lessons

19Nov

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CRYPTOMARKET, IN OTHER NEWS

Dramatic Collapse Of The Cryptocurrency Exchange FTX Contains Lessons For Investors But Won’t Affect Most People

In the fast-paced world of cryptocurrency, vast sums of money can be made or lost in the blink of an eye. In early November 2022, the second-largest cryptocurrency exchange, FTX, was valued at more than US$30 billion. By Nov. 14, FTX was in bankruptcy proceedings along with more than 100 companies connected to it. D. Brian Blank and Brandy Hadley are professors who study finance, investing and fintech. They explain how and why this incredible collapse happened, what effect it might have on the traditional financial sector and whether you need to care if you don’t own any cryptocurrency. 1. What happened? In 2019, Sam Bankman-Fried founded FTX, a company that ran one of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges. FTX is where many crypto investors trade and hold their cryptocurrency, similar t...

Podcast Of The Week: Re-Evaluating Customer Success And Advocacy: Marketing Lessons From Sydney Sloan

27Aug

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DIGITAL MARKETING

Podcast Of The Week: Re-Evaluating Customer Success And Advocacy: Marketing Lessons From Sydney Sloan

Interview with Sydney Sloan - Former CMO, Salesloft & Alfresco, Startup Investor and Advisor. Sydney is a CMO, board advisor, and thought leader who has held senior leadership positions in product marketing, operations, field marketing, partner marketing, business development, and customer experience. Sydney served as a CMO at Alfresco and then Salesloft after managing enterprise product marketing and industry solutions marketing at Adobe Systems for 9 years. Tune in to listen to this seasoned marketer as she shares the lessons she's learned over the course of her 25+ year career in marketing. Click here for the podcast transcript Start Your Outgrow Free Trial!

Make Today’s Classrooms More Inclusive – How Lessons From Segregated Schools Can Help

2Apr

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EDUCATION

Make Today’s Classrooms More Inclusive – How Lessons From Segregated Schools Can Help

Sara Schley, Rochester Institute of Technology and Lissa Ramirez-Stapleton, California State University, Northridge The intent of school desegregation is clear: Black and white children should attend the same schools, and Black children should not be relegated to inferior buildings, learning materials and extracurricular activities. While separate-but-equal is no longer legal, the reality is that today many Black children do not experience inclusive public school education. Inclusive education not only responds to the needs, interests and backgrounds of Black children, but it also incorporates diverse learning – such as not teaching predominantly white history. As scholars of inclusive education, particularly for Black and deaf students, we believe public schools need to do much more to...

Lessons From My Grandfather, 100 Years After The Tulsa Race Massacre

25May

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EDUCATION

Lessons From My Grandfather, 100 Years After The Tulsa Race Massacre

When Viola Fletcher, 107, appeared before Congress in May 2021, she called for the nation to officially acknowledge the Tulsa race riot of 1921. I know that place and year well. As is the case with Fletcher – who is one of the last living survivors of the massacre, which took place when she was 7 – the terror of the Tulsa race riot is something that has been with me for almost as long as I can remember. My grandfather, Robert Fairchild, told the story nearly a quarter-century ago to several newspapers. Here’s how The Washington Post recounted his story in 1996: “At 92 years old, Robert Fairchild is losing his hearing, but he can still make out the distant shouts of angry white men firing guns late into the night 75 years ago. His eyes are not what they used to be, but he has no trouble s...

Tips for living online – lessons from six months of the COVID-19 pandemic

3Apr

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TECHNOLOGY

Tips for living online – lessons from six months of the COVID-19 pandemic

Valentine’s Day was sweet, spring break was fun, then… boom! COVID-19. Stay-at-home orders, workplace shutdowns, school closures and social distancing requirements changed lives almost overnight. Forty-two percent of the U.S. workforce now works from home full-time. In the six months since the “new normal” began, Americans have gained a fair amount of experience with working, studying and socializing online. With schools resuming and cooler weather curtailing outdoor activities, videoconferencing will be as front and center as it was in the spring. As someone who researches and teaches instructional technology, I can offer recommendations for how to make the best of the situation and make the most of virtual interactions with colleagues, teachers, students, family and friends. Create a d...

5 lessons from the coronavirus about inequality in America

3Apr

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SOCIETY

5 lessons from the coronavirus about inequality in America

The coronavirus is a global threat, but the pandemic has an uneven impact across the U.S. It exacerbates existing inequalities and creates new challenges. I think this crisis can teach several important lessons about inequality in America: how it hurts, who it hurts the most, why that’s the case and what can be done about it. 1. Staying home is a luxury For millions of Americans, staying at home is a luxury they cannot afford. The comfort and well-being of all Americans depends on grocery clerks, delivery drivers and factory workers putting their own safety second so they can stay on the job. While the upper middle classes take their work with them, working and middle-class Americans are tethered to their jobs: 52% of college-educated people can work from home, as compared to just 12% of...

Robots are playing many roles in the coronavirus crisis – and offering lessons for future disasters

22Apr

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COVID-19

Robots are playing many roles in the coronavirus crisis – and offering lessons for future disasters

A cylindrical robot rolls into a treatment room to allow health care workers to remotely take temperatures and measure blood pressure and oxygen saturation from patients hooked up to a ventilator. Another robot that looks like a pair of large fluorescent lights rotated vertically travels throughout a hospital disinfecting with ultraviolet light. Meanwhile a cart-like robot brings food to people quarantined in a 16-story hotel. Outside, quadcopter drones ferry test samples to laboratories and watch for violations of stay-at-home restrictions. These are just a few of the two dozen ways robots have been used during the COVID-19 pandemic, from health care in and out of hospitals, automation of testing, supporting public safety and public works, to continuing daily work and life. The lessons ...

Birthed by HBCU students, this organization offers important lessons for today’s student activists

15Apr

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SOCIAL JUSTICE

Birthed by HBCU students, this organization offers important lessons for today’s student activists

April 15, 2020 marks 60 years since the founding of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, perhaps better known as SNCC, and usually pronounced as “snick.” SNCC became one of the most important organizations to engage in grassroots organizing during the modern civil rights movement and radically transformed youth culture during the decade. Jelani Favors, an associate professor of history and author of a book on how historically black colleges and universities ushered in a new era of activism and leadership, discusses SNCC’s legacy and what lessons it can offer today’s activists. What role did SNCC play in the civil rights movement? The founding of SNCC in April 1960 represented an important paradigm shift within the modern civil rights movement. SNCC encouraged black youth to defia...

7 lessons from ‘Hidden Figures’ NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson’s life and career

4Apr

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IN OTHER NEWS

7 lessons from ‘Hidden Figures’ NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson’s life and career

Katherine Johnson, an African-American mathematician who made critical contributions to the space program at NASA, died Feb. 24 at the age of 101. Johnson became a household name thanks to the celebrated book “Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians who Helped Win the Space Race,” which later became a movie. Her legacy provides lessons for supporting women and other underrepresented groups in mathematics and science. As a historian of mathematics, I have studied women in that field and use the book “Hidden Figures” in my classroom. I can point to some contemporary ideas we can all benefit from when examining Johnson’s life. 1. Mentors make a difference Early in her life, Johnson’s parents fostered her intellectual prowess. Because there ...