Skateboarding physics professor at large, etc.
Here’s the talk I gave at TEDxEastsidePrep: “Can Skateboarding Save Our Schools?” I also highly recommend watching Shawn Cornally‘s talk “Pointslessness: The Future of Education Without Coercion or Toy Economies” which overlapped with many of the ideas in my talk but from a completely different perspective.
Are schools designed to help people learn? Are colleges and universities really institutions of higher education? Do students actually learn any science in science classes? Can skateboarding give us a better model for teaching and learning? Watch this video to find out.
I’ve been crashing with my friend Jeremy in LA this week, and I was amazed to see that he still had this photographic evidence of my one and only perfect game in Wii bowling.
Finally! The first skate session of my vagabond tour of California and also the first session of the new year.
First listen to Neil deGrasse Tyson set the record straight on 2012.
After car troubles forced me to return to Boulder, this happened.
