The Root Highlights Young African-American Innovators
The Root highlights 25 young innovators on its Young Futurist list for 2012. The Young Futurists are between the ages of 16 and 22 and are committed to making the world a better place through innovative ideas. Each year, The Root conducts an open nomination process, seeking candidates who are not only achievers but also [...]
Read MoreWhy Digital Media Should Be Part of Primary and Secondary Education
There have been complaints about children and teens misuse of social networking sites. Typically in school when someone doesn’t know how to do something correctly, it is taught to them. Why is social media any different? Social media and multimedia have changed drastically in just a few years. Today 95% of all teens ages 12-17 [...]
Read MoreTrustAfrica Creates Project to Support Innovation in African Education
Innovation is a concept spreading across the continent of Africa. TrustAfrica is working on a project called “The Learning Innovation Fund” to financially support local organizations in Senegal, Malli, Uganda, and Kenya to help improve literacy and numeracy skills through mobile libraries and other innovative learning approaches. TrustAfrica is a public foundation that strives to secure [...]
Read MoreDigital Learning Day: Help Bring Innovation and Technology Into the Classroom
Many school districts across the country are slowly trying to transition classrooms into innovative, tech- savvy learning environments, but there are a lot more schools that have yet to step into this space. Digital Learning Day was created to give educators, parents, and studens the extra push to make it happen. Digital Learning Day is [...]
Read MoreIs Innovation Leading to Higher Unemployment?
Technology entrepreneurs love to talk about disruption while simultaneously touting themselves as job creators, but the two roles are often contradictory. By definition, disruptive innovations are characterized by a streamlining of process or product that is more efficient. Typically, the inefficiencies removed from the incumbent system result in less required labor. Less labor means fewer [...]
Read MoreCapella University to Host Live Webcast With Geoffrey Canada on Innovation and Education
Looking back on hot topics in the past couple years, education tops the list. But low performance in public schools is just one side of the conversation. Recently there have been discussions about how technology and innovation can reform education. There have been numerous educational technology tools that have emerged in the past year, but [...]
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