I’d love your support in voting for BetterAt’s SXSW2012 panel. Please vote early and often. A Cure for Reflection Deficit Disorder Here’s a short description: The formal structures supporting education haven’t changed appreciably in the past several decades. The world continues to move at a dizzying pace and knowledge & information are created faster than [...]
This post made it to HackerNews. I enjoyed it. This isn’t a matter of social entrepreneurship or civic responsibility. You have every right to pursue a venture of any kind – that is what makes America great. In fact it’s the foundation of the American dream. If you want to sell backlinks, then sell backlinks. [...]
flickr: chrismetcalf Woz, of Apple cofounder fame talks about schools and education in this interview. I feel like we can learn a lot from a guy who creates world changing companies AND was a public school educator for over 8 years. The learning cycle between what is taught and when a student is tested on [...]
A large portion of the budget for Teach for America comes from a Federal funding “earmark”. Congress has equated “earmarks” with only its negative connotations (wasteful and pork barrel spending) and none of its positive ones (providing needed support to an organization that contributes to education in badly needed areas of the country). George Will [...]
There are innumerable signs pointing to the great disruption that’s about to take place in education. Bill Gates has said that the best schools will be delivered via an online platform. Five years from now on the web for free you’ll be able to find the best lectures in the world. It will be better [...]
(from the BettrAt blog) Pledge to watch the movie over at WaitingForSuperman.com. Infographic video made by the Creative animation studio Buck.
the answer is. no. fail. idiocracy, here we come.
Yesterday, I (this is Ash writing) gave a presentation to all of the senior faculty at the IIT Stuart Business School about BettrAt and the future of informal learning. I think the presentation went pretty well (apart from me making a silly mistake with the domain and thinking that the site was down in a [...]
My friend Matt, a kind hearted soul and fellow bicyclist (consequently waaaay faster than I am), is riding across Lake Michigan to raise funds for a classroom modernization project for Claremont Academy, a K-8 school in the Chicago Public School System. He made a website, Pledge my Ride, where you can follow along. Help support [...]
This article is also available for comment in the BettrAt blog. I had a conversation with Hugh (the associate dean of the Institute of Design) today about his son Morley’s high school which sounds completely amazing and reminded me of this article in Wired I read recently, called “Making Geeks Cool Could Reform Education” I’ve [...]
As Mr. Burns from the Simpson’s would say, “Exxxxxccccccellent”. Check out this great New York times article. I’ll keep quiet and curate the best stuff for you. In a Digital Future, Textbooks Are History Textbooks have not gone the way of the scroll yet, but many educators say that it will not be long before [...]
