Gary Knell is President and CEO of Sesame Workshop, has been a major force behind Sesame Street’s global mission, and has helped the program expand to South Africa, Russia, China and Egypt. He spoke on the topic of “innovation” at the 2009 WISE Summit, and was able to answer a few of Education Future’s questions after one of the events.
"Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana."
-Bill Gates
Archive for November, 2009
Plan Ceibal book unleashed tomorrow
11/18/2009
Friends and colleagues in Uruguay are invited to attend a presentation of the Plan Ceibal book (on OLPC) tomorrow at 7pm in Montevideo:
Curriki: Open source education materials
11/11/2009
Open source collaborative content holds the promise of freely distributed high-quality education materials. Developing and sustaining the community to needed accomplish that is the difficult part.
Education Futures in the Netherlands
11/9/2009
I’m back from a busy week in the Netherlands. First on the agenda was Education Futures NL, an Education 3.0-focused workshop collaboration between Education Futures and Helikon (Fons van den Berg). In addition to our collaboration, the workshop was supplemented with contributions from Cristóbal Cobo and the Knowmads. Meeting space for the event was generously [...]
Jean Piaget on creativity and innovation in education
11/6/2009
Piaget: “We can classify education into two main categories: passive education relying primarily on memory, and active education relying on intelligent understanding and discovery. Our real problem is what is the goal of education? Are we forming children who are only capable of learning what is already known? Or should we try to develop creative [...]
Wanted: 30 Knowmads
11/3/2009
Remember Knowmads in Society 3.0? Something amazing is brewing in Europe. And, they’re looking for thirty candidates from around the world. Knowmads is a new school for the world of tomorrow, starting in January 2010 in The Netherlands. After two years of learning with and from KaosPilots (International School for New Business Design and Social [...]
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Apply by December 17 for the next Knowmads tribe
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Knowmads in the Netherlands
The Knowmads have released their new brochure, which I made available for download at futr.es/knowbro. Please give it a read and spread the word!
A one-year program, they are looking to build their next tribe for the February 2011 – February 2012 program. The application deadline is December 17. To get started, simply send an email stating that you’re interested to apply@knowmads.nl.
Leapfrogging toward Knowmad Society
John Moravec at TEDxLaguna.
Knowmads’ Western Asia Summer Course
The Knowmads (NL) are launching an interesting social entrepreneurship experience in Western Asia. I’m sharing their release in its entirety because I believe this is a worthwhile learning and praxis opportunity for developing Knowmads: Theme: Social Entrepreneurship This summer course is all about experiencing the Knowmads way of working. We will work with you, in [...]
Knowmads take on KLM’s extended office
This video contains a great introduction to the Knowmads in the Netherlands and their latest project: Improving the extended office for KLM‘s business travelers. The application period to join the next Knowmads team (“Team 2″) is now open, and will close on June 18. Click here for more information and to apply. Also, click here [...]
Knowmads in the Netherlands
Education Futures introduced the knowmads concept last November. And, now we just learned that a major Dutch school of youth entrepreneurship, KaosPilots Netherlands, has decided to rebrand themselves as “Knowmads” (soon to be located online at knowmads.nl?). From i-genius: KaosPilots Netherlands in Rotterdam is shutting its doors and the team is reopening under a new [...]
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