Changing Learning: The Making of the Learning Genome Project
|Posted originally on Dreams of Education on October 29, 2012| I come from a family of entrepreneurs. If it doesn’t exist or it can be done better, that is what you do. This mind-set can be a bit of a curse…once I get an idea in my head, it is like a broken record that plays over and over until I do something about it. My dad is prime example of this, he started Koostik with a styrofoam cup and an iPhone. Once the idea was there, it stayed until he saw it realized…in this
Operation Customized Learning: The Learning Genome Project
|Posted originally on Dreams of Education on February 19, 2011| “We have organized schools not by how kids learn, they have been organized by an easy way to teach.” -Daggett In September I mentioned a “hunch” I was having about education and learning. Since September I have fleshed out that hunch into a business model, prototype, and wireframe and am currently working with a team of programmers to make it a reality. Last night I presented this idea at the House of Genius an


When Hunches Collide
|Posted originally on Dreams of Education September 28, 2010| Lately I have had the overwhelming feeling that education is on the brink of something big. Something that will so dramatically change the way that we think about school and learning that we may hardly recognize it as being such. I feel like I am on the brink of something big within my own thinking, but it is like I can’t quite grasp it. It is elusive like the word that is just on the tip of your tongue. More a