Vesting students as co-owners of schools – Miiu.org
In many public schools, learning has been paralyzed by a combination of poor teaching, peer pressures that undercut academic success, and outright disruption of classrooms. More than half of the...
View ArticleMusic’s Effects on the Mind Remain Mysterious
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=musics-effects-on-the-min Wynne Parry – LiveScience 18 Dec 2012 www.scientificamerican.com Creativity Music Neuroscience Music elicits “a splash” of...
View ArticleForget New York City, This City is Where All the Artists Are Moving To
Lisbon, Portugal: The city investing in art in the middle of a financial crisis. . . . This creative renaissance, it turns out, is not spontaneous, but rather the product of opportunistic public...
View ArticleWhen Truth Emerges – Deep Democracy and Community Wisdom
As civilization decomposes new questions arise. Might the collaborative wisdom of communities help us answer “what’s next?” Amplify’d from co-intelligence.org Can communities be wise? Interestingly, a...
View ArticleTogether – The Future of Online Socializing
Pew Research suggests that the majority consider Internet a positive force in their lives. Amplify’d 02 Jul 2010 pewresearch.org social networks, and other online tools offer “low friction”...
View ArticleCreativity and Generosity in a Connected Age
This is review of Clay Shirky’s new book by the above title, according to Shirky; ““Creating the most value from a tool involves not master plans or great leaps forward but constant trial and error....
View ArticleScience of Prayer – Proximity Could be Key to Success of Healing Prayer
When the faithful gather and lend their healing hands to one another then science gets a little less “scientific”. What do you think of using prayer? Are you a believer? Amplify’d from www.newswise.com...
View ArticlePamojaConnect – Connecting the web, SMS, twitter, Googla Map for Villagers in...
Amplify’d from digitalafrica.blogspot.com PamojaConnect (Pamoja means together in Kiswahili) is a new project intending to connect the web and SMS: It connects on the web and through mobile-sms...
View ArticleToil and trouble – Another bubble? Some tech start-ups look over-valued...
Amplify’d from www.economist.com For the first time since 2000, internet and technology entrepreneurs can raise seed capital with little more than a half-formed idea and a dozen PowerPoint slides....
View ArticleA Network of Networks
Craig Newmark has just started “CraigConnects” to support nonprofits and public service organizations that get stuff done on a sustainable basis Amplify’d from www.bethkanter.org [14Mar11] [youtube...
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