but today was led to the #imaginationsummit
http://lciweb.lincolncenter.org/imagination-summit/
where the only little blurb i heard was by Alfonso Romo, from mexico?
part of the design for change - i can
talked about this process of learning... rather than all else..
detox..
so cool.
want to connect.. learn more..
ashoka changemakers out of washington
also riverside school in india - principal
Kiran Bir Sethi is the founder/director of the Riverside School in Ahmedabad. She has a design background, having got her diploma in visual communication from NID. She is also the founder of ‘aProCh’ - an initiative attempting to make our cities more child friendly, for which she was awarded the Ashoka Fellow in 2008. In 2009, she was also presented with the ‘Call to Conscience’ award from the King Centre at Stanford, for the citizenship/liberation curriculum that Riverside School implements. In 2009, she conceptualized and promoted India’s largest Design for Giving contest for school children which got over 100,000 children to design solutions for some of India’s most challenging problems. Currently, she is promoting the world’s largest “Design for Change” contest, which has over 33 countries participating and aims to reach 60,000 schools across India. She was a speaker at TEDIndia in Nov. 2009. She was a symposium member at the Rockefeller Centre, Bellagio – looking at Design for Social Change. In May-June, 2010, she was a Keynote Speaker at the M.I. Symposium in Beijing, alongside Dr. Howard Gardner. In July 2010, she was a Speaker and Panelist at a Conference titled “Where do we go from here: Achieving Global Peace with Justice in a Sustainable Environment?” at The Martin Luther King Jr. Research & Education Institute, at Stanford University. She was a Plenary Speaker at the WISE Summit in Doha in November, 2010, as also at Design Indaba in Cape Town – South Africa, in February, 2011. She has recently been chosen as one of 12 Thought Leaders of the World – an Innovation Knight for the i4P (Innovation for Peace) Society – formed by the Culture of Peace Forum, New York, U.S.A. She was the Inaugural Speaker at “X Entrepreneur Open Day 2011 in Bilbao, Spain in MAY2011and in end JUN2011. she was a Panelist at the “XVI Future Trends Forum – Searching an effective Education for the 21st Century”, held by the Bankinter Foundation in Madrid, Spain.
first met up with Kiran in jan - the i can button via @shellterrell
also check out @improvlearning and their site
http://www.improvisationallearning.org/
Carrie Lobman, EdD is Associate Professor of Education at The Graduate School of Education, Rutgers University. She is the director of the Developing Teachers Fellowship Program at the East Side Institute.
Gwen Lowenheim has trained educators throughout the country in cutting-edge learning theories and the use of performance and improvisation for community and team building. A former junior high school teacher, she has co-written the nationally disseminated Adolescent Decision-Making curriculum.
Jim Martinez, PhD is an independent educational technology consultant and a former New York City Teaching Fellow. He is a graduate of the CUNY Graduate program in Urban Education and holds a certificate in Interactive Technology and Pedagogy.
ah cool - now they are talking about cameron sinclair - yay
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