<p>GUARANTEED to capture the hearts of readers interested in BITCOIN, EDUCATION, or BASIC INCOME.Digital Platforms Are the Most Profitable Companies, and Poised to Transform Education...  A former software engineer, Principal Zeimer takes readers through an in-depth evaluation of how digital technology and economics are poised to transform education by carefully examining the concept of academic capital.WHAT SKILLS ARE RECESSION-PROOF? * How Should You Prepare Your High School Student or an UNCERTAIN FUTURE?* Learn why JOBS ARE IN DECLINE and what will replace them* Understand how digital media production will REPLACE SOME STANDARDIZED TESTING* Gain insight into how digital technology trends such as DECENTRALIZATION and OPEN SOURCE could collide to challenge the nation's largest corporations* Explore the research on HUMAN BIAS and discover why anti-bias is crucial for economic growth* Delve into the limits of ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE and how a digital native future inverts its role in societyQuestion whether surveillance capitalism is something we should worry aboutA SHIFT FROM: INDUSTRIAL TO: DIGITAL FROM: Students are consumers of information TO: Students are creators of content FROM: More stuff represents prosperityTO: More users represents prosperityFROM: Students identify correct answer as fast as possibleTO: Students think critically about questions that they designFROM: BroadcastingTO: NarrowcastingFROM: Boss decides what to produce which is pushed to consumers ("supply side")TO: Users decide what to produce and they pull items into existence ("Demand side")FROM: It costs money and involves logistics to distribute goods and services leading to economies of scale (monopoly dynamics)TO: Distribution is free and instant leading to network effects (winner-takes-all platform dynamics)FROM: Security means armed guards and guns, stormtroopersTO: Security means encryption, hackersFROM: Ownership (owning capital leads to profits / Zero-sum dynamics)TO: Sharing (Uber has no cars, Airbnb no homes, AliBaba no stores / positive-sum dynamics)FROM: The corporation / "having a job" / centralizedTO: The Platform / "doing work" / crowdsourcedFROM: Groupthink of the executive teamTO: "Mass identities" manipulate the crowd (centralized attention)FROM: Uniformity and competition on standardized tasksTO: Collaboration and diversity of creative work products</p>

Education in the Digital Age: How We Get There

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Zeimer, Nadav

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Nadav Zeimer

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