This is the first in a series of essays in which I try to think through the question of what assumptions social institutions make about
Author: Dan Ryan
I've been an Academic Program Director at MinervaProject.com, a professor at University of Toronto, University of Southern California, and Mills College teaching things like human centered design, computational thinking, modeling for policy sciences, and social theory. My current mission is to figure out how to reorganize higher education and exploit technology so that we can teach twice as many twice as well twice as easily.
Authentic Interdisciplinarity
What if we took the production of technologically literate humanists and humanistically enlightened engineers seriously? Just a Thought One month before I was born, C.P.
Learning from Every Keystroke
I suspect that this is a naive question already thought through by people much smarter than I, but here goes. We’ve heard some concerns expressed
Computational Thinking as a Graphic Novel: Next Iteration
ChatGPT and I worked on some additional format experiments yesterday. Here’s a next iteration. The platform here is slides.com which is built around reveal.js. Advancing
The Old Alignment Problem
Google the phrase “alignment problem” and the first result might well be the very excellent book of that title by Brian Christian. And the next
Collaborating with ChatGPT on writing my “computational thinking” book as a graphic novel
Over drinks at the faculty club last night I mentioned that I was trying to come up with an innovative medium for my book on
Innoeduvation 