6 Things That Can Kill Your City's Startup Community Not every tech startup enjoys the luxury of launching in Silicon Valley — or Silicon Alley, or Austin, Texas, or another high-tech hotspot. What’s the solution? Instead of waiting for someone to offer a helping hand, or packing up the U-Haul and moving across the counryy, try taking the entrepreneurial approach and turning your home town into a high-tech startup community. Brad Feld author of Startup Communities: Building an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem in Your City, says it can be done. Feld, who has over 20 years of experience as both an entrepreneur and an early-stage investor, is a co-founder of tech accelerator TechStars and knows whereof he speaks. Too often, though, cities trying to build high-tech startup communities make one or more key mistakes that keep their plans from reaching fruition. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. See a common thread here?
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School 2.0: teachers will be liberated from the classroom This is a guest post by entrepreneur Miro Kazakoff Somewhere, this year, a university hired its last tenured professor. That’s because of the economic pressures on higher education. Next year, a university will hire its last faculty member expected to teach in a classroom. And that’s because of the technological pressures on higher education. Technology won’t kill university education any more than television killed radio, but it will transform it. To understand why the future won’t kill college, it helps to remember how technology has already transformed education. Content is approaching free, and we don’t need armies of faculty to curate it In the middle ages, getting “access to content” was a physical ordeal. The first European universities were created in those same middle-ages and still act as physical repositories of knowledge. Now you can combine a course list with a couple of searches for syllabi and assemble your own do-it-yourself Biomedical Engineering curriculum at home.
New Innovative Services in Next Decade: IPv8 services Always Prepped raises $650,000 from True Ventures, angels - Washington Business Journal Always Prepped, a startup that allows teachers to consolidate and visualize data from other e-learning platforms, has raised $650,000 in seed cash from True Ventures and angel investors. The product is aimed at K-12 teachers, and depends on the continued growth of technology in the classroom. Educators are adopting an increasing number of tools to supplement traditional learning including streaming lecture site Khan Academy and open-source grade-book Engrade. “Really, the idea is to make the data consumable,” said Always Prepped CEO Fahad Hassan. Both Hooman Radfar, chairman of McLean-based AddThis (formerly Clearspring) and former Blackboard executive Todd Gibby contributed to the company's seed round. Always Prepped released a beta version a few weeks ago. By the end of the year, he expects to integrate Always Prepped with as many as seven different national e-learning systems. Hassan is a serial entrepreneur, who founded the college social calendaring service Daylert in 2006.
How Might We Design for Behavior Change? Gifted Students Deserve More Opportunities In a country with more than 20,000 public high schools, we found just 165 of these schools, known as exam schools. They educate about 1 percent of students. Nineteen states have none. Only three big cities have more than five such schools (Los Angeles has zero). Almost all have far more qualified applicants than they can accommodate. Hence they practice very selective admission, turning away thousands of students who could benefit from what they have to offer. Join Michael Barbaro and “The Daily” team as they celebrate the students and teachers finishing a year like no other with a special live event. We built a list, surveyed the principals and visited 11 schools. Critics call them elitist, but we found the opposite. That’s not so surprising. They’re safe havens, too — schools where everyone focuses on teaching and learning, not maintaining order. With their support for school choice, Mr.
Noam Chomsky on Where Artificial Intelligence Went Wrong - Yarden Katz An extended conversation with the legendary linguist Graham Gordon Ramsay If one were to rank a list of civilization's greatest and most elusive intellectual challenges, the problem of "decoding" ourselves -- understanding the inner workings of our minds and our brains, and how the architecture of these elements is encoded in our genome -- would surely be at the top. Yet the diverse fields that took on this challenge, from philosophy and psychology to computer science and neuroscience, have been fraught with disagreement about the right approach. In 1956, the computer scientist John McCarthy coined the term "Artificial Intelligence" (AI) to describe the study of intelligence by implementing its essential features on a computer. Some of McCarthy's colleagues in neighboring departments, however, were more interested in how intelligence is implemented in humans (and other animals) first. Noam Chomsky, speaking in the symposium, wasn't so enthused. I want to start with a very basic question.