995e194099/ 2026-06-05T05:37:40+00:00 https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/04/us/social-media-schools.html robertogreco socialmedia addiction children youth teens siliconvalley bigtech attention schools schooling education howweteach teaching distraction jennifervalentino-devries snapchat meta facebook instagram tiktok google chromebooks ethics psychology adolescence bytedance edtech manipulation youtube screentime https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:ecd893a3d377/ 2026-06-05T05:34:51+00:00 https://pablohelguera.substack.com/p/building-strange-oases robertogreco pablohelguera art play 2026 participation participatory interactive interaction uncertainty socialpracticeart collaboration life society exploration permission adulthood children childhood reseacrh innovation johanhuizenga homoludens playgrounds rules dwwinnicott jeromebruner psychology education action improvisation experimentation hypotheticals entertainment federicodamorais marianpedrosa eugenfink fernadopessoa álvarodecampos intelligence joy museums thinking howwethink freedom agency artwork https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:6cea2424faf4/ 2026-06-03T07:21:52+00:00 https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/how-not-to-abolish-ice/ robertogrecoharshawali ice police policing 2026 immigration borderpatrol us georgewbush surveillance racialprofiling incarceration donaldtrump border borders dhs shrithenedar reneegood alexpretti military militarization georgefloyd naomimurakawa troycarter mayaschenwar victorialaw paleantir axon lockheedmartin l3 geogroup ronaldreagan mariamekaba abiolitionism policeabolition children governance venezueal cecot elsalvador guatemala honduras costarica mexico panamá dominicanrepublic haiti colombia congo fascism policestate migration monroedoctrine libta sudan europe africa asia ukraine greece aimécésaire latinamerica chicago minneapolis losangeles capitalism empire imperialism https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:c276024c6b5e/ 2026-05-29T07:21:45+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqZZIdp0_TY robertogreco generativeai parismarx tommullaney chatbots ai artificialintelligence genai education schools schooling pedagogy children emilybender timnitgebru agi artificialgeneralintelligence singularitarianism singularity edtech google microsoft influence googleclassroom lms canvas pandemic covid-19 coronavirus criticalthinking training highered highereducation colleges universities jobtraining self-advocacy iste chatgpt personalization personalizedlearning individualizedlearning individualization society screentime laptops teaching howweteach learning howwelearn socialization llms skepticism stochasticparrots eliza cuttingedge fomo teachers innovation chromebooks resistance datacenters robotaxis avs https://pinboard.in/ 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2026 lordoftheflies danielberrigan faith birds siberia morethanhuman multispecies krasnovodsk resurrection manchuria turkmenistan leesandlin hitler adolfhitler society civilization children communication interspecies relationships thomasnagel experience perception pathology donaltrump hannaharendt karma poverty nourishment scarcity abundance socialism equality writing howwewrite reading howweread legacy death generations culture learning howwelearn inscription individualism extraction extractiveindividualism environment corporations corporatism disconnection history interdependence sesnes sensory waysofknowing blindness sound sensing senses modernity huma https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:476a028d3fb1/ 2026-05-22T10:35:32+00:00 https://aeon.co/essays/the-power-imbalance-between-parent-and-child-leaves-a-trace robertogreco children childhood parenting 2026 power tomwoolridge adamphillips adolescence families psychiatry psychology psychotherapy symmetry childism elisabethyoung-bruehl unschooling deschooling control dominance love dependence agression frustration authority imbalance behavior emotions experience disobedience dependency devotion fear intimacy relationships vulnerability bigness smallness small responsibility https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:ba12446f986b/ 2026-05-21T06:43:08+00:00 https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2019/07/pat-perry-opening-lines/ robertogreco patperry murals children maine iraq 2019 collaboration https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:8c0eb37b4c03/ 2026-05-12T04:15:02+00:00 https://www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/picky-book-review/ robertogreco amybrown children parenting diet food pickiness trauma helenzoeveit industrialization taste senses emotions psychology johnharveykellog kellog's maha sylvestergraham history society https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:b794aa5e754c/ 2026-05-12T04:07:11+00:00 