<![CDATA[Stories by William Rankin on Medium]]> https://medium.com/@william.rankin?source=rss-d34c5dc45047------2 https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/fit/c/150/150/2*hPrksXirL8z9UnY0wHyn4Q.png Stories by William Rankin on Medium https://medium.com/@william.rankin?source=rss-d34c5dc45047------2 Medium Sat, 14 Nov 2026 17:04:55 GMT <![CDATA[FTMS: A Framework for Making Learning Better (and Making Better Learning)]]>

How Follow / Tinker / Make / Share goes beyond the ordinary to help learners grow

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Introducing the Follow / Tinker / Make / Share Framework for learning-by-making

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Improving teaching and learning in the current upheaval

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Educational standardization is a monolith that enacts and perpetuates an unjust supremacy. Instead of worshiping it, we need to tear it…

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With instructionist education crumbling, what should we design to take its place? How can we make learning richer and more…

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La pandemia ha desmantelado el actual sistema educativo. ¿Qué debe remplazarlo en el futuro?

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The pandemic is toppling existing educational structures because they were already built on a weak foundation. What should we build…

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“Platonic” teaching prizes abstraction over application. A feature of the “industrial” education, it produces a culture of fragmentation…

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In a previous edition of my career, when I was a professor of literature and literary theory, I used to tell my students that much of…

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Curiosity kills… but it kills things that need to die: complacency, small-mindedness, isolation, fear…

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