Big ideas Fest é inspiração do começo ao fim
Evento anual de Design Thinking na educação realizado na Califórnia, fala de disrupção no conteúdo e na organização e evidencia o desgaste dos formatos tradicionais
Por Priscila Gonsales
A NOTE FROM EDUCATION REIMAGINED: Refections from the Big Ideas Fest
Dear Pioneers,
Big Ideas Fest 2015 + #dtk12chat = my brain exploding
I am exhausted beyond belief and completely out of my gourd psyched to be attending my second ISKME Big Ideas Fest (#bif2015) this week in sunny, if not exactly warm, San Jose, CA. We're only about four hours into the event and already my poor, travel-weary brain is exploding with thoughts, ideas, and schemes. I've met professional heroes, colleagues I didn't know I had, and folks from all over with inspiring stories to share. I'm so glad I came.
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Big Ideas Impacting Teaching and Learning
I recently had an opportunity to catch up with a member of our BIFnik community, Chula Vista High Tech High Director, Lillian Hsu. Lillian attended Big Ideas Fest in 2014 along with three teachers from her school. Lillian and her teachers utilized their time at Big Ideas Fest to create a solution to a challenge they were grappling with around their sophomore year schedule and they are implementing it now with much success.
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Winning Teachers Announced in DNA Learning Challenge Prize
HALF MOON BAY, Calif. — The four winners of the DNA Learning Challenge — an award to recognize the innovative use of personal genetics in teaching life and social science — were announced today.