Tag: District 3

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.…

Quite often, the problem with tools and workshops that promise to develop your “creativity” or “design thinking” is that they get boiled down to something methodical and prescriptive. The explosion in popularity for these frameworks comes from our expectation that future generations and work environments will be cross-disciplinary, collaborative, and elusively “innovative”. This has resulted…

Entrepreneurship has never been more popular, yet somehow there seems to be more confusion than ever on what it takes to make a good entrepreneur. Here, in the city of Montreal alone, the talk of incubators, next generation universities, innovation-driven curriculum, and government grants and funding, is at an all time high. There’s a race…

To this day, millions of students still walk into a university with the hope that their degree will not only get them a job, but will prepare them sufficiently for it. The common realizations post-graduation tend to be: Finding jobs that are up to your qualifications is incredibly hard Once you’ve gotten a job, even…

Sitting in the StartUp Canada Awards #StartupCanAwards event in Montreal, it’s hard not to feel proud of the cold, northern country that could. The pride isn’t necessarily directed at the actual achievements, but rather at the way those achievements are celebrated. Whether or not the victories are objectively big or small, the event is carried…