For many, connecting to people and ideas using new forms of communication and media has created a new definition of how we learn.  Sharing ideas with others through blogs, twitter and other tools is a powerful experience.

Adding to the possibilities comes a new initiative from Google called Project 10 to the 100.  Simply put, they are soliciting new ideas from individuals across a broad swath of areas that can be developed into sustainable outputs that can help others.  Submissions will be collaboratively and collectively judged and financial support offered to the most beneficial ideas.

Submissions will be judged in the categories of community, opportunity, energy,environment, health, education, shelter and “everything else”.

So, this begs the question, as educators, what does this mean?  I wrote a while back about how Apple revolutionized the music industry by redefining the primary music delivery model after the traditional music industry failed to measure and meet customer expectations in a new information landscape.  Could this be the opportunity for an idea – or a few ideas – that might prove to have the same dramatic effect on the story education?

Let the ideas flow.

tags: technology, education, whipple, learning, project10tothe100