ACRE Blog

We thought that you might be interested in seeing some of the discussion in the “blogosphere” that has grown out of last week’s conference on “Technology and Jewish Education: A Revolution in the Making?” co-sponsored by the Lippman Kanfer Institute and the Berman Jewish Policy Archive @ NYU Wagner.  We encourage you to share your own thoughts about where we go next to take full advantage of the potential that technology holds for expanding and enhancing Jewish learning and teaching by responding to any of these posts, adding your own thoughts to our JE3 website (www.jesna.org/je3), or tweeting to hashtags #je3conf and/or #jed21.  Also, videos from the conference will be available on the JESNA website next week.

 

Quality Jewish education is our most powerful tool for ensuring a vibrant Jewish future.  But, it can’t have an impact on those who don’t participate.

What can we do to make Jewish education more attractive, accessible and affordable, even under current conditions of economic pressure on both “providers” and “consumers”?  How do the challenges of expanding educational participation play out today in specific arenas – day school, “complementary” education, camp, Israel education – and for specific critical populations – families with young children, teens, young adults, etc.?  What new approaches are being tried and where are there signs of success?  What has yet to be tried, but ought to be?

Leaders from a wide range of settings and representing a variety of perspectives will address these questions in a series of essays that will be appearing over the next few weeks on eJewishPhilanthropy and here on the JESNA website.  Read their analyses and proposals and share your own thinking as part of this online series dealing with one of the critical challenges and opportunities facing the Jewish community today.

Read the first article in full on eJewishPhilanthropy:

I found this 5-minute video ( http://omgzam.com/technology/video-an-insight-to-the-internet-of-things) thought-provoking.   It does an interesting job of explaining what is currently happening when the digital world meets the physical and intellectual and the emerging trend of Internet of Things.  What struck me most when thinking about the world of CRE is the pyramid of DIKW--Data, Information, Knowledge and Wisdom and how we will have to find innovative ways of using technology to help rabbis create wisdom.

 Any thoughts or comments about the relevance of this video to CRE?