QFI is a proud sponsor of Big Ideas Fest at Half Moon Bay. Big Ideas Fest is a unique three-day immersion into collaboration and design with a focus on modeling cutting-edge thinking in K-20 education.
QFI sent five Arabic teachers from across the US; Alexander Porcelli, Sanaa Elkhattabi, Hayley Smith, Belal Joundeya and Fadi Abughoush, to attend and participate in the action collabs aimed at innovating education ‘for a small planet’. (more…)
Big Ideas Fest, a three-day event hosted by the local Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education, is returning to the Ritz-Carlton, Half Moon Bay, Sunday through Dec. 10.
The conference focuses on opportunities for innovation and cutting-edge thinking in education. At the end of the event, organizers recognize an individual with the Innovation in Action award and funding to help with a project that could improve education. Last year’s recipient was Shiza Shahid, co-founder and CEO of the Malala Fund.
Big Ideas Fest – an annual global convening of innovators in education hosted by ISKME, a nonprofit institute dedicated to education innovation across K-12 and higher education and a pioneer in knowledge sharing and open education – takes place December 7 through 10 at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Half Moon Bay, CA. Kicking off this year’s focus on “Education Innovation for a Small Planet” is a keynote by Jill Hagenkord, chief medical officer for 23andMe, discussing “A Decade of Direct Access Genetics: What Have We Learned?” (more…)
ISKME and 23andMe invite educators to submit their ideas for ways to study life and social sciences using their own personal genetic information. Five winners will be selected to receive 23andMe kits ($99 value) and training that will enable them to create high quality education materials. Apply here.
People leave Big Ideas Fest with lots of new ideas. They also leave with experiences that impact their work and their lives. Past participants keep us abreast of new insights they’ve gained into their jobs, how they’ve used Action Collab processes in their work, and even how Big Ideas Fest inspired them to change jobs or start a company.
