Education and success
my thoughts exactly.
Skillshare seeking Advertising teachers in NYC, Boston, SF
As part of a bigger initiative to give back to the NY tech community, we’re launching an Advertising Semester for NYC beginning in June. (Check out the Design Semester we launched last month). We’re also encouraging teachers to donate proceeds to Pencils of Promise, which builds real-world schools to serve some of the 67 million children currently without access to education.
If you work in Advertising, we’d like you to teach or recommend someone else to teach one of the topics below (feel free to suggest topics you think we are missing).
Advertising classes we want teachers for:
Account Planning/Strategy
Art Direction
Copywriting
Building Brand Strategies
Communications Strategy
Building your Portfolio
Exploring the Creative Process
Digital Campaigns
Getting a job in Advertising
Leadership for Creative Professionals
Presentation Skills and Pitch Strategy
Non-Traditional Campaigns and Grassroots Campaigns
Institutionalizing Innovation in your Agency
Getting Creative with Research
Not a trained teacher? Not to worry! The Skillshare team will help in making everything as easy as possible for you. To teach or recommend someone, email us here. Please include your name, the city you’ll be teaching in, and the topic you’d like to cover.
If we are to be successful as educators, than how we teach kids better involve a way for them to learn outside the classroom. No student should be limited by the content knowledge of their teacher.
Education Innovation Report
Bringing About Innovation: Where To Start? (Huffington Post)
How do we inject excitement into the learning process so that our students fall back in love with it? This piece focuses on the need to reinvent the current education model with cultural “programming” about education and finding a way to make the act of learning more enjoyable.
II. The Solution
Children as Teachers in Public Education? (Examiner)
The emphasis of this Montgomery County Public school is collaborative learning. Students are divided into multiple groups that work independently, with the teacher dealing with small groups. The goal is to allow students the opportunity to learn from each other to increase student learning and social-emotional outcomes in the future.
II. The Solution
Children as Teachers in Public Education? (Examiner)
The emphasis of this Montgomery County Public school is collaborative learning. Students are divided into multiple groups that work independently, with the teacher dealing with small groups. The goal is to allow students the opportunity to learn from each other to increase student learning and social-emotional outcomes in the future.
Leading consultancy Booz & Company identifies three imperatives for lasting and successful change within the educational sector over the past decade: globalization, new technology, and changing social patterns. The study’s main finding was that reform initiatives often fail during implementation due to lack of communication and collaboration between policymakers and educational stakeholders.
DIY Learning (O’Reilly Radar)
We’re beginning to see what is possible when learners own their own education. Marie Bjerede examines the DIY ethic and how it is leading us down to a path of personalized learning.
Insight from others:
Learning to Program at Age 30 (personal blog)
Stephen Chapman discusses how he approached learning to program at age 30. The main takeaway: You’re never too old to learn!
DIY Learning (O’Reilly Radar)
We’re beginning to see what is possible when learners own their own education. Marie Bjerede examines the DIY ethic and how it is leading us down to a path of personalized learning.
Insight from others:
Learning to Program at Age 30 (personal blog)
Stephen Chapman discusses how he approached learning to program at age 30. The main takeaway: You’re never too old to learn!
Skillshare + Pencils of Promise = The School of PoP
We’re excited to announce that we’re launching The School of PoP to raise $25k for Pencils of Promise! Pencils of Promise is a global movement that builds schools in the developing world. In just over three years, PoP has built 50 schools across Laos, Nicaragua and Guatemala and plans to break ground on their 100th school by the end of 2012. We’re teaming up to build a School on Skillshare to fund a real world School in Guatemala for children currently without access to education.
Whether you’ve taught a class before or not we’re inviting you to join us in teaching-for-a-cause. Think of it like running a marathon for charity, 2.0!
To get involved, post a new class or designate a class currently listed to be donated to Pencils of Promise. (See full instructions below!). Once designated, a blue charity ribbon will appear in the description on your class page to signal to students that 100% of the ticket price they pay will be donated to Pencils of Promise. Your class will also appear in The School of PoP.
You can check out what this looks like live on a class page, here.
Join us!
- If you don’t have a Skillshare account yet, sign up here.
- To post a new class head to the Teach Page to review teacher resources and Create Your Class. Make sure your class is posted 3-4 weeks in advance of when you plan to teach so you have time to market it! (If your class is already posted, skip to the next step).
- Check the I’m donating the proceeds of this class to charity box under the How much are tickets? field. You’ll see this option in create-a-class-flow for new classes, or if your class already exists, you can find it in your Class Manager.
- In the Which charity are you donating to? field, fill in Pencils of Promise.
- Once posted, email abigail@skillshare.com with a link to your class to confirm you’ll be making a donation to PoP and to have your class included in The School of PoP. Abigail will follow up with additional payment logistics.
Teaching and learning together, we can give children their first ever opportunity to do the same. Track our progress here!
Student debt at colleges and universities across the nation: a pretty stunning visualization from the New York Times.
Nikhil Goyal: A Student Calls for a Learning Revolution
Here is my piece from Edutopia: A Student Calls for a Learning Revolution:
Last year, industrial designer Dean Benstead unveiled the 02 Pursuit — a prototype for a motorcycle ruled not by gas or electricity, but by compressed air. Just last month, Google announced to the public its secret…
Never underestimate the power of creativity.
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