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ISKME's Action Collabs™ are dynamic workshops that use the design-thinking framework to innovate new ideas with actionable next steps. This Action Collab group presentation highlights "Common Currency," a web service that "leverages existing tools for creation, curation and sharing, and delivers the information most relevant" to teachers and learners, in line with Common Core standards—while also compensating contributors.
Topics: California, Half Moon Bay, Big Ideas Fest, Youtube, action collab, common currency, iskme,...
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Apr 7, 2014
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ISKME's Action Collabs™ are dynamic workshops that use the design-thinking framework to innovate new ideas with actionable next steps. This Action Collab group presentation "My Voice, Communicate With Confidence" outlines a wristband that could be worn by students to collect information, including some biometric data such as stress level, and also questions from students (who would always be in charge of what info they wanted to share), helping to better inform the educational...
Topics: California, Half Moon Bay, Big Ideas Fest, Youtube, action collab, iskme, big ideas fest, my voice,...
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Apr 7, 2014
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ISKME's Action Collabs™ are dynamic workshops that use the design-thinking framework to innovate new ideas with actionable next steps. This Action Collab group presentation outlines "Six Degrees of Connection," a program where six students have six immersive experiences with members of the local community, thereby sparking passion and igniting learning.
Topics: California, Half Moon Bay, Big Ideas Fest, Youtube, action collab, six degrees of connection,...
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Apr 7, 2014
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ISKME's Action Collabs™ are dynamic workshops that use the design-thinking framework to innovate new ideas with actionable next steps. In this presentation, a group composed of students and educators outlines their idea for a passport connecting local businesses with students, to facilitate standards-aligned learning in a way that is less prescriptive than traditional education—and more fun.
Topics: California, Half Moon Bay, Big Ideas Fest, Youtube, action collab, iskme, design challenge,...
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Apr 7, 2014
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ISKME's Action Collabs™ are dynamic workshops that use the design-thinking framework to innovate new ideas with actionable next steps. This Action Collab group presentation outlines "Bonfire," a series of micro events where attendees at face-to-face gatherings unite the best of oral tradition and the best of the digital age, by explaining the spark that ignited their passion, documenting theses stories via video, and then using the Internet to stay connected with those they meet.
Topics: California, Half Moon Bay, Big Ideas Fest, Youtube, action collab, iskme, bonfire, institute for...
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Apr 7, 2014
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Apr 7, 2014
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ISKME's Action Collabs™ are dynamic workshops that use the design-thinking framework to innovate new ideas with actionable next steps. This Action Collab group presentation explains "Out of the Box, Into the Community," an answer to the question "How might we enable communities and learners of all ages to share passions and experiences with one another?" A simple box, filled with items of importance to students and of relevance to experts, creates a dynamic, flexible...
Topics: California, Half Moon Bay, Big Ideas Fest, Youtube, out of the box, into the community, big ideas...
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Apr 7, 2014
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We should be preparing kids for life in the 21st century," emphasizes Ali Partovi of Code.org. "And in the 21st century, some knowledge of computer programming is necessary no matter what you want to do when you grow up." This talk outlines an effort to change the mindsets and laws which have relegated computer science to an elective. To that end, Code.org rallies tech giants and celebrities, in videos and in international programs that reframe computer science as an exciting,...
Topics: California, Half Moon Bay, Big Ideas Fest, Youtube, ali partovi, hour of code, computer science,...
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Apr 7, 2014
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ISKME's Action Collabs™ are dynamic workshops that use the design-thinking framework to innovate new ideas with actionable next steps. This Action Collab group presentation explains "Knowledge Circle," a program that would connect students with their surrounding community and provide in-person and web-based resources that empower learners to solve local problems with local solutions.
Topics: California, Half Moon Bay, Big Ideas Fest, Youtube, action collab, knowledge circle, iskme,...
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Apr 7, 2014
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ISKME's Action Collabs™ are dynamic workshops that use the design-thinking framework to innovate new ideas with actionable next steps. This Action Collab group presentation on "Data Diver Dots" explains a downloadable widget tool that unites practitioners with personal, relevant info, using a "data diver" to troll for current research that can best inform educational practice.
Topics: California, Half Moon Bay, Big Ideas Fest, Youtube, iskme, action collab, data diver dots, bif, big...
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Apr 4, 2014
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Gabrielle Lyon, of Project Exploration, explains how her organization uses high-caliber out of school science programs to inspire kids to become interested in science, to maintain that interest and to use the spark of intrigue to pursue a career in science if they so choose. In a 10-year study, Project Exploration found that 95 percent of the students they served were on track to graduate, and with an eye on how the program impacts participants for the long haul, this talk explores the...
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Apr 4, 2014
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Marie Cini, Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs at University of Maryland University College, explains how her institution—dedicated entirely to adult learners—has become committed to personalizing the education process to each student. Through predictive modeling, determining risk profiles and developing interventions, UMUC has managed to target where individual students need help and how to best help them. The result? A rising completion rate and thousands more students...
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How do we rebuild education around things we're passionate about sharing?" asks Nic Weidinger, founder of Wikiseat, an organization that uses a simple tool called a catalyst to get people started building their own chairs. Wikiseat has now inspired classrooms far and wide, from fourth grade to college, and across subject matters, to use chair building as a tactile backdrop for a variety of lesson plans. In this talk, Weidinger explores whether there is a "catalyst," similar to...
Topics: California, Half Moon Bay, Big Ideas Fest, Youtube, nic weidinger, seats of change, wikiseat,...
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Mar 5, 2014
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Nina Simon, Executive director of the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History, emphasizes the importance of using social objects to bridge the gap between individual and collective experience. By seeing museums not as silent, private halls—but rather as gathering spaces for unique, participatory connections— Simon explains how we can "think big, but also thinks small," considering the intricate barriers we can leap over to "transform our communities and ourselves."...
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