January 2021 – Latrlab

Innovation and Lifelong Learning

January 24, 2021 Gary Natriello 0

A list of the habits of innovators highlights the importance of self-directed and lifelong learning as a foundation for continuing growth and inspiration. Habits like the pursuit of knowledge, openness to new ideas, and a […]

Courses of the Living Dead

January 23, 2021 Gary Natriello 0

BoingBoing is featuring a twitter thread in which a student discovers that the professor in the online course he has been taking died in 2019. Assuming the report is accurate in claiming that the university […]

The Distance Learning Gap

January 22, 2021 Gary Natriello 0

Writing in The Guardian, Sally Weale explains the wide gap in the distance learning experiences of rich and poor children in the UK as revealed by a study conducted by the Sutton Trust.. The COVID19 […]

Regulating Hiring Algorithms

January 15, 2021 Gary Natriello 0

With the growing use of software programs to assist in the hiring process, it was only a matter of time before the issue of government regulation to guard against bias arose. Now, Tom Simonite sets […]

Beginning Lifelong Learning

January 15, 2021 Gary Natriello 0

Check out a great excerpt from Tom Vanderbilt’s new book, Beginners: The Joy and Transformative Power of Lifelong Learning. In the piece he highlights five insights from the book: 1) using the power of the […]

Designing for Mental Health

January 9, 2021 Gary Natriello 0

Jane Margolies in the New York Times reports on a new wave of facilities to address mental health patients in which the building is designed to contribute to the treatment. A number of features are […]