Shop Class, Makers, and The Future of Education in California
Imagine taking a class in high school where you can create a tool for eating your favorite food. Maybe you want a special set of chopsticks to eat your homegrown salad, or a high-tech polymer spork to scoop up the latest in laboratory grown nutrients. What you decide to build is limited only by the imagination. And if this is your first time deigning and manufacturing something, do not fear, an experienced maker will be there to guide you through the process.
- Nicolas Weidinger's blog
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Exploring Social Production in Education
One of the key themes of our Ten-Year Forecast retreat last month was the concept of social production - production that draws on contributions from large networks of people, enabled by social technologies, to create new kinds of wealth. Last week, Marina explored what social production might mean for the world of education when she addressed the 2011 Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC) Academic Resource Conference in San Francisco.
- Anna Davies's blog
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Exploring Digital Media and Empathy with Facing History
- Anna Davies's blog
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BodyShock Winner Profile: Educating Underserved Patients
Jan 12 SF event, The Power of Play: Innovations in Getting Active
In just under a week, on January 12, leaders in the areas of fitness, science, health care, game design, video games, and education will converge to talk about the Power of Play, especially active gaming.
- Rachel Hatch's blog
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California Pioneer Sparks Education Revolution
My kids and I are students at the biggest school in the world, that started in Sal Khan's home in Mountain View, California.
- Alexandra Carmichael's blog
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Ends vs. Means and Persuasive Games
A video featuring Carnegie Mellon Professor of Entertainment Technology Jesse Schell has been making the rounds this week, and it touches on a number of themes that I think are central to understanding the intersection of games, education, and persuasive technology.
- Mathias Crawford's blog
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Games and Education / Games as Education
Last week the New York based Games for Learning Institute, in conjunction with NYU, hosted a lecture by game developer Will Wright. I've been thinking a lot about games and education for our upcoming Future of Persuasion conference, and my ears perked up when I saw that the lecture had been put online, and after watching the hour long video, I was definitely not disappointed.
- Mathias Crawford's blog
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Scratch and Computational Thinking
I've been thinking a lot about the growth in programming and computational skills that will be required in a world in which Everything is Programmable, and I was really surprised and heartened to see an article by Mitch Resnick et al. about Scratch in this month's Communications of the ACM.
- Mathias Crawford's blog
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Microsoft and Ghana Ministry of Education sign a Memorandum of Understanding
Microsoft is investing in building ICT capabilities in Ghana. The MoU is an extension of the 2004 relationship between Microsoft and Ghana in which three IT academies were established and 300 teachers within all levels of education were trained.
- Tessa Finlev's blog
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