2010 Global Education Conference
KEYNOTES (in order of presentation time)
 | Ed Gragert iEARN GMT: Mon 15 Nov 03:00PM - click to find the time in your own time zone ELLUMINATE RECORDING: CLICK HERE This session has been held and the recording link is above |
Creating a Culture of Peace Through Global Education: Some Lessons Learned. In the decades ahead, hopefully more and more schools will integrate the world into all parts of their curriculum. As they do so, they will need successful models of what has worked in diverse settings and environments. In this effort, educators and administrators should look beyond issues of global competitiveness as the main purpose behind building awareness and engagement with the world. Over the last 22 years, iEARN has learned many lessons about building a successful and sustainable global educational communities. In this presentation, I will share what I consider to be the five key components for replication across the country.
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Dr. Edwin H. Gragert is Executive Director of iEARN-USA. Since 1988, in this position he helped iEARN (International Education and Resource Network) pioneer the educational use of innovative communications technology and teacher professional development to facilitate on-line collaborative project-based learning in elementary and secondary schools in 130 other countries worldwide. Approximately 2 million students are working daily on collaborative projects through iEARN. iEARN is the largest network in the world of primary and secondary schools engaged in online collaborative project work, as it is in countries with significant Muslim populations. In much of this collaboration, iEARN works in partnershipwith the US Departments of State and Education, as well as with ministries throughout the Muslim world. He served as the Executive Director of ICYE-US, an international high school and community service youth exchange program and also served on the staff of the International Relations Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives. Ed received a BA in Japanese political science from the University of Washington and an MA in Korean History from Columbia University. His PhD at Columbia was in Japanese history, focusing on landownership changes under Japanese colonial administration in the early 20th century. Landownership Under Colonial Rule: Korea's Japanese Experience, was published by Columbia and the University of Hawaii in 1994.
 | Dr. Steven Amstrup Polar Bears International GMT: Mon 15 Nov 04:00PM - click to find the time in your own time zone ELLUMINATE RECORDING: CLICK HERE This session has been held and the recording link is above |
Polar Bears and Climate Change. How was climate change affected polar bears and their habitat? Join Dr. Steven Amstrup live from the tundra in Churchill, Manitoba along with Dr. Ian Stirling, scientist and University of Alberta professor, and Lance Rougeux, National Director of the Discovery Education Network, as they discuss the effects of the changing climate on polar bears and their habitat. Hear what years of observation and scientific research studies are showing us about this amazing, threatened species, the polar bear. Learn what actions you can take that will benefit the polar bears and their habitat. Finally, resources will be shared that will be of benefit for session participants to connect and collaborate to make a difference locally and globally so we can reduce our carbon footprints and be better stewards of our planet.
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Dr. Amstrup joined the PBI staff as senior scientist in 2010. A world-renowned polar bear biologist, he led the international team of researchers that prepared nine reports that became the basis for the recent decision, by the Secretary of Interior, to list polar bears as a threatened species. He is a past chairman of the IUCN Polar Bear Specialist Group and has been an active member of the group throughout his career. Prior to joining PBI's staff, he was a Research Wildlife Biologist with the United States Geological Survey at the Alaska Science Center, Anchorage, AK. He is also an adjunct professor at the University of Wyoming in Laramie, and an associate professor at the University of Alaska in Fairbanks. Steve earned a B.S. in Forestry from the University of Washington (1972), a M.S. in Wildlife Management from the University of Idaho (1975), and a Ph.D. in Wildlife Management from the University of Alaska Fairbanks (1995). He has been conducting research on all aspects of polar bear ecology in the Beaufort Sea since 1980. His interests include distribution and movement patterns as well as population dynamics of wildlife, and how information on those topics can be used to assure wise stewardship. He is particularly interested in how science can help to reconcile the ever enlarging human footprint on our environment with the needs of other species for that same environment. Prior work experiences include studies of black bears in central Idaho, and pronghorns and grouse in Wyoming. Dr. Amstrup has authored or coauthored over 60 peer reviewed articles on movements, distribution and population dynamics of large mammals, and is the senior editor of a recent text on population estimation methods.
 | Keith Krueger Consortium for School Networking (CoSN) GMT: Mon 15 Nov 05:00PM - click to find the time in your own time zone ELLUMINATE RECORDING: CLICK HERE This session has been held and the recording link is above |
Mastering the Moment: Reimaging Learning in Times of Economic Crisis. In the face of the most serious economic crisis in generations, education systesm across the world are paring their budgets and planning for austere revenue cycles. The panic of the moment could make ICT in education an easy target—and a casualty—of the economic crisis. Already, education technology leaders are being asked to reduce their budgets. Standing still is not an option. School technology programs— and all the proven benefits they offer to educators and students—could get slashed and burned. But plunging through the budget balancing act without careful thought and decision making isn’t the solution either. Short-term budget cuts could set the stage for long-term fiscal and educational setbacks. That’s why CoSN has launched Mastering the Moment, a new initiative to help education leaders lead in times of economic crisis. Hear about innovative ideas from leveraging student owned devices to cloud computing to opening to Web 2.0 collaborative tools. The economic crisis actually presents not just challenges, but also tremendous opportunities to strengthen technology investments, operations, programs, plans, staffs and results.
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Keith R. Krueger (CAE) is CEO of the Consortium for School Networking (CoSN), a North American national nonprofit organization that serves as the voice of K-12 technology leaders, especially school district CTO’s, who use technology strategically to improve teaching and learning.
 | Esther Wojcicki Creative Commons GMT: Mon 15 Nov 06:00PM - click to find the time in your own time zone ELLUMINATE RECORDING: CLICK HERE This session has been held and the recording link is above |
How to Spread Your Ideas Globally Using Creative Commons Licenses. Creative Commons Licenses, how they can be used, and how they help promote global sharing. There will also be a discussion about the pros and cons of each license and why teachers and students might want to use them to promote their own creative work or the work of their students.
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Vice Chair of Creative Commons focusing on Education; founder of Palo Alto High School Journalism program, the largest in the US; education technology consultant for Hewlett & Carnegie Foundations; education consultant for Google.
 | Charles Fadel 21st Century Skills: Learning for Life in Our Times GMT: Mon 15 Nov 07:00PM - click to find the time in your own time zone ELLUMINATE RECORDING: CLICK HERE This session has been held and the recording link is above |
21st Century Skills: a Global Trend. This presentation will explain the Why, What and How of 21st century skills, and review the latest advances and implementations.
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Charles Fadel is Global Education Lead at Cisco Systems, and the Cisco board member at the Partnership for 21st Century Skills (of which Cisco was a founding member), Innovate/Educate and Change the Equation (two organizations dedicated to advocacy of Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM). He is vice-chair of the Education committee of the Business and Industry Advisory Committee (BIAC) to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and works with several teams at the OECD – PISA, AHELO, PIAAC, CELE, and TALIS. He has worked with a wide variety of education ministries and organizations in Massachusetts, Canada (Federal, New Brunswick and PEI), France, Finland, Sweden, Italy, Chile, Brazil, Costa Rica, Tunisia, and the Dominican Republic, to name a few, and has worked on education projects with more than thirty countries and states. Charles has co-authored a book titled “21st Century Skills – Learning for Life in our Times” (Wiley) http://www.21stcenturyskillsbook.com/index.php , and frequently lectures on this topic, as well as STEM, and Education Technology. His work spans the continuum of Schools, Higher Education, and Workforce Development/Lifelong Learning. He is a Visiting Practitioner at Harvard Graduate School of Education, exploring curriculum redesign concepts, a Visiting Scholar at Wharton/UPenn where he recently taught a class on Technologies for Learning (receiving highest student rating), and a Distinguished Guest to the President’s Council of Olin College. He is incubating DigData, a non-profit addressing the convergence of 21st Century Skills and psychology to better teach Statistics and Probabilities. He is Creative Advisor to the Hayden planetarium of the Boston Museum of Science on their new implementations, and he is also advising innovative school systems in Brazil (Lumiar) and Chile (Innova100). He has recently served on the Massachusetts Governor’s Readiness Project as well as its 21st Century Skills task force. He has contributed many articles or has been interviewed in publications such as Technology & Learning, New Media Consortium, Massachusetts Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, eSchool News, Education Week, University Business, EETimes, and others. He has presented at numerous education conferences, including the Consortium for School Networking (COSN), the National School Boards Association (NSBA), the National Center for Technology Innovation (NCTI), and the Masie Center’s learning conferences. Charles has been awarded five patents on video, content, and communication technologies. He holds a bachelor of science in electronics with course concentration in quantum and solid-state physics with a minor in neuroscience, and a master of business administration in international marketing. An avid reader, he has autodidactically learned disciplines such evolutionary psychology and comparative linguistics. He also enjoys the lessons of classical history.
 | Hall Davidson Discovery Educator Network GMT: Mon 15 Nov 08:00PM - click to find the time in your own time zone ELLUMINATE RECORDING: CLICK HERE This session has been held and the recording link is above |
Three Classroom Projects that NEED the World . To ensure the necessity of global collaboration, it is important to find projects which must cross borders to work. For curriculum-based collaborations, the best projects require creative thinking and the kind of skills global thinkers will need. This session explores two replicable examples. First, a math/science project that allows globally connected students to determine the size of the earth—without calculator or encyclopedia. This can only be done by partnering with another school on the same longitude, and on a special day. It follows the method the Greeks used in 300 BCE (afterwards, the size of the moon and the distance from the sun can follow). Along the way, translation tools, and Web 2.0 sites become important. For the other side of the brain, explore language arts/social studies projects that utilize the Facebook advertising engine. These can target the global community in surprising and inexpensive ways (figure a budget of $10 US). Have mobile phones and video cameras ready if you want to participate live in the third project.
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Davidson began teaching math, language arts, and world languages in 1971. He coordinated the oldest American student media festival for 15 years. While working in K-16 education at public television stations, he led hundreds of staff developments and produced television programs including “Beat the Greeks,” “Wired to the Web, Now What?”, and others, including the premiere of “Rock Our World” broadcasting Carol Anne McGuire’s project live to many countries and the Los Angeles area television audience simultaneously. He joined Discovery, a global communications company, in 2005 to help build the Discovery Educator Network and where he now serves as Director of Global Learning Initiatives. He has keynoted conferences worldwide and lives in California where he served on local school site councils.
 | Anne Shaw 21st Century Schools GMT: Mon 15 Nov 09:00PM - click to find the time in your own time zone ELLUMINATE RECORDING: CLICK HERE This session has been held and the recording link is above |
Food and Culture - an emerging, global collaborative classrooms project. Anne Shaw will share with educators her approach and process for designing a global, collaborative classrooms project that meets the standards for a 21st century project which is relevant, rigorous and real world. Inspiration for this project included the 7 Survival Skills for the 21st Century outlined by Tony Wagner in his book, the Global Achievement Gap. Also serving as inspiration were Peter Menzel's book, Hungry Planet, Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution, the Edible Schoolyard, the Center for Ecoliteracy, and the United Nations Developmental Millennium Goals. In particular she will share information about the many exciting Web 2.0 tools which students, teachers and other participants will use in the project.
