This article really resonnated with me as a woman of color trying to enter the tech-space, and my desire to enter the field of tech and computer science education in the future. Moreover, it caused me to reflect on parallels between Turing's pedagogical method, and what I learned working in Next Generation Learning.
The future of learning - both k-12 and adult learning - is student-centered. It automatically creates a more welcoming learning environments, which is one of the aspects to Harvey Mudd's approach. I also see a theme of building community and a network in order to uniliaterally increase chances of sucess. I was happy to see that the initiative was faculty-led, likely allowing their effort to be more agile, responding to what isn't working.
Framing Computer Science as creative problem solving not only seems valid, but effective, and would have 100% grabbed me as a freshman when instead I was intimidated to take CS classes. I'm excited to see this approach scaled nationally, and hope that it catches on quickly.
HubSpot Article
I really enjoyed this article, and came away with a few key questions:
I have worked at a small startup, multiple non-profits (which inherently need to have lean operations), and political campaigns, which are essentially short-term start-ups themselves. As a job seeker, I have looked for perks such as some of the ones described in the article. After reading this article, my main takeaway is that PRODUCT is important, in addition to culture compatibility. Clearly I'm mission-driven, but if there isn't a strong product, how can there be a strong mission? That seemed to be the main disconnect for Hubspot. A company that starts as a sales operation is going to be all-talk.