No Right Brain Left Behind is a speed innovation challenge, calling on the creative industries to concept ideas that can help the creativity crisis happening in U.S. schools today.

"Competency" is the watchword. So often we simply ask for people to have basic competency in their job, not excellence even, just competency!  Yet the education system isn't based on a competency model.  Instead, it's based on credit hours: how many hours a student sits in a class. This model persists like an old t-shirt we hate to give away because of all the good times we've had in it.  But it's time to move on; it's time to introduce the competency model as an equal partner in the educational system.

An interesting blog motivating Web2.0+ technologies use in education by Scott McLeod.

If we were really serious about educational technology, we would... [Here are 10 to get you started.]