The Power of Pull
summary
Argues that education must move from a push model to a pull platform that lets learners and communities assemble resources on demand, citing app-store scale (roughly 145,000–200,000 apps) and incubator-built apps like Noah, a Dobson‑fly crowdscience example, and Kindle/Google textbook features that surface popular highlights. Shows Rice Connections assembling 1,000+ textbooks with 1.7 million users, 77 million hits across 190 countries, plus NYC and Chicago ecosystem pilots, and pushes for lightweight platforms that collect data for continual improvement.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Education and participation
- 1:02From stocks to flows
- 2:38Fostering curiosity
- 4:25Reimagining digital books
- 5:48Incubating learning apps
- 8:06Open education resources
- 10:00Fluid textbooks
- 11:02Building learning ecosystems
- 14:11Conclusion and next steps
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