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Lucy Gray

Imagination Foundation - 2 views

www.imagination.is

shared by Lucy Gray on 19 Sep 12 - No Cached
  • Lucy Gray on 19 Sep 12
     
    The Imagination Foundation is launching the first ever Global Cardboard Challenge, inviting the world to play while raising funds to foster creativity and entrepreneurship in kids.   September will be the month to organize and build, then on October 6th (the one-year anniversary of the flashmob that came out to make Caine's day) friends, family, co-workers and community members can come out to play at local events, celebrating the creativity and imagination of kids around the world.
Lucy Gray

Welcome to Ketso | Ketso - 14 views

www.ketso.com/ketso-home

community communication action wellbeing resources collaboration

shared by Lucy Gray on 04 Feb 12 - No Cached
  • Henry Liebling on 04 Feb 12
     
    Ketso was designed to unleash people's creativity, incorporating ideas from Tony Buzan on Mind Mapping®, Edward de Bono on creative thinking, David Kolb on experiential learning and Howard Gardner on multiple intelligences. Suggestions for how to run workshops are influenced by recent thinking in community development, based on the community's assets instead of starting with problems.
Lucy Gray

Learn about CC during Open Education Week - Creative Commons - 6 views

creativecommons.org/...31636

creative commons Open Education Week 2012 learning teaching

shared by Lucy Gray on 02 Mar 12 - No Cached
  • Tero Toivanen on 02 Mar 12
     
    As most of you are undoubtedly aware, next week, 5-10 March, is the First Annual Open Education Week - a time set aside each year to celebrate and raise awareness about open education and open educational resources (OER).
Lucy Gray

Factories Ready to Hire, but Skilled Workers Scarce - NYTimes.com - 1 views

www.nytimes.com/...02manufacturing.html

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shared by Lucy Gray on 02 Jul 10 - Cached
  • In a survey last year of 779 industrial companies by the National Association of Manufacturers, the Manufacturing Institute and Deloitte, the accounting and consulting firm, 32 percent of companies reported “moderate to serious” skills shortages. Sixty-three percent of life science companies, and 45 percent of energy firms cited such shortages.
  • Employers say they are looking for aptitude as much as specific skills. “We are trying to find people with the right mindset and intelligence,” said Mr. Murphy.
  • Local leaders worry that the skills shortage now will be exacerbated once baby boomers start retiring. In Ohio, officials project that about 30 percent of the state’s manufacturing workers will be eligible for retirement by 2016.
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  • The jobs, which would pay $18 to $23 an hour, require considerable technical skill.
  • anonymous on 02 Jul 10
     
    Is assessing basic skills enough in a global economy?
  • anonymous on 02 Jul 10
     
    Yong Zaho is right, the US will loose by teaching to and assessing for basic skills. As Richard Florida and Dan Pink write about it is the Creative Class where there is real growth.
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