Ken Singer is a grad student in the Learning Sciences. A stubborn and rebellious child of educators and entrepreneurs, he started his career as a tech entrepreneur and then transitioned into higher ed, proving once again that despite all efforts, some of us become our parents. Ken has spent his teaching career trying to reach innovators and risk-takers, finding that many resist or reject traditional forms of instruction. As a result, he co-created new pedagogies to help non-traditional learners, across cultures, access entrepreneurial knowledge and develop entrepreneurial mindsets and skills.
Today, he works with universities, governments, corporations and non-profits to develop and implement education programs in entrepreneurship, leadership and innovation. He is particularly interested in providing entrepreneurial training to young people in developing countries. He has helped design entrepreneurship curriculum for university students in Chile, Mexico, Philippines and the UK and has taught accredited courses in 10+ countries.
Ken's current scholarly interests are in two areas: 1) dynamics of entrepreneurial mentoring: mentorship is recognized as a critical mode of learning for entrepreneurs. Yet, little is known as to what happens in a mentoring environment; 2) how we understand newness or novelty. Some suggest that learning is the process of turning the new into the known. If this is the case, when something is new to the entire world, how do we turn a new thing into something that is collectively known and what implications does that have for inventors of new technologies like AI?
While Ken holds a BA in History of Science and Technology from UC Berkeley, he has genuine curiosity about every field. If you're working on something interesting or have an interesting question to explore, he'd love to buy you a cup of coffee.
Specializations and Interests
Lateral Relationships in the context of learning; The practice of entrepreneurial mentoring; Learning Frameworks; Technology-mediated learning
