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Dr. Bo Stjerne Thomsen on The Future of LEGO Education
In this episode of the Getting Smart Podcast, we explore LEGOs exciting new venture into science education with their latest K-8 curriculum. Tom Vander Ark chats with Dr. Bo Stjerne Thomsen, head of LEGO Education, about how this innovative, inquiry-based learning approach is set to transform classrooms by integrating hands-on science experiences aligned with NGSS standards.
Getting Smart on Dallas School Visits
New learning models, tools, and strategies have made it easier to open small, nimble schooling models. The climate crisis is the most complex challenge mankind has ever faced. We’re covering what edleaders and educators can do about it. Focusing on how making a difference has emerged as one of the most powerful learning experiences. This campaign will serve as a road map to the new architecture for American schools. Pathways to citizenship, employment, economic mobility, and a purpose-driven life.
How to Successfully Incorporate AI Into Your Workflow
Creating a successful AI-based solution is different from regular software development because how it will operate in a real-world situation isn’t easily predicted. Development is an interactive process that requires extensive testing to ensure it will work well with a company’s existing workflow and deliver a worthwhile return on its investment. As such, effective implementation requires an iterative approach that usually takes more time, effort, and money than traditional software efforts.
How Can Executives Manage Rising Labor Costs?
Today, the item at the top of many executives’ lists is rising labor costs. To help employees stay afloat among increasing costs of living and keep them engaged, leaders are adjusting compensation. However, that leads to more business costs. So, how can company leaders manage their costs and invest in their talent? Business leaders are keeping an eye on rising labor costs. Although some might be burying their heads in the sand, most are facing the issue.
The REAL Value Of Your Work, The $20/hr. Trap
QUESTION- What is the value of 1 hour of your time? Today, we are covering a topic that I feel sometimes gets overlooked by most CEO’s and entrepreneurs. Not because it isn’t important, but because we get caught up in the shtuff that makes up our businesses or our job responsibilities. I want to talk about what VALUE you place on your job performance, and your time. I believe that each one of us wishes we had more time in our days.
Getting Smart on Approximately 400 Podcast Episodes
Green Schools The climate crisis is the most complex challenge mankind has ever faced. We’re covering what edleaders and educators can do about it. Invention Opportunity An exploration of new agreements, new practices, new tools and new opportunities with support from the Walton Family Foundation and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Do Lazier Summers Set Up Kids for Future Success?
Nanny Travel Tips By Katie Bugbee, Senior Managing Editor of Care.com Talk expectations. Is it the same hours, or would you like some early morning relief? Will there Read More » The Nanny Interview: 10 questions to Ask Hiring a nanny is and should be one of the most stressful and toughest decisions you will ever make.
Schools Alive With Possibility
Covid conditions (and politics) continue to preoccupy public schools in America. But four other trends (that also start with C) are emerging in K-12 education–trends that create hope and a sense of possibility. In the years leading up to and even in the midst of the pandemic, communities across the world adopted new learning goals that more fully express the knowledge, skills, and dispositions that contribute to purposeful citizenship.
Students as Coauthors of Learning: A Resources Guide
By inviting learners to coauthor experiences we help them build the most important skills and dispositions they’ll need to succeed in a changing world. Incorporating student voice and choice in learning design builds agency and promotes ownership of learning. “In our ever-changing and unpredictable world, learners need to master the skill of knowing what to do when they do not immediately know what to do.
Getting the Right Stepper or Servo Motor for Electric Actuators
As the shift to automation continues to gain momentum in the industrial sector, servo motors and stepper motors with electric actuators become ever more important. When selecting a motor for an application, it is the functions that are important, not necessarily the construction. Here’s a look at servo and stepper motors’ characteristics as they relate to linear motion. (Brushless DC motors will be considered servo motors for this article.) Torque vs.
Redesigning School: Six Key Pillars From Six of the Most Innovative Schools and Programs
In the midst of an unprecedented pandemic, everyone is scrambling to ‘re-imagine education.’ Home learning pods have surfaced to create smaller, tight-knit communities of learners. Hybrid programs have emerged to blur the lines between home and school. And new remote programs with innovative tech tools are being introduced worldwide to enable learning to take place anytime, anywhere.
Here’s how you haven’t been bringing your best self to work
Whether we’re leaders or not, most of us have some less-than-ideal traits and habits. Maybe we steamroll over others. Or we intimidate them with angry outbursts. Or we gossip. Or show off. Or get defensive when someone questions us. Or maybe we spend our days flying under the radar so we don’t have to leave our comfort zone. Yes, there’s a depressing (and endless) list of human frailties we could cite. It can be uncomfortable to look for them in ourselves.
