I just finished reading your entry and watching your video and I was wondering if you've considered making outreach and curriculum development for schools part of the design competition? Maybe the winners can be encouraged to collaborate with educators so their great ideas don't stop with the competition.
This occurred to me after reading the entry for Reaching the World, Mapping the Mind (http://www.changemakers.com/en-us/node/73480). Maybe you and Heather Halstead can discuss.
That is a great idea. We'd need to beef up our infrastructure a little bit to be able to follow up in that way (see: funding). Right now we work on a very slim time/cost structure per project.
The video came about because we had a happenstance connection to some Teach For America teachers at MS 322, and Matt Shapiro (NYU '11), took advantage of that to set his project up there. It's a bit stark, but that's how 6th graders are -- blunt and to the point.
In any case, if we had the resources to coordinate our university creative talent (many) with K-12 schools (many), we'd love to do that. It has come up before: the TFA connection was part of an early conversation about that.
Our first goal has been to get the depth of creative talent engaged and presented. As soon as we can spin off other benefits we'd be very excited to do so.
Thanks again for the idea and I will follow up with Heather.
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Hi Richard,
I just finished reading your entry and watching your video and I was wondering if you've considered making outreach and curriculum development for schools part of the design competition? Maybe the winners can be encouraged to collaborate with educators so their great ideas don't stop with the competition.
This occurred to me after reading the entry for Reaching the World, Mapping the Mind (http://www.changemakers.com/en-us/node/73480). Maybe you and Heather Halstead can discuss.
All the best,
Alexis
Hi Alexis --
That is a great idea. We'd need to beef up our infrastructure a little bit to be able to follow up in that way (see: funding). Right now we work on a very slim time/cost structure per project.
The video came about because we had a happenstance connection to some Teach For America teachers at MS 322, and Matt Shapiro (NYU '11), took advantage of that to set his project up there. It's a bit stark, but that's how 6th graders are -- blunt and to the point.
In any case, if we had the resources to coordinate our university creative talent (many) with K-12 schools (many), we'd love to do that. It has come up before: the TFA connection was part of an early conversation about that.
Our first goal has been to get the depth of creative talent engaged and presented. As soon as we can spin off other benefits we'd be very excited to do so.
Thanks again for the idea and I will follow up with Heather.
best,
Richard
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