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Unleashing Innovation in Teachers
“In the future I am going to do something that scares me more often.” -Prior Big Ideas Fest 2014 Participant Reflections like the one above are what keep me coming back every year as a designer and facilitator of ISKME’s Big Ideas Fest — an annual immersion in...
The University of Nairobi enhances education for all with Open Educational Resources
UNESCO supported the University of Nairobi, Kenya, to transform four courses from static text into dynamic online learning materials and released with an open license that allows users to freely and legally access, use, and adapt the materials. The courses are hosted...
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...