Cross-posted from FUTR.es: Victor Yu (Udemy) interviewed John Moravec, editor of Education Futures. He argues that technologies need to be used to help students learn how to think … not tell them what to think: “I believe we need to engineer new technologies to help them HOW to learn, not WHAT to learn. Our school [...]

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.

Henry Jenkins thinks so. Watch his interview with PBS’s Frontline: More at PBS’s digital_nation site… (Thanks to Cristóbal Cobo for the link.)

Click on image to start video. Education Futures is receiving a lot of visitors from the Netherlands – supposedly viewers of tonight’s Tegenlicht episode. I enjoyed the interview, and hope that you’ll find the program engaging. I’d like to hear what you think! Also, if you’d like to learn more about the topics I discussed, [...]

Last Wednesday, I sat down for an interview by Rob Wijnberg for VPRO’s Tegenlicht (Backlight) at the Lloyd Hotel in Amsterdam. For the episode that is to air on March 23, the question was asked, “what do education systems need to do to excel in the 21st century?” The program first interviewed Frank Furedi, who [...]

I received feedback from several readers that Arthur Harkins’ reasoning for why we need to Leapfrog might seem a bit too Machiavellian — “us versus them.” I therefore hope everybody will enjoy the contrast of perspective in this next video. In early November, we had an opportunity to interview Jutta Treviranus, director of the Adaptive [...]

This summer, Leapfrog Institutes and Education Futures interviewed Arthur Smith, a Boston-based media producer, on what the role public media might take on to help a state become a leader in innovation. His answer: making innovation economy jobs accessible and fun. More in the video:

Last month, Leapfrog Institutes and Education Futures interviewed Dr. Christopher Dede, Timothy E. Wirth Professor in Learning Technologies, Technology, Innovation, and Education at Harvard University, on what it would take for a state to become a leader in innovation. His answer was quite simple: successful states set up regional economic education development centers. These centers [...]