A new school is opening in New York for grades 6-12 that completely blows my mind. The Quest to Learn school combines games and complex systems in a way that pretty much would have made my life as a teenager. Hell, I wouldn’t mind going back to high school now if I got to go here. I’ll let them describe it:
Posts Tagged ‘Education’
A Middle/High School That Teaches Complex Systems Through Games??!
Posted in Complex Links, Education, Games, tagged Complex Links, Education, Games on June 11, 2009| 6 Comments »
Reinventing Liberal Arts Education
Posted in Alternative Institutions, Education, TED, tagged Alternative Institutions, Education, TED on June 1, 2009| Leave a Comment »
This was one of the most important and encouraging talks of this year’s TED conference:
Don’t Eat That Marshmallow!
Posted in Cognition, Education, Happiness, Incentives, Psychology, TED, tagged Cognition, Education, Happiness, Incentives, Psychology, TED on May 30, 2009| Leave a Comment »
Short but brilliant TED talk by Joachim de Posada. I love the economic point he makes at the end.
Is the ‘War on Drugs’ Ending?
Posted in Education, Government, Language, Society, tagged Education, Government, Language, Society on May 20, 2009| Leave a Comment »
A few short months ago, Hillary Clinton declared an end to the “war on terror.” Now, it appears as though the “war on drugs” is ending as well, or is it?
Decision Education Foundation
Posted in Alternative Institutions, Cognition, Education, Poker, tagged Alternative Institutions, Cognition, Education, Poker on March 31, 2009| 1 Comment »
On Saturday I attended a fundraiser poker tournament for non-profit organization called DEF (Decision Education Foundation). As it’s name implies, they are dedicated to helping individuals become better decision makers via the education system. Their strategy is multifaceted, but their core goal at the moment is to introduce decision making explicitly into the curricula of primary and secondary schools around the country. To do this, they first educate the educators on the components and process of making good decisions.
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Teaching Metacognition to 7th Graders
Posted in Alternative Institutions, Cognition, Education, Science, tagged Alternative Institutions, Cognition, Education, Science on February 3, 2009| Leave a Comment »
Gary Marcus says he’d like for there to be a course on metacognition for kids:
Call it “The Human Mind: A User’s Guide,” aimed at, say, seventh-graders. Instead of emphasizing facts, I’d expose students to the architecture of the mind, what it does well, and what it doesn’t. And most important, how to cope with its limitations, to consider evidence in a more balanced way, to be sensitive to biases in our reasoning, to make choices in ways that better suit our long-term goals.
What a brilliant and practical idea.
Anyone want to take a stab at a syllabus?
I May Have Been Wrong About Macroeconomics
Posted in Education, Government, Society, tagged Education, Government, Society on January 29, 2009| 3 Comments »
When I was an undergraduate studying macroeconomics, I came to the conclusion that it was pretty much total bullshit. Because I was in a co-terminal masters program, I was also studying graduate level decision theory, game theory, microeconomics, behavioral economics, and dynamic systems. In comparison, it seemed clear to me that macroeconomics was not a coherent study of a complex system.
Lately, Arnold Kling’s blog posts have been reinforcing this belief. However, we may both be wrong. Arnold studied and practiced macroeconomics in the late 1970s. Given the delay in propagating knowledge to the undergraduate level, that’s probably also what was taught in my late 1980s undergraduate textbook. However, Will Ambrosini observes that Arnold’s views are outdated and this is a problem with non-macro economists in general. He points to this essay and I find myself convinced that modern macroeconomics is a coherent study of a complex system.
I thought this might provide you some measure of comfort. If anyone wants me to summarize the particulars of why I changed my mind, let me know.
Dangerous Media, part 2
Posted in Culture, Education, Government, Media, Society, tagged Culture, Education, Government, Media, Society on May 1, 2008| 2 Comments »
I have talked about some of the dangerous aspects of main stream media in the past. Recently I was reading The Black Swan, in which the author argues that watching TV news, listening to news on the radio, and even reading newspapers actually makes you less informed (and dangerously so) than if you were to tune out completely.
TED Talks: Ken Robinson
Posted in Education, TED, tagged Education, TED on April 6, 2008| 1 Comment »
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