Recently, the paper.li blog addressed the issue of the tools needed to overcome the endless unsorted, unmanaged and apparently unmanageable wave of information that wash over us on a daily basis. The author is sanguine about the possibilities of crowdsoruced curation and filtering at scale as well as the the advantages offered by tablets as a convergence design point for accessing media. While the technical solution to information overload is apparently being addressed on a more coherent basis, it is important to recognize that the underlying skill sets that people possess for dealing with information overload is not being addressed widely. Hence the purpose of our enterprise, and
Read more →The report that Google’s first hire (#3 after Larry and Sergey) has left to join Khan Academy indicates the degree to which new models for development and delivery of educational networks and artifacts is coming to the fore in terms of the attention of the technology analyst community. This has been the major theme that we have been tracking as we likewise launch a new model for learning into the marketspace. It seems that one developmental notion in this new wave of education star-ups is the establishment of “brand as platform.” Similar to how Yahoo!, eBay, Amazon, and Google became the brand
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