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

Tag: teaching

Why do people quit getting better at something?

I feel like I quote Kottke a lot lately, but there’s been a lot lately that’s relevant to BetterAt. This latest one is a short video by Ira Glass on Storytelling. Kottke even pulled out the most salient quote: Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us [...]

Teach for America federal spending cut

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 [...]

It’s not the future of “education”… it’s the future of “learning”, and yes there’s a difference

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 [...]

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