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Professional staff development and curriculum design are Anne Shaw’s greatest professional passions. Her current research and curriculum development focus upon environmental studies, social justice, multiple literacies for the 21st century, 21st century skills, global competencies, educational reform, and the use of tools such as videography, filmmaking, television production, etc., as excellent vehicles for learning and exceeding the content standards, for creating high levels of student motivation and achievement, and for developing critical 21st century skills.
 | Kelly Mendoza Common Sense Media GMT: Mon 15 Nov 10:00PM - click to find the time in your own time zone ELLUMINATE RECORDING: CLICK HERE This session has been held and the recording link is above |
Digital Citizenship: 21st Century Skills for a Global, Media-Saturated World. Young people are using the immense power of the Internet and other technologies to create, connect, explore, and learn in ways never before imagined. However, behavioral and ethical issues brought up by a constantly connected culture–from cyberbullying to plagiarism–are surfacing in schools, homes, and communities across the United States. Young people face ethical challenges and opportunities daily, and the answers are often not black and white. In this presentation, participants will learn about Common Sense Media’s free educational program on digital literacy and citizenship that connects schools, families, and students in a whole-community approach. Common Sense Media has 10,000 educator affiliates in 57 countries across the globe. Participants will be introduced to a framework and resources for teaching digital citizenship, grounded in research from Professor Howard Gardner and the GoodPlay Project at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Participants will also explore how digital citizenship topics may vary according to their cultural context, but discuss the common threads of digital citizenship that should be taught to students around the world. The online world has no boundaries. Issues of digital ethics and participation are global issues, and this presentation will offer a framework for digital citizenship and explore how it can span across a variety of cultural contexts.
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Kelly Mendoza is an educational program developer as Senior Manager of Education Content and Curriculum at Common Sense Media. She is also a Doctoral Candidate in the Mass Media and Communication Program at Temple University, and on the Board of Directors for the National Association for Media Literacy Education. Kelly has produced media education programs for children, parents, and teachers. She holds an undergraduate degree in Communication and Visual Arts from Regis University and a master’s degree in Communication from the University of Colorado at Denver.
 | Michael Searson, Melda Yildiz, Janis Jensen School for Global Education and Innovation, Kean University GMT: Mon 15 Nov 11:00PM - click to find the time in your own time zone ELLUMINATE RECORDING: CLICK HERE This session has been held and the recording link is above |
PBL[g]: Project-Based Learning [global]. See how a university program is integrating a global approach to Project-Based Learning, often in partnership with local and international schools. This presentation will begin with a definition of Project-Based Learning, with a global twist. We then move to unique teacher preparation program, where pre-service teachers are given course assignments requiring them to work with local and international classrooms that lead to the development of rich, authentic projects. The integration key learning technologies into these global projects will also be presented. We will conclude with a discussion on how classroom PBL initiatives can be transformed into global activities.
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Michael Searson, Ph.D. is executive director for the School for Global Education & Innovation, Kean University. Searson was recently elected president of the Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education (SITE). He has presented internationally, most recently in Turkey and Turkmenistan. In the fall of 2009, Dr. Searson led an international delegation to China, as chairperson of the Xi Hu Conference on 21st Century Learning. He also serves on the Global Learn Asia Pacific Executive Committee. Other distinctions include: Apple Distinguished Educator, Curriki Hearst Fellow, participation in the Google Teacher Academy, and member of the 2009 Future of Education Global Awareness Panel. Searson has authored or co-authored numerous state and federal grants, most recently a StarTalk grant, designed to introduce college students to Hindi and Indian culture.
 | Don Knezek International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) GMT: Tue 16 Nov 12:00AM - click to find the time in your own time zone ELLUMINATE RECORDING: CLICK HERE This session has been held and the recording link is above |
ISTE Takes Technology Leadership Global for Digital Age Learning. The International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE®) works with governments, education systems, foundations, schools and other organizations around the world to enhance their capacities to transform learning ... to adapt to our increasingly digital world. Participate with ISTE CEO, Don Knezek, to understand how ISTE works with partners around the world and how ISTE serves it members ... individuals, affiliate organizations, ed tech providers, and institutions where ever they are around the globe. As the leading learned society and the critical partner worldwide for moving learning into the digital-age, ISTE offers connections (face-to-face and virtual) second to none, highly effective consulting and training, and a wealth of resources. This session highlights examples around he globe how these can nurture informed transformation of learning in your environment.
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Don Knezek, CEO of the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE®), is recognized internationally for his leadership in transforming learning through effective and innovative uses of technology. He has led innovation in the classroom, from the district and state department of education perspectives, and through large multi-state projects. Dr. Knezek has recently served as Director of The National Center for Preparing Tomorrow’s Teachers to Use Technology (NCPT3) and Co-Director for the National Educational Technology Standards (NETS) Project – both important ISTE initiatives. Don is committed to universal education and is a tireless advocate for professional development in context and for 24/7 student access to quality digital learning environments. He is providing consulting services to ministries of education around the world sharing his valued expertise in preparing education leaders and teachers to thrive in an increasingly digital world.
 | Jon Mannion Constructing Learning Through Technology GMT: Tue 16 Nov 01:00AM - click to find the time in your own time zone ELLUMINATE RECORDING: CLICK HERE This session has been held and the recording link is above |
Streetkids and non-formal learning with ICT: Disruptive innovation at the edge. A case study from Manila, Philippines. This dialog will attempt to add detail and concrete examples to the ideas of Sir Ken, those in 21st century learning, and those supporting the notion of social entrepreneurs.
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Researching Learning Technologies works with out of school youth and adults in Manila Philippines. The work is with street kids and organisations that support the welfare of marginalised youth and their communities.
 | Tim DiScipio ePals GMT: Tue 16 Nov 02:00AM - click to find the time in your own time zone ELLUMINATE RECORDING: CLICK HERE This session has been held and the recording link is above |
The Globally Connected Classroom in the Collaborative Social Learning Age. Tim will provide an inspiring presentation for teachers, principals, and instructional technology directors on connecting your school community with safe tools, and igniting global collaborative student learning experiences. Session attendees will see how other ePals classrooms connect, collaborate and centralize schoolwork and integration strategies for a home-to-school connection within a "walled garden." Tim will discuss the recent Microsoft-ePals partnership to integrate solutions for schools. He will demo global classroom connections and teacher research on the real impact social learning has on student literacy, critical thinking and "empathic learning connections" as a necessary critical skill in the new global economy. In addition to the free tools from ePals, the ePals LearningSpace platform is a safe virtual workspace for K12 communication, collaboration and learning. It combines Web 2.0 tools, digital lockers, structured community groups, personal profiles and media sharing. All these are available in one teacher-controlled, yet flexible online environment that can be accessed anywhere the student can get onto the web. This platform is the basis of the International Baccalaureate virtual community (IBvc), which will soon be the largest social learning network in the world, open only to IB stakeholders. School districts are purchasing LearningSpace to enable social learning in a safe, moderated and focused setting. Students are more engaged in the learning process because they are interacting and working together with peers and educators. Language translation tools allow collaboration between students and teachers who have similar interests or learning goals but don't speak the same language.
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Tim is recognized internationally as a leading pioneer in the field of global cross-cultural and project based social learning for K-12 education. He founded ePals / ePals Foundation, the largest and fastest-growing K-12 social learning network now reaching 27 million teachers and students in 200 countries, who use the free ePals global community and safe tools to connect with other schools worldwide for 21st Century learning experiences. He has visited hundreds of schools in foreign countries to see actual use of technology in global classrooms, and his vision and ideas have shaped the current K-12 school technology landscape in the area of collaboration, safety and learning impact in the digital school era.
 | Allison Deines Roots and Shoots GMT: Tue 16 Nov 03:00PM - click to find the time in your own time zone ELLUMINATE RECORDING: CLICK HERE This session has been held and the recording link is above |
Jane Goodall's Roots & Shoots. Founded in 1991 by Dr. Jane Goodall and a group of Tanzanian students, the Roots & Shoots program is about making positive change happen--for our communities, for animals and for the environment. With hundreds of thousands of young people in more than 120 countries, the Roots & Shoots network connects youth of all ages who share a desire to create a better world. Young people identify problems in their communities and take action. Through service projects, youth-led campaigns and an interactive website, Roots & Shoots members are making a difference across the globe.
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Allison Deines is the National Director for Jane Goodall's Roots & Shoots, the global humanitarian and environmental program of the Jane Goodall Institute. Allison has a rich background in education, environment and non-profit work. She previously worked for the Institute of International Education, the Berlitz Language Center in Washington, D.C., and the District of Columbia Public Schools. Allison has spent time in Costa Rica researching anole lizards and working with the Monteverde Conservation League in the Children's Eternal Rainforest.
 | Mirian Vilela The Earth Charter Initiative GMT: Tue 16 Nov 03:00PM - click to find the time in your own time zone ELLUMINATE RECORDING: CLICK HERE This session has been held and the recording link is above |
The Earth Charter, Education and Ethics. This presentation will reflect on the importance of bringing ethical reflection to education processes, and how the Earth Charter can be an instrument for that.
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He serves on the Advisory Boards for eSchool News, and Scholastic Administr@tor Magazine, GetNetWise and Generation Y. He is a past Board Member for the Organizations Concerned about Rural Education (OCRE) and served for many years as Board Member and Treasurer of the National Committee on Technology in Education & Training (NCTET).
 | Julye M. Augustine Global Youth Connect, Inc GMT: Tue 16 Nov 04:00PM - click to find the time in your own time zone ELLUMINATE RECORDING: CLICK HERE This session has been held and the recording link is above |
9 Steps to Guarantee Your Child's Success in Any Society (A "How-To" for Parents & Educators Who Care). In this presentation, I will discuss and elaborate on the 9 Steps to Guarantee A Child’s Success in Any Society. This presentation focuses on the importance of gaining a global perspective, increasing one’s knowledge of countries and cultures outside of their own, and provides clear steps to success for those who truly want to excel in any society.
