Here’s a cool tool: it’s a comprehensive learning environment purpose-built by educators to provide a superior learning experience and drive strong learner outcomes in higher education. It’s called Engageli, and with built-in research-based pedagogy and data-driven learner engagement, universities and organizations can improve the learning experience and users can create more meaningful connections. Founded in 2020 by Dan Avida (see interview here), a serial entrepreneur with over three decades of tech experience, his wife Daphne Koller, former Stanford professor and Coursera co-founder, and Serge Plotkin, emeritus computer science professor at Stanford, the platform is optimized to make it easy for in-person, remote, blended, synchronous, and asynchronous learners to seamlessly learn together. Unique among online learning platforms, their classroom has learners...
Bionic Reading is a new method that, through the simplest tweak, can dramatically boost your reading speed. At the same time, it may also assist in comprehension and recollection due to how our brain works.
It was a shared passion for traditional Japanese and mid-century modern architecture that drove the inspiration behind the design of Wabi Sabi House. The family home, located 3.6 kilometres east of Melbourne’s central business district in Hawthorn, is adjacent to a leafy park and overlooks the Yarra River. Five years in planning gave Stuart Holmes Architect and his wife an intimate understanding of the plot, its relationship to the environment and the opportunities it could yield. Connecting to the stunning natural surrounds was an early consideration of the design narrative, which is now articulated through the lived experience of the finished home.According to Holmes, there is a limited palette of materials which has been used according to a reasonably strict set of design rules. The cohesiveness this...
Kids start building life skills and coping strategies pretty much from birth, with each new developmental milestone laying the foundation for the next, as they learn how to relate to others and to problem-solve in evermore complex ways. As they get older and start school, kids learn reading, writing, and arithmetic. But what are the other essential life skills to teach kids?There are all sorts of life skills for kids – some basic, some fairly complex — that require mastery in order to have the sort of social, emotional and practical wherewithal to be good at life. According to child-development experts, career planners and business leaders, here’s where to start to ensure your kids are well-prepared for whatever (and whoever)...
It may be common etiquette to not spoil the end of a film, but Ron Howard learned years ago on “Apollo 13” that knowing the outcome of a story is different from knowing the story itself. And though the 2018 rescue of the Thai boys’ soccer team and their coach is considerably fresher in our collective memories, Howard saw in it a similar opportunity. “You may know on a headline basis that things worked out well, but you don’t know what kind of personal struggles may be in store for the key characters,” Howard said. “Through dramatization, through good acting and scenes and moviemaking, you begin to connect emotionally with the characters in a way that you just can’t with...
