Watch a video of the Grove grade 1 students playing: Ableism month at The Grove Twenty One Toys held a workshop at The Grove this January for Ableism week, defined as a form of discrimination or social prejudice against people with disabilities. Founder, Ilana Ben-Ari presented the CONNEXIONS toy to Kristina Katsoras’s grade 1 class [...]
For the month of July we will be working at Shad Valley at Carleton University. Mentoring and teaching the young “leaders of tomorrow” in a program devoted to the entrepreneurial spirit and introducing some of the top high school students across Canada to the exciting world of social innovation. While there we will be having a workshop with the Twonicorn toy and plan on learning just as much as we are teaching.
Saturday, Feb.19th Ilana Ben-Ari spoke at TEDxConcordia about her award winning toy for the visually impaired.
A wonderful talk by the great Sir Ken Robinson about education, curriculum and creativity.