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Julye Augustine personifies the saying, “Don’t ever be afraid to go out on a limb...for that is where all the fruit is!” Ms. Augustine, a former professional in thepharmaceutical industry and in the area of education reform established Global Youth Connect, Inc. with the goal of connecting students across the world to broaden their perspectives about what is possible in life, increase their awareness of others, and promote global cooperation and collaboration. In an age where exposure to the diverse, the unfamiliar and the new can craft ones life experience, Ms. Augustine brings her international familiarity to Global Youth Connect. A product of diverse educational experiences, Ms. Augustine is a graduate of the Florida A & M University professional MBA program. Ms. Augustine is tri-lingual and has studied Spanish language and culture in Mexico, Guatemala and Spain. She attended the University of Bahia in Brazil where she studied Portuguese language and Brazilian culture. Ms. Augustine’s educational background is matched with international professional experiences in the entertainment, beverage and technology sectors. These experiences have given her profound insight into the lives of people, and the accomplishments and challenges they face across the globe.Prior to founding Global Youth Connect, Ms. Augustine was a New York City Director for Platform Learning Inc., at one time the fastest growing start-up company in the United States. While at Platform, she led the establishment of free after-school tutoring programs for over 1,000 children in grades K-8 across the city. Prior to joining Platform, Ms. Augustine was an Associate Brand Manager with Johnson & Johnson (J&J) on the marketing team for the blockbuster pain medication, DURAGESIC. In this capacity she led initiatives and developed tactics to educate doctors and patients on chronic pain management. Her valuable contributions led to the drug achieving more than $1 billion in revenue. A 2006 mission trip to South Africa inspired Ms. Augustine to create Global Youth Connect. It was while teaching in a Soweto high school that she saw the urgent need for children and youth across the globe to connect with one another in order to maximize their life experiences. Determination, focus and optimism are cornerstones of Ms. Augustine’s personality. These traits have undoubtedly inspired her to go out on a limb. It is her rich background, continuous pursuit of knowledge and new experiences that inspire her to help others and ensure that they too, get connected.
 | Terry Godwaldt The Centre for Global Education GMT: Tue 16 Nov 05:00PM - click to find the time in your own time zone ELLUMINATE RECORDING: CLICK HERE This session has been held and the recording link is above |
Making Global Education a Normal Education. The Centre for Global Education (TCGE) is one of the world’s largest providers of One-to-One, web based programming, facilitating the growth of Peace and Global Education and Higher Level Learning and Research through Online tools and Video Conferencing. From an indigenous community in the highlands of Guatemala to the UN Conference on Climate Change in Copenhagen, from 100 plus/year month long bi-national collaborative projects to ongoing graduate researcher mentorship programs, The Centre for Global Education, is providing everyday opportunities for the every classroom to build global communities and understanding. In addition to learning about programming opportunities, participants will be able to sign their classes and schools up to any of the over 100 ongoing programs, creating accounts and learning how to navigate the various tools and learning opportunities available.
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Terry Godwaldt has taught for over 10 years across Canada and Europe. He is also the founder/director of The Centre for Global Education which was established in early 2007 to facilitate regional, national and international programming, ranging from curriculum based enrichment opportunities to international educational and philanthropic programs. Every year, The Centre facilitates programming for over 10,000 kids from every corner of the planet.
 | Homa Tavangar Growing Up Global GMT: Tue 16 Nov 06:00PM - click to find the time in your own time zone ELLUMINATE RECORDING: CLICK HERE This session has been held and the recording link is above |
Growing Up Global: Building Parent + Community Excitement Around a Global Vision. Join this highly interactive discussion with Homa Tavangar, nationally-acclaimed author of Growing Up Global: Raising Children to Be At Home in World (Random House 2009), parent activist, and speaker in diverse schools and corporations across North America. She will share her experiences on how to pass along a global mind-set, how to gain parent buy-in and effectively communicate ideas of global citizenship so even the most tough-headed patriots can relate, and how to create a school community that celebrates its global vision beyond an International Day – without spending a lot of money.
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Homa Tavangar has almost 20 years' experience working with governments, businesses, international organizations and non-profit agencies in global competitiveness, organizational and business development, and cross-cultural issues. She was born in Tehran and moved to Cleveland, Ohio when she was just over a year old. Along with Iran, she has lived in East and West Africa, South America, and throughout the United States. In addition to English, she speaks Persian (Farsi), Spanish, Portuguese, and rudimentary French and Swahili. She holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in International Economics, and International Development and Public Affairs from UCLA and Princeton University. She spent one pivotal year studying at The Catholic University in Lima, Peru, and criss-crossing the lower two-thirds of South America. Her religious heritage includes four of the world's major faiths, and she has family living on every continent. Homa has been researching Growing Up Global since spending the first anniversary of 9/11/01 in China, while she served as Special Advisor on International Business Development for the City of Philadelphia. From January through April 2007 she lived in West Africa with her children, where they spent a school term and she blogged their experience for the Philadelphia Inquirer. She is married and the mother of three girls, ranging in age from 6 to 16. She is active with their public schools in suburban Philadelphia and serves on the Boards of several international organizations. This is her first book.
 | Hussainatu Blake Focal Point Global GMT: Tue 16 Nov 06:00PM - click to find the time in your own time zone ELLUMINATE RECORDING: CLICK HERE This session has been held and the recording link is above |
US-Namibia HIV/AIDS Education Initiative . Focal Point Global is revolutionizing education by providing a fresh, new approach to educate, empower, and mobilize youth to make a difference using global peer collaboration and sharing. Our pilot project, US-Namibia HIV/AIDS Education Initiative, brought 10 students from Baltimore, MD and Swakopmund, Namibia together to discuss HIV/AIDS in their communities during a 3-day webinar via Skype. During this interactive conference, students identified and shared the risk factors and emerging issues of acquiring HIV/AIDS, and develop a key project to combat the spread of HIV/AIDS in their respective communities. This presentation will take you through this project, which began February 2010, detailing the curriculum, the webinar, and youth projects with pictures and youth participants testimonies.
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Identical twin sisters, Hassanatu (Hassa) and Hussainatu (Hussa) Blake, are committed to the enrichment of youth globally. As young adults, they lived, studied, and worked in Europe, the Caribbean, and Southern Africa. Through their journeys, they observed the growing importance of technology in education internationally. Their passion for youth leadership, education and mentorship, led them to establish Focal Point Global in February 2009. Focal Point Global is a Maryland based non-profit organization focused on educating youth globally about leading social issues through innovative technology.
 | Hassanatu Blake Focal Point Global GMT: Tue 16 Nov 06:00PM - click to find the time in your own time zone ELLUMINATE RECORDING: CLICK HERE This session has been held and the recording link is above |
US-Namibia HIV/AIDS Education Initiative . Focal Point Global is revolutionizing education by providing a fresh, new approach to educate, empower, and mobilize youth to make a difference using global peer collaboration and sharing. Our pilot project, US-Namibia HIV/AIDS Education Initiative, brought 10 students from Baltimore, MD and Swakopmund, Namibia together to discuss HIV/AIDS in their communities during a 3-day webinar via Skype. During this interactive conference, students identified and shared the risk factors and emerging issues of acquiring HIV/AIDS, and develop a key project to combat the spread of HIV/AIDS in their respective communities. This presentation will take you through this project, which began February 2010, detailing the curriculum, the webinar, and youth projects with pictures and youth participants testimonies.
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Identical twin sisters, Hassanatu (Hassa) and Hussainatu (Hussa) Blake, are committed to the enrichment of youth globally. As young adults, they lived, studied, and worked in Europe, the Caribbean, and Southern Africa. Through their journeys, they observed the growing importance of technology in education internationally. Their passion for youth leadership, education and mentorship, led them to establish Focal Point Global in February 2009. Focal Point Global is a Maryland based non-profit organization focused on educating youth globally about leading social issues through innovative technology.
 | Ioana Simona Suciu Wheeler NAIS GMT: Tue 16 Nov 07:00PM - click to find the time in your own time zone ELLUMINATE RECORDING: CLICK HERE This session has been held and the recording link is above |
Challenge 20/20: Changing the World, Two Schools at a Time. Learn how your school can participate in Challenge 20/20. Challenge 20/20 is a free internet partnership program that links schools in the U.S. and other countries to work on one of the 20 global issues outlined by JF Rischard in the book High Noon. Schools in nearly 100 countries have participated. The team approach leads to both creative solutions to the problem that is researched and acted on and a more in-depth opportunity to get to know individuals from another culture. Some participants have used the program as a springboard to exchanges and sister school arrangements. 20/20 has been recognized by the US Center for Citizen Diplomacy as one if its 10 best K-12 programs.
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As the Associate Director of Global Initiatives at the National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS), Ioana Simona Suciu Wheeler develops new NAIS global partnerships and international programs, including Challenge 20/20 and the China Connection programs. She also co-develops initiatives related to Schools of the Future such as the Teachers of the Future program, iTunes U and the Viral Video Competition. To read more about NAIS’s global education initiatives, visit http://www.nais.org/go/global and http://www.nais.org/programmatic. Ioana Simona Suciu Wheeler joined the staff of NAIS in 2001, working with the Strategic Initiatives, Information, and Research Team before joining the Global Initiatives Team in February 2005. Prior to NAIS, she served as a News Photo Intern at Agence France Presse and as Program Assistant for the U.S. – Romania Action Commission at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, DC, where she conducted research on NATO expansion and Romania’s socio-economic and political development after the revolution of 1989. Ioana Simona Suciu Wheeler studied at Universite de Paris - Sorbonne as part of the World Capitals study abroad program, where she also interned at Citibank Paris. She holds a B.A. in International Relations and an M.A. in Journalism and Public Affairs from American University in Washington, DC.
 | Tony Jackson Asia Society Partnership for Global Learning GMT: Tue 16 Nov 08:00PM - click to find the time in your own time zone ELLUMINATE RECORDING: CLICK HERE This session has been held and the recording link is above |
Teaching for Global Competence: New Schools for New Futures It is imperative that society nurtures students to be contributing citizens, productive workers and competent leaders in the 21st century. To achieve this, they must be far more knowledgeable about the world, different regions and global issues, as well as the ability to communicate across cultures and languages. Dr. Jackson’s presentation will focus on what it means for students to be globally competent and the International Studies Schools Network, a successful national network of schools serving low income communities designed to produce globally competent, college ready graduates.
