by Dan Hunter | May 14, 2020 | You Can Only Imagine
The coronavirus has turned American education into a vast uncharted experiment, in which we are all both the experimenters and the guinea pigs. As one teacher commented in Education Week about the move to remote, on-line learning, we are “operating in the wild,...
by Dan Hunter | Jul 31, 2019 | You Can Only Imagine
By Stanley Rosenberg and Dan Hunter Originally published in Commonwealth: Nonprofit Journal of Politics, Ideas, and Civic Life on June 1, 2019 TODAY WE MUST educate children for jobs that don’t yet exist, using technologies that haven’t been invented. The...
by Dan Hunter | Apr 10, 2019 | You Can Only Imagine
Now! After centuries of mystery! Get the low-down on the throw-down showdown! Artificial intelligence to the rescue! The ancient Japanese game of janken, known as rock-paper-scissors in English, has been mastered by a robot powered by artificial intelligence. Don’t...
by Dan Hunter | Apr 9, 2019 | You Can Only Imagine
You’ve just enjoyed a standup comedy routine or watched a comedy in the theater. Maybe, you even laughed until you cried. You feel good. (wriggly) Why do humans laugh? What causes the laughter? What is the state of laughing science? (puffball) E.B. and Katherine...
by Dan Hunter | Nov 1, 2018 | You Can Only Imagine
“Can you teach people to be creative?” is the wrong question. “Can you teach people to use their imagination more productively?” That’s a better question. But, if your goal is educate imaginative people to generate ideas that lead to creativity, then it’s still not...
