Topic / education

Comfort with Contradiction

Fostering a comfort with complex trade-offs.

Teaching Iteration

On teaching kids the process of continuous improvement,

Weekend Reading: American-Dream-as-a-Service, Content Marketing, the Fifth Column Reading List, and More

An interview with @austen, @lennysan on content, Earth from oblique, books of @wethefifth, and Microsoft's Power Fx.

What Universities Do

Comments on Mike Munger's model for the unique values of the university.

Weekend Reading: A New Web, Future of Higher Ed, and a Ford Concept Car

A clean start for the web, unbundling education, and a retro-future concept car.

Effortless Output in Roam

Version 2 of Nat Eliason's Roam Research course.

Weekend Reading: Timeful Texts, Sumo Startups, and Canva Backlinks

Matuschak and Nielsen on spaced repetition, Byrne Hobart's 'sumo startups', and Canva's backlink empire.

Progress Studies for Young Scholars

Roots of Progress launching a program for high school students.

Weekend Reading: Optionality, Pangaea, and Regulatory Disappointment

The trouble with optionality, modern day Pangaea, and when regulation goes wrong.

Things That Will Change

What will be different after the COVID crisis?

Weekend Reading: Brain MRI, Flash Cards, and Movie Maps

A 7 tesla brain MRI, Anki for flashcard learning, and Andrew DeGraff's Cinemaps.

Weekend Reading: Summer Solstice, Zoom Learnings, and TeachOSM

“Visualizing the summer solstice, Zoom performance at IPO, and the progress of TeachOSM.”

Weekend Reading: Human Leverage, Alan Kay, and Mapping the NBA

Rethinking the American High School

A study from Harvard looks at the effectiveness and structures of the highest-performing American high schools.

Flexible Education

Thoughts on flexibility and adaptability in public education.

A Series on Learning

“The introduction to a series on learning and education.”

Weekend Reading: Mastery Learning, Burundi’s Capital, and SRTM

Mastery learning, Burundi moving its capital, and tools for SRTM data.

Weekend Reading: Ubiquitous Computing, Versioning SQL, and Video Game Maps

An interview with Bret Victor, Eurogamer on video game maps, and tips on using git for SQL.

OpenStreetMap and TeachOSM

“Teaching teachers OpenStreetMap at Columbia University.”

Promoting GIS at Hunter College

“Attending the GIS career fair at CUNY Hunter.”

Weekend Reading: Forecasting, Raster CV, Free University Courses

Forecasting, raster analysis, and online courses.

Teaching OpenStreetMap

Attending the OSM mapathon during Geography2050 in November.

Building Complex Reasoning Skills Online Through Open-Ended Activities

A research paper by the Khan Academy on experimenting with open-ended learning systems for reasoning and rich feedback.

How the Economic Machine Works

A concise explanation of an economy.

Recent Links: Playing with Numbers, Logistics Networks, Vancouver Island

A Quick Guide for New Developers

Young people interested in learning how to code could learn a lot by starting with the smaller steps. Instead of diving immediately into learning node.js, or beginning with “Build Your Own Rails App in 15 Minutes” blog posts, focus your energy on some foundations that will be 100% useful in building your skills as an engineer.

Creating New Contributors to OpenStreetMap

What can the OSM community do to create a larger body of contributors, and get registered users to edit?