Below are some suggestions for how you can more deeply explore and involve yourself
in the drivers of change and trends outlined in the 2020 Forecast.
- Improve your brain's health by spending ten minutes per day on the SharpBrains website
- Join a group advocating children's health or environmental safety in schools,
such as the
Healthy Schools Network
- Host an
Innovation Jam to engage students and teachers in developing new ideas for learning
- Connect your school with the nearest Farm-To-School program, or start one in your area
- Be a citizen journalist by contributing to NowPublic
- Check up on politicians or legislation through one of the projects run by the
Sunlight Foundation
- Host a
Meetup for Youth Rights
- Find or contribute a lesson plan at Curriki
- Advocate for reward structures that give teachers incentives for sharing and creating
collective educational resources
- Use data-driven decision-making to assess student learning as well as the effectiveness
of learning agents in supporting them
- Search the
twitterstream for conversations about current events
- Track South Africa's progress in its quest to create a nationwide open curriculum
- Create a network in your community like the Berkeley Parents Network
- Involve students and parents in your professional learning community
- Use social impact and education games with your students at Games for Change
- Download courses from
Stanford University on iTunes, or MIT OpenCourseWare, or other
open access sites for use in your classroom
- Earn money for research on various projects at Innocentive
- Join your local
Freecycle Network to exchange things for free in your area
- Create and sell your own ideas and goods at Ponoko
- Contribute to the body of global climate data through the NASA GLOBE project