10 to the 100

Post by: bingorabbit
Published on September 26th, 2009
Filed under: Google, dreams, in.words, information.technology
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Recently, Google unveiled the ideas that might change the world to let the world vote on one of them. For the best 5 ideas of the chosen 16 which actually came from 154,000 submissions, Google will be committing $10 million to fund. You can only vote for one idea, you can change your selection till 8th of October 2009, but you will still be able to select 1 idea.

I’m really interested in three ideas, and I will quote their description below:

Enhance science and engineering education – Education

Support initiatives that enhance young people’s engineering and science education. Users from many countries agreed that encouraging science education was an ideal way to insure the brightest future for technology development itself. Specific ideas ranged from building a virtual science lab and a live multiplayer math game to putting Lego robots and local high-tech professionals in schools.

Provide quality education to African students – Education

Support efforts to increase young Africans’ access to quality education. This idea’s many user-submitted inspirations include an initiative to provide quality education and facilities to children who lack access; giving leadership training to outstanding young people who will comprise tomorrow’s African leaders; and providing an online networking space for knowledge sharing and collaboration among teachers in Africa.

Make educational content available online for free – Education

Make educational and course materials more accessible online to students worldwide. Lots of educational content is not indexed or accessible on the public web. Various users have proposed finding ways to help content owners put formerly exclusive content online, including offline materials (lectures, textbooks, videotaped workshops) and limited-access materials (scholarly papers, research dissertations); help teachers themselves become more available online (access to online profs, 24/7 homework help, cross-country study groups); and to make all this material and academic help accessible through both computer and mobile platforms.

As you might notice, the three of them are categorized under education, which is one of our major problems here in Egypt, and mostly in all growing countries. I believe that any of them will be a world changing idea, and one of them – at least – will be from the best chosen 5. Because we are talking about the World Change here, good education and especially in the engineering and science fields can definitely change the world, focusing on technologies and the REALLY FAST PROGRESS around us, Engineers and Scientists will be solving all of our world’s problems.

For the second idea, I think it’s a chance for the world to have the so called balance, from President Obama’s speeches, I remember the sentence when he said that the next generations of scientists and engineers should come from USA, but for the second idea, this will really make the balance and we will share them the engineers and the scientists dream.

I haven’t voted yet, if you did, come on, share us your choice and let’s discuss them in here.

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4 Responses to “10 to the 100”

  1. ◄IVAN► says:
    September 26, 2009 at 3:57 PM

    آخر واحدة داخلة دماغى جدا :)

    Reply
  2. Harry Keller says:
    September 27, 2009 at 4:44 PM

    These all are great ideas, and I’ve been working on the first two. I have not had an easy time with these ideas; they’ve been very difficult.

    The first one must begin early in school and not wait until college. In America, where I am, science education has been slipping for a long time. Compare with Singapore, where it has a high priority.

    As I surveyed the situation over ten years ago, the decline in good science lab experience was the most obvious problem. All virtual labs at that time were horrible simulations. A science simulation can help students to understand concepts but cannot substitute for a decent lab. So, I began to work on ideas for providing really inexpensive, safe, efficient, and powerful lab experiences in a virtual environment.

    My work is just now beginning to be recognized. It is based on the idea of prerecorded real experiments. These provide a true science experience online. We add inexpensive at-home experiments that anyone can do to make a complete learning experience available across the world, even in poor communities.

    We’re working with some people in Ghana to make this system available to their young people at a fraction of the U.S. cost. Because it’s web-delivered, we’re also providing special software that will remove the necessity of fast and reilable Internet connections.

    You can learn more at my web site: http://www.smartscience.net, and my blog: smartscience.blogspot.com. You might also appreciate the education technology and change discussion going on at etcjournal.wordpress.com where I’m the science editor.

    Let’s change the world!

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    • bingorabbit says:
      October 3, 2009 at 2:53 AM

      Really impressed, and what really makes it easily affordable that it’s web-delivered. I’m gonna check the website as I’m really excited about the idea. By reaching Ghana, this means that you are starting to implement the third idea too :)

      Thanks a lot for passing by, looking to hear from you soon :)

      Reply

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