The "My City My SM" event at SM City mall showed us the historical and cultural side of Santa Rosa. (Read more:)
HURRY! - it's your last chance to see and hear Lea Salonga's delightful live performance
in "CATS" at CCP MAIN THEATER (Tanghalang Nicanor Abelardo), Pasay City.
The award-winning musical's Philippine run has been extended until August 22 to accommodate the multitude of Lea Salonga fans on this welcome return visit to her home stage midst ongoing international success. You can book online at TicketWorld.
"This is so cool!" was the verdict of Miss Philippines Earth 2010 delegates.(Read more:)
16 year old Jessica Watson is youngest ever round-the-world solo sailor. (Read more:)
Visit the Philippine Pavilion at Shanghai World Expo 2010. (Read more:)
Cynthia Mamon's work is recognized with IABC Award in Pasig City. (Read more:)
Do you and/or your kids need to know the nutritional values of different foods and the necessity of a healthy balanced diet? Michelle Obama has launched...(Read more:)
Boxing is not the only breeding ground for Philippine World Champions and when a choir from Santo Tomas University wins the coveted "Choir Of The World" title and the uniquely prestigious Pavarotti Award it deserves special acclaim. Click the pic above or below to
see official video of the amazing flagwaving scenes of jubilation as the result is announced. Click this text to read more. It will make you feel proud to be Pinoy!
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Education
EDITORIAL:
AN EXCITING NEW WAVE OF INSPIRATIONAL IDEAS IS SWEEPING THE GLOBE and it does not originate, as you might guess, in the developed First World.
Proving the truth of the old adage that "need is the mother of invention", these amazing educational ideas have originated in developing countries of the Third World, where need is greatest and financial resources are lowest. Even more remarkably, it is creative individuals who are leading the way and are inspiring enlightened governments to follow up their work with enthusiastic official support. In Africa, Asia and South America these ideas have been spreading like wildfire, and last of all they are now being taken up by the First World which sees itself lagging far behind.
Basically the new ideas seek to transform education from the bottom up instead of from the top down as in traditional education systems. In other words they make a fresh start from ground zero by asking what children want and need most right now in their own lives however poor their circumstances and however lacking are the public resources available.
Through the sheer genius of passionate educators, millions of children in the Third World are already experiencing the mind expanding joys and opportunities of elementary education for the very first time. It's giving a whole new dimension to the phrase "against all odds".
Also, this same approach is already being extended to adults with little or no education, and even traditional mainstream government education systems in the First World are now piloting alternative methods derived from innovative ideas fom the Third World.
To learn more and to see where else and in what other fields innovative individuals are
bringing radical improvements and advances, we highly recommend that you take a look at
the TED website www.ted.com TED offers a fascinating collection of inspirational online videos covering a great variety
of subjects from music and dance to education and social enterprise to architecture and painting to astronomy and quantum physics. All are performances or talks by leaders from around the world, and all are free for anyone to view on the internet. Below are 8 samples to whet your appetites:
Sugata Mitra's "Hole in the Wall" experiments in India have shown that, in
the absence of supervision or formal teaching, children in the poorest of
circumstances and in the remotest areas can teach themselves and
each other when they're motivated by curiosity and peer interest.
Newton Aduaka co-wrote, directed and executive-produced "Ezra", funded by
Arte France, about the recruitment of child soldiers in Africa. His film won the
Grand Jury Prize at several film festivals, including FESPACO, Durban, Amiens
and Balafon, and it was an official selection at Sundance and Cannes.
Mechanical engineer Amy Smith's approach to problem-solving in developing nations is
refreshingly common-sense: Invent cheap, low-tech devices that use local resources, so
communities can reproduce her efforts and help themselves. Her inventions have won
prestigious prizes, and her course at MIT ("Design for Developing Countries") is a
pioneer in bringing humanitarian design into the curriculum of major institutions.
Mitchell Joachim is a leader in ecological design and urbanism. He won the History
Channel and Infiniti Design Excellence Award for the City of the Future, and is on the
faculty at Columbia University. He talks about his project Fab Tree Hab, and states
that: "We don't have a problem with science fiction, in fact we actually embrace it."
Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web. He now leads the World Wide Web
Consortium (W3C), which oversees the internet's standards and development, and
continues to refine its design. Recently he has envisioned a "Semantic Web", an
evolved version of the same system. He is also a senior researcher at MIT.
Carter Emmart uses astronomy and computational modeling to create scientifically
accurate, three-dimensional tours of our universe. As the Director of Astrovisualization
at the American Museum of Natural History, he directs their groundbreaking space
shows and heads up development of an interactive 3D atlas called The Digital Universe.
J.K. Rowling penned the bestselling Harry Potter page-turners, a spellbinding, seven
installment fantasy of wizards, warlocks and decidedly British texture that brought
her from rags to riches. Here she gives the 2010 Harvard Commencement Address.
This speech is viewable at Harvard Magazine and also at www.ted.com
Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft, talks about energy and climate. He relinquished his
role with Microsoft to focus on philanthropy. Holding that all lives have equal value, no
matter where they're being lived, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has donated
staggering sums to HIV/AIDS programs, libraries, agriculture research, disaster relief,
and vital guidance and creative funding to programs in global health and education.
