Eric Allen's Profile

Because taking notes the old-fashioned way, by hand is so much slower, the student actually has to listen, think and prioritize the most important themes.

Wikipedia is an amazing resource and yet the teachers in my kids' school deride it as "not reliable". Well I'll tell you this much, Wikipedia is more reliable than some of my kids' teachers.

But our education system is not set up like a star system. It should be.

Again, we can look to the lessons of the media business to think about how to do that. These amazing teachers are superstars who should be available online, via web video, to millions of people. They should not be stuck in a lecture hall teaching less than a hundred kids at a time.

awrence Lessig

As competitive diversity is lost, responses to trouble become identical

certain humility about the machine