An economy is based on how we decide to value something. “Skills” as items of value in an economy do not have stable value or even a stable definition. We can have a skills economy. We just need to accept that the definition and value of a skill in an economy comes from agreement among market participants, not from an ontology.

I haven’t been writing much in the past two years because I’ve been going back to school, after a fashion. I’ve been trying to apply everything I’ve learned in the cognitive sciences to what I’m learning about AI. This post finally shares my passion project.

AIs have weird failure modes that we don’t understand yet. That’s likely because the industry has not been rigorously studying them yet. We need to recognize the reality of where we are so we can minimize risk of disasters.

I’m delighted to announce that I’ll be running an interactive webinar on the nature of learning context and AI on Thursday, February 26th at 11:30 AM ET. “Learning context” is not just a play on words here. 1EdTech takes the position that context is fundamentally different from data and needs to be treated as such, both in how we think about it in our application design and in how we handle it technically.

I’m incredibly excited to invite you to a Blursday-style conversation with Microsoft’s Mike Mast and Google’s Kris Snover about AI, EdTech interoperability standards, and the opportunities the two present together for creating learning impact. This conversation, now under the umbrella of 1EdTech Labs, represents everything I’ve been striving for over the past 20 years, from […]

One year into my job as Chief Strategy Officer at 1EdTech, what I’m learning about the state of digital credentials, with a special emphasis on workforce.

EEP Blursdays are now 1EdTech Learning Impact Live. The first one is on Thursday, July 31st at 11:30 AM.