Thoughts about carving out time and space to go deep with reading, thinking, and work.

It cost more than $25, took longer than one week, and still isn't repaired.

Bernie Goldbach uses mobile recording to explain how Lit.ie will unpack "Deep Work" by Cal Newport.

Thoughts on hysterical strength, the final sprint, and mind over body.

I teach some students who don't appreciate the need to think and write deeply. So they don't spend the time and effort to reflect. And consequently, they are unable to iterate sophisticated work. Paul O'Mahony and I share our experiences with this teaching challenge.

Starting a deep dive into both Adobe Connect and Panopto.

Mark discusses changing the narrative about school leaders. With a little help from principals Dan McCabe and Tracy R. Taylor, Mark says, it’s time to stop making the principal the bad guy. Visit the Show’s archive at http://hacklearningpodcast.comBrowse the library at http://hacklearningbooks.comCheck out http://spreaker.com for fast and hacky podcasting

Recounting damage wrought by raging winds.

Scraped from the Anchor Dial between 31 December 2017 and 2 January 2018.

Looking back at how many people have stayed on Anchor since the start of its second version.

Experimenting with Voice Changer on android and with MAGIX software on Windows 10 while making voices talk backwards. #edtech

A collection of Christmas 2017 with clips from Dylan, Georgie, Paul, and Candice Marie.

Once you figure out audio workflow, you will be empowered to spread your audio wings.

Includes "Coffee" by Sylvan Esso and accents of Anchor people explained by Cherise Taylor.

Mark cites a Psychology Today Blog post, in which the author references an interview with a Google executive who says the search engine giant does not use GPAs and SAT scores to assess potential new hires. Mark Barnes despises grades and tests, and he wonders why schools continue to use them when one of the most successful companies on the planet disdains them.Read the article at https://medium.com/the-mission/inverse-relationship-between-gpa-and-innovative-orientation-57e604e7112Listen to more

After getting a request from techie Andrew Browne I decided to experiment with the iRig Pro Duo. It lets me record into handsets while using standard XLR microphones.

Explaining the concept of microcasting with creative media students demonstrating some of our mobile journalism tools.

Mark posted this on social channels: "No, I won’t lecture, assign homework, punish, or grade my students, just because that’s the way we’ve always done it." And people reacted. He talks about it in classic Hack Learning Uncut style.Want more episodes? http://hacklearningpodcast.comNeed a solution to a big problem? http://hacklearningbooks.com

Listening to an assortment of voices across the Anchorverse.

For parents and teachers, the old, "Back-in-my-day" mentality no longer works, because, as Kimberley Moran writes in Hacking Parenthood, The World Really Is Different. In this special Friday edition of Hack Learning Uncut, Mark shares Mantra 9 from the new book, Hacking Parenthood: 10 Mantras You Can Use Daily to Reduce the Stress of Parenting, along with some what-you-can-do-tomorrow strategies for reducing screentime at home in and the classroom. Mark explains how Moran uses the Parent Resource