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Teaching Again!

I am super excited about today and woke up in advance of my alarm clock. Why? Because today is the first day of class for the second year of the NYU Stern Course I am co-teaching with Arun Sundararajan (btw, if you are interested in the sharing economy, I highly recommend Arun’s book). I love teaching, which is the reason I originally pursued a PhD. The title of our course is “Tech and the City” (yes, pun on a “long ago” HBO show – we didn’t pick it, sort of a bit like writing a column and ha...

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Learn To Commit: Wesleyan Edition

On Saturday, Susan and I taught our one day workshop called Learn To Commit for the second time. The event was organized by Makaela Kingsley from the Petricelli Center for Social Entrepreneurship. We had a terrific group of undergraduate women attend who showed up well prepared and were super engaged throughout the day. Having now taught this twice we will adjust the curriculum based on the lessons learned which includeBuilding your own personal web site is highly motivating. It is surprising...

Teaching Is Humbling (And That's Good)

I wrote recently how programming is a great tool for learning because you haven’t really understood something until you can explain it to someone else (and in programming that someone else is the computer). Well yesterday in teaching my Skillshare class I got a good dose of that myself. I managed to completely botch my initial explanation of Bayes Theorem. How come? Because while I understand it reasonably well, I don’t understand it with every fiber of my brain and when I got myself into som...

Baumgartner's Jump and Teaching Science

Yesterday, Felix Baumgartner jumped from 24 miles up, briefly traveled at supersonic speed and landed safely with a parachute. While it’s highly debatable whether this stunt did anything to advance science, it makes for utterly awesome science teaching. In fact this is so rich that it made me wish we were still home schooling our kids because science class in school is beholden to the curriculum. So I was reduced to a walk to school with my youngest but here are some of the things we talked a...