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Imaginarium Bucharest February 25-26, 2012
There is a prophecy that says that one day
a group of special people called eduwizards will arrive.
These eduwizards would put together their imagination
and create new ways for us to facilitate and organize learning.
The first time eduwizards meet
they must gather their ideas in an Imaginariumť.
Welcome to this beautiful sunny day in the House of the People, at the National Museum of Contemporary Art.
The first round of the game is called Exploring.
We will have to discover something we have called the map of educational opportunities.
Cosmin Alexandru (B&P Brandivia): What you know is less important that what you want to know
and what you do is less important that what you want to do.
During the second round of the game you will add as many ideas as possible in the Imaginarium.
You have outside, in front of you, a gatekeeper and you will have to build arguments for him to leave.
163 ideas of online education platforms
It's a platform that encourages us to be aware of failure.
We thought of a platform that facilitates exchanges between students
from colleges with the same profile, but from different cities.
I didn`t expect to find so many people I can relate to and generate a lot of ideas
and actually have this teamwork that I`ve never seen before.
If you would sum up today in one word, what will it be?
Awesome.
Very cool.
Innovation.
Extatic.
And the opinion of an "elf"Å¥ (facilitator): Exhausting.
Exhausting? Why is that?
Because people generated a lot of energy and, as facilitators,
we had to manage approximately 70 people and all of them had lots of ideas...
In just 2 days, you have proven that people have enough energy to move things in a new direction.
Now all we have to do is to make them happen.
It's that simple.
And then we had another 3 Imaginariums...
Imaginarium Cluj-Napoca 245 ideas
Imaginarium Timisoara 130 ideas
Imaginarium Iasi 112 ideas
650 ideas of educational platforms have been generated
86 projects submitted on restartedu.ro - seen by 33500 people and gathering 11000 votes
20 semifinalist projects went to ...
Selection Camp March 30 - April 1, 2012
Traian Bruma (CROS): I hope that together we will find enough resources so that,
beyond each of our projects, even if it gets further in the challenge or not,
we can look at the big picture and see that we are part of a movement that it's young and growing.
And it could live, it could grow wings.
We just have to give our energy to this wider movement as well, beyond each of our projects.
7 finalists got to...
The RestartEdu Gala May 19, 2012
Innovative instrument of non-formal education based on treasure hunt...
Roxana Vitan (Romanian American Foundation): All the finalists in this room tonight have projects very close to be launched in the real world.
The vision of Aducativ is that we want young people with real interest and passion on continuous learning beyond school,
young people well prepared for the current job market.
Atelierul Parintilor (Parents' Workshop): We want not only to inform parents, but also to train them.
We want to contribute to a healthy, harmonious and cheerful education of children, but also of parents.
We are the eduwizards of the project called Comoara din muzeu (The Treasure in the Museum).
It is a project aimed to develop an innovative instrument for non-formal education
based on treasure hunting activities in museums, both online and offline.
Dupa-ore.ro is a platform that maps all the opportunities
that young people have for a constructive use of their free time, after classes.
StudioLEX is an online platform which contains videos, mindmaps and presentations.
These translate the useful, but complicated legal information and concepts into a more accessible language.
Seedbit is an online platform that comes with a new way to raise necessary funding for educational campaigns and events.
Seedbit empowers people (users) to choose which campaigns to get funding.
Our solution (TimeBank Romania) is to create a community of enthusiastic amateurs, people just like us that are good at something.
I know computer science, but I have no idea how to do financial planning.
Let's say that someone teaches me financial planning two hours per week.
I will pay back his classes by teaching another community member design, because it's something I'm good at.
So it's a win-win situation: I learn something, you learn something.
3 winners
Timebank!
StudioLEX!
Comoara din muzeu (The Treasure in the Museum)!
His Excellency Mark Gitenstein US Ambassador in Romania
Traian Bruma (CROS): We strongly believe that education is the biggest issue our society has to solve
and the solution must come from our generation.
Education will continue to be an important issue for the next 20 years so it's something we have to think on the long run.