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The mission of the Asia Society Education Department is to develop youth to be globally competent citizens, workers, and leaders by equipping them with the knowledge and skills needed for success in an increasingly interconnected world. We are leading an effort to move these issues higher on the national agenda by influencing state and national policy; by creating successful models and resources for schools around the United States, and by engaging U.S. education leaders with their Asian counterparts to construct solutions to common problems and issues in education. For the past 10 years, this department has cultivated programs that have effected how teachers teach and what students learn. As Vice President of Education at Asia Society, Tony Jackson is the preeminent expert in this work. Trained in both developmental psychology and education, his professional experience includes work with the Walt Disney Company’s Disney Learning Partnership, a senior staff member on the Select Committee on Children, Youth and Families, chaired by George Miller (D-CA) and he directed the Carnegie Corporation Task Force on Education of Young Adolescents that produced the seminal Turning Points report, which became a key blueprint for the reform of thousands of middle schools nationwide. He also co authored the follow-up blueprint Turning Points 2000, which transformed many of the design principles in the original report to concrete action steps for new and reconstituted secondary school reform initiatives. In 2004, Teachers College Press published the latest book co-authored by Dr. Jackson entitled Making the Most of Middle School: A Field Guide for Parents and Others. Tony Jackson has keynoted conferences such as the National Middle School Association’s (NMSA’s) Annual Conference, ISKME’s Big Idea Fest, National Conference on Education “Build a Stronger Future” American Association of School Administrators (AASA), Preparing Youth for the 21st Century: The Pivotal Role of Afterschool, Harvard Think Tank: Education for What Ends? Preparing Children and Youth for an Interdependent World on topics including The Definition of Global Competence; Successful School Models and Globalizing Afterschool and Out of School programs.
 | Jim Brazell NSBA GMT: Tue 16 Nov 09:00PM - click to find the time in your own time zone ELLUMINATE RECORDING: CLICK HERE This session has been held and the recording link is above |
The Future is Here: The Role of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) in Global Innovation. Robot cars. Virtual reality phones. Supercomputer toys. This is not fiction, not a dream, not the future. This is the 5th World—a place where the World Wide Web has leapt off of the computer screen to link physical, virtual and imaginary worlds. The Future is Here explores the role of STEM in driving change in the 21st century. Forget crystal ball technology forecasting and pie-in-the sky predictions. This presentation explores real world technologies, jobs, communities and schools in a way that has implications for everyone. Learn about emerging strategies to create wealth, improve educational attainment among youth, and increase collaboration in broad stakeholder communities.
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Jim Brazell is a technology forecaster, public speaker and strategist focusing on innovation and transformative systems. He is a member of the Radical Platypus group and the Thornburg Center for Professional Development.
| Scott Laidlaw Imagine Education GMT: Tue 16 Nov 10:00PM - click to find the time in your own time zone ELLUMINATE RECORDING: CLICK HERE This session has been held and the recording link is above |
Breaking Through the Emotional Resistance to Math. Math, by itself, is not widely regarded as a problem. That is, unless, you are part of the student population in middle schools around the world. Surveyed about how they feel about math, most middle school aged students just don’t see the purpose. It’s not an issue limited to country or gender. Students from Korea, regarded by many as the top students in math, ‘do math because they have to.’ The pervasive attitude for math pedagogy everywhere in the world is, ‘Give rewards for doing math.’ Candy, grades, points are given out for doing work. Verbal lashings are given out for those who do not make the grade. We reach a point now where see this approach as fundamentally dysfunctional. We see the change as occurring now in classrooms as opposed to a future goal.
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Scott Laidlaw, Ed.D. - Director and Game Designer. "Teaching mathematics can no longer be about getting the United States ahead as if it were a competition against the Japanese, Chinese or Koreans. We live in a truly global world now. We need educational products that go beyond teaching just factual information and go into the deep interconnections between subjects and community." Scott has been teaching for 11 years and is sought as a consultant for best practices in mathematics specializing at the middle school level. For the past 6 years, Scott has created rich, story-based math games for classroom use that have not only effectively increased test scores but have changed the student's view about math. As founder of Imagine Education, Scott is dedicated to reforming math education and building products by the teacher for the teacher.
 | Krista Kohlhausen The Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation GMT: Tue 16 Nov 10:00PM - click to find the time in your own time zone ELLUMINATE RECORDING: CLICK HERE This session has been held and the recording link is above |
Civics 2.0. In the United States, according to the NAEP, only 27% of our nation’s 12th grade students scored proficient or above on the Civics portion of the test. CIRCLE estimates that youth voter turnout was between 52 and 53 percent in the 2008 election. By either of these measures, there is plenty of room to both educate and find ways to involve U.S. youth in civic participation. This panel will examine some of the organizations that aim to educate and involve the youth of the United States with regard to civics, with a specific look at leveraging Web 2.0 technology to engage the next generation of active and engaged citizens both in the U.S. and abroad. We will also hold an open forum to discuss ideas for new and innovative ways to accomplish civic engagement both in the United States and abroad.
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Krista Kohlhausen is the Director for the Walter and Leonore Annenberg Presidential Learning Center at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation. Her career spans over 19 years of experience in the world of education and non-profits. Krista spent 8 years in the classroom teaching Kindergarten up through middle school. She headed up the leadership and character development programs on the Intrepid Sea Air and Space Museum, a national landmark, in Manhattan. This lead to the creation of the Michael Tyler Fisher Center for Education. As Business Manager and Facilitator, she developed curriculum and oversaw grant management for a leadership development company teaching school aged-students, US Marines, and top executives from various companies in corporate America. She is excited about her opportunity to build national level civics education programs, and to motivate teachers and students alike to become more enthusiastic, informed, and proactive citizens.
 | Anthony Pennay The Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation GMT: Tue 16 Nov 10:00PM - click to find the time in your own time zone ELLUMINATE RECORDING: CLICK HERE This session has been held and the recording link is above |
Civics 2.0. In the United States, according to the NAEP, only 27% of our nation’s 12th grade students scored proficient or above on the Civics portion of the test. CIRCLE estimates that youth voter turnout was between 52 and 53 percent in the 2008 election. By either of these measures, there is plenty of room to both educate and find ways to involve U.S. youth in civic participation. This panel will examine some of the organizations that aim to educate and involve the youth of the United States with regard to civics, with a specific look at leveraging Web 2.0 technology to engage the next generation of active and engaged citizens both in the U.S. and abroad. We will also hold an open forum to discuss ideas for new and innovative ways to accomplish civic engagement both in the United States and abroad.
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Anthony Pennay is the Program Manager for the Walter and Leonore Annenberg Presidential Learning Center at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation. Anthony originally entered the field of education when he joined the Teach for America program after graduating with a dual major in Literature and Film Studies from Claremont McKenna College. After teaching English for two years in the Pasadena Unified School District, Tony returned to school and earned his M. A. in English from the University of Hawai`i at Manoa. He taught for five years at Sinai Akiba Academy in Los Angeles, and served as the Director of Curriculum Projects in his final year there. As a Technology Liaison and Advisory Board Member for the Cal State Northridge Writing Project, he has worked with educators from across the country. He has published many short stories, articles, and book reviews, and his article “Techno-Literacy: A Boon for Writing Instruction in the Classroom” appeared in a 2009 issue of California English.
 | Janet Tran The Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation GMT: Tue 16 Nov 10:00PM - click to find the time in your own time zone ELLUMINATE RECORDING: CLICK HERE This session has been held and the recording link is above |
Civics 2.0. In the United States, according to the NAEP, only 27% of our nation’s 12th grade students scored proficient or above on the Civics portion of the test. CIRCLE estimates that youth voter turnout was between 52 and 53 percent in the 2008 election. By either of these measures, there is plenty of room to both educate and find ways to involve U.S. youth in civic participation. This panel will examine some of the organizations that aim to educate and involve the youth of the United States with regard to civics, with a specific look at leveraging Web 2.0 technology to engage the next generation of active and engaged citizens both in the U.S. and abroad. We will also hold an open forum to discuss ideas for new and innovative ways to accomplish civic engagement both in the United States and abroad.
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Janet Tran is the Educator of the Walter and Leonore Annenberg Presidential Learning Center at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and is charged with authoring National Civics curricula and programming. Janet began her career in education at John C. Fremont High School, where she served as Social Studies Department Chair, Professional Development Coordinator, and Advanced Placement Coordinator. At Camino Nuevo High School, she was a lead author of innovative and interdisciplinary project based curriculum. She is College Board certified in AP US History, AP US Government and AP Psychology. She has been selected by the Educational Testing Services (ETS) as an AP Reader for United States History since 2006. Janet has presented at conferences and has successfully authored significant grants for her schools. Janet is dual credentialed in English and Social Studies and a graduate of the University of California Los Angeles.
 | Dr. Pheo Martin Realizing Education's Potential Institute GMT: Wed 17 Nov 12:00AM - click to find the time in your own time zone ELLUMINATE RECORDING: CLICK HERE This session has been held and the recording link is above |
Providing Curriculum that Merges Global Education, Sustainability Education, and Learning Projects.Global and Sustainability Education have definite overlapping in curriculum areas. Global education must include “Sustainable Development,” and certain issues of Sustainability. “Learning Project” curriculum is topic, not knowledge field, oriented. Learning Project education is an excellent fit for both Global and sustainability Education. This discussion will introduce the shared areas of Global and Sustainability, and then open a discussion of existing and possible “Project Learning” curriculum and Lesson Plans. This session is intended to help educators put together learning projects.
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Dr Pheo Martin, Director of Realizing Education's Potential Institute has been re-conceptualizing Educational Theory and Curriculum for 30 years, integrating this into k-16 academic levels. She is presently integrating curriculum theory and development for Global Education and Sustainability. Her new book, "Guide to Inserting Global Education Curriculum into Existing Curriculum is due to be published in December.
 | Dr. Yvonne Marie Andres Global SchoolNet GMT: Wed 17 Nov 02:00AM - click to find the time in your own time zone ELLUMINATE RECORDING: CLICK HERE This session has been held and the recording link is above |
2011 International CyberFair: Take Action & Unite Communities. International CyberFair is an authentic learning program used by schools and youth organizations around the world. Now in its 16th year, this program brings together more than 2.5 million students across 115 countries. Youth publish original research projects that focus on how the positive actions and contributions of their local citizens have the power to improve, preserve and unite their community. Teams of students work collaboratively to conduct research and publish their findings on the Web. Students evaluate each other's projects by using a unique online evaluation tool. Recognition is given to the outstanding projects in each of eight categories. In partnership with the World Future Society, students have been challenged to "Move from Vision to Action" and prepare for the future - by thinking about the possible future, the probable future, the preferable future and the preventable future. Projects that best illustrate "future thinking" are invited to present at the World Future Society international conference in Vancouver, Canada, July 2011, "Moving from Vision to Action."
