Big Ideas Fest 2014 — Innovating around education

Big Ideas Fest 2014 — Innovating around education

Technolibrarian Carolyn Foote shares her experience and her takeaways from ISKME’s Big Ideas Fest.   Technolibrarian Carolyn Foote shares her experience and her takeaways from ISKME’s Big Ideas Fest.  Big Ideas Fest is a unique conference.   When I first saw tweets...
Turn on, Tune in, Drop into Improv

Turn on, Tune in, Drop into Improv

We’ve built in “improv”–the improvisational method of achieving cooperation–into the DNA of Action Collabs that we offer at ISKME. Most recently, a writer from San Francisco’s KQED Mind/Shift called out our use of improv at our annual Big Ideas Fest. We’ve built in...
Sugata Mitra’s “Granny Cloud” Wins Education Prize

Sugata Mitra’s “Granny Cloud” Wins Education Prize

PRLog – Feb. 2, 2015 – HALF MOON BAY, Calif. — In 2013, Professor Sugata Mitra was awarded the $1 million TED Prize to build the ultimate “School in the Cloud” — learning labs where children, given their innate sense of wonder and curiosity, regardless of income, can...
5 Questions for Ashanti Branch

5 Questions for Ashanti Branch

Talk about Big Ideas Fest success stories. Ashanti Branch walked off the stage at Big Ideas Fest 2014 and onto the stage at Sundance Film Festival in early 2015, where he premiered his documentary, The Mask You Live In. A high school principal, Ashanti developed a...
Conference focuses on bringing Big Ideas home

Conference focuses on bringing Big Ideas home

Some big ideas start small. This year’s Big Ideas Fest focused on “Education Innovation for a Small Planet,” and it was a little different from previous years. Located here in Half Moon Bay, the Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education deserves...