Knowledge Hackers: Recent Episodes
Mike Empolgado
This is the podcast for high school and college students and their parents, who want to learn more about pros and cons of today's higher education from teacher, professors and researchers. This podcast reveals: -myths about higher education, rankings and statistics created by marketers -traps that the education system set for students -ways to lower the level of stress related with choosing and preparing for college -how college can help you or brake you -how to create your vision and goals for success -how to play the game of life
In this episode Dr John Kendall Graham talks to me about how he tried all 3 of the strategies for hacking knowledge, the Trooper, the Mercenary and finally as a Rebel with a Cause, this being "Liberation through Education".
In this episode we will meet Ely Rudnick who is a partner and a coach for ME LAB. She is sharing her story, how she achieved all her academic goals and even being successful in business did not give her fulfillment and happiness she desired. She is also explaining what she did in order to change that and become the ultimately become a winner in the Game of Life.
The first goal is logical. We are learning because we want to gain new knowledge, skills or experiences that will help us in the game later. The second goal which is equally important but not that obvious is building relationships. But not just any relationships but strategic team for the Game of Life.
In this episode we dive deeper into the concept of the strategy game. We will discuss the RPG games (Role Play Games) and importance of creating your character, before the real game starts. We are also discussing how your superpowers and stranghts are changing your approach to the game. We also revealare that higher education system is only design for one kind of players.
In his episode we will uncover the very low completion rates occurring in 4 and 2 year courses being given in higher education institutions. We also learn more about their add-on costs that we have to pay, if we choose this path. We will also learn two different ways we can play the Game of Life.
Do you have to pay the high fees set by the top schools to serve your educational needs? Is there another way?
Here we take a look at how schools ,like Harvard, finance themselves and ask if its worth the investment of your time and money to go to them.
Two ways of creating the rules for the game - long one and a hackers shortcut. Instead of finding how to play find who knows how to win the game. How not to fall into a trap of foul leaders. Researchers like Rej Chetty, Stacy Dale or Alan Krueger are seekers of the rules. What is the different between the opinion, exception and facts. Which facts can be turned into the rules for all. To create the rule you need to know what is the goal of the game. Measuring progress is how you find out if your getting closer to your goal. Shocking truth about higher education.
How to start our list of expectations from college
Examples of how to start my list
The order of my criteria matters.
Same criteria but different meaning or different strategy.
Knowledge Hackers community can help you with finding your way in the game.
What not to do when creating criteria for college?
How to use the statistic for our benefit?
Hacking the knowledge of the ones that are winning is better then doing the work by ourselves.
College Hacking - setting the game and choosing the strategy for the game of life.
Choose for now and not for the future.
Why my criteria for the college didn't work for me? In this episode we are hacking Michael B. Horn and successful students knowledge. What do I want from college and what should I expect from it? What successful students have that others don't have? How to build relationships and find the people we need according to Julia Freeland Fisher? How to fill in the missing elements and raise our chances of winning in the game of life?
How to choose criteria for the school External criteria for the college are not working. When there is too many chefs there is nothing to eat. What do we need from the college? Why some students are successful and others are not?
Higher education system is outdated and is not serving today's students well.
Live is like a strategy game and choosing college is were the strategy begins.
Today's elite education system is not telling us all the truth.
SCHOOL - Successful College Hackers ongoing online school.
Why do we want to go to college? What do you want from college? What the college will actually give you?