The Global Search for Education: Your Mission is To Play!
“Our technology targets the more basic ability of an individual to perceive and prioritize conflicting streams of information (or ‘interference’) which should allow an individual to control his or her goals in sensory rich environments, like everyday life.” — Eddie Martucci Tap Screen to Start! Project: EVO is a mobile game platform that trains your brain to ignore distractions and stay focused. Pilot...
The Global Search for Education: The New Higher Ed
“Members of our Founding Class have secured internships and positions at Ashoka, Learn Capital, Santa Fe Institute, Uber, and other great institutions – equivalent to some of the best opportunities presented to rising seniors or graduates of the Ivy League.” — Ben Nelson Every day the demand for an American higher education increases worldwide. But one of the crucial blocks to achieving a degree is the costly...
The Global Search for Education: Just Imagine – John Martin
“There’s a real chance that more or less all schoolchildren everywhere will have access to mobile devices by 2050 and will be allowed to use those devices for learning. Imagine the profound impact on our people and planet when that generation gets access to mobile learning across the globe.” — John Martin Preparing our students for a new world of Innovation is a theme we cover consistently in The Global Search...
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...
The Global Search for Education: Our Top 12 Global Teacher Blogs – Can Social Media Have a Role to Play in Managing a Successful Classroom?
To understand how marketers in different domains are using social media, Social Media Examiner commissioned it’s seventh annual 2015 Social Media Marketing Industry Report. Some interesting take homes from this report include: 90% of marketers credit social media for generating more exposure for their brands, with 77% citing that a major benefit is increased traffic and 69% saying they use social media to do market research and...
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