Learning & Education Articles

Rethinking Learning for the Networked Age | ChangSchoolTalks 2016

Don Tapscott, Canadian business executive, best-selling author and new media theorist, speaks about rethinking learning for the networked age at the sold-out ChangSchoolTalks 2016: Experiential Learning in Action event hosted at Ryerson University on February 17, 2016.

The Blockchain Student Challenge

To All the Aspiring Animators, Graphic Design Students, and Up-And-Coming Filmmakers out there: We at the Tapscott Group are in need of talented, creative individuals to create a 90-to-120 second animation video on the influence of Blockchain technology on the music...

Rethinking Learning for the Networked Age

Don Tapscott, Canadian business executive, best-selling author and new media theorist, speaks about rethinking learning for the networked age at the sold-out ChangSchoolTalks 2016: Experiential Learning in Action event hosted at Ryerson University on February 17, 2016.

Why My Kids Are My “Reverse Mentors”

In the mid-1990s, I began studying the behaviours of kids when I noticed how my 10-year-old daughter was effortlessly able to use sophisticated technologies. At first, I thought, “She’s a prodigy!!!” but then I noticed all her friends were like that too, so I decided...

Three Things Parents Must Learn From Kids About Tech

In his interview with Yahoo!, Don Tapscott gives practical three-step advice on how parents can learn not to be afraid of their children’s use of technology, but rather to embrace it. Building on his own experience of raising children in the digital age, the advice...

EdTech Digest: A Force to Behold

One of the world’s leading experts on technology’s impact on society has a few words to say about the future of education and which generation is the one to watch.

The Week University (As We Know It) Ended

If there is one issue that is buzzing through Davos like a prairie fire among thoughtful people, it’s that the time has finally come to reinvent higher learning.

Discovery Learning Is the New Higher Learning

The university is in danger of losing its monopoly, and for good reason. The most visible threat are the new online courses, many of them free, with some of the best professors in their respective fields. Students are beginning to wonder whether to pay today’s hefty tuition fees, especially if third-party testers will provide certificates, diplomas, even degrees.