George Lucas Thoughts on Education- World Business Forum 2009

Trying to reinvent how teachers teach– using experimental multimedia– Lucas felt movies and computers could come together– go into schools and find and capture best practices. 

George Lucas Foundation–

No one was recording best teachers, best ideas, put them online.  What is best way for people to learn?

Asked if education is a lost cause?

Lucas-” we only fail if we give up– we are drowing as a society– do we want to give up or keep going– single most important thing we have as a uman race is to create knowledge and pass it on to the next generation.”

“our brain doesn’t work well unless we tell it things…”

 

GREAT ideas– how do you access them and learn from them

 

We need to adapt to survive on this planet…

 

we will have to learn a lot in next 400,000 years

 

we have to keep doing it today to get there…

Reporting from the World Business Forum

George Lucas just shared that his father taught him to ‘Buy Low, Sell High… and never make a movie out of a hobby’ imagine if he heeded that advice!  There would be no Indiana Jones, No Star Wars…  I can’t imagine my childhood without seeing Star Wars– 26 times at the Uptown Theater with my brother Tony… This man has been a GAME CHANGER business leader who says he puts writing first, business second and producing third… hmmm

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Will More Low-Income Youth Be Able to Build Their Pathways to Prosperity? Secretary of Education Highlights NFTE as Scalable Best Practice

Imagine a World…

Where young people are trained to make it in the market economy.  Where high school is relevant and real life and young people learn skills they will need to build their pathways to prosperity.

At the Aspen Ideas Festival… the US Secretary of Education shared his support that young people learn entrepreneurial skills.  The NFTE Program Highlighted Several Times as Best Practice by  US Secretary of Education Arne Duncan talk with Robert Schieffer of CBS’s Face the Nation.

 

“To find those practices and to scale them up… all this discretionary money we have  All I want to do is invest in those schools those school districts those nonprofits that are both closing the achievement gap and raising the bar for everybody.  So We have an unprecedented opportunity to do that and to take to scale what works.  There is a program, you guys are going to watch a movie tonight, the NFTE Program.  This Ten9Eight movie that focuses on this idea of teaching entrepreneurship.  Well they are doing a phenomenal job… we should have more students engaged in that.  I am a big fan of Teach for America- they are doing a great job of producing in the next generation of teachers… we should invest more in that.  My job is not to come up with the next great idea.  My job is to figure out what’s really working around the country and help those folks take to scale those best practices.. its a unique, unique opportunity.”

 

- Arne Duncan at the Aspen Ideas Festival, Aspen Colorado,

 

LINK TO INTERVIEW– quote above featured in minute 29 – 31 http://www.aifestival.org/audio-video-library.php?menu=3&title=509&action=full_

 

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Dan Sharpe with the Institute for Large-Scale Innovation:

“I’d like to ask you to comment on a recent quotation of Tom Freidman’s.  He said the stimulus program will help our economy recover, but only innovation will help us retain our competitiveness.  You’re bringing great innovation to the process of education; what changes are you doing in education to enhance the ability of our students to be innovative?”

 

Arne Duncan:

“That’s a great question.  I think so much of that is providing students with a range of opportunities to pursue their skills and pursue their passions.  So again, just an example, you guys have been watching here tonight, this NFTE program is taking children from some very very tough backgrounds and giving them a chance to be entrepreneurs, to be innovators, to build their own businesses.  There is a young man, I don’t know if he is here, but he is in the movie, Rodney Walker – yeah he’s coming up next.  I don’t want to start crying up here but this young man has overcome some things that most of us think is just unimaginable, but because he had those opportunities, he was on the Dean’s List this year, a freshman at Moore House, class president – very, very tough background, never seen a mountain before he came her today – never seen a mountain.

 

So we have to find more opportunities to help students find their passion, find their creativity, to give them the ability to innovate, and despite their tough situations they can do great things.”

 

SEVEN HOT LINKS – Keeping You in the Know

Seven Hot Links

Keeping You Connected and in the Know (7-09)

 

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1] Ten9EIGHT- Shoot for the Moon – POWERFUL Movie coming out this fall featuring 25 NFTE Students by famous producer Mary Mazzio of 50 Eggs Productions: http://www.ten9eight.com/   – Movie premiers at Aspen Ideas Festival- July 1, 2009 and is profiled on the front page of the Aspen site http://www.aifestival.org/ . The movie will be introduced by Secretary of Education Arne Duncan. JOIN Facebook ‘fan’ site for movie- http://www.facebook.com/pages/TEN9EIGHT/70261978797?ref=ts

 

2] Tanya’s Story — Powerful New Presentation- Youth Entrepreneurship in America

http://www.slideshare.net/Juliek/tanyas-story-youth-entrepreneurship-in-america-nfte-presentation-4-20-09  Site becoming an internet sensation to explore impact of youth entrepreneurship education with Obama and Duncan quotes (Four students– each receiving $50 and how they invested their money…)

 

3] USA TODAY ARTICLE – http://www.usatoday.com/money/smallbusiness/2009-05-18-teen-entrepreneurs-start-businesses_N.htm  Cover story in Money section on youth creating their own jobs in this tight labor market 

 

4] Aspen Institute’s Youth Entrepreneurship Strategy Group  (YES Group)

http://www.aspeninstitute.org/policy-work/youth-entrepreneurship-strategy-group – links to key publications and membership “Youth Entrepreneurship in America – Policymakers Action Guide”

 

5] NFTE IMPACT – http://www.nfte.com/impact/

 

6] MAJOR REPORT -  released in May by the World Economic Forum ”Educating the Next Wave of Entrepreneurs”    http://www.weforum.org/en/index.htm or  http://www.weforum.org/pdf/GEI/2009/Entrepreneurship_Education_Report.pdf  – NFTE wrote the youth chapter.

 

The World Economic Forum’s Educating the Next Wave of Entrepreneurs report issues a call to action to catalyse entrepreneurship globally through education
Issued by the Forum’s Global Education Initiative, • the report aims to raise awareness of the importance of entrepreneurship education in unlocking entrepreneurial capabilities to meet the global challenges of the 21st century

 

“Entrepreneurship education is crucial in restarting the economy in this time of economic crisis”-

 Alex Wong, Head of Global Education Initiative, World Economic Forum .

 

7] NFTE Greater Washington & Government Affairs Social Media Links

 

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