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List of Challenges. How might we gather information from hard-to-access areas to prevent mass violence against civilians?
USAID, Humanity United and OpenIDEO have partnered to pursue ways to prevent mass atrocities – that is, deliberate mass violence against civilians. Examples of mass atrocities include genocide, ethnic cleansing and mass rape. Often the perpetrators of these crimes try to conceal their actions – barring journalists and humanitarian organisations from entering the area, blocking internet and mobile access, etc. How might we better listen and respond to the needs of of victims in these situations even though physical access may be limited? How can we help gather information from these regions, given the challenges of actually being on the ground?
Enterprising Non Profits. CO-OPPORTUNITY. Coopération, co-opétition, collaboration, co-opportunité, économie collaborative, co-management, Co-Révolution… KesaCO? Esther Wojcicki: Finding Open Education Resources (OER), Some New Search Options.
One very useful tool for all educators is the Open Courseware Consortium search engine that allows users to search for Open Education Resources (OER) at the university level easily.
If you are a K-12 educator or parent, here is a very useful search engine for K-12 OER materials. Easily is the key because frequently resources that seem to be open are not Creative Commons licensed and cannot remixed or shared. Thus, a teacher can use the resource but not modify it to meet their individual student needs or share it. Easily also means you can find them easily. OCW is using a Google Custom Search Engine that anyone can place on their website enabling OER searches.
It is really easy to add this search engine to your blog or webpage. The beauty of Creative Commons licensing is that it promotes sharing and enables individualizing instruction. Khan Academy MIT Open CourseWare Stanford Engineering Everywhere Open Yale Courses Wikiversity YouTube EDU The Open University - Study at the OU P2P University. Social Innovator. Change.mooc.ca. Media Lab: The Cognitive Limit of Organizations.
This is a slide that I got from Cesar Hidalgo.
He used this slide to explain a concept that I think is key to the way we think about how the Media Lab is evolving. The vertical axis of this slide represents the total stock of information in the world. The horizontal axis represents time. In the early days, life was simple. We did important things like make spears and arrowheads. At some point, however, the amount of knowledge required to make things began to exceed the cognitive limit of a single human being. When the Media Lab was founded 25 years ago, many products were still single-company products and most, if not all, of the intellectual property was contained in a single company. In a world in which implementing the next generation of ideas will increasingly require pulling resources from different organizations, barriers to collaboration will be a crucial constraint limiting the development of firms. This is a slide that I got from Cesar Hidalgo.