Shame permeates our schools and classrooms. Kids shame their peers and, sometimes, unwittingly, teachers shame their students.Compassionate classrooms, detailed in Hacking Classroom Culture by Angela Stockman and Ellen Feig Gray, extinguish shame. Mark shares an excerpt from Hack 5 of this new book, helping you find out how to eliminate shame in your space and design your own compassionate classroom.Check out the resources from this episode and an excerpt from Hacking School Culture at

Audiolog with #workflow while teaching digital media students in Ireland. I share some perspective, briefly mention 10 digital media skills I assess, and then go inside the kimono to reveal the Chrome tabs most useful when processing my students' work.

At the end of another academic year, Bernie Goldbach takes time out to share what has worked. Great success with Trello, Airtable, Contactually, Calendly, 360 video, drone footage, and Moleskines.

Listening to @omaniblog, @justjenafer, @alimoon76, and @KevinGnomeRadio.

Mark Barnes says he used to penalize kids for insignificant things like using a pencil or putting their names in the wrong spot (a bad practice he now admits). But failing a kid for not printing a Google Doc? Mark argues that this is the stupidest school policy ever. He explains why and how this needs to be hacked ... immediately, while providing a few hacks from numerous Hack Learning experts.Check out the books referenced in this episode at http://hacklearningbooks.comBrowse the podcast archive at

Working outside on a summer’s day in Ireland. Includes sounds of an electric Bosch lawn mower. May contain pollen. Bonus interlude by Mia (10). See related images at http://flickr.com/irisheyes or by following @topgold on all good social networks.

Mark shares the worst thing he did to his students and how you may be doing the same thing right now. Then, he provides one simple hack to avoid doing it again.View the archive at http://hacklearningpodcast.comBrowse books at http://hacklearningbooks.com

Listening to John Oliver on HBO talk about corporate tax rates.

Check out the outstanding TGE on iTunes at https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-great-everything/id1252869346?mt=2 and give your five stars away :-)

With thoughts from Cherise Taylor, Unda Dog, and Avie Uniglitch. Includes the Crip Walk Song.

Trying to stay inside both versions of Anchor and wondering if it is worth the effort. And knowing the developers never intended for people to connect the silos.

While planning for our annual http://ictedu.ie Conference. It's called "Voices in Educatiion" and starts on Saturday, April 28, 2018. #planning

EduHacker Mark Barnes admits that math has always eluded him, until he stumbled upon the Unanswerable Questions hack in Hacking Mathematics, by Denis Sheeran. Mark shares Sheeran's reasoning behind Unanswerable Questions and the power they hold over not just math students, but all teachers and learners.Read the excerpt at http://hacklearning.org/UQBrowse the library at http://hacklearningbooks.com

Bernie Goldbach explains that the road inside Anchor v2 is sparsely populated now. Sharing voices of George Taktek, Condensayshun, and Ileane Smith. With music by Timothy van Gulick and Confession & Denial.

What to do if you are locked out of your Android device. If you have Google credentials, it should be an easy unlocking. If you don't, then learn the power-on + volume-up combination.

When it's relatively quiet, you can often tell how parts of Anchor's stats really work.

Nobody knows you're around if you can't be found.

It's good to have complementary watering holes like http://bit.ly/anchorgplus

While setting my recorder to capture 60 Minutes with Stormy Daniels, I snagged an excellent conversation between Holly Randall (unfiltered) and Stormy Daniels. I enjoy the insights they share about how even the mainstream media fabricates stories.

Thoughts percolating from County Tipperary, Ireland. We start with homage to "Coffee with Georgie" and then share from Nicholas Stargardt's "The German War".