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Big Ideas Fest 2014 — Innovating around education
Technolibrarian Carolyn Foote shares her experience and her takeaways from ISKME's Big Ideas Fest. Big Ideas Fest is a unique conference. When I first saw tweets about it, even the name intrigued me. Who wouldn’t want to talk about the big ideas? More workshop...
Turn on, Tune in, Drop into Improv
We’ve built in “improv"–the improvisational method of achieving cooperation–into the DNA of Action Collabs that we offer at ISKME. Most recently, a writer from San Francisco’s KQED Mind/Shift called out our use of improv at our annual Big Ideas Fest. If you check out...
The Grand Escape: From the Solitary Classroom to a New Social Architecture
ISKME’s “Teachers Advancing Common Core Learning” project addresses teacher isolation by building networks of collaborators. The project is part of the Teacher Practice Networks Initiative, supported by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Here’s a bird’s...
Sugata Mitra’s “Granny Cloud” Wins Education Prize
PRLog - Feb. 2, 2015 - HALF MOON BAY, Calif. -- In 2013, Professor Sugata Mitra was awarded the $1 million TED Prize to build the ultimate “School in the Cloud” -- learning labs where children, given their innate sense of wonder and...
5 Questions for Ashanti Branch
Talk about Big Ideas Fest success stories. Ashanti Branch walked off the stage at Big Ideas Fest 2014 and onto the stage at Sundance Film Festival in early 2015, where he premiered his documentary, The Mask You Live In. A high school principal, Ashanti developed a...