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Teaching tomorrow | The Economist
Mr Thrun now believes that education is the best way to tackle the big upheavals that are likely to spring from the widespread adoption of artificial intelligence and robotics. But not education as you might know it. “We are still living with an educational system that was developed in the 1800s and 1900s,” he says. “Needs have shifted in the modern age and what’s also shifted is our ability to use digital media. We can now deliver a top-notch education at home in a way that was never possible before.”
HT Rodney Drinkard
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Mr Thrun insists that nanodegrees are distinct from massive open online courses (MOOCs), the digital lecture series which are now offered by many higher educational institutions. Udacity analyses individual students’ learning data (using AI) in an attempt to increase their retention and completion rates. “We effectively reverse-engineer the human learning brain to find out what it means for a person to engage,” says Mr Thrun. “It’s my dream to make learning as addictive as a video game.”
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Depending on their complexity, nanodegrees are designed to take just 4-12 months to complete. Shorter courses like these are appropriate for today’s high-paced workplace, says Mr Thrun.
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If you only spend six months on your first degree, as opposed to the average six years for a bachelor’s degree today, you can afford to get more education when you need it again later on.”
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The Ultimate Guide to Learning Anything Faster — Rype Academy — Medium
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Re-Building the K-12 Operating System | The Transforming Teaching Project
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30 Questions to Ask Your Kid Instead of “How Was Your Day?” — The Synapse — Medium
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10 young entrepreneurs who didn’t let age hold them back
HT @NathanVigil
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The 30 second habit with a lifelong impact — STARTUPS + WANDERLUST + LIFE HACKING — Medium
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The Case for Teaching Ignorance – The New York Times
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She wanted her students to recognize the limits of knowledge and to appreciate that questions often deserve as much attention as answers.
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in recent years scholars have made a convincing case that focusing on uncertainty can foster latent curiosity, while emphasizing clarity can convey a warped understanding of knowledge.
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Discovery is not the neat and linear process many students imagine, but usually involves, in Dr. Firestein’s phrasing, “feeling around in dark rooms, bumping into unidentifiable things, looking for barely perceptible phantoms.”
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Michael Smithson, a social scientist at Australian National University who co-taught an online course on ignorance this summer, uses this analogy: The larger the island of knowledge grows, the longer the shoreline — where knowledge meets ignorance — extends. The more we know, the more we can ask. Questions don’t give way to answers so much as the two proliferate together. Answers breed questions. Curiosity isn’t merely a static disposition but rather a passion of the mind that is ceaselessly earned and nurtured.
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Why It’s Imperative to Teach Entrepreneurship | Psychology Today
Entrepreneurship can be taught using a similar scaffolding of skills, building upon our natural ability to imagine:
– Imagination is envisioning things that don’t exist.
– Creativity is applying imagination to address a challenge.
– Innovation is applying creativity to generate unique solutions.
– Entrepreneurship is applying innovations, scaling the ideas by inspiring others’ imagination.
Using this framework, educators at all levels can help young people engage with the world around them and envision what might be different; experiment with creative solutions to the problems they encounter; hone their ability to reframe problems in order to come up with unique ideas; and then work persistently to scale their ideas by inspiring others to support their effort.
HT @MeghanCureton
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HT Thomas Steele-Maley
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The Rise Of The Intrapreneur | Fast Company | Business + Innovation
HT Pam Ambler
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But like a growing number of employees called intrapreneurs, he chose to start something new in his existing company and innovate from within.
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This isn’t employees trying to do better at their existing jobs or move up the ladder; this is them wanting to create something new that doesn’t currently exist.
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“We would create these safe spaces for intrapreneurs to come together and share their stories about working in the corporate world because they are going against the grain so often.”
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millennials want things companies aren’t currently giving them: autonomy, creativity, and meaning. But if companies give their talent something to focus on, projects to own, they will stay and help their company move forward.
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“You have to reprogram these goliath organizations and make their cultures be more future friendly—that’s the role of the intrapreneurs.”
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The future belongs to individuals and companies who embrace the entrepreneurial spirit, whether that is inside or outside a company
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fundamental question is what is going to have people get motivated and inspired to be in their highest contribution. What is going to get you fired up to do what you came here to do? And I think the more that all of us are asking those questions and engaging in those opportunities, the better we are all going to be.”
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