YakShaving

Yak•Shaving (noun) Any apparently useless activity which, by allowing you to overcome intermediate difficulties, allows you to solve a larger problem

Tag: learning

Bettr@ as the classroom of the future?

It’s funny that I just posted about the NYTimes being one of the few newspapers I read online. Especially when they have great content like this. Laptop? Check. Student Playlist? Check. Classroom of the Future? Check. …The program, conducted in a converted library, consists mainly of students working individually or in small groups on laptop [...]

Foundations for a new science of [informal] learning

You know… I don’t think it’s heretical to think that we’re building an app that has some serious mass appeal, while we think that our initial/early adopters will be highschool through Gen Y. Last week, Vince sent us this great study that validates our research about interest nets. There are some great little nuggets in [...]