YakShaving

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

Tag: science

Making classes and education a little more STEAMy

{there is nothing NSFW about this post, but now that I have your attention…} In the past five years, much of our domestic discourse regarding education and education reform has revolved around STEM training, so that the US can manufacture more scientists, technologists, engineers and mathematicians. For a long time, I agreed with this predominant [...]

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 [...]