Idit Harel Caperton - Our Most Important Commodity is Education

As the founder and president of WorldWideWorkshop, Idit Harel Caperton is developing social learning networks to cultivate innovation and creativity among youth. Computer technology for her is the perfect tool to present learning environments to everyone, in particular to minorities all over the world. She in particular tries to reach kids and their parents, wherever they are based, to enable them to believe in their ideas and to pursue those ideas until they may become a prototype and in the end a product.

 

“It is a human right”, Idit argues at DLD Tel Aviv , “to be informed not only as a consumer, but also as a creator and pusher of one`s ideas”. So as one of the programs of her organisation, she installed the Globaloria Game Design Competitions, a social learning network, teaching students to invent educational webgames. “To be digital citizens in democratic societies, we must be aware, that our most important commodity is education”, she summarizes her mission. Meet Idit in the video below to also discuss, why social media should be better used for social purposes.