Tag: #Import 2024-09-24 14:50

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…

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…

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…