Chancellor Joel Klein and Sir Ken Robinson discuss where schools should and are heading in the near future. It feels good to hear them as I work on designing a new high school in New York City - we're focused on helping kids find their passions.
Kiran Bir Sethi teaches kids to take change the world and brought me to tears at #tedxnyed
via ted.com
Kiran Bir Sethi's TED talk about empowering young people to change their local community was beyond inspiring. Her kids changed the town they lived in. She wrote up the strategy, translated it into 8 languages, and distributed it all around India. The result? Over 40,000 schools working for real change all around India.
For those who don't think that educational change can scale, Kiran Bir Sethi shows you that it indeed can. Want your school to be a part of this? Join the Design for Change contest.
Thanks to TEDxNYED for bringing this video to my awareness.
Join GLSEN's Safe Space campaign to support LGBTQ students in our schools
via youtube.com
Visit GLSEN's Be an Ally resource page to order a kit for your school or a school you know.
Funny Laptop CSI video - good for laptop programs
via kassblog.com
funny video by way of @kassissieh by way of Wes Fryer.
Thanks for giving me a laugh this evening. Laptop schools, does this feel familiar? Without the mean investigators, of course!
Exploring QR codes in schools
via technosavvy.org
From @abowllan comes a link to this thought-provoking article by Tim Wilsonabout what might be possible in schools using QR codes. I think the case is a little overstated in the post, but it's fun to think about nonetheless. If you don't know what a QR code (that bar code-looking item) is, the article explains that, too.