Play Manifesto is a social platform for sharing the importance of rediscovering and integrating integrating Play into our lives, our schools, and our work. Play provides a sense of purpose, mastery, and fulfillment – motivating us to innovate and thrive in both educational and business environments. Unfortunately, most educational systems and businesses believe that Play [...]

Hilarious, and also moving.

Worldwide Linchpin Meetup day Wednesday, May 18, 2011 7:00 PM http://www.meetup.com/sethgodin/ #Linchpin

“If you really want to know what society is going to be like in 20 years, don’t ask a technologists like me: ask kindergarten teachers. They are the ones that know what society is going to be like in one generation”. —Clifford Stoll TED Blog

Bestselling author, political advisor and social and ethical prophet Jeremy Rifkin investigates the evolution of empathy and opens the way to end our enthrallment by outdated concepts and half-baked beliefs in what our human nature is supposed to be.

Adapted from a talk given by Sir Ken Robinson, world-renowned education and creativity expert and recipient of the RSA’s Benjamin Franklin award. There is more information on Sir Ken’s work at: http://www.sirkenrobinson.co

You can be happy and not know it. Listen to Robert Thurman explain how true happiness occurs exactly when we are not even able to think about it. Check out more on Robert Thurman, Professor of Buddhist Studies, Columbia University; President, Tibet House U.S. at: http://bigthink.com/robertthurman

At the end of yet another jaw-dropping TED talk education scientist Sugata Mitra makes a this “guess”: “Education is self-organizing system, where learning is an emergent phenomenon.” He says that this should take a few years to prove, experimentally. Yet it is worth the try. In the meanwhile, his “Hole in the Wall” experiments show [...]

They are a product of “liquid networks”. New ideas are truly born out of chaos, actually, chaotic environments, like those of London’s original coffee houses. They also have notoriously long incubation periods, like Darwin’s theory, for example, which Steven Johnson calls his “slow hunch”. Learn here how innovation happens. You will find out, “Chance favours [...]