by Jeff Ritter | Jul 27, 2020 | New Education Models
“Will I really need to know about artificial intelligence? I just want to get a job, not be a computer geek.” Somebody said this in the past 5 seconds somewhere, any time, day or night. Maybe it was a teacher lecturing in a virtual classroom, or a parent...
by Jeff Ritter | Jul 23, 2020 | Gap Years, New Education Models, Skill Building
I don’t want to be the first one to say that Boost by Kaplan looks like indoctrination to the corporate-speak, drone world of yesterday’s mega corporations – you know, the ones ruining the world? – but maybe I will be. If I was 17, 18, or 33,...
by Jeff Ritter | Jul 22, 2020 | Gap Years, New Education Models
In the old days (last year), teaching was a noble thing. Still respected by a large swath of society, and expected by university students, a lecture to crowd of bleary eyed 19 yr olds with laptop computers in front of them was a valid way to make a living and still a...
by Jeff Ritter | Jul 15, 2020 | New Education Models
It’s not for nothing that The Structure of Scientific Revolutions is in every university bookstore. “Paradigm shift” was the “outside of the box” of its time and will still be with us when the “outside of the box”...
by Jeff Ritter | Jul 13, 2020 | Career Exploration
I know you are hoping for an anti-government screed about intrusion, listening posts, black helicopters, and Amazon listening devices connected to NSA data banks, but, no this is a different question. Can the government make decent videos about what different careers...
