Below is all of my content that has been tagged with the term learning. Browsing it should be very exciting for you. Enjoy.
I'm M. Jackson Wilkinson, a technologist, designer, speaker, educator, and writer in San Francisco. I'm the CEO and Founder of WeSprout, which is coming soon. I'm from Philadelphia, went to Bowdoin College in Maine, root for the Phillies, and love to sing.
My former colleague, David Eisinger:
…it hit me: I would spend a month trying a new technology every day, and then share my experiences in Chicago.
It’s super important to think about how to learn new things, prevent stagnation, etc. If you want the cliff’s notes version of what David found, check out the Tumblr site, which has nice brief rundowns for each. Good stuff, even though the site should have been on Posterous ;)
It’s not necessarily about statistics, it’s just the basics of doing any kind of decent analysis.
A great resource for those whose feet are wet, and are looking for a good way to dive a bit deeper.
Exciting concept: the United Nations is funding and sponsoring the newly-launched University of the People, an online university that is nearly free. Students from over fifty countries have already enrolled into programs in business administration and computer science.
The only charge to students is a $15 to $50 admission fee, depending on their country of origin, and a processing fee for every test ranging from $10 to $100. For the University to sustain its operation, it needs 15,000 students and $6 million, of which Mr. Reshef [the university’s founder] has donated $1 million of his own money.
There are good and bad things about this concept in my opinion — the second-class status of the liberal arts falling on the bad side — but I’m eager to see a program like this succeed.
A somewhat poorly-reposted article by Mary-Elaine Jacobsen turns the spotlight on gifted young adults, just making their way into the workplace:
In the workplace, being bright can quickly backfire if one is placed on the proverbial misfit list and exceptional talents can be locked down in organizational politics.
and:
They yearn to live out the promise of high potential. However, the transition from full-time learner to full-time worker can engender deep disappointment instead of the anticipated coming-of-age exhilaration.
Lots of other worthy bits here, scattered about. Worth wading through if you are, or work with, gifted folks.
Learning curves, advanced features, and powerful interfaces are things we on the web should be embracing, not fearing. Design for both the beginner and the expert.
If you’re getting your web design insight from the same people as you were a year ago, you might be getting caught in homogeneity. Get unstuck.