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Designed to support the digital lives of young people and their capacity for learning, Quest to Learn is a school committed to graduating strong, engaged, literate citizens of a globally networked world. Through an innovative pedagogy that immerses students in differentiated, challenge-based contexts, the school acknowledges game design and systems thinking as key literacies of the 21st century

Associated Topic: Pattern Recognition

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Added: February 4, 2010

Come In is an initiative just beginning (Winter 2010) in the UK that will put learning entirely on mobile technology in order to reach marginalized students who have left school.

Associated Topic: Platforms for Resilience

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Added: February 4, 2010

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Associated Topic: Platforms for Resilience > Shadow "Schools" > New York Times Knowledge Network

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Added: January 21, 2010

Ruby's Bequest, a project by United Cerebral Palsy and the Institute for the Future to create the first platform for public collaborative innovation in health care and caregiving. For five weeks in the spring of 2009, participants from many backgrounds shared their stories, frustrations, and ideas. The platform that supported them was a structured website and immersive future narrative, one where a typical American city at the beginning of the 21st century is forced into a process of civic soul searching when their ability to care for each other is suddenly thrown into doubt.

Associated Topic: A New Civic Discourse

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Added: January 7, 2010

At a time when everyone must find ways do more with less, one Ohio county has launched a pilot project aimed at helping school districts across the state make better use of their resources. The Greene County Schools Shared Service Delivery Initiative hopes to build on efforts in Ohio and nationally to identify how districts can best partner to harness buying power and economies of scale. This initiative, supported by KnowledgeWorks as well as other foundations and initiated by the governor’s office in October, holds the potential to ease budget strain on small districts while maintaining local control. Project Manager Jane Dockery explains how the initiative is different from some shared service delivery approaches and what it hopes to achieve.

Associated Topic: Platforms for Resilience

Tags: learning grids,

Added: January 6, 2010

The American tradition of tinkering -- the spark for inventions from the telephone to the Apple computer -- is making a comeback, boosted by renewed interest in hands-on work amid the economic crisis and falling prices of high-tech tools and materials, illustrating the emerence of a "maker economy" in the United States.

Associated Topic: Platforms for Resilience

Tags: maker economy

Added: January 6, 2010

In this article from the November 2009 issue of Phi Delta Kappan, Monica Martinez examines how threats to the health of our youth from climate change and pollution raise the need for us to begin thinking of schools as part of an ecosystem.  She highlights ways in which schools, organizations, and communities are moving toward a more sustainable approach to education -- from learning experiences to healthy buildings -- and how schools have the opportunity to become centers for health and environment.





The full citation for the original publication is:  Monica Martinez,INNOVATION: Becoming Green, Phi Delta Kappan, Vol. 91, No. 3, November 2009, pp. 74-75.

Associated Topic: Platforms for Resilience > Smart Localism

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Added: November 11, 2009

In this article from the October 2009 issue of Phi Delta Kappan, Monica Martinez explores how shifts toward deep personalization -- including the value that today's students place on customization and the fact that many of our actions can be tracked, leading to the availability of many individualized metrics -- raise questions about how education might be customized for students to a degree not seen before.





The full citation for the original publication is:  Monica Martinez, Innovation: It’s All About “Me”, Phi Delta Kappan, Vol. 91, No. 2, October 2009, pp. 74-75.

Associated Topic: Amplified Organization > Beta Building > Visual Literacy

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Added: November 11, 2009

In this article from the September 2009 issue of Phi Delta Kappan, Monica Martinez explores how students and others who have grown up digital are collaborating actively to create products, services, and experiences.  In so doing, she asks what kind of learning experiences would take advantage of this trend to "ensure that students are collaborative and critical thinkers who can find problems and solve problems to improve our collective future."





The full citation for the original publication is:  Monica Martinez, INNOVATION: Students as Smart Mobs, Phi Delta Kappan, Vol. 91, No. 01, September 2009, pp. 74-75.

Associated Topic: Amplified Organization > Open Leadership and Sociability

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Added: November 11, 2009

This policy brief from the National Commission on Teaching and America's Future describes the collaborative potential of cross-generational learning teams, with examples of how some states are beginning to explore new structures for involving teams of adults with different backgrounds in learning.

Associated Topic: Amplified Organization > Beta Building > Transliteracy

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Added: November 11, 2009