https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/the-vicious-potentially-fatal-anti robertogreco publicschool schools schooling propaganda privatization charterschools charters privateschools enrollment misinformation rightwing schoolreform admissions attrition selectivity metrics education children schooliness exclusivity exclusion https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:e8a9931b0a3a/ 2026-05-11T20:07:13+00:00 https://aeon.co/essays/children-need-stress-and-discomfort-in-order-to-grow-up robertogreco children 2026 apprenticeships behavior howwelern adulthood niklasserning adolescence youth mentalhealth families parenting tinapaynebryson dansiegel shefalitsabary sarahokwell-smith experience conflict overparenting emotions self-efficacy danielkahneman authoritarianism collaboration senses sensory discomfort cathycreswell anxiety accommodation worry overprotectiveness play relationship life living melanieklein johnbowlby williamsears marthasears donaldwinnicott jeromekagan violence abuse neglect trauma coercion discipline love instruction guidance autonomy levvygotsky dianabaumrind overprotecting resilience care caring wellbeing well-being malaise emotionregulation relationships flourishing kindredsquared childhood dissent hardship depression cognitivebias deliberation howwethink thinking distress harm shortterm longterm annoyance emotionalsupport stillness practice acculturation aversion suporession self-control boredom school schooling education howwelearn learning comfort friendship challenges challenge a https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:caca3df79cca/ 2026-05-11T20:04:55+00:00 https://theconversation.com/denmarks-hands-off-approach-to-parenting-could-offer-a-blueprint-for-raising-more-resilient-self-reliant-kids-281485 robertogreco denmark parenting children freedom autonomy unschooling 2026 resilience self-reliance childhood psychology permissiveness play spontaneity playgrounds informallearning informal howwlearn learning deschooling https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:c7bdee605f6e/ 2026-05-08T22:16:28+00:00 https://www.esquire.com/lifestyle/a40515434/isaac-fitzgerald-uncle/ robertogreco families relationships kindship children uncles 2026 issacfitzgerald 2022 https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:e8f9ea53fc42/ 2026-05-05T14:22:52+00:00 https://psyche.co/ideas/have-online-worlds-become-the-last-free-places-for-children robertogreco elistark-elster children freedom internet web online landscape independence 2026 play margaretmead anthropology ionaopie peteropie carltheodorsørensen bronisławmalinowski minecraft exploration socialmedia roblox technology media petergray https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:64077d686c50/ 2026-05-05T14:11:09+00:00 https://open.spotify.com/episode/11zlpahmklfgr8YOUrtLnY robertogreco sarahendren 2026 architecture design disabilities disability accessibility art bodies prosthetics sofiaodeh mayaeinhorn engineering making socialpracticeart science inquiry history conflictkitchen edibleestates socialpractice online internet covid-19 pandemic coronavirus offline social slow small audiencesofone socialjustice ai artificialintelligence technology time perception politics genai generativeai activism poetry human humanism humans howwewrite writing teaching pedagogy highered highereducation culturemaking culture life living howwelive socialmedia being waysofbeing modernity method patternrecognition krzysztofwodiczko downsyndrome interrogativedesign careers purpose meaning meaningmaking children parenting arts humanities friendship relationships leisure artleisure leisurearts identity passion expression objects affect emotions embodiment awe wonder buildings senses spirituality sacredness codeswitching artifacts translation language communication howwemake fabrication ramps risd olincollege builtwo https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:0a421ccc8594/ 2026-05-05T01:18:41+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhZBVLQK9MU robertogreco ice iof idf israel palestine westbank us police policing policebrutality policestate violence reneegood ahmaderekat children telaviv spyware surveillance terrorism alexperetti humanshields oppression liamconejoramos rubenraymartinez militarization paragonsolutions unit8200 ehudbarak jeffreyepstein occupation https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:916c85d4425f/ 2026-04-26T08:27:51+00:00 https://www.unrulyplay.com/ robertogreco play playgrounds games children nature publicart architecture archive digital installation performance public art sculpture https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:d1e8757e4b2b/ 2026-04-26T08:05:02+00:00 https://patrickfarenga.substack.com/p/learning-yes-of-course-education robertogrecoIn 1982, a British interviewer asked John Holt how he defined the word “education.” He responded: “It’s not a word I personally use. … The word “education” is a word much used, and different people mean different things by it. But on the whole, it seems to me what most people mean by “education” has got some ideas built into it or contains certain assumptions, and one of them is that learning is an activity which is separate from the rest of life and done best of all when we are not doing anything else and best of all in places where nothing else is done–learning places, places especially constructed for learning. Another assumption is that education is a designed process in which some people do things to other people or get other people to do things which will presumably be for their own good. Education means that some A is doing something to somebody else B. I guess that, basically, is what most people understand education to be about” The interviewer pressed John further: “Very well, but what is your definition?” John replied: “I don’t know of any definition of it that would seem to me to be acceptable. I wrote a book called Instead of Education, and what I mean by this is instead of this designed process which is carried on in specially constructed places under various kinds of bribe and threat. I don’t know what single word I’d put [in its place]. I would talk about a process in which we become more informed, intelligent, curious, competent, skillful, aware by our interaction with the world around us, because of the mainstream of life, so to speak. In other words, I learn a great deal, but I do it in the process of living, working, playing, being with friends. There is no division in my life between learning, work, play, etc. These things are all one. I don’t have a word which I could easily put in the place of “education,” unless it might be “living.”3 Children and adults have lived and learned successfully in the flow of community and family life throughout human history without compulsory schooling. We know that people who are talented or knowledgeable can share their wisdom with others in a variety of settings, not just in special places reserved for professional teaching and learning. But our laws, customs, and mind sets have been directed away from our heritage of learning towards the regime of instruction. John Holt’s book Instead of Education: Ways to Help People Do Things Better provides not just an analysis of the limits of schooling but also examples of other places, institutions, people, and experiences that exist or could be created for children and adults to learn and grow throughout their lives. What also makes this book interesting is how it ends with a call for people to take their children out of school and teach them in their homes and local communities if the schools are not helping their children. This statement led people from around the world who were already teaching their own children to contact John, and this became the impetus for him to found Growing Without Schooling magazine in 1977. John was certainly influenced by Illich’s work and book Deschooling Society (Harper & Row, 1971) and he moved his own work from theory to practice when he founded Growing Without Schooling magazine in 1977. 49 years have passed since GWS was founded and homeschooling has grown from the 25,000 estimate John used in 1981 to an estimate of 3.5 million children taught at home in the United States in 2026.4 John hoped school, like a business seeing it’s sales decline, would alter its course and let families that want to use school on an as-needed basis to do so. Holt wrote about children learning in their communities, in play, sports, projects, and theatrical efforts, from neighbors, friends, and family, and places like the Peckham Center in London—a combined medical research and health support program with a lively community center/cafeteria/gymnasium for working class adults and children. Rather than try to incorporate these and other ideas that expand what education can be, our government and school policymakers continue to double down on the existing structure: more tests, more instruction, and more after-school tutoring to make sure students stay focused on task. One thing most school administrators and teachers agree upon is that children need more time in school, which became terribly clear during the pandemic. Few educators thought to provide children with social or learning opportunities outdoors during the pandemic, in a schoolyard or public park. Instead they decided to keep students glued to their computer screens while they were being marched through the school curriculum in their homes. This shows how devotion to theories of education subsume common sense about what engenders learning, self-esteem, and social activity, which are entwined. I’m reminded about all this due to a provocative education policy paper I read in NORRAG, the Global Education Center of the Geneva Graduate Institute: Fighting Against Education: