I’ve been saying for a long LONG time now that education is past due for a serious overhaul, and Khan Academy has been the front-runner in the race for education’s future. For those not familiar, Khan Academy started out as a series of YouTube videos that one teacher did to help struggling kids in his [...]
A brilliant computer scientist recently demolished his competition on popular U.S. game show “Jeopardy” in a new and interesting way. He compiled a database of Jeopardy questions and looked for patterns in the data, singled out the most important (and profitable) topics, tested his knowledge on those topics and used the resulting data to target [...]
So StumbleUpon brought me to this awesome InfoGraphic, and since it fits the theme of the site I thought I’d share it with you all. I’m aware that this is a sad excuse for a post and doesn’t excuse me from writing one today. I just thought I’d throw it out there before I got [...]
Something is happening in the world today that is absolutely blowing my mind. It reaffirms things that I’ve believed for years about education and the nature of the internet and I’d like to share it with you. The news has been talking a lot lately about the Stanford AI class being offered for free over the [...]
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