Clark Aldrich

The world's most experienced designer of educational simulations, focused on Short Sims for professional and life skills. At odds with today's Ed.D. culture.

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Why People Love Preppy Clothes. Why People Hate Preppy Clothes.
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5K Ultrawide PC Monitors are to the Metaverse what 4K TVs are to 3D TVs.

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With ChatGPT, you can turn three bullet points into a complete paragraph. I am now waiting for ReadGPT, to turn the complete paragraph back into three bullet points.

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The question for most children through early teens is not about history or spelling or math, but "What is my community, and what is my role in that community?"

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Good interview with @clarkaldrich, highlighting the role #simulations are playing in the teaching of #skills @debtauber https://t.co/oLd81fVLgR

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Breaking: A new Twitter poll shows that 103% of Twitter users believe the results of Twitter polls.

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Learning and growing is wasteful. It is full of dead ends and failures. It is individual, often best done privately. It comes from micro-experiments that we initiate and own. So it is very much like today’s schools and corporations, but the opposite.

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Short term gains for a company can be achieved by using employees’ doggedness, but long term competitive gains can only be made by relying on employees’ unique talents.

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Everyone know the aesthetics of the presentation of content matters. But because aesthetics cannot be rigorously graded, schools don’t focus on developing these skills in students.

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When my wife and I aren't running the Short Sims business we're working on our blog. For 13 years we've been photographing our native New England and promoting classic clothing made by small mills and businesses in the US/Great Britain. Our 2022 Gift List: https://t.co/9YI8wlaM72

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To author a Short Sim is to understand why traditional education is built to fail.

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Join me in less than three hours!!

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In 3 days, I am hosting a special "Ask Me Anything" webinar, hosted by iSpring, to show a range of real-world uses of Short Sims and answer your questions about anything Short Sims.

https://t.co/aWru0iRzhi

[Clark Aldrich @clarkaldrich]

In 3 days, I am hosting a special "Ask Me Anything" webinar, hosted by iSpring, to show a range of real-world uses of Short Sims and answer your questions about anything Short Sims.

https://t.co/aWru0iRzhi

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The philosophy of the best high schools has been for decades, “The content we teach you is useless, but we are going to make it so complex and painful that you will at least learn doggedness, or you publicly fail.”Maybe it’s time to give elegant and relevant a chance? #ShortSims

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It is my hope that new educational media and technologies will be around empowering students not empowering schools.

So what should students worry about and want out of school, and how do we start the process?

Here is my take: