Hack Learning is books, podcast episodes, and other digital content that helps you solve big problems with simple ideas. Hack Learning Series books are produced by Times 10 Publications for all education stakeholders-teachers, school leaders, parents, community members, college professors, and students. Check out our bestsellers, linked on the slide show and on our Books tab above.
What’s a Hacker?
Hackers are known as computer geeks-people who like to take applications and systems to places their designers never intended. Today, hackers are much more. They are people who explore many things both in and out of the technology world. They are tinkerers and fixers. They see solutions to problems that other people do not see. Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg might be considered technology’s greatest hackers. No one taught them how to build an operating system or a social network, but they saw possibilities that others couldn’t see. They live to solve problems whose solutions, in many cases, already exist but may need to be hacked. To the education hacker, the solution is evident, and with a little hacking, it will be as clear and beautiful as a gracefully-designed smartphone or a powerful social network.
Inside Hack Learning books
Unlike your typical education text, Hack Learning books are light on research and statistics and heavy on practical advice from people who have actually experienced the problems about which they write. Each book in the series contains an introduction, followed by up to 10 Hacks, a conclusion and an author bio, outlining the hacker’s qualifications.
Remember, hacks are ways to explore paths and fix problems or particular areas of learning. Each Hack includes a clearly identified problem, related to the overall theme of the book. The problem’s hack is explained and a clear blueprint for implementation is outlined. Pushback is covered, and the Hack in Action, or application of the hack in a real-world setting, is summarized.
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