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Michele Baron

A New Book Published by a 2010 Urgent Evoke Hero-- Indigenous Knowledge from philosophy to design

2011 Urgent Evoke Social Innovator, Legendary Agent/Mega Hero Dr. Ampat Koshy has written a book in which he codifies indigenous knowledge of many cultures, from Plato and the ancients to current philosophers and philotechs and more!!! I am posting my review here-- it is a great book, and I hope you all try to read it. :)



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"Wrighteings" is a challenge, but also a really fun book to read, if you can take time to attune to the cadence of the words. Koshy writes… Continue

Posted by Michele Baron on July 10, 2011 at 4:30am

Mad Earth

Lack Less, Lustrous Planet: "LEARN" - MISSION ONE

"What you have matters more than what you lack (If you’ve got a bicycle, consider what you can build based on that, rather than worrying about not having a car, a truck, a metal shop.)"



I dug the page of social-innovation "secrets", and selected Rule 6 of Ethan Zuckerman's 'Innovating from Constraint', to blog upon. Attention is PAID, to yer assets, daddy-o! (I don't always locute in beatnik slangs, but it captures the musing enthusiast's sense; dig?) Now, this admonition about… Continue

Posted by Mad Earth on June 19, 2011 at 10:02pm — 1 Comment

Roger

pass it on

All of us must have had the experience of sitting in front of our grandparents, listening to them telling us about their wisdom and knowledge they learnt from their lives, listening, as they pass down the knowledge to us that we won’t forget. As time goes by when it’s my turn to pass on our knowledge, I will make sure our next generation won’t forget about them.

I will tell them the stories of our ancestors and the history of human. Humans have created a strong and stable society we have… Continue

Posted by Roger on June 19, 2011 at 2:17pm

Roger

local indigenous

In nowadays, where life is surrounded with numerous sciences, people are beginning to lose the wisdom of the expertise their ancestors have gained in life experiences, and may even find those wisdoms silly or somewhat “useless in life.” Yet, we do not realize that a lot of knowledge we learn in school or find in textbooks is the gifts our ancestors left for us----their wisdom, their expertise.

Thousands of years ago when science isn’t available, people already had the knowledge of… Continue

Posted by Roger on June 18, 2011 at 4:29pm

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EVOKE Group Play

Greetings EVOKE agents, Over the summer we completed another round of EVOKE for almost 40 classrooms with players from Australia, Bolivia, Canada, Denmark, Germany, India, Italy, Mexico, Morroco, Nepal, New Zealand, Peru, Philippines, South Africa, Taiwan, Uganda, USA, and Zambia.  During this phase players created over 2,000 new blog posts. Congratulations to all new agents for sharing [...]

Season 1 Dark Site to re-open for new groups

Greetings EVOKE agents.   Are you ready to re-engage?   Are you ready to welcome new agents to the network?  Due to overwhelming demand from teachers and community leaders, EVOKE – Season 1 dark site will re-open on a three month trial run basis.  New groups of players can now submit a [...]

EVOKE wins #1 Social Game of the Year!

Happy 2011 EVOKE agents!  Great news to kick off the new year – EVOKE received top honors in 2010 from Games for Change, the leading global organization for games designed to have a positive real world impact.  Congrats to the entire development team, and to all of you who contributed to the EVOKE community! We will soon be accepting [...]

World Bank Apps for Development Challenge

Agents, While we await the next season of EVOKE, I wanted to share with you another challenge brought to you by the World Bank — the apps for development challenge — See link – http://appsfordevelopment.challengepost.com/ The World Bank launched its Open Data Initiative in April, 2010. This initiative made an array of data sets, including the World Development [...]

EVOKE Certificates for Class of 2010 — Last Call

Greetings agents, After distributing certificates for all of those agents that qualified, we have had some inquiries from agents who did not receive a certificate but completed the necessary number of missions and quests to be considered.  If there are any agents who did not receive a certificate but feel that they should have, please send [...]

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Alchemy

Official HELP Forum: EVOKE agents to the rescue! 172 Replies

If you have a general question about the site or gameplay, or if you need help with a technical issue, please post your question here. One of Alchemy's assistants will advise you... unless another…Continue

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Started by Alchemy in Suggestions and Questions. Last reply by Joshua Z Oct 21.

Alchemy

Challenge the Network 123 Replies

Call the EVOKE Network to action.  This is your chance to harness the collective and collaborative powers of EVOKE.  Submit a challenge to the Network in this discussion thread, and my team and I…Continue

Started by Alchemy in Missions. Last reply by Sarah Spiegel May 11.

Alchemy

Episode 4 STORY: Who can you trust? What is the network hiding? 11 Replies

What do you think of the story so far? Discuss what happened in Episode 4 here.

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Started by Alchemy in Missions. Last reply by Isidor Cardenas Apr 29.

Alchemy

Episode 4 CODE PHRASE: "He who does not know one thing, knows another.” 18 Replies

It's an old Kenyan proverb: "He who does not know one thing, knowsanother.” What do you think this code phrase means to the Evokenetwork?Continue

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Started by Alchemy in Missions. Last reply by Isidor Cardenas Apr 29.

 
 
 

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