Around the World in 30 Days – March 2016
C. M. Rubin’s Global Education Report From Education Fast Forward’s 17th debate in partnership with UNESCO at Mobile Learning Week in Paris, to our Twitter Chat on Multiculturalism in partnership with Edmodo, to interviewing the Top 10 finalists for the Varkey Foundation’s Global Teacher Prize, to exploring cutting edge technology that’s changing music education, to welcoming the voices of new experts to our...
The Global Search for Education: How to Make Music Online
“Because it’s a platform and not just a tool, the eco-system allows for non-musicians to participate alongside musicians, music producers, artists, music labels/publishers and the industry as a whole. You can make and share music in real time with people around the planet.” — Craig Swann Craig Swann, the Founder and Chief Imagination Officer of Looplabs, wants everyone to be able to create their own music....
Around the World in 30 Days – January 2016
C. M. Rubin’s Global Education Report What are the biggest trends shaping education? Define learning literacy? How is online education transforming Latin America? Our voices in The Global Search for Education this month, including Thana Faroq, Gabriel Sanchez Zinny, Tracy Burns, Felix Bernstein, Michael Trucano, Jon Harman and Jim Wynn, shared profound insights into the art world, the growing opportunities afforded by new...
The Global Search for Education: “There is Life Here….”
“In the streets in Yemen where daily life is beyond difficult, I’ve learned about the almost unimaginable capacity for the human spirit to carry on. I’ve learned about resilience and strength.” — Thana Faroq And Thana Faroq is proving it to audiences all over the world with her powerful photography. Thana explains that her art allows her “to eliminate ignorance, educate and inspire, even during...
Bieber Bathos Elegy and Bernstein – Live from The Whitney
Bieber Bathos Elegy debuts at The Whitney this month “It’s time for me to grow up,” Justin Bieber said in a recent interview. And growing up amidst the pressures of a complex world and a relentless public eye is the tricky, tenuous, entertaining theme of New York based artist Felix Bernstein’s new musical spectacle, Bieber Bathos Elegy, which will debut at The Whitney Museum of American Art this month. During...
Around the World in 30 Days — October 2015
C. M. Rubin’s Global Education Report The stark problem of inequality from a wide range of theoretical and hands-on perspectives was a major theme in my global discussions this month. Inequality (gender and economic) causes huge gaps in who can get a good education, but it also creates gaps in who are unable to use their education for employment. The solutions are numerous and complex, but one fact is clear — reducing...
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