“When you drive a regular car, you think about mechanics. Clutch, gas, brake, turn. Your brain processes each action, decides, executes. Linear. Sequential. Human-scale. When you drive a Formula 1 car? You can’t think about individual actions anymore. The speed makes that impossible. Instead, you think in racing lines—optimal paths that emerge from understanding the […]
Every week I send out articles I encounter from around the web. Subject matter ranges from hard knowledge about teaching to research about creativity and cognitive science to stories from other industries that, by analogy, inform what we do as educators. This breadth helps us see our work in new ways.
Readers include teachers, school leaders, university overseers, conference organizers, think tank workers, startup founders, nonprofit leaders, and people who are simply interested in what’s happening in education. They say it helps them keep tabs on what matters most in the conversation surrounding schools, teaching, learning, and more.
– Peter Nilsson