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Dr. Yvonne Marie Andres is Global SchoolNet's executive director, co-founder and visionary. A former classroom teacher and educator for two decades, Andres has taught pre-school through university and is passionate about demonstrating the power of Internet-based collaborative learning. She is co-creator of the Global Schoolhouse and producer of International Schools CyberFair and the US State Department's Doors to Diplomacy program. She provides leadership at conferences and workshops throughout the U.S., Canada, Asia, Europe, Australia, South America and Africa. Ms. Andres was named one of the 25 most influential people worldwide in education technology and was invited to meet with President Bush to launch the Friendship Through Education initiative. Andres was awarded the International Soroptimist Making a Difference Award for advancing the status of women and children. Andres currently serves as the US-Russia Civil Society K-12 Education Committee Co-Chair on using technology innovation to prepare Global Citizens through Global Classrooms & Communities. Andres also manages the SIGOL online learning awards (OLA) program for International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE).
 | Dlynn Armstrong-Williams North Georgia College and State University GMT: Wed 17 Nov 02:00PM - click to find the time in your own time zone ELLUMINATE RECORDING: CLICK HERE This session has been held and the recording link is above |
Crafting an Internationalization Plan:One Approach. Internationalization is increasingly needed at a organizational level. Students are expecting more international opportunities and academic structures need to transform to accomodate those needs. Possible avenues for change will be discussed as well as the planning process utilized to bring about change.
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Dr. Armstrong-Williams is the Director of the Center for Global Engagement at North Georgia College and State University. She started her work in International Education 12 years ago. As Director of the Center she is responsible for International Initiatives, including the internationalization of the curriculum, Study Abroad and International Student Services.
 | Dr. Kari Stubbs Loudon County Public Schools GMT: Wed 17 Nov 04:00PM - click to find the time in your own time zone ELLUMINATE RECORDING: CLICK HERE This session has been held and the recording link is above |
Lessons Learned from the Chilean Miner Rescue. Presentation on behalf of the Loudon County Public Schools. From TV and iPhones to the web and laptops, technology gave the whole world a front-row seat for the awe-inspiring Chilean mine rescue. What lessons can we take away from that amazing accomplishment and apply to teaching? Dr. Kari Stubbs explores the question in a presentation highlighting 21st century skills like global education, higher order thinking, seamless integration of technology and mobile learning devices, and project-based learning. Dr. Stubbs will also share her perspective on the future of learning.
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* Vice President of 21st Century Learning at BrainPOP; previously, the Director of Professional Development for ePals, senior project coordinator of the Title IID initiative in Kansas, and a classroom educator. * Recognition: "20 to Watch," Making it Happen Award * Presentations at: CoSN, ISTE, NECC, NSBA T+L, and the Educational Computing Organization of Ontario. In November, 2010 she was the keynote speaker at the TeachME conference in Dubai. * Kari served on the advisory board for the Horizon K12 Report in 2010, and is very active with CoSN. * In December of 2008, Dr. Kari Stubbs traveled to China to study technology in education.
 | Joy Dickson Academy for Global Citizenship GMT: Wed 17 Nov 04:00PM - click to find the time in your own time zone ELLUMINATE RECORDING: CLICK HERE This session has been held and the recording link is above |
Amazing Green Chickens: How One Urban Charter School is Bringing Globalization to the Inner City. Located in the heart of an industrial area of the city, Academy for Global Citizenship is an unique charter school that has transformed the lives of approximately 200 inner-city students. Through dedicated teachers, community involvement, parental support and our three chickens, the students have developed an understanding of how globalization begins with a solid understanding of one's own environment. The students also have a deep understanding of the importance of taking care of and sustaining their physical environment, through gardening and and a respect for nature.
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Joy Dickson has been in the field of education for fifteen years, serving in various capacities. She has taught in Japan, Boston, Beijing and in Chicago. In addition, to her teaching background, Joy has mentored student, new, and veteran teachers on pedagogy, international education, curriculum development, multicultural education and teaching world language. Currently, she is the Director of Curriculum and Instruction at the Academy for Global Citizenship.
 | Dr. Linda Fahlberg-Stojanovska GeoGebra GMT: Wed 17 Nov 05:00PM - click to find the time in your own time zone ELLUMINATE RECORDING: CLICK HERE This session has been held and the recording link is above |
GeoGebra in Math Education - Global Community. GeoGebra is free dynamic mathematics software. We talk about the impact of GeoGebra on math education around the world, about the global GeoGebra community that has translated GeoGebra into nearly 50 languages, maintains a active wiki for resources, an incredibly vibrant forum for help and a YouTube channel. We then give some live and (hopefully) interesting for all demonstrations of how GeoGebra can be used in any classroom.
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Linda is a long-time advocate of practical integration of technology in the everyday mathematics classroom of every school. She and her brother Tim Fahlberg who pioneered making mathcasts – screencasts for mathematics - 14 years ago for his students have developed the website math247.pbworks.com with content and resources for teachers to learn how to freely/cheaply integrate technology effectively. Linda has held online webinars and regular workshops for learning dynamic math freeware GeoGebra. She runs the YouTube GeoGebraChannel and has made over 60 HD captioned videos for this channel. She works together with classroom teachers from across the globe taking their fantastic ideas/applets – mostly from GeoGebra – and developing and publishing them as free applet activities.
 | Erin Reilly Project New Media Literacies GMT: Wed 17 Nov 06:00PM - click to find the time in your own time zone ELLUMINATE RECORDING: CLICK HERE This session has been held and the recording link is above |
Mapping in a Participatory Culture. This presentation will highlight the ways in which borders and boundaries are complex political, physical, and cultural geographic features. Erin will share activities and resources that explore "boundaries" as they exist at the global, local, social, and metaphorical levels... whether its exploring how young people negotiate the physical and social boundaries in everyday life; or simulating real world processes by working through how boundaries function in, and by learning to modify, video and board games.
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Erin Reilly is a recognized expert in the design and development of thought provoking and engaging educational content powered by virtual learning and new media applications. She is the Creative Director for Annenberg Innovation Lab where she oversees all aspects of product design and mentors students in developing applications and business ideas using digital media and how it impacts society. Erin is also the Research Director for Project New Media Literacies established at MIT Comparative Media Studies and now housed at USC’s Annenberg School for Communications & Journalism. As Research Director, she leads the development of a series of resources for educators and conducts field research to collect data and help shape the emergent digital media and learning field. Erin has conducted classes as a Visiting Lecturer at MIT’s Comparative Media Studies Department and Harvard University’s Project Zero Summer Institute. She is notably known for creating Zoey’s Room, one of the first groundbreaking social media and learning communities for 10-14 year-old girls, that encouraged their creativity through science, technology, engineering and math (STEM). Erin has received awards for her innovative approach to digital media and learning. Most notable are 2010 Tech & Learning's Leaders of the Future of EdTech, the 2007 Leaders in Learning Award from Cable in the Classroom and 2007 National School Boards Association's 20 to Watch educators.
 | Gerry Hanley MERLOT GMT: Wed 17 Nov 07:00PM - click to find the time in your own time zone ELLUMINATE RECORDING: CLICK HERE This session has been held and the recording link is above |
Internationalizing Open Education Services and Resources with MERLOT. Beginning in 1997, MERLOT (www.merlot.org) has developed into an open community’s library of online educational resources and suite of services that enable anyone with internet access to discover, organize, and create free, personalized, and customized open educational resources. To complement our open library services, MERLOT provides open academic networking forums and open web-publishing tools enabling conversations and collaborations with members of the open and free MERLOT community. Over the last 5 years, MERLOT has build a number of international partners that have resulted in the development of MERLOT technology and design services that supports the use of multiple languages and the cultural control of the content and user interfaces of MERLOT’s services. The presentation will demonstrate these “internationalized” services that have been deployed in the following collaborations: 1) The MERLOT Africa Network (http://man.merlot.org) and Africa Virtual University (AVU) a http://avutc.merlot.org/ , 2) MERLOT-Chile (http://www.merlotchile.cl/) has been created and led by INACAP, a major university system in Chile, 3) MAOR – Israel (http://maor.iucc.ac.il/english.php ), integrates webservices into a Hebrew portal 4) Innovative and Integrated Inquiry Based Instruction in India (http://iite.merlot.org) is a customized MERLOT Teaching Commons design for faculty teaching university science and mathematics in India, and 5) Open Educational Resources for Cancer (http://oerc.merlot.org) is a partnership with the International Network for Cancer Research and Treatment. The presentation will review how MERLOT made a number of changes to its services to enable multiple languages and cultures to be represented within our open educational resources and services.
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Gerry Hanley is the Executive Director of MERLOT, a 13 year old open education services organization (www.merlot.org) that has numerous international programs. See http://taste.merlot.org/allpartnerlist.html for a complete list.
 | Michael Pomatto Education Collaborators GMT: Wed 17 Nov 11:00PM - click to find the time in your own time zone ELLUMINATE RECORDING: CLICK HERE This session has been held and the recording link is above |
Introducing Concepts of American Democracy to Polish Elementary School Students. Introducing Concepts of American Democracy to Polish Elementary School Students. At Whitfield School, sophomores focus their history studies on political ideologies and how they manifest into governmental and economic systems. In short, theirs is the “ISMS class.” A significant project asks the students to create educational videos that illustrate a key concept of the American political and economic system. These videos are used by the English-language instructors at an elementary school in Warsaw, Poland, as language and cultural lessons. The students at Whitfield are responsible for designing lessons, developing a theme for the videos, video production and editing, and creating lesson materials for the teachers in Warsaw. In turn, the Polish students develop materials that illustrate their own understanding of American culture and society. Nearly 250 students watched the videos and finished lessons developed by the students from Whitfield. SPONSORING PARTNER: Educational Collaborators
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Mike Pomatto has taught social studies for twenty years in public, parochial, and private schools. He currently teaches at Whitfield School in St. Louis, MO, where his courses focuses on how political ideologies have influenced world history, primarily in the twentieth century. He was awarded a 2007 Fulbright-Hays award to travel in Russia and Poland. As a result, he has developed a working relationship with Szkoła Podstawowa nr. 84 in Warsaw. Through this relationship, students interact through different media to help each other with language and cultural lessons. In the spring of 2011, his students will travel to Warsaw to work with Polish students directly. Pomatto earned a BA from Knox College, and is an MA candidate in History at the University of Missouri-St Louis. His most proud achievement academically, however, is earning a level A1 (survival) certificate in Polish-language studies from the Uniwersytet Jagielloński in Krakow.
 | Elizabeth Simmons ePals GMT: Thu 18 Nov 03:00AM - click to find the time in your own time zone ELLUMINATE RECORDING: CLICK HERE This session has been held and the recording link is above |
Technology-Infused Creative Writing Program: Six NETS-S Standards within Six Classroom Projects. Explore how the ISTE NETS-S standards, international collaboration, and creative writing in standards-based, project-centered elementary classroom increase student production and global awareness. Visionary teachers and administrators will receive a practical framework from which they may construct similar technology-infused creative writing curriculum based upon state and national standards. References to digital resources include ePals.com, Dance Mat Typing, class web site, survey monkey.com, and thesaurus.com. Exemplary projects – Native American writings, Monster writings, Million Dollar Project, Weather Charts, and The Way We Are ePal project – will be demonstrated, backed by student and principal testimonials. Research from Technology and Creative Writing in the 21st Century Elementary School, a thesis by the presenter will be shared.
