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How AI highlights the flaws in grading
AI is going to make teachers work much harder. Not because ChatGPT is killing student’s thinking, but because the grading system killed thinking already. However, a quirk in how grades are assigned is the reason things are going to get worse if we don’t change. For subjects with a high degree of nuance like writing,…
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I have been thinking about education for 15 years
The other day I was digging through some notebooks in my drawer, and I realized how many of them had notes about education. Each page I flipped through warped my sense of time passing. Though some of them were 10 years old, the notes felt like they were written yesterday. Not because the ideas themselves…
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Positive negatives
We need a word for experiences that are positive, but their undertones are negative. The situation that happened to me feels a little like this: I discovered a new song on Spotify that resonated super deeply with me through my Discover Weekly. Looking at the two collaborating artists, I thought to myself “Who are these…
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The right thing to build
A new project looms. Questions arise in the mind of creator, “Should I begin building or is it a pointless endeavor?” The self-critic kicks in alongside the big dreams and visions of a better future, flaring up volcanic levels of dissonance in the mind. To avoid the burn, some friends and family are consulted. “What…
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A post-it a day, keeps the mediocrity away
Every time that you put an idea down on a post-it, you prove that you are on your way to becoming a designer. This incredible discovery is called design thinkolism. 100 post-its means you’re a designer. Every post-it after that counts towards special statuses such as Great designer, Mega designer, Ultra designer, Cosmic designer, and…
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Extend your startup runway by moving to Montreal
David Bennahum raised $3.2M for his startup Ready. That was enough for 18 months of runway in its home city, New York, but David moved to Montreal with his whole family and turned those 18 months of runway into 40 months. “We found Montreal to be the most undervalued startup ecosystem in North America” — David Bennahum…
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Rise of the technophilosopher
Our world is developing new technologies that are pushing the boundaries of morality and social norms, and we may see a resurgence of the humanities. Breakthrough technologies are bringing to light the need for deepening our understanding of philosophy. To cope with this, companies will designate it to a new job title, the technophilosopher. The…
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On modern creativity and cross-pollination
The current state of people attempting to become creative and productive is continuously reading more and more books on each respective topic. The problem with these texts is that the authors are typically much more well-read on a wide gamut of ideas, but only share the final learnings with the reader. Why do the authors…
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In the future, your degree won’t be from your university, but from your friend
Disclaimer: Neither District 3 nor myself endorse or hold shares, coins or tokens in any of the companies and blockchains discussed in this article. The blockchain could allow any individual to issue proof that another person can perform a skill. This can then be traced to see whether or not that person got hired for…
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Learning and nuance in a digital context
When technology came to the workplace, we asked ourselves “How do we increase productivity with digital tools?” When technology came to schools, we asked ourselves “How do we increase learning with digital tools?” When technology came to governments, we asked ourselves “How do we increase control with digital tools?” When technology came to our personal…
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Classroom 3.0 is not online lectures, it’s decentralized blended learning communities
MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) like Udacity or Coursera have liberated lectures from the confines of the lecture hall, but that alone isn’t enough to revolutionize education. Think of online lectures as Classroom 2.0: it was the dawn of the internet, every individual had access to information, and as a result Classroom 2.0 was built…
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Empower Learning Through Playing with Open Data
Data analysis is used effectively in businesses to help them learn about their past mistakes and make better future decisions, yet this powerful reflection tool is severely under-utilized in learning experiences. This isn’t the first case of technology being better applied in an industry than in education, but it’s more pertinent than it’s ever been.…