Student Needs are Fragmented – Schools are Monolithic
When you bring together any group of children, you immediately notice the wide range of interests, talents, and capabilities. We then pack them off to our school systems for instruction…
Support the Forgotten Workers, Before it’s Too Late!
A Patient’s Dilemma Suppose you’ve suffered an injury and need surgery. The surgery goes well. You spend a few days in the hospital and are then transferred to a rehab…
Education for 21st Century Jobs
Part Two: The Gig Economy
Background: For decades, the United States has been unable to reclaim its once proudly held lead in the education of its citizens. Many major initiatives, such as No Child Left…
Does COVID-19 Open The Door To Democracy 3.0?
This summer, I took part in the New England ritual of an over-the-fence conversation with my neighbor. She and I talked about the kids, how the gardens were doing, and…
Broadband Internet is Critical to Learning – Getting it to Everyone is the Difficult Task
One of the first lessons of the COVID-19 pandemic was the value of the broadband[1] internet to our education system. While there was a massive amount of retooling (new applications…
BEWARE: The Digital Music Man is Coming to River City. First hide your money … then consider Six Things.
Remember The Music Man? It was a hit musical about Professor Harold Hill coming to River City to have some fun, stir up excitement, and start a community marching band.…
So Many Experiments, So What Are We Learning?
Colleges and Universities today are embarking on a vast array of seemingly random trials to try to get through the COVID-19 pandemic. If someone were in the cat-bird seat, they…
Education for 21st Century Jobs
Aiming for a Moving Target
The United States pioneered universal free primary education to provide literacy to its newly enfranchised citizens. We flourished. It then led the world in the industrial era on the strength…
Back up the Technology Dump Truck, Martha. We’re going to save the Colleges!
The arrival of COVID-19, to coincide with Spring Break at US Colleges and Universities forced the issue on moving to on-line classes. The reaction on campus has been to double…
Don’t Let Computers Get Above their Pay Grade
Many organizations today use computer-based algorithms, sometimes enhanced with Artificial Intelligence (AI), to make (or help make) decisions. Many of these decisions have lifelong impacts on us and our families.…
The Great Unfreezing, or Necessity is the Mother of Opportunity
COVID-19 is awful, but it presents opportunities. Organizations and enterprises of all sorts have hampered the ground level with layer upon layer of pre-conditions, assumptions and rules from senior levels…
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We Are Prometheus Endeavor
Welcome! We are honored that you came… We are Prometheus Endeavor, a group of seasoned executives, technologists, and advisors aspiring to bring our knowledge and experience to the thorniest of…