Most people on a gap year are content with just seeing the world. And not to try and change it. But on her return, Maggie decided to start a home in Nepal with the aim to sustain and improve the quality of life for children of Nepal. Her next big goal is to to build a school for the children.
She has since started her foundation called BlinkNow Foundation to share her ideas with other young people. Maggie won The prestigious Do Something award in America for all that she has done so far.
I simply love Maggie Doyne ! She is a true heroine of this amazing new generation.
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Thursday, September 29, 2011
A new step: Studio Schools Remix Vocational Education for a New Generation
Geoff Mulgan, director of the Young Foundation—which helped create the Studio School—gave a quick summary of their model in a recent TED Talk. A full 80 percent of instruction, he said, takes place outside of the classroom. Students work on commission for businesses, NGOs and other organizations, allowing them to learn while completing on-the-job, practical projects. The schools, which enroll a maximum 400 students each, also assign each student a personal coach to help ensure they're successful.
Found on GOOD
Saturday, September 10, 2011
What today’s Digital Native children can teach the rest of us about technology
Found on Twitter via @tweetmeme via @TNWinsider
What today’s Digital Native children can teach the rest of us about technology by Martin Bryant
Follow him on twitter at @MartinSFP - Manchester, UK
" European Editor at The Next Web, co-founder of Social Media Cafe Mcr. SFP=Star Fighter Pilot. I say 'Yes' a lot. http://www.martinbryant.net "
We’ve reached the point now where almost all the world’s under-18s in the developed world don’t remember a time when the Internet wasn’t a major part of everyday life.
Growing up with a direct connection to the whole world gives today’s children a view on the way the world works that is vastly different from the older generations. What can we learn from the ‘digital natives’? That’s one of the questions that research firm Latitude is looking to answer with its KIDS – Kids Innovation Discovery Series initiative.
Neela Sakaria, Senior Vice President of Latitude explains that the research is “focused on giving children a real voice in the broader, often very adult, discussion of future technologies and real-world problem solving.”
“We believe that kids are architects of the future – they’re creative, have an intuitive relationship with technology, and have proven that they think in extraordinarily sophisticated ways about how tech can enhance their learning, play, and interactions with the people and things around them.”
“We wanted to conduct a study that gave kids a voice and space to be creative, allowing them to fill their natural role as budding creators,” Sakaria explains.”Through these exercises kids have shown that they can teach us not only about their own needs and desires, but also about our own future preferences and how technology might help us solve bigger, global problems.”
Read the rest of the story here http://thenextweb.com/insider/2011/09/10/what-todays-digital-native-children-can-teach-the-rest-of-us-about-technology/
What today’s Digital Native children can teach the rest of us about technology by Martin Bryant
Follow him on twitter at @MartinSFP - Manchester, UK
" European Editor at The Next Web, co-founder of Social Media Cafe Mcr. SFP=Star Fighter Pilot. I say 'Yes' a lot. http://www.martinbryant.net "
We’ve reached the point now where almost all the world’s under-18s in the developed world don’t remember a time when the Internet wasn’t a major part of everyday life.
Growing up with a direct connection to the whole world gives today’s children a view on the way the world works that is vastly different from the older generations. What can we learn from the ‘digital natives’? That’s one of the questions that research firm Latitude is looking to answer with its KIDS – Kids Innovation Discovery Series initiative.
Neela Sakaria, Senior Vice President of Latitude explains that the research is “focused on giving children a real voice in the broader, often very adult, discussion of future technologies and real-world problem solving.”
“We believe that kids are architects of the future – they’re creative, have an intuitive relationship with technology, and have proven that they think in extraordinarily sophisticated ways about how tech can enhance their learning, play, and interactions with the people and things around them.”
“We wanted to conduct a study that gave kids a voice and space to be creative, allowing them to fill their natural role as budding creators,” Sakaria explains.”Through these exercises kids have shown that they can teach us not only about their own needs and desires, but also about our own future preferences and how technology might help us solve bigger, global problems.”
Read the rest of the story here http://thenextweb.com/insider/2011/09/10/what-todays-digital-native-children-can-teach-the-rest-of-us-about-technology/
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