Incubate Learning

August 2024 Join the Collective Shift: Human-Centered AI for Learner-Centered Education By: The Partners of Collective Shift You’re likely sick of hearing about AI. Perhaps it makes you feel inadequate or behind the times. Perhaps it’s scary or intimidating. Perhaps it’s already your able assistant and you don’t want any more pontificating about it. We understand. Education has a bad habit of chasing after the next new fad, of which AI is the latest. We are a new alliance of eight education...

July 2024 An AI Coach to Help You Become More Human Innately Human This is a fact: we are born curious. Have you ever seen a baby that doesn’t touch everything she can reach, explore your face, put everything in his mouth, including fingers and toes, yours and his? Have you ever met a three-year-old that doesn’t ask, “Why? Why? Why?” until you’re ready to hide under the blankets? Humans are genetically programmed to explore. To use all our senses to make sense of the world. To lead with our...

Designing Learning to Grow Competence 12 MIN READ August, 2023 Last month I closed out a three-year tenure as Director of Capstone for the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education Education Entrepreneurship M.S.Ed. program. I’ve taught in EdEnt, as we fondly call it, for five years and will continue to teach next year, but I’m saying goodbye, with great gratitude, to the administrative work of being the director. In June I wrote about workingpacking around the world to explore...

Redesigning Startup Accelerators for Historically Underinvested Communities 7 MIN READ Incubating learning in a changing world Take 1 Startup founder. What’s the image that comes to mind? Here’s ChatGPT4’s answer. It’s not totally off-base. Although a 2022 Federal Reserve survey found that a quarter of startups were owned by people of color, the overwhelming majority of venture capital funding goes to male founders, and especially white male founders. They’re the guy ChatGPT4 generated. Take...

What is a stack? In the tech world a solution stack is a set of component layers that run on top of each other to produce a desired solution. Each layer does a different type of work, and they can be built separately. However, to be successful as a stack, they must work together to offer a seamless experience for the user. There are many sublayers and options inside each component layer which you can choose bundled or unbundled depending on your needs. I know it’s much more complicated than...

Why is there a wall between education and self-help? All learning is personal development, so why do we have two separate industries – one of which is booming and the other of which is definitely not? Self-help or personal growth – books, courses, coaches, communities, experiences – is a massive and growing market. It's valued at 45 billion dollars globally and is growing 5.5% a year. In the business world, business self-help books are the largest sales sub-category. This means people are...