Schoolpal's Workshop

Applied Global Education

schoolpal — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 14:37:01 +0000

Global Education is a powerful instrument to build a good future.

We want to do justice to its full spectrum and to help explain just how many aspects there are to it. So we’ve created www.AppliedGlobalEducation.Org to show the two sides of “academic” and “applied” and to create a better understanding for the wide scope of opportunities we can provide through ParentalPal.Org.

Looking ahead over the next weeks and months we invite you to have a closer look at two special events:

…… We shall present our strategy at the
…… 2011 Global Education Conference
…… on Friday, Nov. 18th:

…… The presentation will be available online,
…… we shall post the link here.
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…… In January a truly hot event
…… on global education will take
…… place in London, UK:

And, looking ahead a little further, there will be Dublin in September:

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So, there is plenty to do, to think about and to look forward to !

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The earth on many fires

schoolpal — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 11:17:50 +0000

As a recommendation that comes from the heart:

interested young people should check out Fast Company
frequently, ideally subscribe to the newsletter.
Great minds and brilliant insights galore.

As an example, check out the FC article from Thu, Oct 20:

“A Video Visualization Of Earth’s Fires From Space”

The video runs pretty fast and most of us have watched it
a few times in a row. We consider it fascinating.

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Help yourself think and doodle away

schoolpal — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 13:10:38 +0000

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Did you ever consider this: what used to be smiled at and considered quite
a childish thing – doodling – is in fact the very thing that’s ever so trendy
today … trendy because it is truly very helpful: infographics.

DIY (as work-in-progress) infographics !

Sunni Brown argues very convincingly that doodling is the very thing
to helps us think. Try it!

Her talk is under six minutes long and absolutely worth your time:

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With a big grin into the new school year

schoolpal — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 14:54:39 +0000

We love this Nike ad, it’s got just the right mood to start us into the new term.

With a big grin. And a lot of curiosity. Life’s ahead of us!
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Learning without Frontiers

schoolpal — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 12:35:36 +0000

a site full of inspiration and new thoughts on education
is “Learning without Frontiers”.

Their video section could just as well be taken over “as is”
and integrated into our “TEDucation” page.
Regular visits are highly recommended !

Here’s a sample – just click on the screen shot below:

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Something to show to your parents

schoolpal — Sat, 23 Apr 2011 09:27:14 +0000

Just five minutes: here is a fine video clip to watch and then to show to your parents. You’ll quickly understand why.

For better understanding, here is what had actually happened in January 2009.

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Ric Elias, posted with vodpod

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Let the flashmob touch your heart

schoolpal — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 13:35:34 +0000

…when it comes to thinking environmentally friendly.

And yes, lots of young people DO pick up things and put them in the bin.

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What’s just as interesting if you’re into languages: if your mother tongue is English or you have studied English art school AND you do not speak any French – in which case you belong to a majority of 94% of our frequent readers – you would still understand all the important parts of the messages shown in the clip. Give it a try !

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Palindrome

schoolpal — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 09:04:59 +0000

Today’s word: PALINDROME !

A palindrome is a word, phrase, number or other sequence of units that can be read the same way in either direction (the adjustment of punctuation and spaces between words is generally permitted). ~ Wikipedia

Take the length in this video, 2 minutes, to read and listen along with it forwards and backwards. Alas, life is all about perspective.

The above lines and the video clip is taken from http://www.tammycamp.com and here’s the link to the original post.

It pays to pay good attention to the words – it’s really well done:

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Understanding the Middle East

schoolpal — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 19:59:06 +0000

An in-depth and moving way to gain a better insight into the thinking that moves the nations in the Middle East from Marocco all the way to Afghanistan is to listen to the voices of the young. There are many of them, they feel strongly and they should be heard world wide.

SchoolPal recommends: if you wish to understand and try to get a feeling for what the future may bring in the Middle East, check out the “About Us” page and then subscribe to the weblog at http://www.mideastyouth.com.

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Cognitive Entanglement

schoolpal — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 20:27:47 +0000

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“How the Internet gets inside us”

by Adam Gopnik, Feb 2011

Adam Gopnik writes a wonderfully smart and inspiring article, more than worth to be passed on to young readers with a discerning mind. Please read the whole article here. A passage we found particularly intriguing was this one:

” … We may not act better than we used to, but we sure think differently than we did.

Cognitive entanglement, after all, is the rule of life. My memories and my wife’s intermingle. When I can’t recall a name or a date, I don’t look it up; I just ask her. Our machines, in this way, become our substitute spouses and plug-in companions. Jerry Seinfeld said that the public library was everyone’s pathetic friend, giving up its books at a casual request and asking you only to please return them in a month or so. Google is really the world’s Thurber wife: smiling patiently and smugly as she explains what the difference is between eulogy and elegy and what the best route is to that little diner outside Hackensack. The new age is one in which we have a know-it-all spouse at our fingertips. … “

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