The GSV Big 10: The Magic Kingdom
The GSV Big 10: The Magic Kingdom
Learning through magic, the skills you need for the future, teens reflect on video games...
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The Big 10:
🎙️ Ep 11 · Ed on the Edge | Becoming The Person You Needed Most As A Child: Drummond Money-Coutts | Dash Media
People are magic. Our good friend, Drummond Money-Coutts is the top magician in the world. To us, he is a modern Walt Disney. He wants to bring knowledge and joy to children through magic. Learning magic is more than just pulling a rabbit out of hat…it teaches math, communication skills, public speaking, and more. This is a great example of our Invisible Learning theme.
America Has Too Many Schools | WSJ
Demographic headwinds, a bad product, and growing alternatives creates a recipe for the possible extinction of large urban schools. Ironically, or maybe predictably, the demise does not have anything to do with money, as most of these schools have very high per-pupil budgets. Crisis is the mother of invention, and it creates an opportunity for innovators and heroes to come to the rescue.
Growth Mindset Teaching Helps Students Make The Grade | Texas McCombs School of Business
Stanford’s Carol Dweck has been incredibly impactful by preaching the gospel of the “growth mindset.” If anywhere this philosophy needs to be incorporated, it’s in schools and circumstances where heretofore the community has accepted mediocrity as the predestination. As Henry Ford said, “Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right.”
Skills For The Future | ETS (via @tvanderark on X)
Thank you to our friend Tom Vander Ark for sharing this from ETS. Broken out into three categories (Behavioral, Affective, Cognitive), the framework notably features collaboration, communication, civic engagement, creativity, critical thinking…5 out of our 7 Cs. While we would add character and cultural fluency to complete the list, this visual certainly outlines enduring skills that never go out of style, no matter what changes to the education system or the workforce may take place.
Google Releases New ‘Product Agnostic’ AI Course To Help With Workforce Upskilling | HR Brew
When the ducks are quacking, you feed them. There is an overwhelming demand for AI readiness courses. While we’re sure this is being done from the goodness of Google’s heart, we have a hunch that the company will benefit from its Google-branded “Product Agnostic” course.
College Grads Want Government Jobs | LinkedIn News
The circle of life…many years ago, working for the government was viewed as a prestigious job (and that is always the case in communist countries). Then, there was a shift to top grads wanting to join the largest companies (IBM, GE, GM) where they could be part of a well-known brand and receive a gold watch upon retirement. Then, the knowledge economy further shifted things to a point where students desired small, young companies where they could have influence and impact. The fact that US, Inc. continues to be a growth business,
printing money and being able to tax people relentlessly is a great business model. We suspect that this reality, combined with widespread RIFs in tech in recent years, is what drove this survey’s responses.
It’s easier for kids to eat candy vs. broccoli, and its definitely easier for them to watch TikToks rather than read books. Without restraints, that’s what the kids will do all day long. No sane parent would let their kids have ice cream for breakfast, cake for lunch, and licorice for dinner – and yet far too many are allowing them to consume the highly addictive social media. For young kids, TikTok is not only distracting, but harmful for development and requires guardrails, if not elimination.
Friendships, Problem-solving: How Video Games Are Helping U.S. Teens | Axios
Teens’ self-analysis on the effect of video games is obviously biased, but its still instructive. In reality, the negative things are probably more negative, and the positives are likely not as positive, but it paints a picture nonetheless. Nearly all teens – 97% of boys and 73% of girls – play video games. The games are here to stay, the key is figuring out how to make them far more positive while mitigating the negative effects. Cracking the gaming code will fuel for kids’ success and benefit society.
AI Is Officially Here, There, Everywhere, and Nowhere | Education Next
The AI Revolution is clearly upon us, and as with every revolution, there are casualties. But the inspiration that catalyzed it is as compelling as ever. The winners of the AI Revolution will be those who have a well thought-out battle plan (that can be adjusted based on field conditions and new learnings), are able to train the soldiers to be AI ready, and can provide the right ammunition in terms of tools and platforms that save teachers time and accelerate learning for students. AI is like AIR…it’s invisible, ubiquitous, and you’re going to need it to live.
Podcasting For Learning – And An Antidote For Screen Time? | Forbes
Marc Andreessen said that AirPods have personally impacted him more than any other technological invention in his lifetime. Why? Because they allow him to continuously learn in a friction-free manner – he can listen to a podcast while at the gym or a lecture during a walk through the park. In a world of infobesity, the best podcasts have a tremendous opportunity to enrich peoples’ knowledge and learning. Plus, the overwhelming majority of podcasts are free – they fit squarely into our invisible learning theme.