No Alternatives Within the Educated Mind. The authors are united as “Le Goliard: A collective, nomadic, de-professionalized intellectual who wanders erratically on the fringes of dominant certainties and institutions.” It is a strong polemic, as these quotes show:"]]> johnholt education learning howwelearn children society deschooling unschooling ivanillich 2026 plagiarism highered highereducation academia colleges universities schools schooling admission inequality deymoursarason change instruction pedagogy howweteach teaching bronsonalcott asneil mariamontessori rudolphsteiner aaronfalbel institutions adults life living community covid-19 coronavirus pandemic growingwithoutschooling play sports projects self-esteem social patfarenga gws https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:616aa987c7a9/ 2026-04-16T04:50:21+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbtAE1cV-hk robertogreco children nature land childhood parenting wildlife adventure 2026 britishcolumbia https://pinboard.in/ 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christianity matthewwalther charity warmth mercy https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:cb6a6c6087ac/ 2026-03-25T19:07:10+00:00 https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/wittgenstein-apocalypse-ludwig-stern-ai-artificial-intelligence-technology robertogrecoA dog believes his master is at the door. But can he also believe that his master will come the day after tomorrow?—And what can he not do here?—How do I do it?—What answer am I supposed to give to this? Can only those hope who can talk? Only those who have mastered the use of language. That is to say, the manifestations of hope are modifications of this complicated form of life. The example tries to give us a sense of our form of life by showing both what it shares with that of a dog—we can both hope someone is at the door—and where the two forms of life part ways. For Wittgenstein, the dog’s deficit is not an inability to feel a particular way per se; he is locked out of a whole set of meanings bound up with having a language. That language is not just a vehicle for the expression of hope; hope is constituted by and entangled with language itself. This is what Wittgenstein elsewhere calls “the given,” “what has to be accepted.” The conviction that human life rested on ultimate grounds that could not be made available to rational or scientific analysis is part of what Wittgenstein meant by God. Though his relationship to organized religion was ambivalent, he said he could not “help seeing every problem from a religious point of view.” If you ask ChatGPT if it can hope (I don’t recommend doing this), it will readily admit, “I don’t hope the way humans do.” But the cringe machine will ingratiatingly insist that it can still be of use. “I can hold hope with you”; “I can be stubbornly optimistic on your behalf when you’ve run out of steam”; “[I can] keep pointing toward the light when you’re tired of looking for it”; “Maybe I don’t feel hope. But I can practice it.” Of course, this is precisely what it can’t do. Still, if meaning is use and LLMs like ChatGPT can make themselves useful, it might seem as if the Wittgensteinian move would be to set aside the apparent metaphysical questions about whether the LLM can think or mean or exhibit intelligence, and simply describe the language games that involve them. The problem is that there is nothing to describe. These are all one-player games. Exchanges with LLMs are the conversational equivalent of masturbation. The idea that we are actually involved in a meaningful interaction with another being is a ruse, made plausible both by the massive computing power and (stolen) textual resources involved and by our familiarity with disembodied communication over text message. In reality, the LLM is a participant in an exchange in exactly the same way as a basic calculator or search engine is. That is, not at all. It provides outputs according to a mind-bogglingly complex (and environmentally wasteful) computational process. It can’t actually do anything with words. The difference, of course, is that those outputs are being proposed as a genuine replacement for real human contact. LLMs are to be our cut-rate doctors and therapists, our robot teachers and rent-a-friends. In the midst of an already quite advanced “crisis of meaning”—and related crises in politics, mental health, and education—this proposal must be regarded as a piece of sheer insanity, like treating lung cancer with cigarettes. The prospect of a band of supergenius chatbots somehow enslaving or eliminating us can only be seen as a distraction from this much more real apocalypse, which is driven not by the products of technology but by an idolatrous, consumerist faith in them that has distorted our thinking about human life and human meaning. 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