worldview learning blog

A New Culture of Learning

admin — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 06:21:22 +0000

If you’re interested in the emerging Education Revolution, we highly recommend you pick up ‘A New Culture of Learning’ by Douglas Thomas and John Seely Brown.

YouTube & Good Work: Visualizing Social Vision

admin — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 08:37:52 +0000

YouTube has recently announced an exciting program called "Good Work", pairing up creatives with Social Enterprises to help tell their story through the power of visual video.

Gary Vaynerchuk: The Thank You Economy

admin — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 08:44:58 +0000

Inkling: an iPad Interactive Textbook

admin — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 18:35:00 +0000

If you love technology and learning, and you don't yet own an Apple iPad, this video may make you run to your nearest Best Buy and purchase the iPad2.

Inkling, an ePublishing start-up based in San Francisco, is about to blow your mind through its reimagination of the textbook for the Social Age.

Sir Ken Robinson: The Education Revolution

admin — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 08:48:27 +0000

Ladies and gentleman, we're in the midst of an Education Revolution.

While this revolution won't get as much play as the revolutions popping up around the globe, it is nonetheless vital and critical to the sustainable future of our species.

Daily Feats: Get Rewarded for doing Good

admin — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 19:54:00 +0000

If you've ever wondered whether 'doing good' actually pays off, then you may be interested to learn about Daily Feats, a new site that rewards people's good behavior through positive action.

With the growing popularity of gamification, it was inevitable that "good" would get its just reward (pun intended).

Cityville - Japanese Earthquake Relief

admin — Sat, 12 Mar 2011 19:57:13 +0000

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Proving that games actually have the power to change the world, look no further than Zynga's Cityville.

I'm slightly ashamed to admit it, but I'm addicted to this Facebook game. Apparently, so are some 56 million monthly users (and climbing) around the world.

Mindsnacks: Awesome Mobile Learning Games

admin — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 09:35:06 +0000

At Worldview Learning, we're always on the lookout for examples of engaging learning experiences that effectively speed up the learner's climb on the learning curve.

Mindsnacks, a clever mobile gaming company based in San Francisco, is a great example of a learning company taking new approaches to engagement to speed up that climb.

Educare: Educating the Developing World

admin — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 06:30:21 +0000

While perusing the #socent (Social Entrepreneur) stream of Twitter, I came across an interesting story on Social Earth about Educare, an online tutoring company for high school and college students.

Educare has a unique value proposition of helping to fund the education of an underpriviledged child in Africa, Asia and Latin America with the completion of a US based tutoring session.

TED + Education = TED-ED

admin — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 23:20:10 +0000

Every year around this time, Chris Anderson and the good folks at TED offer up its prestigious weeklong illumination fest in nearby Long Beach, California.

Many of us in the social innovation community have been transfixed over the past couple of years by these thought provoking videos from its signature event (and subsequent TEDx satellite events hosted around the world).