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Re: A better Inbox experience

mpstaton — Mon, 02 Feb 2015 12:45:33 -0000

Good progress, agree with Michael Luchen here.

Re: SXSW PanelPicker

mpstaton — Fri, 05 Sep 2014 17:38:27 -0000

Eileen is a real thought leader.

Re: SXSW PanelPicker

mpstaton — Fri, 05 Sep 2014 17:38:01 -0000

Looking forward to this!

Re: SXSW PanelPicker

mpstaton — Sun, 31 Aug 2014 15:47:32 -0000

I was a teacher and made the conversion. I get asked all the time for advice and such, so this is a high demand topic.

Re: Universities Are Missing Out on an Explosive Growth Sector: Their Own

mpstaton — Tue, 10 Jun 2014 14:57:55 -0000

Hi Andre, I do agree that endowment managers don't have comparative advantages in investing in education, but there are people that do and they are often close to home. It would be wise to do what they do for most asset classes - engage advisors and actively look at the market.

Re: Essay calling for new skills to be added to liberal arts disciplines

mpstaton — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 19:26:06 -0000

which is pretty much what i suggested, that and it gets used across the curriculum.

Re: Essay calling for new skills to be added to liberal arts disciplines

mpstaton — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 19:24:10 -0000

Nice!!! Maybe my next piece should be on the digital humanities!

Re: Essay calling for new skills to be added to liberal arts disciplines

mpstaton — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 14:24:02 -0000

I participate in a number of conversations nationally around the employability of graduates. The media has become pretty intense with its scrutiny of the humanities and the liberal arts. I am simply trying to defend something I had quite a great experience with.

Re: Essay calling for new skills to be added to liberal arts disciplines

mpstaton — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 14:22:57 -0000

Inigral does not have an app for this. Believe it or not, I care about education.

Re: Essay calling for new skills to be added to liberal arts disciplines

mpstaton — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 14:21:30 -0000

Totally true. This is in addition to elegant writing. I wish I was a better writer.

Re: Essay calling for new skills to be added to liberal arts disciplines

mpstaton — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 13:38:57 -0000

My point was not that students of humanities cannot thrive in a modern world, my point is that liberal arts and humanities have been on the fence in the national dialog on unemployment.... They don't need to be. A little tweak and graduates would be career ready upon graduation.

Re: Essay calling for new skills to be added to liberal arts disciplines

mpstaton — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 13:37:51 -0000

Awesome. I want to go to Georgia Tech!

Re: Essay calling for new skills to be added to liberal arts disciplines

mpstaton — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 13:36:26 -0000

This is actually a good point. I would be happy to if given the time.

Re: Essay calling for new skills to be added to liberal arts disciplines

mpstaton — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 13:35:27 -0000

I was not aware fo the digital humanities. And good! My next piece can be about people that are doing this! Any resources besides Googling it?

Re: Essay calling for new skills to be added to liberal arts disciplines

mpstaton — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 13:34:34 -0000

I assume that I would be included in our society?

Re: Essay calling for new skills to be added to liberal arts disciplines

mpstaton — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 13:34:17 -0000

I agree that the likes of investment banking and private equity have done a good job of moving middle class jobs away from the US. As a society, we stripped the need for middle management. But there's still plenty of opportunity for self-starters if they know how to communicate in new mediums.

This idea could be a whole other post.... :)

Re: Essay calling for new skills to be added to liberal arts disciplines

mpstaton — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 13:33:03 -0000

Exactly, my point here is not that we should dramatically change the curriculum. Exploring the world through a foundation of knowledge, with a focus on writing and thinking, is still hugely important. However, HOW to communicate in the world has changed and become a bit more complicated and more reliant on technology. We should simply update the formats we ask our students to use to communicate.

Thanks for being insightful! (/seeing my point of view!)

Re: Essay calling for new skills to be added to liberal arts disciplines

mpstaton — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 13:31:18 -0000

"Students who graduate with a degree in liberal arts should understand the basic canon of our civilization as well as their place in the world, sure, but they also need to understand how to explore and communicate their ideas through visual communication, data manipulation, and even making a website or native mobile app. If they can’t, they’ll just understand the global context of their own unemployment."

Re: Essay calling for new skills to be added to liberal arts disciplines

mpstaton — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 13:30:08 -0000

Not at all. But a pianist that may not become a concert pianist should understand music production, sound design, and how to write pop songs. In addition, they should probably understand the music business.

Re: My Next Chapter

mpstaton — Mon, 14 May 2012 14:23:23 -0000

sweet! all the best David!

Re: WGU example shows chilly policy climate for competency-based education

mpstaton — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 16:12:59 -0000

Like it or not, WGU is just the first of many models that are going to reinvent much of Higher Ed.

Re: MLA issues guidelines on evaluation of digital scholarship

mpstaton — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 15:52:42 -0000

Hey Scott,

This is a remarkably important issue. I'd encourage you to continue covering this type of thing. As media goes more and more digital, we have to understand issues of quality.

Michael

Re: Facebook Groups for .EDU [Storified]

mpstaton — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 13:44:37 -0000

Hi Audrey,

I'm glad you're willing to cover this move by Facebook. I think education needs a thorough discussion about this.

We've talked with Facebook about this coming move several times. And while we were annoyed that it made a feature we have (communication streams for communities related to official affiliations) a bit moot, we were also excited that Facebook was moving into the groups in schools functionality.

Let me explain:

When Facebook launches something, about half the people hate it and half the people love it. Almost everyone likes talking about it, that's for sure. If no one ends up USING it, even if people love it, they will delete the feature [1]. If people end up USING it, no matter what people say, Facebook builds upon it and releases the technology that allows third parties to build on it.

The third-party developer ecosystem has birthed too many companies to count. For instance, our friends at Hootsuite built a company out of tools that manage many Twitter and Facebook Pages accounts for one brand. Also for instance, my company Inigral.

While it can be annoying that Facebook moves quickly and is willing to piss people off and make people scared, ultimately if the feature works Facebook will make it an opportunity for us. And yeah, we might have to re-think the way that, say, we get people to communicate within their dorm, but for every downside there will be a few upsides. And we have time to respond to that :)

Best,

Michael Staton
Inigral founder

[1] http://blog.inigral.com/fac...

Re: Download All Your Education Data With the Click of One Button

mpstaton — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 07:33:13 -0000

I've been involved with this conversation. I've been pushing for the Orange Button.

Re: On Educational Data Mining

mpstaton — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 07:32:03 -0000

Most people in Education don't understand big data. Thanks for moving the dialog forward.