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“We live in a world of such complexity that our problems increasingly exceed the possibilities of the individual mind. Collaboration is no longer an option.” (HT @brainpicker)
“We live in a world of such complexity that our problems increasingly exceed the possibilities of the individual mind. Collaboration is no longer an option.” (HT @brainpicker)
Charles Leadbeater: Education innovation in the slums | Video on TED.com
Charles Leadbeater went looking for radical new forms of education — and found them in the slums of Rio and Kibera, where some of the world’s poorest kids are finding transformative new ways to learn. And this informal, disruptive new kind of school, he says, is what all schools need to become.
Three Technologies That Changed Our Brains
The Neuroscience of Internet Addiction
Why You Can’t Escape the Internet
From Papyrus to iPad: The Evolution of Reading
Open-Source Textbooks: Free. Customizable. Aligned to Standards.
Restoring the ouroboros to its rightful place in math class.
I Hate Math! (Not After This, You Won’t) : Krulwich Wonders… : NPR
Musician and researcher Charles Limb wondered how the brain works during musical improvisation — so he put jazz musicians and rappers in an fMRI to find out. What he and his team found has deep implications for our understanding of creativity of all kinds.
How to feed the world ? (by Denis van Waerebeke)
a compelling infographic on food distribution
Turn your classroom into a publishing house. Students use Kerpoof’s backgrounds, props, and characters or draw their own illustrations to accompany text. StoryBooks can be printed or shared via the online library.
“Partnership for 21st Century Skills and the Society for Human Resource Management, found that the four skills most prized by employers were a work ethic, an ability to collaborate with others, facility in oral communication and social responsibility” - and you don’t need a high-price degree to achieve them. When the student loan bubble bursts, we’ll be turning to http://Skillshare.com and the like to learn anything from anyone.
See the inventive 8pen. Forget what you know about typing.
Apply your text book budget to tablets.
Uganda has one of the first social entrepreneurship curricula taught on a national level in the world. Will it serve as a model for other countries to follow?
Radiolab and NPR Present Words (via Radi0Lab)
Artist John Baldessari is quoted in last week’s New Yorker Magazine: “David Foster Wallace once said that the duty of the writer is to make the reader feel intelligent, and let them fill in the gaps.”
Locally fabricated, repurposed…anything. This is a blog dedicated to people solving everyday problems with African ingenuity - the heart of the Maker Faire movement.
