The Global Search for Education: 革新, Innovación, Innovation, ابتكار, Inovação, инновация, イノベーション, নবপ্রবর্তিত বস্তু, Innovazione!
Apr15

The Global Search for Education: 革新, Innovación, Innovation, ابتكار, Inovação, инновация, イノベーション, নবপ্রবর্তিত বস্তু, Innovazione!

Justin Bieber and Scooter Braun – Past TDIA Honorees Winston Churchill once said, “Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.” Welcome to the age of innovation. Governments crave it, great entrepreneurs awe us with it; and where would all our futures be without it? There are those born to lead and those content to follow; the former are most likely to be...

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The Global Search for Education: Can I Have a Hammer?
May01

The Global Search for Education: Can I Have a Hammer?

“We need to let kids discover the problems they want to solve, like Steve Jobs, Jack Dorsey or 15-year-old Jack Andraka who created the pancreatic cancer testing strip.” – Craig Hatkoff “When your only tool is a hammer, every problem starts looking like a nail.” – Abe Maslow Honorees of the Tribeca Disruptive Innovation Awards receive a ball-pein hammer as their official award – nicknamed...

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The Global Search for Education: To Be or Not to Be?
Apr23

The Global Search for Education: To Be or Not to Be?

“Shakespeare’s plays, stories and myth all constitute memetic content that has spread from brain to brain to paper to hard drive across language, substrate, from neurons to silicon and back again and have SURVIVED, making them incredibly successful.” – Jason Silva Today is William Shakespeare’s 450th birthday. In celebration, the Royal Shakespeare Company – on the other side of the pond – will...

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The Global Search For Education: Where is the next Kathryn Bigelow?
Oct20

The Global Search For Education: Where is the next Kathryn Bigelow?

  “The question is how to make your film become an essential part of new storytelling ecosystems that bring meaningful conversation, foster social engagement and define new pathways for content distribution.” — Craig Hatkoff  Perhaps the next Kathryn Bigelow is in this film class of high school seniors? And if so, how is she being prepared for the real world of 21st century filmmaking? Of course, she may not...

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The Global Search for Education: In Search of Innovation
Apr27

The Global Search for Education: In Search of Innovation

 “We reinvented the notion of a film festival and we were disruptive mainly out of necessity.” — Craig Hatkoff  “Educate to Innovate,” President Obama’s campaign for excellence in science, technology, engineering & math, is a call to action that our education system embrace a specific type of orientation.  Innovation requires educators to think about a 21st century education incorporating...

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