The Global Search for Education: A World of Oppi-tunities!
The Oppi Festival pops up at Leman Manhattan School in NYC on May 15 and 16. When Quincy Jones was chosen to produce “We Are The World” in 1985, the idea was that it would be a collective effort of the music community donating its time and talents to make a difference for others in crisis. Who can forget the story about the world’s biggest recording stars being told to “check your egos at the door”...
The Global Search for Education: Can You Hear the Thunder?
Creativity World Forum Oklahoma 2015 – All our Futures: Ideas That Matter We can hear the thunder, Oklahoma City! At your resounding forum last weekend, your city illustrated loud and clear that creativity is alive. It is sweeping down the plains, an insuppressible force of nature inspiring, uniting, renewing, committing us once again in our belief in Picasso’s thesis that “Every child is born an artist. The problem...
The Global Search for Education: Ideas Ideas Ideas Ideas!
“In the US, the main way [to impact teacher retention] is to improve the status and conditions of teaching as a profession.” — Sir Ken Robinson The Creative Oklahoma World Forum (@OK_Creativity) on March 31 believes #YourIdeasMatter. Our world faces problems everywhere. Creative Oklahoma has invited the public to tap into their innate creative problem-solving abilities and participate in a statewide brainstorm on...
The Global Search for Education: Japan
“Ours is now a knowledge based society, which requires education to strengthen higher-ordered inquiry, creativity and communication beyond ready-made knowledge and skills acquisition.” — Professor Manabu Sato Many consider Japanese primary and junior secondary level education to be exceptional, yet Manabu Sato believes the quality of his country’s senior secondary and higher education is questionable....
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