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Educators + Entrepreneurs = 'Big Ideas'
Local educators join entrepreneurs to focus on new approaches to K-20 education.
For the past three days in Half Moon Bay, the startup spirit of Silicon Valley has combined with the steadfastness of lifelong educators at the Big Ideas Fest, a conference focusing on providing solutions to some of education's most provocative questions.
Half Moon Bay-based Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education (ISKME) launched the first Big Ideas Fest three years ago.
"Education is in the state of disarray," said Lisa Petrides, the founder and president of ISKME.
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On the agenda this year is a lot of "action collaboration," a concept co-created by Jonah Houston (of IDEO) and Perides, in which participants use design thinking to invent creative solutions.
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