Month: June 2017

  • Whats wrong with the one day training workshop?

    Medium’s The Higher Education Revolution just published my article on about this topic. I break down some of the short comings of intense training sessions and provide suggestions about how to improve the learning experience from the perspective of both students and teachers. Read the full post, just a five minute read, on Medium.

  • Overcome Hurdles to new Technology Adoption with On-Demand Training

    I just published an post on Medium about how to use technology and in particular on demand learning platforms- to enhance the speed and quality of new technology adoption in an organization. Often failure to either fully adopt or adopt a new technology or methodology lies initially in the process used to guide new users…

  • Technology: the way Forward for Modern Education

    Modern Luddites aside, most of us have accepted that technology is not going to go away; it is replacing the old technology we grew up with. It surrounds us and is an accepted part of modern life. Anyone entering high school now will have difficulty remembering a world without computers, gps, fablets, wearables and other…

  • LifeHack Labs: How to Listen to a Podcast so You Actually get Value from It

    If you listen to podcasts, you are probably doing it wrong. Well, you are doing it wrong if you want to maximize the value you can get out of it. Now if you are listening to a podcast for entertainment feel free to stop here. If you are using a podcast to educate yourself- read…

  • Reclaim Your Inner Scientist

    If you think Science is something done by a guy that looks like Albert Einstein in a lab coat, scratch that and look in a mirror. You were born and still are a scientist. Each of us is born with an innate ability to apply the scientific method. While we can argue nature versus nurture…

  • Resolve to Beat Down Procrastination

    There are things around the house that I repeatedly return to mentally. It might be a plant that needs trimming, toys that need mending, or a bill that needs to be paid. In some cases, like with the bill, a deadline will eventually spur me to action. In other cases, for want of a deadline…

  • Why how we Grade Students is Fundamentally Wrong.

    Video games build failure into the equation of success. It is part of the challenge and though it may not seem so, failure is carefully crafted into a game to make you realize that success is not being handed too you. Resetting is a low cost outcome, frustrating, but low cost and if the game…