Berto Jongman: Dutch Move to Transform Education Using iPads

04 Education, Culture, Design, Education
Berto Jongman
Berto Jongman

Radical Reform: Dutch iPad Schools Seek to Transform Education

By Marco Evers

Plenty of schools use iPads. But what if the entire education experience were offered via tablet computer? That is what several new schools in the Netherlands plan to do. There will be no blackboards or schedules. Is this the end of the classroom?

Think different. It was more than an advertising slogan. It was a manifesto, and with it, former Apple CEO Steve Jobs upended the computer industry, the music industry and the world of mobile phones. The digital visionary's next plan was to bring radical change to schools and textbook publishers, but he died of cancer before he could do it.

Some of the ideas that may have occurred to Jobs are now on display in the Netherlands. Eleven “Steve Jobs schools” will open in August, with Amsterdam among the cities that will be hosting such a facility. Some 1,000 children aged four to 12 will attend the schools, without notebooks, books or backpacks. Each of them, however, will have his or her own iPad.

There will be no blackboards, chalk or classrooms, homeroom teachers, formal classes, lesson plans, seating charts, pens, teachers teaching from the front of the room, schedules, parent-teacher meetings, grades, recess bells, fixed school days and school vacations. If a child would rather play on his or her iPad instead of learning, it'll be okay. And the children will choose what they wish to learn based on what they happen to be curious about.

Preparations are already underway in Breda, a town near Rotterdam where one of the schools is to be located. Gertjan Kleinpaste, the 53-year-old principal of the facility, is aware that his iPad school on Schorsmolenstraat could soon become a destination for envious — but also outraged — reformist educators from all over the world.

And there is still plenty of work to do on the pleasant, light-filled building, a former daycare center. The yard is littered with knee-deep piles of leaves. Walls urgently need a fresh coat of paint. Even the lease hasn't been completely settled yet. But everything will be finished by Aug. 13, Kleinpaste says optimistically, although he looks as though the stress is getting to him.

‘Pretty Normal in 2020'

Last year, he was still the principal of a school that had precisely three computers, which he found frustrating. “It was no longer in keeping with the times,” he says. Soon, however, Kleinpaste will be a member of the digital avant-garde. He is convinced that “what we are doing will seem pretty normal in 2020.”

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John Maguire: YouTube 9:45) Children Full of Life 1 of 5

Design, Education, YouTube
John Maguire
John Maguire

Everything the Standard Model of Education doesn't teach our kids, and why we progressively find ourselves living in a more cynical, apathetic, and mean-spirited world everyday. We our rearing our kids to be disempowered, rudderless citizens who tolerate tyranny.

Description: “In the award-winning documentary Children Full of Life, a fourth-grade class in a primary school in Kanazawa, northwest of Tokyo, learn lessons about compassion from their homeroom teacher, Toshiro Kanamori. He instructs each to write their true inner feelings in a letter, and read it aloud in front of the class. By sharing their lives, the children begin to realize the importance of caring for their classmates.”

Robin Good: OpenTopic for Multi-Topic Curation

Crowd-Sourcing, Data, Design, Education, Innovation, Knowledge, P2P / Panarchy, Politics, Resilience, Science, Sources (Info/Intel), Transparency
Robin Good
Robin Good

OpenTopic is a news curation service which allows you to aggregate, monitor and filter any number of sources and to publish and share your selected ones to you selected outlets: from your WordPress site, to your social media channels and to your email newsletter engine. Within OpenTopic you can create one or more “Topic” dashboards. These are essentially display pages that aggregate incoming fresh content from the sources you specify. You can jump from one Topic dashboard to the next at the click of your mouse. To curate stories you simpy select the ones that are relevant to your audience and you are provided with an editing module to modify and personalize the story content. At this point you can also select on which one of your outlets (Channels) that story will be published and you can customize the story differently for each one of them. There is even an option that allows you to set-up some form of automated curation, by giving you the option to set up a set of simple rules, which when match, will trigger the publishing of a news story. OpenTopic allows you to hook up to an extended number of possible Channels, making it easy for you to post from one location to your web site, RSS feed, social media and newsletter. Last but not least, OpenTopic integrates a full analytics service, capable of reporting and showcasing the performance of your curation work across stories and distribution channels. My comment: Excellent tool for social media and community managers, as well as web marketing specialists in need to support effectively the finding of relevant news on a topic and the easy publishing to different channels from a centralized platform. Easy to use.

