Things I've Studied
​​"Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself".​
John Dewey​
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OK - Now that I've pilfered a quote by a cool dude to explain why an old guy like me went back to school, I will say this:
The LDT program was perhaps the most intellectually stimulating thing I've done in my adult life. It shepharded me through a world of fascinating books, amazing lectures, mind-expanding conferences and seminars, brilliant personalities and a sometimes murderous workload of homework.
Learning
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Whether it was the classes introducing me to teaching, qualitative research, or theories of how cognition and learning really work, I learnt a lot about how people learn. I read the works of such education thinkers as Dewey, Skinner, Vygotsky, and was taught by leading academics like Dan Schwartz, Paulo Blikstein and Denise Pope.

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Design
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There were two sets of skills that I learnt early on - Design thinking and Sketching for Product Design. How to design stuff was an incredibly useful thing for an entrepreneur like me to learn. I tried out this design thinking methodology in several subsequent projects and it invariably delivered.
As far as the product sketching was concerned, I expect it to come in useful with the "comic books in education" project I hope to work on at some point.

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Technology
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In order to be able to leverage technology to improve education, I needed to be broken in on the technology itself. Technology for Learners showcased best practices in education technology while making me aware of the cutting edge. I was able to use a lot of this knowledge in a short survey project with Stanford GSB students to recommend technology best practices for First Line Schools.
I also had the opportunity to learn basic Java programming. Last but not the least, I learnt about the Maker movement and it's contribution to education in my Bits and Atoms class.
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