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Nabeel S. Qureshi
My working thesis for the future of education is that the curation of cultures that support learning and growth is the main bottleneck right now, and scaling better cultures a promising path to give more people the opportunity to live fulfilling lives. As I wrote about in “AI tutors will be held back by culture,” most of the technical problems of p... See more
Henrik Karlsson • Can We Scale Cultures That Support Learning?
Now consider our current situation. Despite all the language professing otherwise, in general the education system of the United States is based entirely on genetic determinism. A child is born assumed to have innate traits, including, for example, a preference as to what they want to be when they grow up (somehow just waiting fully-formed inside o... See more
Erik Hoel • Why We Stopped Making Einsteins
If a lesson is obvious, there’s not much buzz in finally getting it because it was always fairly clear. If it’s a subtle idea hidden in the folds of some complex system, learning it might be a life-changing experience because it represents a unique epiphany hidden to most people. So the game designer’s challenge is to create game systems with layer
... See moreTynan Sylvester • Designing Games: A Guide to Engineering Experiences
the over two billion people who play video games regularly are primed for this kind of shift in education, especially younger generations, who grow up spending nearly as many hours playing video games as they do in a formal classroom.
Jane McGonigal • Imaginable: How to See the Future Coming and Feel Ready for Anything—Even Things That Seem Impossible Today
Our education system has a sort of built-in fun-to-learning ratio that gets smaller as the years go on, because many of the tools we use to teach core concepts are dated and static. There are a few “edutainment” products if kids are lucky enough to have the iPads or laptops to use them on, but not enough, and they’re plainly of a lower order than t... See more