

Time to get real about automation and the future of work
My colleagues and I have written extensively about the mounting evidence that a bachelor’s degree is an essential educational credential for job security in the


Essential Art: Part Three
One of the skills that the Becoming Brilliant authors Roberta Michnick and Kathy Hirsh-Pasek focus on as critical to future success is that of confidence.


Automating mining and fast food jobs
Recent articles on automation in mining and fast foods reinforce that the new reality is that many jobs and occupations in a wide range of


Chessboards and rice: A lesson for exponential growth
In the book The Second Machine Age, MIT professors Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson document the way in which technology and automation are changing our


Strategies to help students learn in toxic stress environments
In a recent blog, I wrote about UCLA Associate Dean for Equity and Inclusion Tyrone C. Howard’s critique of educational theories that emphasize the importance


Essential Art: Part Two
In my last post, I revisited some memories from my 8th grade art class with John Post, in the light of what we’ve been learning