Cut the curriculum — from willrichardson.com by Will Richardson Excerpt: Here’s an idea: A Minimal Viable Curriculum (MVC). That’s what Christian Talbot over at Basecamp is […]
Training the workforce of the future: Education in America will need to adapt to prepare students for the next generation of jobs – including ‘data […]
The world is changing. Here’s how companies must adapt. — from weforum.org by Joe Kaeser, President and Chief Executive Officer, Siemens AG Excerpts (emphasis DSC): Although […]
The Top 20 Education Next Articles of 2018 — from educationnext.org Excerpt: Every December, Education Next releases a list of the most popular articles we published over the course […]
Modern Learners 2018 Provocation of the Year — from modernlearners.com by Bruce Dixon Excerpt: In this context, provocation is therefore about deconstructing meanings and hidden […]
From DSC: First of all, an excerpt from an email from RetrievalPractice.org: Last week, we talked about an activity we call Flash Forward. Simply ask your […]
Teachers urged to instill assignments with ‘choice and relevancy’ — from thejournal.com by Dian Schaffhauser Excerpt (emphasis DSC): A new report from the Education Trust looks at the role […]
From DSC: I agree with futurist Thomas Frey: “I’ve been predicting that by 2030 the largest company on the internet is going to be an […]
Affordable and at-scale — from insidehighered.com by Ray Schroeder Affordable degrees at scale have arrived. The momentum behind this movement is undeniable, and its impact […]
Inside Amazon’s artificial intelligence flywheel — from wired.com by Steven Levy How deep learning came to power Alexa, Amazon Web Services, and nearly every other […]
U.S. students spend more time working paid jobs than going to class — from bloomberg.com by Riley Griffin Facing mounting debt, U.S. college students spend double the […]
What K-12 and higher education can learn from each other — from edweek.org by Ethan Ake-Little Excerpts: In 1952, three prep schools—the Lawrenceville School, Phillips Academy, […]
