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Fest 2011 in Half Moon Bay. This conference was help in December 2011 and hosted by the Institute of Knowledge Management in Education. There were participants form K-12, Higher Ed, educational non-profits, foundations and start-up companies. The keynote speaker was Dr. Sugata Mitra.

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Arts and Humanities
Business and Communication
Education
Higher Education
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Lecture Notes
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Big Ideas Fest
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Deepal Patel videographer Carmel Crane video editor
Date Added:
02/16/2011
Create and Curate: Mindful Learning for the 21st Century
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Academic artist Enrique Legaspi grew up singing, skateboarding, and creating. As a teacher, one day he realized, "I'm doing everything I can, I'm staying up late, but I'm producing the same results. What's going on?" Now that he's begun to modify and adapt his teaching to his students' interests, Enrique's students are creating, curating and sharing their work using video and social media -- and it's made all the difference.

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Arts and Humanities
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Lecture
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Big Ideas Fest
Author:
Enrique Gabriel Legaspi
Date Added:
12/05/2011
Custom Schooling: Affordable One-to-One Education
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Motivated by the limitations of both public and private schools to meet the needs of his son, Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle and his wife embarked on a mission to create an educational experience customized to their son. Inspired by their results, Kahle set out to determine if this model of customized education could scale beyond those who could afford it. He shares his surprising findings in this Big Ideas Fest presentation.€÷

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Education
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Lecture
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ISKME
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Big Ideas Fest
Author:
Brewster Kahle
Date Added:
12/05/2011
Diving Into the Wreckage: Big Ideas in Baby Steps
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Pointing to inequities of the past that are unfathomable today, the Distinguished Professor at the University of Illinois College of Education invites us to consider what aspects of our current educational system our grandchildren will find unimaginable.

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Arts and Humanities
Philosophy
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Lecture
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ISKME
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Big Ideas Fest
Author:
William Ayers
Date Added:
12/05/2011
Education and Innovation for Democracy's Future
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Under Secretary at the U.S. Department of Education, Martha Kanter reminds us that Thomas Jefferson's primary public concern was to establish a system of general education to reach every citizenÄbelieving that "whenever the people are well informed they can be trusted with their own government." Today, as our lauded history of producing the best-educated citizenry in the world is slipping through our fingers, Kanter argues that people need to learn to think critically not only to succeed in their jobs, but to preserve our great democracy.

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History
U.S. History
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Lecture
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ISKME
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Big Ideas Fest
Author:
Martha Kanter
Date Added:
12/05/2011
For Hire: Entrepreneurs at the Precipice of Higher Education
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Indiana University East is redesigning higher education to make it more effective, efficient and accessible to a wide range of students. At BIF 2011, Chancellor Nasser Paydar explains how IU East provides more students a quality education, using collaborative new models and fewer resourcesÄgoing from the lowest retention rates among all Indiana University campuses to the highest in four years.€÷

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Business and Communication
Education
Higher Education
Material Type:
Lecture
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ISKME
Provider Set:
Big Ideas Fest
Author:
Nasser Paydar
Date Added:
12/05/2011
From Student to Student: Risk, Aversion and the Role of Integration
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In her final semester as a business major, Jade Trinh was uninspired by the obvious career paths open to her. In her 2011 BIF Talk, Trinh recounts her story of stumbling into an entrepreneurship course that revealed an unexpected and exciting new path. She argues that students crave the kinds of real-world, experiential learning environments she was fortunate enough to encounter and urges that experiences like hers should not be the exception, but the rule.

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Business and Communication
Material Type:
Lecture
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ISKME
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Big Ideas Fest
Author:
Jade Trinh
Date Added:
12/05/2011
Higher Education: Adapt or Die
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With higher education no longer the primary source of knowledge, and its traditions at odds with current realities, Greg Anderson tells educators we must adapt or die. Dean of Morgridge College of Education at University of Denver, Anderson offers five problems with the educational system and three fundamental obstacles we need to overcome to remain relevant.

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Education
Higher Education
Material Type:
Lecture
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ISKME
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Big Ideas Fest
Author:
Gregory Anderson
Date Added:
12/05/2011
Learning and Trust on the Road to College Readiness at San Quentin
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When a person has learned to conceal vulnerability at all costs, how can s/he accept the help of a teacher? Jody Lewen, Executive Director of the Prison University Project, explains that fear of vulnerability is often the primary learning challenge for her students, but "getting help" can be taught, patiently, as a concept and a skill to overcome that challenge and transform lives.

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Education
Material Type:
Lecture
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ISKME
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Big Ideas Fest
Author:
Jody Lewen
Date Added:
12/05/2011
The Path to College: Literacy in a FEMA Trialer
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Kaycee Eckardt teaches reading to high school students in New Orleans' 9th Ward. Her goal, to equip all scholars for world-changing pursuits, requires taking a chance on innovative teaching, prototyping and piloting new ideas. "To pause, or to hesitate, or to forget to innovate because of fear, that's the only moment that we will fail."

Subject:
Arts and Humanities
Material Type:
Lecture
Provider:
ISKME
Provider Set:
Big Ideas Fest
Author:
Kaycee Eckhardt
Date Added:
12/05/2011
Personalized Learning: What is Most Interesting and What Do You Know?
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What if educators could see what a student knows, what they need to know, and how to motivate them...all by looking at a map? Danny Hillis, Chairman and Co-Founder of Applied Minds, asks us to imagine a learning map that goes beyond existing search engines to show educators just that.

Subject:
Mathematics
Material Type:
Lecture
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ISKME
Provider Set:
Big Ideas Fest
Author:
Danny Hillis
Date Added:
12/05/2011
Policy as Opportunity: Your Best and Worst Friend
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In her position as Education Program Director of The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation, Barbara Chow works behind the scenes to set the stage for successful learning by identifying opportunities for creating innovation and change through policy.

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Education
Material Type:
Lecture
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Big Ideas Fest
Author:
Barbara Chow
Date Added:
12/05/2011
STEAM: Learning That is Representative of the Whole World
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STEAM stands for "Science & Technology interpreted through Engineering & the Arts, all based in Mathematical elements," and aims to bring FUNctional literacy to students. Founder/teacher Georgette Yakman describes how her immigrant grandparents, brother with Asperger syndrome, and artistic stepfather led her to bring Arts into STEM.

Subject:
Arts and Humanities
Material Type:
Lecture
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ISKME
Provider Set:
Big Ideas Fest
Author:
Georgette Yakman
Date Added:
12/05/2011
Serious Play-Dough: Inspiring Young Circuit Designers
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At the University of St. Thomas in Minnesota, this engineering professor and her team demonstrate that science or engineering lessons can be found in almost anything -- and a sense of play can make those lessons accessible and incite young minds.

Subject:
Applied Science
Engineering
Material Type:
Lecture
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ISKME
Provider Set:
Big Ideas Fest
Author:
AnnMarie Polsenberg Thomas
Date Added:
12/05/2011
Students' Right to Know: The Case for Radical Immediate Feedback
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Mark Milliron has a radical proposal: Why not give learners immediate feedback on their progress? He sees an opportunity to use data and information to increase communication among teachers, administrators, and students. As the Chancellor of Western Governors University Texas he is exploring how new technologies for real-time assessment can open doors to motivated students and empowered teachers.

Subject:
Education
Higher Education
Material Type:
Lecture
Provider:
ISKME
Provider Set:
Big Ideas Fest
Author:
Mark Milliron
Date Added:
12/05/2011