Dispatches From the Field: Big Ideas Fest
Carie Page Dec 7, 2012 This week, NGLC staff headed west to attend Big Ideas Fest, an annual gathering of teachers, policymakers, funders, and researchers dedicated to surfacing “big ideas” in education. After three days of networking, we left inspired, refreshed, and...
Big Ideas Fest Engages Half Moon Bay Teachers
Cabrillo District teachers attend Big Ideas Fest, an annual convening of innovators in education, redesigning the future of education. By Christa Bigue December 4, 2012 An “Education Renaissance” is happening in Half Moon Bay this week, and Cabrillo Unified...
Conference Gives Green Light to Ideas
Educators collaborate to solve problems By Sara Hayden [ sara@hmbreview.com ] Since Sunday, teachers have been in class, or something like it. The Big Ideas Fest hosted at the Ritz-Carlton, Half Moon Bay, brought out about 240 people from across the United States to...
‘Big Ideas Fest’ Tackles Money Matters and Startup Ideas
For the second set of presentations Monday afternoon here at the Big Ideas Fest in Half Moon Bay, Calif., the emphasis was on identifying more efficent ways to use financial resources to help students and encouraging education entrepreneurs to create products and...
Fostering Big Ideas to Solve Problems in Education
Greetings from stunningly gorgeous Half Moon Bay, Calif., where I am covering the 2012 Big Ideas Fest, hosted by ISKME. ISKME, or the Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education, which runs the OER Commons, brings together educators across the P-20...