Great melding of words and images about a remarkable program and its remarkable students. I’m not an educator, but if I were, I’d be paying close attention to the model of the Crucible.
Cam CloutierSep 15, 20151 min read
For Silicon Valley Hopefuls, Is College Irrelevant?
Kathryn Joyce
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Talk of “fixing” higher education continues to take place within the same framework. No one wants to even talk about if that framework is appropriate or not. It goes unquestioned. The framework is vocational. Education has become vocational. The idea that one learns in order to begin a career has always existed through apprenticeships and technical…
Forging and Welding an Education
Peter Willhoite
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Good to see the maker side of education is making a bit of a comeback after years (decades)of slashing art, music and other maker programs. Would love to see way more public funding going to these types of educational experiences. Can’t replace the valuable lessons these students are learning through hands-on experiences like this.
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Mikala Streeter
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Wonderful piece. I especially love the Herb Simon quote. I’d like to paint it backwards on my forehead for all the times I face teachers who feel like they just can’t give up the ‘force fed duck’ approach and still succeed. Thank you.
Karen KilbaneOct 10, 20152 min read
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Skylar L. Primm
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This essay overwhelms me. It overwhelms me with how powerful this learning method is. And it overwhelms me to know how easily any child across the country could develop skills and confidence about their skills in non-punishing, enriching environments.
Steven LevySep 15, 20151 min read
For Silicon Valley Hopefuls, Is College Irrelevant?
Kathryn Joyce
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I’m impressed and fascinated by Desai and Rossmann’s effort. You could say that they’ve disrupted computer science departments in the same way that iTunes disrupted the music industry — you only have to pay for the good stuff! (Of course, one can argue that we’ll wind up paying more more subtly when the “deep cuts” of education wind up as collateral…
Tim BoydenSep 15, 20151 min read
For Silicon Valley Hopefuls, Is College Irrelevant?
Kathryn Joyce
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There’s a few take aways from this article. The first, that yes, manufacturing, whether it’s creating a new physical product, or a virtual product as in an application, is important to the growth of our economy. Second, learning by doing is always more of an effective learning tool than standard lecture-based education. That is why vocational…
