Education

An Interview With Noah Bradley On Why You Don’t Want To Go To Art School

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Noah Bradley is a professional artist who works in gaming and other mediums – and he’s got a bone to pick with “traditional” art school educations that he wrote up at https://medium.com/i-m-h-o/138c5efd45e9.  He points out that a lot of art school careers put you in debt, with less earning potential than many other careers, and you can do it a lot easier.  We’ve seen people call out issues with law school, and medical school – Noah is calling it out about art schools.

So you know the drill – when someone rocks the boat in the creative world, I’m going to interview him.

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Now This is How You Teach TCP/IP Headers

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Use legos.

Yes, this person figured out a way to use legos to represent header files and make them easier to understand.  If you don’t know what a header file is . . . well then you probably don’t care.  If you do care, this is a great instructional tool to explain IT issues to people . . .

Thanks to Boing Boing.

– Steven Savage

Steven Savage is a Geek 2.0 writer, speaker, blogger, and job coach.  He blogs on careers at http://www.fantopro.com/, nerd and geek culture at http://www.nerdcaliber.com/, and does a site of creative tools at http://www.seventhsanctum.com/. He can be reached at https://www.stevensavage.com/.

Take A Look At The Digital Human Library

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Some time ago I discussed the idea of the Human Library and how it is something geeks should join and duplicate.  Little did I know someone had had a similar idea – only taking it digital.

That’s when I found the Digital Human Library.  It’s not affiliated with the Human Library, but it’s just as awesome.

Founded in Canada, the Digital Human library is an education tool (currently for k-12 teachers and students).  The idea is to have people easily available to chat digitally in video conference, Skype, and other technology.  Think of it as a kind of virtual field trip or easy way to get a speaker no matter the distance.

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