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Jean Lievens: Internet Phases: Past, Present, and Future

Access, Architecture, Crowd-Sourcing, Culture, Data, Design, Economics/True Cost, Education, Governance, Innovation, Knowledge, Materials, Mobile, P2P / Panarchy, Resilience, Transparency
Jean Lievens
Jean Lievens

Internet Phases: Past, Present, and Future

Jeremiah Owyang

web-strategist.com, 11 June 2013

Thanks to you, last week’s report on the collaborative economy was readily received, and has been viewed over 26k times, the media picked up on it, and bloggers alike.  As we digest what it means, it’s important to recognize this is the next phase in the internet, and the next phase of social business.  An interesting finding is that the second era (social) and the third era (collaborative economy), use the same technologies (social technologies) but instead of sharing media and ideas –people are sharing goods and services.  This is all part of a continuum and we need to see our careers progress as the market moves forward with us.

[Social technology enabled the sharing of media and ideas called social business –the same tools enable sharing of goods and services called the collaborative economy]

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Internet Phases: Past, Present, and Future

Attribute Brand Experience Era Customer Experience Era Collaborative Economy Era
Driving technology CMS and HTML Social Technologies Social Technologies
Years 1995: Internet had 14% american adoption 2005: Business blogging disrupted corporations 2013: AirBnb, TaskRabbit, Lyft, gain mainstream attention
What is shared Vetted Information Personal Ideas and Media Goods and Services
Who shares Few Many Many
Who receives Many Many Many
What it looks like Brands and media talk, people listen Everyone talks and listens Buy once, share many, need to buy less
Who has the power Brands and publishers Those who use social Those who share goods and services
Who is disrupted Traditional mediums: TV, Print Corporations, governments Corporations, governments
What must change Media models Communication and marketing strategy Business models
How corporations responded Created their own corporate website Adopted social tools internally, externally Learn to share products, enable marketplace
Software needed CMS and design tools SMMS, monitoring, communities Marketplace, ecommerce, communities, SMMS, Monitoring
Services needed User Experience, Design, Content Social strategy, community managers, communicators Agencies that help with trust, customer advocates, ?
Who wins Those who adopt Those who adopt Those who adopt

What it means to your career, clients, and company:

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Michelle Monk: Geke.US Lays Out Government-Corporate Circles of Corruption

Access, Crowd-Sourcing, Data, Design, Economics/True Cost, Education, Geospatial, Governance, Innovation, Knowledge, Money, Politics, Transparency
Michelle Monk
Michelle Monk

Here is what they have as of today.  An extraordinary effort that should soon become automated.   You won't find these on LinkedIn!  Click for individual Venn diagram similar to the Keystone Pipeline shown below.,

Nominally Good:

AFL-CIO

The Rest:

Comcast   .   Defense Contractors   .   Disney   .   Enron   .   Fannie Mae   .   General Electric   .   Goldman Sachs   .   Green Energy   .   Keystone Pipeline   .   Media   .   Monsanto   .   Motion Picture Association of America   .   Oil Industry   .   Pharmaceuticals   .   Planned Parenthood   .   Social Networking Sites   .   Tobacco Industry   .   Walmart

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Phi Beta Iota: Now imagine this being done at every level of government from the municipality on up, across every policy domain, with whole systems analytics, true cost economics, and all trade-offs clearly visible. This is where we are going.  Humanitarian technology and Open Source Everything (OSE) are going to empower the public in a manner no government or corporation can conceive or achieve.

Jean Lievens: Book Economy of Experiences (Migrating Toward an Economy of Meaning)

Culture, Design, Economics/True Cost, Education, Innovation, P2P / Panarchy, Resilience
Jean Lievens
Jean Lievens

Book: Economy of Experiences.

By Albert Boswijk, Ed Peelen & Steven Olthof.

The European Centre for the Experience and Transformation Economy, 2013

URL = http://www.experience-economy.com

Contents

“In chapters 1 and 2 we present a concise synopsis of the various forms of value creation. Subsequently we describe and delve deeper into the technological and societal shifts, as viewed both from a business context and by individuals in their socio-cultural context (chapters 3 and 4). Following that, we examine new forms of value creation (chapter 5) and new income models (chapter 6). In chapter 7 we deal with the design principles of meaningful experiences, while chapter 8 deals more comprehensively than before with the five phases of intangible value creation. We have also elected to probe more deeply into the experience economy in the health sector (chapter 9), the financial services sector (chapter 10) and the creative city (chapter 11). We concentrate particularly on the transformation that these sectors are undergoing. In these particular areas there is sufficient urgency and potential to facilitate the creation of intangible value and meaningful experiences.

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