It’s called a “lunch and learn” not a “lunch and lame.” These five tips can keep your lunch and learn from growing stale by providing employees with an experience they value and fuels their passions and creativity.
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In a recent webinar, “Digital Leaning Evolves to Meet the Future of Work,” edtech experts Michael Drezek and Jaime Donally dove into the means by which teachers, individuals and institutions can utilize technology to enhance the learning experience and take advantage of the ever-shifting labor market.
Read MoreIn shock rocker Alice Cooper's 1971 hit "School's Out," he raucously proclaims that "school's out for summer" before declaring that "school's out forever!" To be freed of school and live, in Cooper's words, with "no more pencils, no more books," was just about every student's dream. We eagerly anticipated graduating from high school or college and leaving learning behind. For good. And that's mostly what happened with a lot of us. Though students today may still dream of school-less days, they shouldn't. No one should. It's a self-defeating and dignity-robbing wish. These days, for our own good, our collective proclamation should be: "School's in… forever!"
Read MoreJust over one year ago, the 9 Billion Schools movement premiered at SXSWedu. Now, we're excited to create the 9 Billion Schools Institute, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit.
Read MoreFor each and every person to truly flourish in life, they must commit to L3 Learning, or learning that is life-long, life-wide and life-deep. With this week’s launch of 9 Billion Schools: Why the World Needs Personalized, Lifelong Learning for All, we’ve presented a roadmap to engage L3 Learning. We’ve shared arguments and examples on a variety of topics such as:
Read MoreToday, the 9 Billion Schools Institute takes the next step in its mission to realize a world where personalized, lifelong learning is available to every person with the launch of 9 Billion Schools: Why the World Needs Personalized, Lifelong Learning for All.
Read MoreAcademics are the way in which we organize learning into a system that can be measured, validated and repeated generation by generation. It’s in the academic world, starting in preschool and continuing through university, where we learn how to learn. It’s where we first start to explore subjects, question narratives, find limits and determine how we can push them.
Read MoreWorkplace learning and L3 Learning go hand-in-hand, but for on-the-job learning to be life-long, life-wide, and life-deep, it has to be presented in a way win which employees have both a desire and an ability to engage with the content.
Read MoreYou may hear the word “imagination” and associate it with made-up things like unicorns and children making stuffed animals talk. While that is a fair affiliation, it is important to point out that engaging your imagination can also be a practical exercise; something we believe more adults should do.
Read MoreMany would agree that the underlying purpose of a school and all of its activities is to develop children as learners who are interested in the process of learning. But many people don’t realize that imagination plays an integral role in both the enjoyment and richness of education, and should be incorporated more often.
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