Courses | Summer of Soil. Edgeryders. Sustainable Building Deconstruction & Materials Reuse (Portland) | Living Future. In the Pacific NW, construction waste accounts for about a quarter of waste stream volume. Residential deconstruction and reuse is a practical and sustainable alternative to demolition. Approximately 85 % of a building’s major components that typically end up in landfills during demolition can be diverted for reuse; and the overall cost of deconstruction is often comparable to, if not lower than standard demolition costs, after tax benefits are factored in.
This two-day training will help you build the business case for deconstruction and reuse and will provide an overview of important elements to consider, including: hazard identification, safety, planning & logistics, and deconstruction and reuse best practices. Training materials include a tool kit with documentation to help plan and manage the deconstruction process.
Learning Objectives More information and registration for this event... DIY culture: Do you want your kids to create or consume? It has become a common refrain on the web: The rise of the DIY culture, the hacker movement and an overall sense that knowing how to code and hack is an important skill Events like Maker Faire are growing and attracting more participants, while venues like Kickstarter, Indiegogo and Etsy are offering makers of all types a viable venue for selling and advertising their skills. This cultural movement can rightly be seen a backlash against the passive consumerism of the last six decades, but it’s also about something larger — our place in an increasingly competitive, and “flat” world. And as such, a large part of this movement focuses on kids. How do we teach our kids to code? How can we get them interested in hacking? SparkFun wants to visit schools in all 50 states and will offer courses to both students and educators, as well as development kits.
Teaching middle schoolers Scratch programming. Well School. New Economics Summer Institute. Dire ecological news and the failures of the global economy are fuelling interest in a “new economics” grounded in principles of ecological sustainability, the democratization of wealth, community empowerment and social and digital connection. Following the success of last year’s first annual Boston College Summer Institute in New Economics, we will be holding another session from August 12-18, 2013. If you are a PhD student in the social sciences, you are invited to apply. We will bring together a group of distinguished faculty who are pursuing research and practice in this emerging field. Confirmed faculty include Juliet Schor (Boston College), Gar Alperovitz (University of Maryland), Gill Seyfang (University of East Anglia) and Michel Bauwens (P2P Foundation and University of Amsterdam).
Practitioners working on new economy projects will join us for workshops. Core Faculty and Topics Juliet Schor, Boston College: Labor & Consumer Cultures Michel Bauwens, P2P Foundation: P2P Economies. 2013 - Home. UK schools to receive 15,000 Raspberry Pi computers, thanks to Google grant - Irish Innovation News. Through a grant from Google Giving, the Raspberry Pi Foundation will be able to deliver 15,000 Raspberry Pi Model B computers to schoolchildren in the UK in an effort to spur coding in the classroom. Google Giving is a charitable branch of the tech giant that supports disaster relief, university research and community projects. Eric Schmidt, executive chair of Google, visited a school in Cambridge with Raspberry Pi founder Eben Upton to teach a class of local kids about coding on the morning of the announcement. The Raspberry Pi Foundation will work with Google and six educational partners in the UK– OCR, Code Club, Computing at Schools, Generating Genius, Teach First and CoderDojo – to find the schoolchildren that will benefit most from the donated computers.
OCR will also create free teaching and learning packs to package with the Model Bs. Elaine Burke. Education Trends in 2013: 4Cs – Communities, Content, Context and Curation. In last week’s post, I wrote about adaptiveness being one of the trends I see for 2013. The second one is a group of four topics which are all related to adaptiveness in one way or the other: communities, content, context and curation. Communities In a recent interview Andrew Ng, co-founder of Coursera, stated that one of the drivers in their MOOCs’ growth is that they focused on communities around their content early on, an aspect that he thinks was not taken into consideration in earlier attempts by universities that basically just uploaded their content and had hoped for the best. A couple of years ago, I wrote about a startup called OpenStudy, which back then partnered with MIT to add a community and discussion layer to the OpenCourseWare.
It found quite some success, with learners and teachers from across the globe engaging in discussions and working together. Communities (or the sense of community) are a crucial piece of the puzzle when we talk about online learning. Content Context. Learning for everyone, by everyone, about almost anything. Service learning. Announcement: Appropedia has internship positions open for 2013.
Appropedia's service learning programs help to create an essential knowledge base for the world via a learning experience for individuals and classes. The Appropedia Foundation and the Appropedia community work with universities and learning programs to create these opportunities. Appropedia has been shown to be a particularly useful tool for educators to provide service learning.[1] This page gives details of the program and how to participate. In brief, it covers: Kinds of content that are welcomed - includes topic overviews, in-depth technical pages, how-to/guide pages, and accessible news or magazine-style reports, project descriptions (including research, hands-on, awareness-raising), technologies, practices, relevant educational programs. If you're wondering, "Does Appropedia cover my area?
" See this slideshow for an overview: [edit] What can be placed on Appropedia? Broad topics - e.g. To give some ideas: Our program.