Education

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Technology and Education: Digital Pandemic?

Tuesday, January 19th, 2010

I have a growing concern about the notion that computers and electronic games can substitute for teachers and educational best practices. I hope RSA fellows move cautiously and with much deliberation before endorsing the wholesale use of technology in our schools. Electronic games are designed for entertainment; not education. Research shows that basic games (i.e. single-shooter [...]

Kings World Trust for Children : a USA/UK charity supporting children in India

Tuesday, January 12th, 2010

In April of this year we will be holding a fund raising evening in the UK and I am looking for prizes that we can auction off to raise money – and this is where you might be able to help! 
Do any of you have any ’special experiences’ that you can offer? I am looking [...]

Elephant for Rent

Friday, October 30th, 2009

Elephant for Rent
Bliss Browne is looking for partners interested in hosting an elephant.  You read that right!  A life-sized elephant sculpture is on its way to the United States as part of a project to bring attention to the role of creativity in addressing issues of sustainability, migration and the protection of wilderness.
World renowned South [...]

School’s out – for ever??

Monday, July 27th, 2009

Is our approach to education completely out of date? 
An Online Debate
Wednesday August 5, 2009
8:30 pm London Time8.30pm UK time
Is the time for tinkering over? The world has changed so much in the last 100 years yet we are using similar structures to educate our children and young people.
We watch them learn complex computer games without any apparent [...]

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