Tag: Education

  • When we teach we learn

    Just as they did in 2007 with storytelling, do organizations today have the opportunity to create trustful refuges, especially when it comes to making decisions around technologies and larger trends? The past year has only underlined the connection between a global crisis, the adoption of technologies to manage this crisis, and the social upheaval it…

  • Learning and work are becoming inseparable in the knowledge economy: what it means for professionals

    People will need to learn constantly and increase their skills. It is no longer reasonable to expect that a large upfront investment in schooling will pay back over a lifetime. The economy and technology now change too quickly for students to keep up: a computer language learned in a four-year degree programme might be obsolete…

  • Get on with it: notes from a learning revolution-in-progress at SXSW Edu

    Although we hosted TEDx Seattle in 2010, I don’t regularly seek out TED talks. However, here at SXSW Edu, Sugata Mitra’s Build a School in the Cloud from earlier this month was mentioned as “must-view” on multiple occasions. On top of that, he won the TED prize for his concept of the Self Organizing Learning…