I had the great honor of attending the TEDActive conference last week, and I’m still swirling from the inspiring ideas shared and incredible connections made! TEDActive brings together global innovators – the doers, makers, and thinkers of the world – to interact and learn from one another while experiencing a live simulcast of TED2011: The [...]
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The following is guest post by Sanjli Gidwaney, an inspired individual dedicated to encouraging creativity through systematic curriculum change in developing countries around the world. Sanjli has recently taken on the role of Country Coordinator to bring the global Design for Change competition to the United States! My name is Sanjli Gidwaney from Design for Change, [...] With this post I want to introduce an incredible individual, Marvin Hall, whose Halls of Learning organization is dedicated to empowering young learners through education. A former math teacher and lifelong lover of mind challenging puzzle play, Marvin has dedicated his life to creating innovating new learning opportunities for children in Jamaica. Photography by Joanna [...] Here, ThinkFun founder Andrea Barthello shares the incredible story of William Kamkwamba. This inspired young man from Malawi truly embodies what it means to be a problem solver. Enjoy! During the spring of 2007 I received a phone call from my son Sam who was at the time a sophomore at Princeton University. With some urgency [...] In this poignant, funny follow-up to his famous 2006 TED talk in which he accused schools of killing creativity, Creativity Expert Sir Ken Robinson challenges the way we’re educating our children. He makes the case for a radical shift from standardized schools to personalized (child-centered) learning — creating conditions where kids’ natural [...] ThinkFun CEO Bill Ritchie in his Super Solver cape! This is as good a time as any to introduce ThinkFun CEO and co-founder, Bill Ritchie! Over the last few weeks, Bill has been jetting all over the country, stopping in Berkeley, CA to visit the folks at the Bunge Lab for Cognitive Control and Development who [...] |
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