Ideas for Cities: Google Analytics for Learning
- Posted by: GOOD
- on November 5, 2009 at 5:00 am
Google Analytics for Learning
Cities should measure the impact of learning more closely, because education reduces unemployment and poverty and creates a greater culture of ingenuity—producing jobs and individual entrepreneurs. The city and its citizens should use better analytics to make it clear why investments in learning and the learning infrastructure more than pays for themselves. Learning solves problems.
This is part eight of a continuing brainstorm on the future of cities, inaugurated at the Velocity conference in September 2009. We’ll post a new idea each day until we run out, at which point we’re counting on you to come up with something smart. Do you have a good idea for improving your city? Add it in the comments below, or tweet it to @GOOD with hashtag #cityideas—we’ll publish the best ones. Tomorrow’s idea: Learning Jobs.
DISCUSSION: 2 Comments
(too long for twitter) #cityideasdigitally integrate CSAs and CSA members by using a Farmville (fbook)-like application so that city residents can monitor their crops and share the success (or failure) of their crops with friends. Ideally, this app will be available across social networking platforms as well as in RSS feeds. Make CSAs more popular and publicly conscious by using web 2.0-tech.
This is a great idea. It is unfortunately that funding for education, has come down to this, but using analytics to make the case for increased investment is a great idea and one that is sorely needed, especially in state with perpetually underfund systems like Arizona.