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@johnthole So nice to have finally discovering the true meaning of twitter; welcome on board (added u to #bigideasfest)
Geeking out at #BigIdeasFest with other twitterers
Excited! Am working on webcasting students from RoadTrip Nation live tomorrow afternoon #bigideasfest
Student testers of Immune Attack vid game say they prefer learning thru gaming rather than listening to a teacher; positive results on AP
Final Rapidfire: Myra Strober, Professor, Stanford U, Interdisciplinarity: The Four-Wheel Drive Approach to Complex Problems #bigideasfest
Jackson, "Globally competent kids can communicate across diverse cultural lines; can speak more than one language; they are vy media savvy".
@jjulius Here is a link about Jackson & what he discussed: http://www.asiasociety.org/educati... Thanks for keeping up w/ the tweets!
Tony Jackson, VP 4 Ed, Asia Soc, "We need to change the definition of success... we need to discuss what it means to be globally competent".
Strober talks about definition of inter-disc studies & silos. #bigideasfest
"Learn and apply with a different cultural lens" - well put by Jackson, #bigideasfest
Next rapidfire: Tony Jackson, VP 4 Ed, Asia Soc, Matching Design to Outcomes: Teaching Global Competencies in a Changing World #bigideasfest
Like this game redesign by Garry Gaber; taking flat 2D delivery of AP bio content 2 interactive, flashy, userdriven vid game. #bigideasfest
Jackson talks about globally competent students who can pull together facts into meaningful narrative; & to recognize different perspectives
Global Competence means knowing how world works; pays attention to current events; #bigideasfest Globally competent kids ask good questions.
@jjulius Thoroughly enjoying #bigideasfest conference; loads of innovative ideas people here; active collabs for us; we are working too
Next Rapidfire, Garry Gaber, Chief Creative off. Escape Hatch Entrtnmnt, Immune Attack: A User-Centric Approach to Game Design #bigideasfest
Next set of rapidfire presos: Gever Tulley, Founder, Tinkering School, Turning Curriculum Design On Its Head: Engage First
New book being released: "50 Dangerous Things You should let you Children Do" by founder of Tinkering School; #bigideasfest
Access to tools stands as one of core principles to Tinkering School; http://www.tinkeringschool.com/ #bigideasfest
Great stuff this Tinkering School; reality-based learning + risk-taking + creativity + sense of invention + embracing failure; #bigideasfest
"Opportunities for engaged learning is inversely proportional to the knowability of the outcomes" - Premise by Gever; #bigideasfest
Torres rocked the house with his rapid fire preso! Challenged us to change our perspective as educators. #bigideasfest
Marco Torres is our next Rapid Fire presenter; really looking forward to seeing him present (first time for me!); #bigideasfest
Marco Torres shows us the guitar Canon phenom on youtube with communities of young people sharing guitar "lessons"; Awesome! #bigideasfest
Too bad we aren't streaming this reading of Homer in orig Greek while we beat on tables to the rhythm of the language! #bigideasfest
Last RapidFire preso: Students from Roadtrip Nation: South SanFran HS. #bigideasfest
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