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Elizabeth Simmons, in her seventh year teaching fourth grade at Sharon Elementary in Atlanta, previously taught in Gainesville, GA and Ft. Worth, TX. Graduating with a Bachelor of Arts from Bryan College and a Masters degree from North Texas State, she is certified to teach grades K-12 with a gifted endorsement. In June, she completed a Specialist in Technology degree with Lesley University. In June of 2010, her 4th grade class at Sharon Elementary was selected for the Authentic Writing Award by ePals and featured at the 2010 ISTE -NETS Convention in Denver, Colorado. Dr. Rita Oates, Ph.D.ePals Vice President, Education Markets, made several presentations featuring a synopsis of her thesis, “Technology-Infused Creative Writing Program: Six NETS-S Standards within Six Classroom Projects,” at the ISTE conference. At ePals request, this presentation has been adapted and will be featured on the ePals website and in training materials as a model of exemplary work which other teachers can emulate. Finally, she has been privileged to share the unique work at Sharon Elementay through ePals Teacher Spotlight, a bi-monthly feature recognizing teachers who engage their students in great projects and share both the projects and student work with the ePals community.
 | Nellie Deutsch, EDD/CI Integrating Technology For Active Life Long Learning (IT4ALL) GMT: Thu 18 Nov 02:00PM - click to find the time in your own time zone ELLUMINATE RECORDING: CLICK HERE This session has been held and the recording link is above |
Creating a Community of Active Lifelong Learners: A Case Study in Designing Global Workshops for Educators & Students . In this presentation, the authors will share how they collaboratively established a community of online learners at Integrating Technology For Active Life Long Learning (IT4ALL). IT4ALL offers numerous professional development workshops for educators and students (high school and adults) around the world. Moodle for Teachers (M4T) is an example of an ongoing workshop that is offered at IT4ALL. M4T is more than a hands-on global online workshop offered at IT4ALL. It is a community of lifelong learners, community of facilitators, and ambassadors of learning. M4T includes theoretical and practical aspects of teaching within a course management system. Participants learn to use Moodle, web 2.0 tools, social networking, metacongitive thinking and to share information within the IT4ALLL community of learners and worldwide. The Moodlers start as beginners but very quickly become skilled Moodle facilitators who give back to the community at IT4ALL. In this presentation, the authors will share their experience with the audience and provide some insights on the lessons learned.
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Nellie Deutsch (EDD/CI) is a consultant at Open University of Israel and an experienced English teacher to non-native speakers of English. Dr. Deutsch provides educators with a collaborative learning environments so they can learn how to integrate web 2.0 tools and social online networks into instruction and learning on a Moodle website called Integrating Technology for Active Life-long Learning (IT4ALL) and on a social network (Joomla) called IT4ALL Global Exchange. Nellie does this on a voluntary basis fueled by her passion for education. She is a proponent of making eLearning available and free worldwide because she believes collaboration is the key to improving education and ultimately to achieving world peace.
 | Ludmila Smirnova, Ph. D Integrating Technology For Active Life Long Learning (IT4ALL) GMT: Thu 18 Nov 02:00PM - click to find the time in your own time zone ELLUMINATE KEYNOTE ROOM: CLICK HERE The room will be open one hour before the keynote begins |
Creating a Community of Active Lifelong Learners: A Case Study in Designing Global Workshops for Educators & Students . In this presentation, the authors will share how they collaboratively established a community of online learners at Integrating Technology For Active Life Long Learning (IT4ALL). IT4ALL offers numerous professional development workshops for educators and students (high school and adults) around the world. Moodle for Teachers (M4T) is an example of an ongoing workshop that is offered at IT4ALL. M4T is more than a hands-on global online workshop offered at IT4ALL. It is a community of lifelong learners, community of facilitators, and ambassadors of learning. M4T includes theoretical and practical aspects of teaching within a course management system. Participants learn to use Moodle, web 2.0 tools, social networking, metacongitive thinking and to share information within the IT4ALLL community of learners and worldwide. The Moodlers start as beginners but very quickly become skilled Moodle facilitators who give back to the community at IT4ALL. In this presentation, the authors will share their experience with the audience and provide some insights on the lessons learned.
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Ludmila Smirnova, Ph. D is Associate Professor of Education at Mount St. Mary College in Newburgh, N.Y., where for the past 10 years she has taught courses in Curricular Planning, Methods of Teaching and Teaching with Technology. She has become increasingly recognized for her leadership in the application of emerging Internet technologies to instruction. Ludmila leads numerous workshops on the application of Smart Technologies and Web 2.0 tools in college and primary/secondary classrooms. Prior to this, she was professor of education at Volgograd State Pedagogical University (Russia), where she also served as Dean of the School of Foreign Languages. During her 25-year career there, Ludmila was known for her innovative projects, reintroduction of Montessori education in southern Russia. Beyond her seventy books and other publications in Russia, Dr. Smirnova has written for and presented to a growing list of professional audiences in the U.S. and abroad. Dr. Smirnova is a partner, co-designer and co-facilitator of the Moodle for Teachers workshops at IT4ALL Integrating Technologies for Long Life Learning.
 | Mandeep Atwal TakingITGlobal GMT: Thu 18 Nov 02:00PM - click to find the time in your own time zone ELLUMINATE RECORDING: CLICK HERE This session has been held and the recording link is above |
Get Ready to Shout! Engaging Students in Environmental Stewardship. Shout is an exciting new initiative that supports educators and students in exploring environmental issues, connecting with global peers, and acting for a greener future. This learning session will provide an introduction to the Shout program, with a focus on the pilot project that got it started: DeforestACTION. A global collaborative initiative offered in partnership between TakingITGlobal, Microsoft, and the Centre for Global Education, DeforestACTION connected schools across the Asia Pacific region in 2010 in order to learn more about, and take action on, the pressing issue of deforestation. Join us to learn about what schools which participated in DeforestACTION did to protect the planet, and how you and your students can participate in the Shout program.
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As TakingITGlobal’s UK Programs Manager, Mandeep Atwal supports educators across Europe in engaging schools to participate in online educational collaborations. Currently, she is co-ordinating ‘SHOUT’ a project developed and facilitated by Microsoft, TakingITGlobal and Smithsonian. Mandeep is a teacher by nature and works part-time at Shireland Collegiate Academy (UK). She founded and developed ‘Young Voices’ a school based project that won the Microsoft’s UK and European Innovative Teachers Award 2009. The project then went on to achieve first place at the Worldwide Innovative Education Forum Award (Brazil) in 2009 for the category ‘Community.’ Mandeep earned her PGCE and B.A. in Theology from the University of Birmingham.
 | Dr. Allison Powell iNACOL GMT: Thu 18 Nov 04:00PM - click to find the time in your own time zone ELLUMINATE RECORDING: CLICK HERE This session has been held and the recording link is above |
A Global Perspective of K-12 Online Learning. What does the future of learning look like? How do we define a world-class education for today’s students? A national and global perspective on the future trends in education, expectations for students, and what strategies schools need to have in place will be shared. Globalization requires students to be academically prepared for a vastly different workplace to achieve success in a knowledge-based economy. eLearning is providing a revolution across the globe for the best teachers to reach the most remote students. Online learning offers a solution for expanding opportunities, global collaboration, and 21st century skills. So all schools can deliver on the promise that every student should have access to the best education available, regardless of their neighborhood or geography. Learn about the latest research and what works for K-12 online learning.
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Dr. Allison Powell is the Vice President for State and District Services of the International Association for K-12 Online Learning (iNACOL) which provides expertise and leadership in K12 Online Learning. Before joining iNACOL, Allison taught in both face to face and online K-8 environments. She helped build the Clark County School District's Virtual High School and an online professional development program for the Nevada school district. She has served as a board member for several organizations and universities. She completed her doctorate from Pepperdine University in educational technology.
 | Dr. Howie DiBlasi Loudon County Public Schools GMT: Thu 18 Nov 04:00PM - click to find the time in your own time zone ELLUMINATE RECORDING: CLICK HERE This session has been held and the recording link is above |
Education, Creativity and Innovation: The Importance of Creativity on Our Global Society and in Today’s Educational System. What are creativity and critical thinking and how can we teach them effectively? Why are creativity, innovation, and critical thinkingimportant in our global classrooms? Reinforce the idea that creativity matters and understand that creativity can be taught across all disciplines to meet the challenges of the modern world. Discover projects, skills, ideas, concept resources and projects utilizing Web 2.0 tools. Explore “Creative and Innovation Process” that includes innovation, creativity, problem solving and critical thinking lessons. Session is fast paced for K-12 audience and includes how to structure lessons on a daily/weekly/yearly basis with “Global Connections.”
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Dr. Howie DiBlasi was recognized as “Vocational Teacher of the Year”for the State of Arizona and nominated as a finalist in the “Top Secondary Leaders in America.” He has been featured in several magazines as “A CIO who really thinks outside the box.” He is a published author, “Change Agent,” Educational Technology consultant and the Producer of the “DID YOU KNOW?” YouTube series, Versions 2 through 6. He was recently recognized by the Center for Interactive Learning and Collaboration (CLIC) with the "Pinnacle Award" for outstanding Professional Development Programs. Dr. DiBlasi has 20 years experience as an educator, 10 years as a business leader, and 14 years as Chief Information Officer in Durango Public Schools (Colorado). Howie is a member of the ISTE Board of Directors, serves on the TxDLA Board, is Communications Director of the ISTE Special Interest Group for Interactive Video Conferencing, and a member of the Alan November Consulting Team. His emphasis is on digital technology, multimedia, Interactive Video Conferencing and 21st Century Learning. He has presented to thousands of educational leaders, administrators, and teachers from Bangkok to Boston.
 | Rory McNicholas International Teacher Exchange Services (ITES) GMT: Thu 18 Nov 05:00PM - click to find the time in your own time zone ELLUMINATE RECORDING: CLICK HERE This session has been held and the recording link is above |
Expanding International Programs by Hosting International Teachers. International Teachers bring unique teaching methods and perspectives to U.S. schools and have been used effectively for many years to enhance the education of American students. By exposing our students to the diversity of experienced international educators, we help prepare them to compete in the global marketplace.
