19. Quest to Learn : Imagination: Creating the Future of Education & Work 19. Quest to Learn Video: Katie Salen discusses Quest 2 Learn in a six part series on Big Think. Katie Salen recognizes that play is a profound part of the human experience. Salen is a game designer, interactive designer, animator, and design educator. She is the co-author of “Rules of Play: Game Design Fundamentals,” a textbook on game design, as well as the “Game Design Reader.” On April 6, 2010, the Village Voice reported on Quest to Learn in “Game Theory: A city school explores the educational power of playing and designing games.” In the class “Sports for the Mind,” students build their own video games using a program called Gamestar Mechanic that was designed by Salen. “Sports for the Mind” teacher Al Doyle says his class helps students learn “systems thinking,” to understand the relationship of parts to wholes. Critic Diane Ravitch, an education historian and NYU professor, was cited in the article.
Khan Academy Competitor? Mike Feerick of Alison.com Talks About The Future of Online Education By Paul Glader BERLIN — In the camp of free online learning, Irishman Mike Feerick believes his Alison.com has more to offer than the buzz-heavy Khan Academy. Feerick, a Harvard MBA and serial entrepreneur, has an impressive track record at several startups including his current project: Alison.com. WA – How did you first decide to become a social entrepreneur in the education space? MF – I’ve always been interested in social enterprise. WA – And how did Alison first start? MF – In 2005, I kind of had a Eureka moment. WA – And how much has it grown since then? MF – Zipping forward to today – 4 years later in April – we have just short of 300 courses online. WA – How are you different from the Khan Academy or other players in this space? MF — There are very few people doing what we’re doing. WA – How important is it for people to receive a degree at the end of their studies? MF – I see those colleges being demised longer term. MF – There may be disruption going on in this market place.
23 Tools To Brainwash and Influence People Through Media | Alterati ‘’till at last the child’s mind is these suggestions, and the sum of the suggestions is the child’s mind. And not the child’s mind only. The adult’s mind too all his life long. - Aldous Huxley, Brave New World The opinions and behaviors of people and societies are easily swayed. Now the power to rule the world and wag the cultural dog is at your fingertips. The 23 Tools: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. By sticking to these simple premises you should be able to produce entire societies capable of ending world hunger, but too selfish to care. Devon White specializes in PR for the brain, promoting integrity, responsibility and conscious evolution through online video and lecture-performances on sex. As a trained hypnotist, video podcaster, writer and teacher, he supports broadcasting which goes beyond simple stimulus-response conditioning to engage the intentional, participatory and evolutionary functions of the brain. Like this:
Transcripts » Show DON'T LECTURE ME Transcript Stephen Smith: From APM, American Public Media, this is an American RadioWorks documentary. College students spend a lot of time listening to lectures. Eric Mazur: At least until Guttenburg, the only valid approach to education was the lecture. But experts say the lecture has outlived its usefulness. Joe Redish: If all there is is lectures, we don't need faculty to do it. Research shows lecturing has never been effective. Tim Horn: We are giant guinea pigs in this huge experiment. Coming up: "Don't Lecture Me: Rethinking the Way College Students Learn" from American RadioWorks. Lee Friedman: Alright, so let's go ahead and start for today... Stephen Smith: It's just before 11 o'clock on a Tuesday morning and about 200 college students are settling down in a lecture hall for their chemistry class at the University of Maryland College Park. Friedman: Alright so last time we spent a lot of time talking about derivations and relating equations to each other.
Clean Up Your Mess - A Guide to Visual Design for Everyone 8 Principles For Disruptive Learning Environments I am finally giving in and writing my first list post, ugh! But I promise this not some shallow list designed for social media virality. I have been storing away notes and observations on this topic for quite some time. Many of these observations come from my personal experience over the past two years with crossfit – a program and community that is dramatically disrupting the health and fitness industries. Other observations derive from innovations in the start up community and social media. Learning By Doing & Incrementalism These two go hand in hand. Small moves, smartly made, can set big things in motion. The future of education will look much more like the prescriptions being developed by the start up community: experiment, test, evaluate, iterate. Coaching and Mentoring Replace Teaching The explicit information we all learned in school is ubiquitously available on the internet. Safe Failure Environments – Part 1 Too much fear of failure discourages participation and risk taking.
Kickstarter's Ultimate Success Story: Nano Wristbands Raise $1 Million | Co.Design It's the ultimate Kickstarter success story. Unable to secure a manufacturer, the Chicago-based designer Scott Wilson placed his TikTok and LunaTik wristbands -- which convert the Nano into a watch -- on the funding site. Within a month, he raised nearly $1 million from 13,500 backers -- a Kickstarter record. All of a sudden, retailers came calling, including the most prestigious of all: Apple, which is rolling out the wristbands in North American stores this week. "A lot of people just don't have the instincts to know whether it's going to sell, so they just don't want to gamble," Wilson says. 76% of Wilson's backers bought the Nano because of the watchband. The Kickstarter experiment proved them all wrong: Twice as many $79.95 LunaTiks, the bands with the premium aluminum case, were sold than the plastic $39.95 TikToks. As did another intriguing piece of data: In a survey sent to his backers, the designer asked, How many of you bought the Nano because of the watchband?
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