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I'm passionate about

curricula as art, new media literacies, people and their stories, marshland, cranberry bogs...

An idea worth spreading

There are legions of underestimated young people with new insights into old problems who need only to be asked, in specific ways, for their contributions. And when those individuals see the impact of their creative capital on the marketplace, you have a new breed of social entrepreneur changing the world.

Talk to me about

seeding social ventures, youth entrepreneurship, unschooled spaces

People don't know that I'm good at

dry wall, shrunken apple head carving, harvesting bogs

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• A reply on Talk: Sugata Mitra: Build a School in the Cloud

  Mar 5 2013: One would think there should be some new data collected by Mitra in the last two years since unveiling the "granny cloud" at TED Global in 2010. His 2013 TED prize talk cites the very same anecdotal evidence as the Global talk. Where's the refinement? Has it even been repeated in the interim?

• A reply on Conversation: What are the advantages/disadvantages of learning models that exist outside of traditional educational institutions?

  Feb 15 2012: Thank you! Love to!

• A reply on Conversation: What are the advantages/disadvantages of learning models that exist outside of traditional educational institutions?

  Feb 15 2012: Breakerproject.org teaches the design process as entree to entrepreneurship.

• A reply on Conversation: What are the advantages/disadvantages of learning models that exist outside of traditional educational institutions?

  Feb 15 2012: are these based on assessment tasks? What does it look like? portfolio work?

• A reply on Conversation: What are the advantages/disadvantages of learning models that exist outside of traditional educational institutions?

  Feb 15 2012: From what I've experienced of the start-up scene in NYC, at least, the degree is waning in importance.
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  A reply on Conversation: What are the advantages/disadvantages of learning models that exist outside of traditional educational institutions?

  Feb 15 2012: what's exciting to me about customized learning environments online is that - if constructed well - they're effective, yes. But as important, they're efficient! If a student can demonstrate mastery in a few weeks as opposed to a semester, you have huge swaths of time that can be spent doing hands-on, high-touch project work. That's an opportunity.
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  A reply on Conversation: What are the advantages/disadvantages of learning models that exist outside of traditional educational institutions?

  Feb 15 2012: content can be delivered or content can be uncovered. It's the latter empowers the learner.

• A reply on Conversation: What are the advantages/disadvantages of learning models that exist outside of traditional educational institutions?

  Feb 15 2012: What benchmarks have you found effective in assessing the success of what happens outside of your classroom, Gavin? When your kids are in their partner sites?

• A reply on Conversation: What are the advantages/disadvantages of learning models that exist outside of traditional educational institutions?

  Feb 15 2012: Gaming is a great example of learning that has disrupted the mainstream. There are dangers here, for sure. But if we're going to create indiv learning environments online, they should use the principles of game design.
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  A comment on Conversation: What are the advantages/disadvantages of learning models that exist outside of traditional educational institutions?

  Feb 15 2012: A story: a young woman recently contacted me. She'd taken a year off from college to create her own self-directed year of learning and asked if I would serve as her advisor. Her "syllabus" was filled with travel, books, and on-line engagements. My first bit of advice to her was to use the International Studies Schools Network's Global Leadership Performance Outcomes as a guiding document. Framing her experiences as a portfolio of evidence that demonstrates her mastery of these global leadership characteristics gives potential employers an accessible means of interpreting a wide range of inputs and their value.