Learning Without Frontiers

10th February 2012

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The Future of Learning - Part 2 - How Innovation Happens

We're delighted to present you with the 2nd instalment of essential viewing from the recent LWF 12 : Future of Learning Conference.

 

 

Charles Leadbeater - Global Learning Innovations

Creativity & innovation leader & author of the recent book "Innovation in Education: Lessons from Pioneers around the World" on behalf of WISE (World Innovation Summit for Education), Charles Leadbeater, discusses how traditional education systems often fail providing examples of radical educational innovators who, starting at the margins rather than the mainstream, create new and effective ways of providing access to learning.

Charles Leadbeater

 

 

Conrad Wolfram - Making Maths Beautiful

Conrad Wolfram, Mathematician Founder, Wolfram Research Europe. The importance of math to jobs, society and thinking has exploded over the last few decades. Meanwhile, math education has gotten stuck or has even slipped backward. Why has this chasm opened up?

Conrad Wolfram

 

Michael Brooks - The Secret Anarchy of Science

When Jake Davis, the alleged spokesperson for the teenage hacking group LulzSec, was released from court on bail he left holding a copy of Michael Brooks book "Free Radicals: The Secret Anarchy of Science".

Michael Brooks discusses how many of of Davis' generation think science is dull, beyond them and something that has no need of their input and that this is because every generation before them has colluded in creating the myth that science is boring, that scientists are dull, passionless, cold and logical.



Michael Brooks

 

Andrew Eland - Learning to Compute

Google's technology platforms have shaped the way we use the internet & has had a profound impact on numerous industries in numerous sectors including education and learning. Andrew will talk about the Google story, the importance of STEM education, the UK's failure to capitalise on its record of innovation and engineering and Google's position on this.

Andrew Eland

 

Ed Vaizey - Learning for Prosperity

Ed Vaizey, UK Minister for Culture, Communications the Creative Industries discusses the UK Governments position on innovation, creativity and growth.

Ed Vaizey

 

Jacob Kragh - Nurturing Creativity & Innovation

Jacob Kragh, President, LEGO Education. Jacob is committed to making a positive difference to children in their development and discusses the many initiatives that LEGO Education are undertaking throughout the world that help children to better understand their world, its challenges and how they may embrace their own creativity and innovation to solve bigger problems from renewable energy to green cities, after-school clubs to robotics from pre-school through the secondary education.

Jacob Kragh

 

 

Geoff Mulgan - Learning to Innovate

Geoff Mulgan, CEO, NESTA makes the point that todays education systems- far from allowing "learning without frontiers" maintain a status of quo of "learning within frontiers" where the power is retained within exactly the same institutions that have dominated education for more than a generation. He asks why is that the case and can we innovate out of it.

Geoff Mulgan

 

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