"The Digital Bridge Academy at Cabrillo College", with guest Diego Navarro
Voices from 2020, Vol. 8, Published June 30, 2007. In this eighth episode of Voices from 2020, hosts Firehawk and Bill Veltrop interview Diego Navarro, Founder and Director of the Digital Bridge Academy at Cabrillo College in Watsonville, California. The Digital Bridge Academy is a highly innovative program designed explicitly to help accelerate the readiness of students who are \u201cunder-prepared\u201d for college in any number of ways (including \u201cat-risk\u201d students, who make up sometimes over 90% of the student population), and the Academy does this \u2013 not in years, but in only one semester. In this episode, learn about how the Academy \u201cLights the Fire for Learning\u201d in these students, and how it has transformed the whole concept of education \u2013 and the lives of many \u2013 by the year 2020.