Philipp Schmidt

Improving Things is Hard - Why Edtech Innovators Are Not The (Real) Problem The last few weeks have seen what is by now a well-practiced dance of the pro-edtech and anti-edtech editorialists squaring off.

The Cost of Convenience On the surface, convenience (“the state of being able to proceed with something with little effort or difficulty”) is great.

Delegating Work & Making Decisions On any size team, the process of delegation has an effect not only how efficiently work moves forward, but also how much ownership individual team members experience over their work.

All this talk of Web3 While everyone is focused on minting NFTs and declaring the end of the centralized power structures of platform capitalism (or fleeing into an updated version of SecondLife that has only one enthusiastic inhabitant, Mark Z, who is al…

New study measures the wrong things to show negative effect of digital tools in the classroom A new study by MIT colleagues (the actual study / the guardian’s post about it) on the negative effects of digital tools in the classroom is a good example of why

Eating in Paris Also check out: Berlin / Boston / New York A few personal favorites (I’ll try to keep the list updated).

Certificates, Reputation, and the Blockchain (Crossposted to Medium) Earlier this year, the MIT Media Lab started issuing digital certificates to groups of people in our broader community.

Eating in NYC Also check out: Berlin / Boston A few personal favorites (I’ll try to keep the list updated) Rebelle - Fancy, but not schmancy, or overly expensive.

A Mozilla Developer Institute TL;DR - Why Mozilla should create an Mozilla Developer Institute in order to train the next generation of technology inventors.

LinkedIn Launches University Rankings I expect this will cause quite a lot of debate and discussion over the next few weeks. ;-) https://www.linkedin.com/edu/rankings/us University rankings are a little bit like reality TV.