Big Ideas Fest Engages Half Moon Bay Teachers
Cabrillo District teachers attend Big Ideas Fest, an annual convening of innovators in education, redesigning the future of education.
Conference Gives Green Light to Ideas
‘Big Ideas Fest’ Tackles Money Matters and Startup Ideas
For the second set of presentations Monday afternoon here at the Big Ideas Fest in Half Moon Bay, Calif., the emphasis was on identifying more efficent ways to use financial resources to help students and encouraging education entrepreneurs to create products and services that solve real problems.
Fostering Big Ideas to Solve Problems in Education
Greetings from stunningly gorgeous Half Moon Bay, Calif., where I am covering the2012 Big Ideas Fest(more…)
George Lakoff: Neural Binding Can Nurture Big Ideas
“Every idea that you have is physical — because you think with your brain,” said keynote speaker, George Lakoff, during the closing session of Big Ideas Fest. In outlining what that meant to the educational community, the well-known cognitive linguist and UC Berkeley professor explained that neurons in the brain travel on circuits, which in turn form our thoughts. Those circuits, a physical part of our bodies, are fixed in early childhood.