Month: November 2012
Yong Zhao: World Class Education: Educating Creative and Entrepreneurial Students
Notes from ‘Yong Zhao: World Class Education: Educating Creative and Entrepreneurial Students‘ by Gerard Pagès i Camps Yong Zhao is currently Presidential Chair and Associate Dean for Global Education, College of Education at the University of Oregon.[…]
Kurt Fischer: Connecting Mind, Brain, and Education
Notes from ‘Kurt Fischer: Connecting Mind, Brain, and Education‘ by Gerard Pagès i Camps Kurt Fischer leads an international movement to connect biology and cognitive science to education, and is founding editor of the journal Mind,[…]
Azra Naseem: Changing Pedagogy Through Faculty Professional Development in Blended Learning
Notes from ‘Azra Naseem: Changing Pedagogy Through Faculty Professional Development in Blended Learning‘ by Gerard Pagès i Camps Azra Naseem is a faculty member at the Aga Khan University (AKU) Pakistan. She also holds a management portfolio[…]
Manuel Castells: Creative education for the Information Age: Mission Impossible?
Notes from ‘Manuel Castells: Creative education for the Information Age: Mission Impossible?‘ by Gerard Pagès i Camps ‘I’m going to talk about the Obstacles and let we will find the solutions’ Manuel Castells who understood very[…]
“Maybe it’s a good thing education has not been an issue in this election”, Gene Carter. via @CNNSchools
While the whole world is closely following up the election of the 45th president of USA, American educators and parents keep their eyes on two states: Georgia and Washington which vote today on the issue[…]
A new development for the OLPC
The initiative One Laptop Per Child, which has distributed until now 3 million laptops to kids in 40 different countries worldwide, has undertaken a very encouraging experience. A few months ago they gave tablets to[…]