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Marlene Scardamalia interviewed on CTV's Canada AM. (aired Sept 2006)
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Response delivered to the World Cultural Council by Prof. Marlene Scardamalia Winner of the 2006 “José Vasconcelos” Award of EducationEnglish SpanishIdeas represent an invaluable natural resource; they are renewable, everyone can produce them. In the Knowledge Age this resource might well serve as a great equalizer, contributing to the health and wealth of all citizens, all nations. José Vasconcelos and Albert Einstein gave us ideas--gems of the highest order. To date, education has done a fairly good job of disseminating the ideas of such great minds. It has been considerably less successful in enabling future citizens to create ideas of value to society. Vasconcelos would be among the first to appreciate the need to make this shift-- to enable every citizen to work creatively with ideas and to provide the social supports required to increase the value of these ideas to society. Here is a links to Carl Berieter in 1991 , and also in the 2006. | |