Honda seem to have cornered the market in my thoughts this week…
What if we invested in young people and gave them a truly global education?
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Just watched this Honda advertisement again and it hit home…
Hate something
Change something
Make something better
I think that’s what drives Digital Explorer.
Hate something? Yes, I hate the fact that we are lurching towards massive, global environmental and cultural issues and not providing our children with the education they need to deal with this.
Change something? Yes, put on great interactive, online, digital expeditions and build capacity amongst pupils and teachers in the UK to do the same thing themselves.
Make something better? I think by harnessing pupil to pupil education, the power of the internet and some inspiring young people on a digital media platform, we might just do it.
Come on board to make a better world.
‘Ideas that can change the world’ launched at Microsoft on Tuesday 13 November. Pupils, teachers, entrepreneurs and the inspirational gathered to turn the amazing ideas that young people have for a better into reality.
There are already some amazing ideas emerging from their work with young people. Some ideas focus on compassion, others on technology and there are some extraordinary ideas from young people about money. If you are an entrepreneur, a scientist, a teacher a youth worker or someone with a passion about making positive change happen do get in touch to see if you can help.
If you are a teacher then please have a look at their amazing cookbook for generating world-changing ideas in the classroom (pdf download).
See the Ideas that can change the world website for more information or join their facebook group.
Digital Explorer is now incorporated as a Community Interest Company. We join the growing ranks of social enterprises in the UK, which famously include Jamie Oliver’s Fifteen restaurant and the Oxo Tower.
Each proposed Community Interest Company must demonstrate that its operations are in the public good and show how its assets and profits will be used to benefit the community.
It’s very important that Digital Explorer is a social enterprise and that we work with our partners and sponsors to ensure that all our work goes to helping young people learn more about the world around them, have their own voice heard and work together to create a better future.
Our main activities listed with the Community Interest Company Regulator are:
- Set up a global network of digital youth expeditions that will change the way that young people feel about their community
- Train pupils, teachers, NGOs and expeditions in digital communications
Any surplus that we generate will be used to subsidize our work with schools and charities.
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