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San Carlos Apache Tribe - Videos

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Meet The Project Champions

Head Start Kids Get Laptops

A Wonderful Case Study - High School As It Ought To Be

Here's a great example of passion and projects overcoming inertia...

Excerpt from: http://theenergyproject.com/blog/2009/12/high-school-way-it-ought-be

" HIGH SCHOOL THE WAY IT OUGHT TO BE

By Tony Schwartz, CEO, The Energy Project on Dec 01, 2009

How much more focused and engaged would high school students be if they were given an opportunity to pursue their passions – topics that truly sparked their interest and excitement?

A year ago, we helped launch an experiment with 9^th graders at the Riverdale Country School, a small independent school in the Bronx. A year earlier, a new head of school had been hired and he brought to his role a series of ideas about education that ought to be commonplace but are all too rare. Among them:

Minds on Fire: Open Education, the Long Tail, and Learning 2.0

© 2008 John Seely Brown and Richard P. Adler. Text illustrations ©
2008 Susan E. Haviland. The text of this article is licensed under the
Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).

EDUCAUSE Review, vol. 43, no. 1 (January/February 2008): 16–32

Minds on Fire: Open Education, the Long Tail, and Learning 2.0

John Seely Brown and Richard P. Adler