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Why Kids Need Schools to Change

“There’s probably no better example of the throttling of creativity than the difference between what we observe in a kindergarten classroom and what we observe in a high school classroom,”

“For developing creativity and flexible and divergent thinking, we need to bring back the arts,”

A urine-powered generator created by four teenage girls made its debut at Maker Faire Africa 2012 in Lagos, Nigeria.

And we don’t introduce a single subject app. Instead we focus on the amazing range of consumption, curation, and creativity possible across grade levels and subjects using only four general apps: an annotation app, a screencasting app, an audio creation app, and a video creation app. In our workshops conversations about pedagogy center the iPad properly as an effective learning device. The content comes from a wide range of materials available across the Web and in our classrooms, not from apps.