I’m following you on Twitter, and I’ve been reading your blog on Inc. for the past few months. Today, I read your post about personal branding. It got me thinking, what I am really doing here on social media and does someone like me even need a personal brand? It’s not like I’m a senior executive or some hot shot entrepreneur. I consider myself to be a low-level employee that advanced past entry-level but then kind of got stuck.
Twenty years ago were teachers talking about their brand? Probably not, even though to their students they had a brand, if only through reputation. Nowadays, teaching is a more visible occupation, especially when you add social media.
On the one hand, it might seem like laptops have improved the classroom experience. Everything is in one spot, you can back up your notes, typing doesn’t hurt your hands as much, and you could argue that you use less paper[1]. But do you learn more? Both students and teachers can benefit from a bunch of new psychology…
Serious people sometimes make silly predictions. Source: The Future of Education Will Never Arrive History is littered with failed experiments, but these failures are what have brought us the world we have today. Cynicism aside, computers will get better at understanding people, and when that happens, who knows what will happen. To get an…
In a world where accusations of “fake news” are thrown around essentially at random, critical thinking would seem to be a must. But this is also a world where the Moon landings are viewed as a conspiracy and people voice serious doubts about the Earth’s roundness. Critical thinking appears to be in short supply at…
The news last fall that stents inserted in patients with heart disease to keep arteries open work no better than a placebo ought to be shocking. Each year, hundreds of thousands of American patients receive stents for the relief of chest pain, and the cost of the procedure ranges from $11,000 to $41,000 in US…
“But that’s not what I meant” There’s no more urgent reason to write. Source: Seth’s Blog: “But that’s not what I meant” Seth Godin is the master at putting complex thoughts and idea in the minimum number of words.
As a previous math teacher, I have a soft spot for the pains teachers and students can feel when trying to use math symbols and expressions in technology. The same thing can be said in science when typing chemical formulas. Technology seems to play best with normal letters and numbers, rather than exponents, subscripts, fractions, and such. Although…
