As the calendar rolls deeper into December people often like to say ‘I’ve learned a lot this year‘. Whilst probably true, we don’t often think about exactly what we’re we referring to. Here are a few of the things I’ve noticed in myself this year. Note: Rather than taking lots…
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Tickets Podcast: Duolingo’s Laura Nestler on growing global communities
Listen now:Apple Podcasts | Castbox | Overcast | Spotify | Stitcher | Acast | Google Play It’s that app with the owl. That app where you can instantly start learning anything from Spanish to Swahili, Hebrew to Hawaiian. But what’s behind the enormous success of Duolingo, the language learning app…
The rise of Edutainment
Education as business development (and beyond), teachers becoming more than just the new DJs, and the foundations of a big shift that’s here to stay. At the start of 2018 I drafted an article entitled ‘Education is the new business development’. It sat in my draft posts folder for…
5 lessons from a day with 300 next-generation creatives
Welcome to ERIC (via @ericfestival on Instagram) Last Sunday I attended a careers fair. The last time I did this was in 2004. It was rubbish. I still remember some of the things that made it such a bad experience: The stuffy sports hall with overpowering strip lighting. Enforced wearing…