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Rory McNicholas is the Founder and President of International Teacher Exchange Services (ITES) and is widely regarded as an expert on the United States Department of State Exchange Visitor Program for Teachers. McNicholas has over 20 years of international education exchange experience and currently works with schools, districts and states across America, as well as the education agencies of several foreign governments.
 | Noble Kelly Education Beyond Borders GMT: Thu 18 Nov 06:00PM - click to find the time in your own time zone ELLUMINATE RECORDING: CLICK HERE This session has been held and the recording link is above |
Is Global Teacher Collaboration Possible? Not only is it possible--it is a must! Intelligence is equitable throughout the world but the global education divide exists due to a lack of access to information and educational strategies. Through our work, we see the emphasis placed on supporting education in developing regions with the building of schools and the supplying of things and little is done to support teacher professional development. Though "things" are desirable, learning can still exist without them but cannot occur without the presence of a motivated, engaging and committed teacher. For us, education is a collaborative effort lasting a lifetime; our learning model is designed to connect global "best practices" to those - at the local level - who can build their capacity and, in so doing, change their communities. It is through this approach that we hope to connect teachers and schools for a continued and sustained relationship--enabling teachers and students to grow together through shared experiences and global education. We will discuss how collaboration will create a win-win scenario to support global perspectives and close the education divide and why it is crucial despite the obstacles.
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Noble Kelly is a High School Educator of 18 years. Mr. Kelly has a Post Baccalaureate in Educational Technology. He has worked as a teacher mentor and trainer for the Simon Fraser University Educational Technology Post Baccalaureate program and facilitated workshops to teachers as part of his role as a member of the Peace and Global Education action group for the British Columbia Teachers’ Federation. He has volunteered in South Africa since 2005 and Kenya since 2008 with teachers, schools and orphanages. He is presently on educational leave devoting this time to establishing Education Beyond Borders and making it his life’s work. Mr. Kelly believes that, despite its crucial connection to economic and social development, teacher training is often uneven, protracted, or unsupported. In addition, teachers are rarely included in educational policy change or significant decision-making. Teachers are not just a resource for our children; they are the key to development.
 | Dave Wilton Facing the Future GMT: Thu 18 Nov 07:00PM - click to find the time in your own time zone ELLUMINATE RECORDING: CLICK HERE This session has been held and the recording link is above |
Engaging Students in 21st Century Skills through Global Issues. In a world where the lives of our neighbors next door are inextricably linked to those of our neighbors abroad, students need to understand the linkages between local and global issues, and how they can personally help to build positive local and global communities. Come and hear about using the free curriculum units, lesson plans, and online readings that Facing the Future has to support the development of 21st Century Skills in math, science, social studies, and literacy.
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Dave is the Assistant Outreach Director at Facing the Future, a U.S.-based non-profit organization that engages students in learning by making academics relevant to their lives. Facing the Future creates curriculum resources and provides professional development to help educators empower students to think critically, develop a global perspective, and participate in positive solutions for a sustainable future.
 | Katherine Walraven TakingITGlobal GMT: Thu 18 Nov 07:00PM - click to find the time in your own time zone ELLUMINATE RECORDING: CLICK HERE This session has been held and the recording link is above |
Take your Classroom Global!. Join us to learn how educators are using the award winning TakingITGlobal for Educators (TIGed) program to develop rich, interactive international collaborations designed to build 21st century skills. TIGed comprises a community of educators interested in empowering their students to think and act as world citizens, a collection of resources that facilitate the inclusion of global perspectives in the classroom, and a virtual classroom that allows students to use technology to learn with and about peers the world over.
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As TakingITGlobal's Director of Education Programs, Katherine Walraven leads TakingITGlobal's work helping educators leverage technology to create engaging project-based global education experiences for students. She previously worked as a development education workshop facilitator for Oxfam Canada and a global educator with CHF (formerly the Canadian Hunger Foundation), and has several years of experience working and volunteering in schools across Canada and in Japan . She has also previously worked with the Association for Progressive Communications (APC) in Johannesburg, South Africa, working to develop the Information Technology for Environmental Sustainability (ITES) initiative, and also contributed to a monthly e-bulletin focused on the strategic use of information communication technology to promote social justice and equality. Katherine earned her M.A. in International Affairs from the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs at Carleton University, Ottawa and her B.A. in International Studies from the University of Northern British Columbia. She considers herself to be a global citizen, has lived in Germany, Japan, South Africa and Mozambique, and loves to travel.
 | Tracy Gray National Center for Technology Innovation (NCTI) GMT: Thu 18 Nov 08:00PM - click to find the time in your own time zone ELLUMINATE RECORDING: CLICK HERE This session has been held and the recording link is above |
Breakthrough Learning: Transform the Future. Breakthrough Learning – Transform the Future, will explore emerging ideas, solutions, and public policy initiatives that can leverage the power of inclusive technology. Drawing on the 10 years of experience at the National Center for Technology Innovation, Dr.s Tracy Gray and Heidi Silver-Pacuilla will share lessons learned from fostering partnerships and nurturing emerging technologies into commercialization realities.
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Tracy Gray, Ph.D., Managing Director at the American Institutes for Research, directs the Center on STEM Education and Innovation that focuses on research and technical assistance to increase the pipeline for struggling students in STEM-related fields of study. In addition, Dr. Gray leads two national technology centers funded by the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) — the National Center for Technology Innovation (www.NationalTechCenter.org) and the Center for Technology Implementation.
 | Heidi Silver-Pacuilla National Center for Technology Innovation (NCTI) GMT: Thu 18 Nov 08:00PM - click to find the time in your own time zone ELLUMINATE KEYNOTE ROOM: CLICK HERE The room will be open one hour before the keynote begins |
Breakthrough Learning: Transform the Future. Breakthrough Learning – Transform the Future, will explore emerging ideas, solutions, and public policy initiatives that can leverage the power of inclusive technology. Drawing on the 10 years of experience at the National Center for Technology Innovation, Dr.s Tracy Gray and Heidi Silver-Pacuilla will share lessons learned from fostering partnerships and nurturing emerging technologies into commercialization realities.
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Heidi Silver-Pacuilla, Ph.D., senior research analyst, is the deputy director of NCTI funded by the Office of Special Education Programs. She and NCTI director, Tracy Gray, are co-editors of the forthcoming book, Breakthrough Learning through Inclusive Technology from Springer Publishing. She is also a task leader on a technical assistance project to provide guidance to adult education practitioners to improve their writing instruction.
 | Julia de la Torre Primary Source GMT: Thu 18 Nov 09:00PM - click to find the time in your own time zone ELLUMINATE RECORDING: CLICK HERE This session has been held and the recording link is above |
Bringing the World to Students Through Teacher Professional Development. In order to bring important global issues and 21st century skills into classrooms around the world, it is important to provide K-12 teachers with the knowledge, resources, and support they need to make it happen. This presentation will highlight the work of Primary Source, a non-profit near Boston, MA dedicated to educating teachers about the world so that students are more globally-minded and prepared for the opportunities and challenges of an interconnected world. Participants will learn about the Primary Source professional development model, including intensive thematic courses, online learning and resources, and travel study tours for K-12 educators. Examples of best practices in professional development will be provided, and participants will leave with an assortment of ways to get teachers involved in meaningful and rigorous professional growth opportunities.
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Julia de la Torre is the Executive Director of Primary Source, an education non-profit near Boston, Massachusetts that provides courses, travel study tours, and resources to educators interested in bringing a global perspective to the classroom. A former language teacher and teacher-trainer both in the U.S. and abroad, Julia brings extensive background in K-12 education, international education policy, and teacher professional development. A former Peace Corps Volunteer and a graduate of the Harvard Graduate School of Education, Julia is an active student of the world and maintains a tireless interest in educational technology, service-learning, and world languages.
 | Sandra Della Giustina MI* Young Citizen Journalism Network GMT: Thu 18 Nov 10:00PM - click to find the time in your own time zone ELLUMINATE RECORDING: CLICK HERE This session has been held and the recording link is above |
Periodismo participativo para jóvenes a través del uso de redes sociales. En esta presentación se expondrá la experiencia realizada desde la Red de Periodismo Participativo MI* www.miasterisco.com.ar
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Sandra, is director of Periodismo & Educación, an international youth & media consultancy based in Argentina, and creator MI* Network (miasterisco.com.ar), a citizen journalism network for Hispanic youth designed to encourage youth participation through journalism and using new collaborative Internet technologies. She is co-author with Germania Luperon of the Dominican Republic of WAN-IFRA’s Reading & Learning with Newspapers project to help newspaper executives, teachers and newspapers in education coordinators offer NIE programmes that make diversity a core element. In the 1990s, she created and edited El Diario de los Chicos, a newspaper that focused on children’s content and interests in its news agenda. The project won the top prize the World Young Reader Newspaper of the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA). She also wrote Periodismo Escolar. La otra campana and the guide "El uso de los medios y la participación ciudadana", for UNESCO in Argentina.
 | Vicki Davis Flat Classroom Project™ GMT: Thu 18 Nov 11:00PM - click to find the time in your own time zone ELLUMINATE RECORDING: CLICK HERE This session has been held and the recording link is above |
Flatten Your Classroom: Move to Global Collaboration One Step at a Time. Global collaboration can seem daunting to many Vicki Davis and Julie Lindsay, co founders of the Flat Classroom projects (including Flat Classroom, Digiteen, NetGenEd, and Eracism projects) have created a series of steps for connecting and flattening the classroom on a global basis providing a simple progression for teachers and schools to globalize their work. Join Vicki for a lively conversation about the steps to globalize and share your own experience in the backchannel.