Students with Disabilities Deserve LEGIT Solutions: Lightweight Evidence-Gathering Instruments and Tools
Young people with learning and attention issues are as full of potential as their peers and can achieve and contribute at the highest levels. But because most schools are designed with an almost exclusive focus on “average students,” students with disabilities too often do not receive adequate supports. As a result, they are much more likely to repeat a grade, get suspended, drop out, and take longer to earn a high school diploma.
Invention Opportunity | Getting Smart
The Future of Tech and Work Artificial Intelligence (AI) will have more influence on the lives and livelihoods of young people over the next few decades than any other factor. While AI will help address our most pressing problems, it has the potential to exacerbate gaps in society and pose existential threats. Our #AskAboutAI campaign investigates the implications that AI will have on employment, learning and ethical issues–a conversation around how we can shape a future that works for everyone.
How ‘human’ is your workplace? How can you improve it?
As the Digital Age advances and technology takes over more jobs, workers must get better at those “human” skills computers can’t do. They must excel at critical thinking, innovative thinking, collaborating and emotionally engaging with others in the creation and delivery of products and services. Most of all, one must excel at continuously learning…and unlearning…and relearning.
An MBA student’s toolkit for the smart machine age
My MBA students will soon enter an era of unbelievable opportunities and monumental challenges: the smart machine age, or SMA. I envy them.
By The Book
What is 30 days? It's 720 hours not that much time when you think about it. Now, consider having a daunting project hanging over your head that needs to be completed in this short period of time. In this case, time flies by like a week's vacation. This was the scenario staring Offset Paperback Manufacturing, Inc. (OPM) square in the eyes. The wholly owned subsidiary of Bertelsmann AG is the largest paperback book manufacturer in North America.
In the AI Age, “Being Smart” Will Mean Something Completely Different
Andrew Ng has likened artificial intelligence (AI) to electricity in that it will be as transformative for us as electricity was for our ancestors. I can only guess that electricity was mystifying, scary, and even shocking to them — just as AI will be to many of us. Credible scientists and research firms have predicted that the likely automation of service sectors and professional jobs in the United States will be more than 10 times as large as the number of manufacturing jobs automated to date.
Who Will Lead In The Smart Machine Age?
We are on the brink of a technology tsunami that will likely be as challenging and transformative for us as the Industrial Revolution was for our ancestors. This tsunami will be led by artificial intelligence (AI), increased global connectivity, the Internet of Things, major advances in computing power, and virtual and augmented reality.
The transformative impact of digital technology has only just begun. Beyond Big Data and global connectivity, we will see ‘The Internet of Things’, 3D manufacturing, smart robotics, artificial intelligence, and more. As these disruptors evolve they will profoundly affect how we do business and will demand a new model for leadership. The command and control model, designed for the Industrial Revolution to drive efficiency, standardization and reliability, is still largely prevalent today.
Technology For The Arts?
How would you like to take over a warehouse that was running at an unacceptable three-week backlog? Could you shorten that backlog to 48 hours and eliminate shipping errors? Chuck Inman, Jr., an independent information technology consultant, could - and did - for New York's Museum of Modern Art (MoMA).When the MoMA was founded, the trustees considered it vital that reproductions of artworks be available to the public.
Building Integrated Solutions
Heightened competition exists in almost every industry. Technology has emerged as one of the tools to help companies stay competitive and gain greater market share. Take Colonial Building Supply (Centerville, UT), for example.This building supply and home center store has implemented a number of technologies including point of sale (POS), automatic identification and data collection (AIDC), time and attendance, and accounting systems to improve its operations.
A Snapshot Of A Successful Warehouse Management System
Windsor, CO boasts one of only two Kodak manufacturing facilities in the United States. The manufacturing/warehousing complex encompasses over one million square feet. The warehouse operates 24-hours-a-day, seven-days-a-week. The facility receives and stores sensitized film rolls, sensitized paper rolls and other materials such as boxes, bags, and labels.
Have You Planned For Training?
Have You Planned For Training? Source: Field Technologies Magazine The warehouse manager looked at the bid proposal and saw that the hardware and software for an inventory tracking system would cost $3,000. The price seemed reasonable. However, he questioned the additional $800 dollars that was being charged to train his employees on the new system. After all, the training cost was more than 25% of the cost of the system.
In Today's Business Environment Learning Is Not Optional
Businesses generally adopt one of two business models: operational excellence or innovation. Operational excellence requires processes that produce reliable results 99% of the time. Operationally excellent companies stay great by constantly improving--by getting better, faster and/or cheaper through process changes or new processes, both of which require learning. Relentless improvement is key and that requires learning.
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