Any of the completed work from these activities can be converted to face-to-face discussion. Try adapting the content to your specific course format. Using your classroom teams in their online Wiki sites, have students conduct the following studies: Innovation disruption, as presented in the short…
Deborah Perry Piscione discusses her life and latest book with TechCrunch journalist, Andrew Keen. Piscione is an author, philanthropist, publisher and commentator who moved to Silicon Valley with her family in 2006 and became fascinated with the Valley culture for success. In addition to starting…
The idea for Kickstarter originated in 2002 and by 2009 it became an Internet success, according to co-founder, Yancey Strickler, in this interview with Engadget Editor, Myriam Joire. Using crowd…
Readability is a free app that works across IOS, Android, and Kindle platforms. Readers choose specific articles to read in real time or at a later date. The app cleans…
The free Pocket app works across many platforms, permitting the reader to save articles, videos, web pages and images for consumption at a later time. Integrated into over 300 apps,…
Teaching across the boundaries with images
On a recent trip to an organic farm in the Southern California highlands, I came across these two women talking under an 1100 year old live oak tree. Though thirty years separated them and their life histories had little in common, the image captured shows them at ease in their conversation. The shared moment juxtaposed…
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