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Ted Jordan, President, Funutation Tekademy, is skilled in teaching computer design, technology, robotics, and fun to young adults!

Ted's story (09-26-08) is a pathway of mentoring, education, and work experience that brought him to what he does today - his real passion - teaching young enthusiastic adults at all levels of experience.

An inventor and entrepreneur, Ted tells the story of growing up, a strong family network, excellent education and training, and many diverse experiences in business.

Ted offers advice to parents of children who are passionate about learning computers and robotics.

Programs like Funutation are excellent models for replication in every community and school to attract and connect with young minds building a future workforce that is progressive and creative.

Learn about Funutation Tekademy http://www.funutation.com/

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Civic Wisdom: The Value of the Older Worker

Bonnie N. Dick, Employment Consultant, CGI Cleveland, was recently awarded the "Most Valued Older Worker" in the State of Ohio. In her interview, Bonnie talks about the value experienced workers of all ages bring to workforce development.You can download the transcription above on Scribd.

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The Value of the Older Worker - IOpen2's Channel

Bonnie N. Dick, Employment Consultant, CGI Cleveland, was recently awarded the "Most Valued Older Worker" in the State of Ohio.

Bonnie talks about the value experienced workers of all ages bring to today's expanded, multi-generational workforce development system.

You can learn more from the wisdom of civic leaders across these I-Open communities:

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John Zitzner, President, Friends of E Prep Schools Interview 01-07-10

Building Brainpower: Our Most Competitive Regional Asset

John Zitzner, President, Friends of E Prep Schools in Cleveland, Ohio, shares a story of transforming education regardless of circumstance - the first step in revitalizing regional economic sustainability.

In this transcription of John's I-Open interview, he describes how he brings his entrepreneurial zeal and experience in building successful for profit enterprises to connect entrepreneurship and education, transforming workforce development for regional prosperity.

Learn about this successful, replicable investment model of innovation in charter school education celebrated this week, June 14, 2011 - "100% of E Prep's 8th graders and 100% of The Intergenerational School's 8th graders passed the Ohio Achievement READING Assessment. #1 in the county." - John Zitzner.

More about John's work and the work of others building successful charter schools at Breakthrough Charter Schools.

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Closing the Brainpower Gap: Transforming Regions One Student at a Time

John Zitzner, President, Friends of E Prep Schools in Cleveland, Ohio, shares a story of transforming education regardless of circumstance - the first step in revitalizing regional economic sustainability.

You can visit E City to learn more about how this model of innovation in education works.

Breakthrough Charter Schools, a replicable model of innovation in charter school education, celebrated  "100% of E Prep's 8th graders and 100% of The Intergenerational School's 8th graders passed the Ohio Achievement READING Assessment. #1 in the county" - John Zitzner, June 2011.

Learn from civic intelligence at these I-Open communities:


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COINS: An Economic Development Tool for Education, Economic, and Workforce Development in Open Source Economic Development

COINS 2009 Paper 10-12-09

Betsey Merkel, Co-Founder, Director, The Institute for Open Economic Networks (I-Open) contributed this paper to the COINS 2009 conference at the Savannah College of Art & Design (SCAD) October 8- 11, 2009.

This paper describes I-Open's approach to a higher level of organization, process, and tools needed to build networked collaborative communities from our experience working in the "Civic Space" (everywhere outside the four walls of any organization) over a six year period from 2003 to 2009.  It offers a starting point for us to take a closer look at how to integrate COINS and apply CONDOR, an analytic and mapping software tool, to improve creativity, collaboration, and communications to accelerate Open Source Economic Development.

We're suggesting an accelerated networked model of Civic Forums hosted in collaboration with colleges, universities, and libraries. Let us know if you or your organization is interested in collaborating to build a three to five site Civic Forum model to advance creativity, collaboration, and communication.

You can learn more about COINS and Condor on the Swarm Creativity blog.

Please add your comments and suggestions! Thanks!

Posted by Betsey Merkel.