Jayson Richardson forwarded this link to audio from the Third Global Knowledge Conference (GK3): From UNESCO’s Communication and Information Sector’s news service, the conference centered on the development of knowledge societies, and: Topics ranged from community radio, telecentre, CMC in Asia, Africa and Caribbean, present and future conferences, ICT for disabled, Citizens media, Brain Store, [...]
"My grandmother wanted me to have an education,
so she kept me out of school."
-Margaret Mead
Archive for February, 2008
Quick thoughts on building innovation capital
2/27/2008
Today, I was asked, “what do we need to incorporate into educational programs to build innovation capital [in society]?” Good question. Here are some quick thoughts on how education leaders can build innovation capital in society immediately: Quit trying to manage education – how can we instead attend to educational experiences? Permit students and teachers [...]
Slides and a picture from Friday’s Horizon Forum meeting
2/26/2008
A full report from last Friday’s Horizon Forum meeting (see announcement) will be posted at Education Futures by Jeffrey Schulz soon. In the meantime, here’s the slides from North American Council for Online Learning (NACOL) vice president Allison Powell: And, a picture from the event:
I’m letting my solidarity beard grow!
2/26/2008
That’s right. I’m going to grow out my solidarity beard until the Minnesota Supreme Court decides what to do with us country bumpkin bloggers. From the Minnesota Lawyers Blog, the court is afraid of: the specter of the “unshaven blogger” coming in with cell phone camera at the ready. Apparently the judges are worried about [...]
China hearts m-learning
2/25/2008
You don’t need to understand Mandarin to know what’s going on in these commercials. The videos seem to stream slowly from these Chinese YouTube equivalents, so you may want to brew a pot of coffee as they load. Believe me, it’s worth the wait. First, a collection of Ozing (好记星) commercials: Then, the infomercial: The [...]
Did you ever wonder?
2/22/2008
Bill Farren, a technology integration facilitator in the Dominican Republic, created a response to Karl Fisch’s Did you know? slides: Farren asks: How is preparing students to enter an economic and industrial system that is at war with itself preparing them for the future? Wouldn’t we be better off educating people so that they can [...]
Digital Media and Learning Competition winners
2/21/2008
17 projects will receive up to $238,000 in funding as part of the first ever Digital Media and Learning Competition funded by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and administered by HASTAC (the Humanities, Arts, Science and Technology Advanced Collaboratory). While my proposal wasn’t among the less than 2% of submissions awarded funding, [...]
Do-it-yourself global education
2/21/2008
Maya Frost has put together an interesting blog to help promote ideas she’s assembling for a book: The world is your campus: How to skip the SAT, save thousands on tuition, and get an outrageously relevant global education. Her take is that people need to balance education with creative life experiences. Why learn about the [...]
Map of future forces affecting education
2/19/2008
In response to my post on what Education 3.0 might/ought to look like, Eric Grant posted a link to a Flash-enabled map of trends in education and other potential futures. I like the idea of mapping education futures out with a slick interface. Can we build a Web 2.0-enabled version of something like this that [...]
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