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All it Costs to Fix the World is 60 Million Dollars
First, let’s get clear about this: sixty million dollars is not a lot of money. Let’s think about a few things that cost in that price range. The Bucky-Gandhi Design Institution » ...
An Amazing Workshop Starts Tomorrow–Would Attend if not for Freakin Grad School Orientation
A hands-on approach to Third World aid - MIT News Office via kwout I must say that it's a bit comforting knowing that I live down the road from M.I.T. ...
Oamos Opens Up Meta-Search for Embedding on Websites
Affected Clapping previewed the new Oamos meta-data search engine back in May, and it seems the developer has been busy. Registered users can now embed the search engine right into their ...
Sir Ken Robinson Addresses a Group of Superintendents @ The Apple Education Leadership Summit
If you've seen Sir Ken Robinson's speech at TED, this will seem very familiar. However, this time Robinson addressed a bunch of Superintendents from around the world at Apple's ...
Open-Source Professional Development: Teachers Are Already Doing It!
I stumbled on this post this morning, which led me to a Powerpoint presentation teaching educators how to use Google Docs, EDITED BY OVER 500 people! ...
“Students discover beauty through their cameras” (in Rwanda)
From Global Venture I found this article, published in Rwanda's Sunday Times from Global Venture, via Paul Allison's excellent blog, New Journalism. To know Rwanda is to know ...
Why Evernote is More Than Useful
[Editor's Note: If you have no idea what Evernote is check out my previous post: Evernote Invites: First Come First Served] Evernote Has the Potential to Change the Way Teachers Manage Their ...
Music and Life
"It was a musical thing and you were supposed to sing or dance while the music was being played." I’d like to tell you a quick story that wrote ...
Recent Email to Staff (let’s see if anyone will listen)
Integrating Chatterous: Will it work? Will anyone care? Okay Staff, I have an idea. Don't delete this until you've actually heard my idea: you don't like it, that's cool. What if there was ...
Web 2.0 Start-Ups (the round-up)
At The Next Web Conference, on April 3rd and 4th in Amsterdam, quite a few new companies are going to be showing off their ideas of what the web will ...
The School of Everything
A new look at education that focuses on pairing students (in the most liberal sense of the word) with teachers. The School of Everything
Open-Source Cities? Remixing Cities 2.0
CEO's for Cities is "a cross sector network of urban leaders dedicated to speeding innovation in cities." The recently released "Remixing Cities", a way of looking at the traditional city as ...
The Million Phone Initiative
Droga5, an Australian Advertising firm, outlines its' plans for New York City's Million Phone Initiative, a way for using cell-phones as a learning tool in schools throughout the city. To see ...
2.1a Variable Case Study: The Curriculum is Now Open
In 2.1 I began identifying the resources each school has at their disposal. One I failed to write about is something often referred to as the “curriculum”. But what is a ...
Open Source Education: Part 2.1 (Identifying the Variables)
Open-Source Education: Why Everyone and Everything Involved with Education is Interchangeable and Expendable. Except the Students That is. Part 2.1: Identifying Resources + Variables ED: Due to the length of this section, it will be broken ...
DataPortability: Connect, Control, Share, Remix
Taking a play directly out of The Horizon Report’s prediction of increased Social Operating Systems (SOS) (central databases where all of ...
The Open Source Debate
The question isn't whether FOSS (free, open-source software) can make money. The question is whether FOSS can make as much money as traditional, license-based software (think Office, Adobe, etc.). Because FOSS ...
Open Source Education: Part 1
Why Everyone and Everything Involved with Education is Interchangeable and Expendable. Except the Students That is. [Ed: This is a weekly series detailing my plan for a new way of thinking about education, including, ...