April 2009

5 Tips to Lean Towards Lifelong Learning

April 29, 2009

The following is a guest post from Katie Wilson. It’s an understatement to say that the human brain is a complicated mass of neurons and connections that is hard to comprehend. What we can understand though is the concept of plasticity, the fact that the brain can be taught nearly anything with the right amount [...]

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All There is to Learn, Cont.

April 28, 2009

Several posts back, under the influence of having seen Dan Roam speak at an ASAE conference, I mused about facing up to all there is to learn and posted the following image: As Mission to Learn approaches its second anniversary (hard to believe!), one of the things I am thinking about is how to carry [...]

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Learning Games: Energy, Floods, and Social Reality

April 14, 2009

It’s been a while since I posted about learning games. Here are three serious, educational games that have come onto my radar screen lately: Akoha Described as “the world’s first social reality game,” Akoha awards players points for completing real-world “missions” that are distributed via decks of cards that players purchase from Akoha for $5 [...]

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Learning in Context – From the Bottom Up

April 9, 2009

I’m getting close to finishing up The Blue Sweater by Jaqueline Novogratz, a personal memoir in which Novogratz tells the story of the journey from her “first stumbling efforts as a young idealist venturing forth in Africa” to the creation of the Acumen Fund, the philanthropic venture capital firm she runs today. Along the way [...]

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Podcast with Mindbites’ Jason Reneau

April 6, 2009

Nearly two years ago a friend introduced me to Jason Reneau, who at the time was in the process of getting his new company, MindBites, off the ground. Since then, I’ve watched as MindBites and a number of other “teach-learn-share” sites, as I tend to think of them, have sprouted and grown. Some of these [...]

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