A decade ago, Sal Khan envisioned using technology to tailor education to individual and community needs.
Dave Evans of the Life Design Lab at Stanford talks about how to prototype an idea for trying something new in work or life, and how the exercise should be fast, cheap and, most of all, a learning process. He explains that this type of prototyping takes two forms – talking to other people and trying things out – and likens the concept of “networking” to the innocuous task of asking someone for directions.