Big Thinkers on Education
Some of the most compelling visionaries in the world -- from Sir Ken Robinson to Jane Goodall to Martin Scorsese -- are focusing their attention on how to improve education. From innovative classroom concepts to suggestions on how to foster creativity and collaboration, they share their valuable insights for teaching and learning and illuminate new solutions to old problems. Get inspired by their big ideas.
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Media scholar Henry Jenkins describes how to boost kids' civic engagement by tapping their interests
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Barnett Berry
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The president and CEO of the advocacy organization Center for Teaching Quality
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Linda Darling-Hammond
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Stanford University education professor and adviser to the U.S. Department of Education
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Arne Duncan
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The former CEO of Chicago Public Schools, now secretary of education for President Obama
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Howard Gardner
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Harvard University professor and author of twenty books, best known for his theory of multiple intelligences
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James Paul Gee
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Professor of literacy studies at Arizona State University and author of What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy
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Daniel Goleman
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Psychologist, journalist, and the best-selling author of Emotional Intelligence and other books
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Jane Goodall
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Groundbreaking primate researcher and founder of the Jane Goodall Institute
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Mimi Ito
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Cultural anthropologist studying new media use, particularly among young people in Japan and the United States
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Salman Khan
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The founder of the Khan Academy, a free educational video library that features over two thousand titles
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George Lucas
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Maker of the Star Wars and Indiana Jones films and founder and chairman of the George Lucas Educational Foundation
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Wynton Marsalis
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Artistic director of Jazz at Lincoln Center and winner of a Pulitzer Prize in music for his work Blood on the Fields
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Randy Nelson
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Former Dean of Pixar University, which provides employees of the animation company a broad fine-arts education
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Nichole Pinkard
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New media professor and founder of Chicago's Digital Youth Network
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Sir Ken Robinson
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International leader in creativity, innovation, and educational reform and the author of Out of Our Minds: Learning to be Creative
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Katie Salen
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Executive Director of the Institute of Play and professor of design and technology at Parsons The New School for Design
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Martin Scorsese
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Academy Award-winning director of Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, Goodfellas, the Departed, and many other films
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John Seely Brown
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Innovative thinker, known for his ideas on merging digital culture and education
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Constance Steinkuehler
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Game-based learning scholar talks about her research on online role-playing video games and literacy
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David Thornburg
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Award-winning futurist, author, and founder and Director of Global Operations for the Thornburg Center.
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Alvin Toffler
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Futurist and co-author, with his wife, Heidi, of Future Shock and The Third Wave
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Alice Waters
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The founder of the Chez Panisse Foundation, which promotes healthy school-lunch programs and runs the Edible Schoolyard projects.
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Judy Willis
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Neurologist turned educator with the University of California, Santa Barbara's graduate school of education
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Challenge Myself in Order to Benefit Others
After reviewing several videos, I am interested in developing resources for students in my area of the country. How do I start? What do I need to do in order to benefit these students in the Mid-South? Please assist me in this task.
Brilliant!
This is exceptional. I appreciate his focus on creativity and collaboration as means to greater learning. Also, the idea of tapping into students' passions and seeing the amazing things that grow out of them. As a video gamer and educator, I'm glad to see him demystify video games as a valid learning tool. I realized this earlier this year when the new Assassin's Creed III came out (set in colonial America) just as we were studying the American Revolution and students were coming to me telling me what they learned from playing the game. Powerful stuff. Kudos to Mr. Brown.