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Recent Comments- Comment on How the System is Killing a Future Green Designer by NamrataWhen I was in Srishti we had several professors who occupied this space of bio-designer/artists, and I remember several inspired students who took their courses. I don't know whether they still run, but it seemed at the time there was building momentum. I don't know much about other colleges that might offer similar opportunities, but my recent tim […]Namrata
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Tag Archives: education
Bill Gates on the Future of Education
Education is one of the biggest challenges for global development. This large challenge is by no means confined to the developing world (even though it is more acute there), and for the Gates Foundation, it has been one of primary … Continue reading
Videos of Pecha Kucha Night #18: Education for Innovation
I’m very pleased to share the final videos from all the excellent presentations at the last Pecha Kucha Night in Delhi, which focused on Education for Innovation. You can subscribe to the CKSIndia channel on YouTube to access videos from … Continue reading
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Tagged Abhimanyu Nohwar, Abhishek Sanghvi, Adianta School for Leadership and Innovation, AmbitionMe, Christian Leborg, CKS, Design Factory India, education, Education for Innovation, Hemant Sahal, iLead, innovation, ishan Khosla, Mike Knowles, National Innovation Council, Nehal Sanghvi, Pecha Kucha Night, Pecha Kucha Night 18, Prashi Agarwal, Siddharth Bathla, Sushant School of Design, USAID, Videos
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Indian Education and its Obsession with Rankings
Philip G. Altbach, a Professor at Monan University and the director of the Center for International Higher Education at Boston College in the U.S, writes about Indian education in a recent article in the Hindu. This follows from President Pranab … Continue reading
Education Innovation in the Slums
Watch this excellent TED talk by Charles Leadbeater on how radical education innovation often comes from places with huge needs and unmet demands. These kinds of constraints can result in some of the most creative, democratic, need-driven innovations in education. … Continue reading
Melinda Gates on Four Ideas that are Changing the World
via @Fastcoexist ‘Positive Disruption’ was the theme for TedxChange, a Tedx event hosted by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation with the aim of spurring action in areas supported by the Foundation. FastCompany had the opportunity to talk with host … Continue reading
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Tagged contraception, digital green, education, family planning, Gates Foundation, m-pesa, Melinda Gates, TedxChange
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Education for Innovation: Pecha Kucha Night #18
I’m very pleased to announce that planning for our next Pecha Kucha Night is already underway. This, the 18th volume of Pecha Kucha in Delhi, will be themed Education for Innovation, and will be held on Saturday, the 13th of … Continue reading
STIRring up Education in India
Whilst browsing the internet this morning, I came across what looks like one of the most exciting new platforms for Education reform in India, Schools and Teachers Innovating for Results (STIR). STIR is being launched today in Delhi, and its … Continue reading
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Tagged ed reform, education, India, innovation, micro innovation, STIR
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To Design Together: Enhance
Traditional approaches to the design of the simple things in our everyday life — ear-rings, clothes, shoes, furniture, homes — often involve a designer staring a a page in a notebook, drawing the object again and again till it … Continue reading
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Tagged Adianta School for Leadership and Innovation, creativity, design, education, enhance
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To Design and Develop
At the heart of innovation is a creative process. This is obvious to most young people I’ve talked with, even if they have had no experience actually doing it. But in many cases I’ve been talking to management and … Continue reading
