indigenously thinking about education
Sat, 10/14/2006 - 6:56pm — depree
He is thinking indigenously about diversifying our educational system. You have to see the whole video and he's a western man.
Sir Ken Robinson
http://www.ted.com/tedtalks/tedtalksplayer.cfm?key=ken_robinson
Sir Ken Robinson is author of Out of Our Minds: Learning to be Creative, and a leading expert on innovation and human resources. In this talk, he makes an entertaining (and profoundly moving) case for creating an education system that nurtures creativity, rather than undermining it. (Recorded February, 2006 in Monterey, CA.)
A virtual (e.g. online) conference: Impact of Digital Media Symp
A virtual (e.g. online) conference: Impact of Digital Media Symposium
http://www.nmc.org/campus/Impact_of_Digital_Media_Symposium The NMC is hosting a 12-day virtual (online) symposium on the NMC Campus in Second Life focusing on the impact of digital media on all aspects of our daily lives. October 10 through Saturday, October 21 This virtual symposium is informed by the MacArthur Foundation Series on Digital Media and Learning, a two-year project in which the NMC is helping to explore the impact of digital media on our lives in a variety of ways, and encouraging dialog among experts, visionaries, and thought leaders from around the globe. This unique event brings that dialog to the current residents of Second Life. The symposium is also a precursor to the upcoming NMC Online Conference on Digital Media (October 24-25), which will reflect on some of the same themes. The singular focus of the 12-day symposium is to consider how the applications of digital media are changing our lives, and how they have impacted the ways we work, learn, collaborate, and even socialize. Recurring themes will be: * Identity and self-image * Credibility and the reliability of Information * Civic and social involvement * The arts, creativity, and design * Social networking * Pedagogical potentials and implications Digital media, for this event, is interpreted broadly as anything from the traditional uses of the medium for creating and sharing rich content to the explosion of blogs for self expression, and increasingly, real time interpretation of news and breaking events. Also included is the notion of shared content via sites like Flickr, YouTube, and blip.tv, social sites like FaceBook and MySpace, and more powerful content and media search tools.