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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...
Genetics Gets Personal with the ISKME & 23andMe Learning Challenge
The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers; he's the one who asks the right questions. - Claude Lévi-Strauss Do you remember studying genetics in school? Perhaps you built a double helix model or filled in a Punnett square. The field of genetics...
Conference focuses on bringing Big Ideas home
Some big ideas start small. This year's Big Ideas Fest focused on "Education Innovation for a Small Planet," and it was a little different from previous years. Located here in Half Moon Bay, the Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education deserves...
QFI Teacher Sanaa ElKhattabi reflects on her trip to Big Ideas Fest
QFI is a proud sponsor of Big Ideas Fest at Half Moon Bay. Big Ideas Fest is a unique three-day immersion into collaboration and design with a focus on modeling cutting-edge thinking in K-20 education. QFI sent five Arabic teachers from across the US;...