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How might we increase the availability of affordable learning tools & services for students in the developing world?
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Before we begin imagining new solutions, we seek broad inspiration from around the world.
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Challenge Themes
Building on Playfulness
By adding goals – can play be transformed into enhanced learning?
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Meena Kadri
August 28, 2010
02:03AM |
Inspiring Indivduals
Inspired individuals who created learning environments with available resources are the best examples to follow.
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Dhyaasa
August 27, 2010
06:23PM |
Interactive Classroom sharing across the ocean
This month, GOOD Magazine sent out their GOOD Guide to education. In it, one of the first ideas that they discuss is the way that some schools are using technology to reach across continents.
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Dani Nordin
August 27, 2010
04:42PM |
Create a Book Sharing Business
Under The Reading Tree is a charity that provides welcoming places for children and adults to learn and experience the joy of reading. They do this by collaborating with local partners. An educational entrepreneur could build a book business (eith...
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Kara Pecknold
August 27, 2010
04:41PM |
Indian Peer-based Learning
Students from privileged backgrounds & accompanying educational opportunities, share basic skills with children from slums.
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Meena Kadri
August 13, 2010
10:42PM |
Portable Desk: Lessons In The Field
A portable desk that enables individuals to take learning tools with them during the activities of daily life.
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Kara Pecknold
August 07, 2010
07:11PM |
Newspaperize!
How many of us have passed out of school without making collages by cutting out material from newspapers? Can't our old newspapers become these childrens' new learning tools?
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Kriti Kalwad
August 11, 2010
05:31PM |
Just thought these stats for India might be helpful in thinking about potential access & reach. These are 2010 figures from the CIA World Factbook (https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/in.html), except where noted. M = million.
Which communication technologies are widely used?
Just thought these stats for India might be helpful in thinking about potential access & reach. These are 2010 figures from the CIA World Factbook (https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/in.html), except where noted. M = ...
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Vincent Cheng
August 07, 2010
02:14AM |
The Boy Who Harnessed The Wind
The story of William Kamkwamba, a young man from Malawi who figured out on his own how to build windmills out of scrap materials. He built them using gum trees, bicycle parts and other scrap materials.
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Maria Figueira
August 23, 2010
11:36PM |
Start an Innovation Academy for Kids using IDEO's HCD Toolkit
Start an Innovation Academy for Kids using IDEO's HCD Toolkit
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Avi Solomon
August 16, 2010
06:03AM |
One Letter a Day!
I got inspired by Christmas chocolate calendars. During December we would rise from bed and run downstairs with the anticipation of punching one more day in our calendar and discover what surprise was inside. Discovery and Collecting - MacDonald’s...
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luis tobias
August 10, 2010
04:23PM |
StoryCubes: A tool for local storytelling
These paper cubes allow users to create 3D visual tools that aid in the act of storytelling. This could enhance language training or be a way to create stories that are culturally relevant and valuable.
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Kara Pecknold
August 03, 2010
11:33PM |
Big business making low-cost materials
I know this is a fairly obvious inspiration, but it doesn't just have to be NGOs and small social enterprises that serve this low-cost market. Big business can create relevant - and profitable - offerings too!
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Sandy Speicher
August 14, 2010
03:22PM |
Recruiting local talent in Africa
At TEDU 2009, Erik Hersman presents the remarkable story of Ushahidi, a GoogleMap mashup that allowed Kenyans to report and track violence via cell phone texts following the 2008 elections, and has evolved to continue saving lives in other countri...
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Adriana Olmos
August 07, 2010
02:45AM |
Enable the disabled
Using local population and resources to improve the quality of life of physically handicapped people.
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Vincent Steurs
August 10, 2010
11:45PM |
Shift the focus of learning from resources for children, to improving the community as a whole.
Shift Student into Community
Shift the focus of learning from resources for children, to improving the community as a whole.
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Chris Field
August 11, 2010
02:44PM |
Tele-medicine... tele-learning?
Telemedicine allows high-quality assessments and treatment in remote areas of India at really low cost. Here, patients interact with a top-notch doctor through an internet connection... allowing the doctors to treat a broad range of patients and t...
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Sandy Speicher
July 31, 2010
10:06PM |
Tata Sky - Active Learning -
Tata Sky - Active Learning
Tata Sky - Active Learning -
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Neeraj Jain
August 06, 2010
08:49AM |
Affordable Lighting for Evening Studying
D.light sells low-cost solar lanterns in India and Africa. These lights are especially effective for children who live in homes with no electricity. With a small solar lantern, they can study in the evening. http://www.dlightdesign.com/home_global...
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Jocelyn Wyatt
August 01, 2010
06:04PM |
Eagernes to learn is built by curiosity. Backpackers/volunteers could not only teach the language but also inspire kids by showing and telling them about other cultures, countries, interesting places, their experiences from their journeys.
Curiosity as a driver to learn
Eagernes to learn is built by curiosity. Backpackers/volunteers could not only teach the language but also inspire kids by showing and telling them about other cultures, countries, interesting places, their experiences from their journeys.
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Marek Hyla
August 05, 2010
02:59PM |
