Gandhi said, "Be the change you wish to see in the world".
Here is a list of all the positive things that are changing in the world to offer inspiration to those that aren't sure what to be.
"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world." - Nelson Mandela
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kH-uYwt0qs
"University of the People (UoPeople) is the world's first non-profit, tuition- free, accredited online university dedicated to opening the gates to higher education for all individuals otherwise constrained.
The University embraces the worldwide presence of the Internet and dropping technology costs to bring tuition-free undergraduate degree programs to qualified high school graduates around the world. UoPeople offers Associates and Bachelors degree programs in Business Administration and Computer Science." http://uopeople.edu/
Sal Khan on digital learning. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OtSs2xEpzY
Conversations with Sal Khan. https://www.khanacademy.org/talks-and-interviews/conversations-with-sal
Khan Academy on the Gates Notes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuMTSU9DcqQ
Khan Academy in the Classroom. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DlxIXYEu4s
"Our mission is to provide a free, world‑class education for anyone, anywhere." https://www.khanacademy.org/about
Asynchronous learning is a general term used to describe forms of education, instruction, and learning that do not occur in the same place or at the same time. The term is most commonly applied to various forms of digital and online learning in which students learn from instruction—such as prerecorded video lessons or game-based learning tasks that students complete on their own—that is not being delivered in person or in real time. Yet asynchronous learning may also encompass a wide variety of instructional interactions, including email exchanges between teachers, online discussion boards, and course-management systems that organize instructional materials and correspondence, among many other possible variations.
http://edglossary.org/asynchronous-learning/
"Coursera is an education platform that partners with top universities and organizations worldwide, to offer courses online for anyone to take, for free." https://www.coursera.org/about/
"EdX offers the highest quality courses from institutions who share our commitment to excellence in teaching and learning." https://www.edx.org/schools-partners
- https://www.udacity.com/
- http://online.stanford.edu/
- http://mooc.org/
- https://www.udemy.com/
- http://freecodecamp.com/
- https://www.codecademy.com/
Bill Gates Meets with Katie Brown, Washington State Teacher of the Year
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPSRbHucF24
This Will Revolutionize Education
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEmuEWjHr5c
About 8 million tons of plastic enters our oceans every year which is a travesty - but there are good people working hard at leveraging scalable, energy nuetral, autonamous technologies to remove about half the Great Pacific Garbage Patch in 10 years.
You can find out all about the project and how to help support them here: http://www.theoceancleanup.com/
More to come soon!
NOTES
The intent is to turn this into a slide-show-web-presentation. I added some basic markup and a very simple server to start the base of this project. The server isn't currently needed but if you want to run it for some odd reason...
- clone/fork the repo
- cd to the repo
npm install expressnodemon server.js