Posts Tagged ‘underemployment’
We Need More Innovators – I Know Where To Find Them
Not only is the innovation/start-up/incubator world a significant sector of the global and many local economies, as the source of new business, it is also the best indicator to show us what our future will look like. Unfortunately for all of us, growth in this sector has been slowing. As an educator, I am concerned with preparing…
Read MoreJoin my Team! Let’s DISRUPT Education and (Un)Employment!
Want to SOLVE the IMPENDING #UnemploymentCrisis? Want to #DisruptEducation? JOIN MY START-UP TEAM! For the past 9 months I have been building an experiment – a global virtual classroom to prove 2 things: That it is not only viable to teach students #EmployabilitySkills, they are begging for a new way to learn these skills that…
Read MoreStop Saying Education is the Solution to Poverty
I have spent my career in the field of education, spanning the United States and several parts of the world. So often, I have heard leaders, “experts” and institutions make the claim that “education is the key to ending poverty.” This is only part of the answer and it will not work alone. There are…
Read MoreMillennials: The generation teaching us why we need to change the game & embrace social media
Who are the Millennials? “Millennial” Generation: The generation following Generation X and also known as Generation Y. American’s can’t commit on a date range but Canadians and Australians seem to agree that the Millennial generation is the cohort of people born between 1983 and 1999/2000. (Source: Wikipedia.) Recently I was interviewed by a “Millennial” (a…
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