Posts Tagged ‘ global education ’

2008 in review: What happened to this year’s predictions?

12/21/2008

[Photo by darkmatter] At the beginning of this year, I released five predictions for global education in 2008. How did I do? It’s a mixed bag, ranging from being completely off to spot on… with some surprises, too! Prediction #1: Largely driven by the moderate success of OLPC, Linux will emerge as the platform of [...]


Dropping Out–Or Leaping Ahead?

10/27/2008

Even in a week packed with all kinds of dire predictions about the economy, it was hard to ignore this headline: Kids Less Likely To Graduate Than Parents. (See the AP story here) According to the report by the Education Trust, more than one in four high school students in the US drop out before [...]


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Two-Way Immersion is Twice As Good

An innovative program offered in some Massachusetts elementary schools is giving kids a chance to become bilingual early—and learn from each other. This story in the Boston Globe describes how the program, which begins in kindergarten, mixes native English speakers and native Spanish speakers and teaches all subjects in both languages. The article states: According [...]


Virtual teachers and virtual ecophagy

Two articles surfaced recently regarding Second Life. First, CNN reports that over 60 educational organizations are using Second Life to explore how to promote learning in the virtual world. Whereas there is a concern that mainstay online education providers do not provide a sense of community or social interaction, virtual, three-dimensional online communities may fill [...]


Horizon Forum: Integrating technology and innovation in schools

Join us for this year’s first meeting of the Horizon Forum! The Horizon Forum is a “mold breaking” round-table initiated by the College of Education and Human Development at the University of Minnesota to facilitate action-oriented discussions on how we may design outstanding educational futures for Minnesota. Dr. Tom Tapper, Superintendent of Owatonna Public Schools, [...]


A Manoa makeover

The folks at the Hawaii Research Center for Futures Studies completely redesigned their Web page. Now up-to-date, continuously updated, Blogger-embedded, and visually appealing, it’s a great leap forward among academic sites on futures. Long live Web 2.0!!!


Meaningful knowledge production by 21st century youth

Arthur Harkins and I delivered a presentation on “Meaningful knowledge production by 21st century youth” at the 2nd International Conference on Youth and Education for the 21st Century at Texas A&M, Corpus Christi, TX on May 31. Read on for the abstract or download the PowerPoint slides from www.leapfrogamerica.org.


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