FastCompany asks how you would spend $100million to really save education. I have an answer, but it is unlikely to happen unless I become rich someday and can put this idea into practice. I'd start out with a pilot program that put education back where it belongs, in the center of family life. I'd do that while helping poor families to rise up out of poverty, educate themselves, and build their communities.
Google has launched a worldwide science fair for kids between the ages of 13 and 18. You can enter from anywhere in the world, as long as you have an internet connection and your parent or guardian's permission. I can tell you all about it, but Google's already produced a video, so I don't have to.
An article over at Chelpixie explains that modern education should be learning a thing or two from marketing. Education isn't a product that we can package and sell. To be effective, it needs to be an experience. I absolutely agree with her on that, but I have to ask:
I have a somewhat unconventional way of parenting. Sometimes it works out fabulously. Sometimes, not so much. (But, then, you can say the same thing for conventional types, too, right?)
Of a place for learning and doing and saving the world with a combination of high and low tech. It would be a place where the "maker philosophy" would be spread. Instead of focusing on how bad the world is, we'd focus on how to take the world into the next phase.
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