How could Canada foster the world's strongest creative, engineering and business talent?
Solutions we're looking for: Training and skills development programs and initiatives to create the expertise needed to lead in a new economy and great next generation leaders.
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Digital Literacy for All Canadians
Russell Fordham on April 1, 2010 at 11:14 am Just as reading and writing is seen as key to development and empowerment of citizens, there needs to be a focus on ensuring that Canadians of all ages are digitally literate. The focus of many... more
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Create Canadian Institutes of ICT
Mark Goldberg on March 31, 2010 at 03:56 pm Measured against its peers, Canada has historically had among the lowest number of PhD graduates per 100,000 population: in many cases, this may be because our top graduate students head abroad to... more
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Create a Canadian 'Design Ignites Change' initiative
Neil McEvoy on March 30, 2010 at 05:37 am Design Ignites Change is a US-based initiative for involving youth in more social activism, including 'School: By Design'. I'd propose creating a Canadian version with the same principles.
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Network of Collaborative Innovation in Business Learning Environments (CIBLE)
Sharon M McIntyre on April 3, 2010 at 05:32 pm Build a network of Collaborative Innovation in Business Learning Environments (CIBLE) for undergraduates in Canada's post-secondary institutions. Today, undergraduate students (and often... more
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Evolving Liberal Arts Education into Digital Arts
Russell Fordham on March 31, 2010 at 03:13 pm The traditional liberal arts education was designed around the idea of giving post secondary education a breadth of knowledge and analytical skills in a variety of fields. As digital has evolved... more
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Ensure public K-12 is fostering knowledge-based economy skills
LynnSutherland on April 4, 2010 at 12:38 pm Most Canadian citizens receive the foundations of their education in the public K-12 system. This early education sets up the interests, expectations, initiatives and goals of the students. We must... more
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Aggressively Update Technical Curricula
Mike Barnlund on April 2, 2010 at 02:49 pm In my opinion, the biggest failing in tech education is simply the irrelevance of much of the skills a student acquires in university/college by the time they graduate and enter the work force.
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Bridging the Gap between Business and Education Using a Web 2.0 Solution
Chandra Clarke on April 2, 2010 at 03:09 pm There's a huge gap between what academia thinks the economy needs, the quality of what schools produce, and what business actually needs.
We need a website that a) scrapes job ad... more -
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Virtual Learning Environments and ELearning to Build Strong Communities
Andrew Light on March 29, 2010 at 12:00 pm The digital world connects people from all over the world instantaneously to communicate and share ideas. At the same time, education has often been named as a key factor in achieving success and... more
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If The Media Are The Messages, Let's Teach People How To Read Them.
Brian Alkerton on April 5, 2010 at 08:15 pm We live in a time of unparalleled technological change, and that change only accelerates with each passing year. Any commitment to ensure that our students are trained on the latest and greatest... more
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Long-Life-Education System (LLE)
Strivan on April 5, 2010 at 08:43 pm Digital Economy operates services rather than products. Current education is the product. You invested time and money and you have received the diploma - product. After than, nobody care about you... more
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Curriculum Development to Foster Digital Entrepreneurs
Russell Fordham on April 1, 2010 at 01:32 pm Over the last few years, the practice of “design thinking” has evolved as an important discipline, using the concepts of problem solving used by designers to create more effective businesses... more
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Knoweldge Integration - the key is putting it all together
Gordon ValaWebb on April 1, 2010 at 11:48 am Large and complex problems (or opportunities) require people from many different technical and functional areas to share their knowledge and to be able to work effectively together.
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Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know
David Jacobson on April 1, 2010 at 07:05 am The title, a quotation from D J Boorstin in the 1960s or early 1970s tells us that becoming educated requires an open mind willing to listen, think about things and apply new-found knowledge. Albert... more
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Imagination Olympics
dsdf on April 1, 2010 at 06:10 am The X games for the minds by discipline and age - whether creative in terms of art, science or business. A venue for practicing of ideas, competition and avenue of exposure. Growth and... more
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Open Capital Network
scorgie on March 30, 2010 at 12:42 pm The biggest barrier to entry for Canadians is not education or skill but rather capital investment opportunities for startups. Compared to the U.S. Canada has very little in the way of Venture... more
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Barbara Bailie Director, Interactive Astral Media -
Jacob Glick Canada Policy Counsel, Google Inc. -
Jerry Brown Associate Partner in the Advisory Services, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP -
Mike Kirkup Director, Developer Relations at Research in Motion (BlackBerry) -
Olivier Vincent President, and CEO of Canpages and Ziplocal