Education is something we’re deeply passionate about, but the fact remains that today’s dominant formal education model is a broken system based on antiquated paradigms. While much has been said and written about education reform over the past couple of years, the issue and the public discourse around it are hardly new phenomena. Today, we round up the most compelling and visionary reading on reinventing education from the past century.
Here is a brief timeline of information technology’s development and influence since the 1958 article from the Harvard Business Review. It demands that the reader keep an open mind about what defines “information technology,” which today includes everything from video games to smartphones to the Internet.
Now that there are entire programming languages dedicated to automating data visualization, you couldn't be faulted for assuming that Stefanie Posavec creates her dizzingly intricate infographics with algorithmic help. But you'd be wrong. In this gorgeous video profile by Protein, Posavec reveals that she analyzes and creates her data-viz projects by hand.
Bringing together citizens, activists, artists, students, academics, media makers, and policy makers for ten years under a three-pronged approach to dialogue and reform:
Vancouver is a coastal seaport city on the mainland of British Columbia, Canada. It is the hub of Greater Vancouver, which, with over 2.3 million residents, is the third most populous metropolitan area in the country, and the most populous in Western Canada.
Skype in the classroom is a free community to help teachers everywhere use Skype to help their students learn. It’s a place for teachers to connect with each other, find partner classes and share inspiration. This is a global initiative that was created in response to the growing number of teachers using Skype in their classrooms
Media Awareness Network offers resources that help young people develop the digital literacy skills and tools they need to use the Web wisely, safely, and ethically.
Enquiring Minds is an approach to teaching and learning, developed by Futurelab, that takes students’ ideas, interests and experiences as its starting point, and provides them with more responsibility for the direction and content of their learning.
TED Talks How can we begin to understand the way the brain works? The same way we begin to understand a city: by making a map. In this visually stunning talk, Allan Jones shows how his team is mapping which genes are turned on in each tiny region, and how it all connects up.
-Shot on Canon 550D with -Tamron 10-24mm f3.5-4.5 -Nikorr 35mm f2
MUSIC (in this order) Mumford and Sons/ Awake my Soul Fleet Foxes/ Blue Ridge Mountains The Tallest Man on Earth/ Wild Hunt Bon Iver/ Babys Asteroid Galaxy Tour/ Sunshine Coolin'
As Earth's human population hits 7 billion, there's little agreement on what its future growth will look like. And different countries all face their own challenges to maintain a stable, productive population.
We often think of media consumption as a private and not a public behaviour. The shows we watch, the music we listen to, the games we play; these decisions are made according to private likes. Even media experiences that appear to be public are imbued with a sense of privacy. Consider a student running into a teacher at the movie theatre and the uncanny feeling resulting from the collision of the private self and the public student life...
The Creative Storytelling Platform - is a simple way to create, archive and share the stories that you're working one. Projeqt gives you the tools and technology to tell your story. It provides a robust architecture, with unprecedented flexibility and possibilities.
The Alliance for Excellent Education invites you – teachers, students, parents, principals, district administrators, as well as state and national education leaders – to engage in Digital Learning Day, a year-long campaign to celebrate bold, creative innovative teachers in classrooms across this nation.
When Willard Psychiatric Center in New York's Finger Lakes closed in 1995, workers discovered hundreds of suitcases in the attic of an abandoned building. Many of them appeared untouched since their owners packed them decades earlier before entering the institution.
Positive thinking is a choice. It is a mental attitude that expects good and favorable results. It brings inner peace, success, improved relationships, better health, happiness and satisfaction. It also radiates to people around you, and one way or the other, they are influenced by it.
The Berkman Center's Interactive collection features conversations with and talks by leading cyber-scholars, entrepreneurs, activists, and policymakers as they explore topics such as: the factors that influence knowledge creation and dissemination in the digital age; the character of power as the worlds of governance, business, citizenship, and the media meet the Internet; and the opportunities, role, and limitations of new technologies in learning.
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