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Vicki Davis is a teacher and the IT director at Westwood Schools in Camilla, Georgia. Vicki co-created four award winning international wiki-centric projects, the Flat Classroom™ project, the NetGenEd™ Project, the Eracism Project™, the Horizon project, and Digiteen™ with teacher Julie Lindsay, currently in Bejing. She is cofounder of the Flat Classroom Conference to be held in Beijing, China in February 2010. These projects have linked more than 2800 students from both public and private schools in such countries as Austria, Australia, Bangladesh, Canada, China, Germany, Japan, New Zealand, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Spain, Qatar, Pakistan, Romania, and the USA. These collaborative projects harnessing the most powerful Web 2.0 tools available including plns, wikis, blogs, digital storytelling, podcasts, social bookmarking, OpenSim Virtual worlds and more. Vicki has been featured in various media including Thomas Friedman's book, The World is Flat, Don Tapscott's Grown Up Digital, the Wall Street Journal, and the Boston Globe and more. Vicki blogs at the Cool Cat Teacher blog which won the 2008 Edublog Award for Best Teacher Blog and other awards. She was named a pioneer in Open Source Virtual World Technology in October 2009. Vicki is a Google Certified Teacher and Discovery S.T.A.R. Educator. Vicki is also a writer and conference presenter. She lives in Camilla, Georgia where she is a full time high school teacher, wife, and mother of three.
 | Wesley Fryer Education Collaborators GMT: Fri 19 Nov 12:00AM - click to find the time in your own time zone ELLUMINATE RECORDING: CLICK HERE This session has been held and the recording link is above |
Share Your Ideas: Platforms for Publishing. As learners and educational leaders it is critical that we share our ideas with others. Publishing our ideas online should not be limited to just "final drafts" of our work, we also should share ideas that occur to us during the day, great videos we see, student work in progress, and more. If you can send email, you can publish rich media with Posterous. In this session we'll learn specifically how to create and use a personal publishing website with your email account. We'll also explore other tools for creating and sharing curriculum under open licensing terms (open educational resources.) It's critical ALL teachers learn to share ideas online and PUBLISH curriculum using rich media. Come learn how! SPONSORING PARTNER: Educational Collaborators
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Wesley Fryer is an international learning consultant, author, digital storyteller, educator and change agent. With respect to school change, he describes himself as a "catalyst for creative engagement and collaborative learning." Wesley is the executive director of the nonprofit Story Chasers Inc., the lead partner in the Celebrate Oklahoma Voices and Celebrate Kansas Voices digital storytelling projects. His blog, "Moving at the Speed of Creativity" (www.speedofcreativity.org) was selected as the 2006 "Best Learning Theory Blog" by eSchoolnews and Discovery Education, and is utilized regularly by thousands of educators worldwide. He teaches technology integration courses for pre-service teachers as an adjunct instructor at the University of Central Oklahoma, and has served as a co-convener for the annual K-12 Online Conference since it began in 2006. Wesley became a Google Certified Teacher in 2009, was named an Apple Distinguished Educator in 2005, is a 1992 graduate of the US Air Force Academy, and a Fulbright Scholar. He is an active member of the education committee of the Oklahoma Creativity Project. His educational background includes service as an elementary classroom teacher, campus technology integration specialist, college director of distance learning, state director for education advocacy for AT&T, and director of technology for a state historical association.
 | Marilyn Turkovich Voice Education Project GMT: Fri 19 Nov 01:00AM - click to find the time in your own time zone ELLUMINATE RECORDING: CLICK HERE This session has been held and the recording link is above |
Teaching Issues of War, Peace and Compassion. The Voices Education Project maintains a War and Peace Resource Center, a clearinghouse of free materials. Voices resources are about honoring the stories, poetry, and arts of people from an international perspective. Thousands of pages are available and come from classic and contemporary writers, artists and musicians. This presentation will present how to tackle issues of war, peace and compassion through language arts, social science and art courses, review examples of pilot projects initiated through Voices’, and discuss how schools and individual classrooms can use Voices’ Facebook and website as a regular teaching tool.
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Currently, Marilyn Turkovich is the coordinator of the War and Peace Resource Center for the Voices Education Project. Marilyn has been involved in education in various capacities; teacher, curriculum coordinator, principal and at the undergraduate and graduate levels in teacher training, for several decades. She was the former director of the Associated Colleges of the Midwest's Urban Education Program in Chicago, the Committee for Teaching about Asia for the Association of Asian Studies, and the Textbook Committee of the National Council for the Social Studies. Her teaching has led her from the U.S. to work in India, Guatemala, Japan and Brazil. She frequently designs training for the corporate world and study and activity guides for media companies.
| Eric Goldstein One World Education GMT: Fri 19 Nov 01:00AM - click to find the time in your own time zone ELLUMINATE RECORDING: CLICK HERE This session has been held and the recording link is above |
Engaging our next Generation of Learners . How do we meet the learning needs of students today and in the years to come? How do we connect our need to prepare students for success on their exams with a learning environment that reflects their ideas and perspectives? Are their ways to connect standards to engaging curriculum? In this presentation we'll explore these questions and how the work of One World Education is offering an innovative and effective way to enhance the teaching and learning experience.
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ric Goldstein is founder and executive director of One World Education. He has been an educator in public, charter and independent middle and high schools in Vermont and Washington, DC as well as urban and rural international communities. He has led and participated in learning programs for students in Greece and Zambia and educator professional development programs in China, Saudi Arabia and Turkey. As an educator, Eric earned a United States Department of the Interior Partners in Education Award. The success of Eric's classroom-based program grew into the non-profit organization, One World Education, which prepares youth to be globally literate citizens through enhancing student engagement and learning with classroom curriculum built around student writing on culture and global issues.
 | Kosta Grammatis ahumanright.org on behalf of Education Beyond Borders GMT: Fri 19 Nov 02:00AM - click to find the time in your own time zone ELLUMINATE RECORDING: CLICK HERE This session has been held and the recording link is above |
ahumanright.org: connect everyone. Kosta Grammatis believes that internet access should be a human right. His organization ahumanright.org is working to bridge the digital divide and provide ubiquitous internet access to all. In his talk he will share some his ideas on how the internet has impacted humanity, and how we can bring it to even more people.
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I am a member of the information society. I am a digital native. I have multiple facebook, twitter, and gmail accounts. I am connected to my friends, family, co-workers, the news, television and every single form of media imaginable. Information is at my fingertips. I command Wikipedia to answer my questions, dictionary.com and thesaurus.com help me to be articulate, and google fills in the blanks. These are tools that I use everyday, and I wouldn’t know what to do without them. But I am lucky, and if you are reading this—so are you. You are one of the 1.7 billion with internet access. Since December 2009 myself and a team of others have been working on a little project. We believe that the internet, with all it’s shortcomings, has changed what it means to be human. No longer does the disemination of ideas take months, years, or lifetimes–instead the transaction of knowledge is almost instantaneous. Anyone with the ability to get online has a digital voice that can be heard around the globe. We are all connected. And as the internet has enabled this, I believe that we need to assure it’s continued availability, and growth. Only 26% of the world’s population is online, there exists no failsafe mechanism for when disaster strikes rendering networks inoperable, and the developing world lags far behind. Myself, and a team from all over the world are working to build a network that will allow most everyone to use the internet, free-from-cost. A world wide ubiquitous network that will allow most anyone access. We believe, as do most of you, that internet access is a human right. We plan to enforce that human right, because– unlike some of the more challenging human rights, this is a something that can be accomplished quickly. Soon, internet access, will be as easy to come by as the air you breathe. I would like you to invite you to join us in delivering internet access to the whole of mankind. Visit us at @ http://ahumanright.org
 | Vinnie Vrotny Education Collaborators GMT: Fri 19 Nov 03:00AM - click to find the time in your own time zone ELLUMINATE RECORDING: CLICK HERE This session has been held and the recording link is above |
Smart, Digital, and Mobile: The Next Computing Platform. In this session, participants will explore how cell phones and smart phones can be used for computing and what the future may hold for these platforms. SPONSORING PARTNER: Educational Collaborators
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Vinnie Vrotny is currently the Director of Academic Technology at North Shore Country Day School, where he has been a member of the technology team for seventeen years. While he was originally responsible for all aspects of technology (hardware, software, networking, and web development), as the school’s use of technology has grown, so has his role. His current focus is to coach and mentor both faculty and students as they learn how to embed technology in their daily lives. In his life as a teacher, his “students” are not only in kindergarten through twelfth grade, but include the adult members of the school community as well. He has been a presenter at the K12 Online Conference and a spotlight speaker at the Illinois Computer Educators conference. He is currently the Past-President of the Northern Illinois Computer Educators and serves on the board of the Illinois Computer Educators. He is a co-host of 21st Century Learning, a weekly webcast discussing the intersection of education and technology on the EdTechTalk network of shows. A Google Certified Educator and Google Certified Trainer, Vinnie's website can be found at vvrotny.org
 | Jennifer Hanson Primary Source GMT: Fri 19 Nov 01:00PM - click to find the time in your own time zone ELLUMINATE RECORDING: CLICK HERE This session has been held and the recording link is above |
Global Education and Literacy: Book Groups for All Ages. How do you bring books about global topics into the classroom? Primary Source has been leading book groups for teachers for over 10 years. Learn about global themes and issues that make great book group topics. New books for all ages will be highlighted.
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Jennifer Hanson has been the Librarian at Primary Source for 4 years. As Librarian, she has led 5 book group series for K-12 educators as well as numerous workshops about using literature in the social studies and humanities classrooms. Prior to joining Primary Source, Jennifer was the Library Instruction Coordinator at Emerson College in Boston.
 | Eylan Ezekiel BrainPOP GMT: Fri 19 Nov 02:00PM - click to find the time in your own time zone ELLUMINATE RECORDING: CLICK HERE This session has been held and the recording link is above |
Global Resources for Global Citizens – Teachers as Guides. In this short presentation, Eylan will demonstrate how BrainPOP’s experience of learning, in a range of global settings, languages and settings, has shown that there are key behaviours and lessons that can be shared to improve best practice for all 21st Century Educators. In the networks that BrainPOP takes part in, whether it be BrainPOPEducators. TeachMeets, BrainPOP Maestros, or in our PLNs, they talk to and understand the work that some of the most effective teachers are engaged in –using BrainPOP as the contextual hub. Eylan hopes to provide time and stimulus for debate – especially around the overuse of the word ‘Creativity’’!
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Eylan was a Primary School teacher, and ICT coordinator in London and now leads BrainPOP in the UK . BrainPOP is a website to engage kids through animated movies, entertaining characters, interactive quizzes and activities, educational games, high-interest readings, and more. Resources include BrainPOP UK, BrainPOP Jr., BrainPOP, BrainPOP, Español, BrainPOP Français , BrainPOP China, and the newly launched BrainPOP ESL. Since leaving the classroom, Eylan has worked with some oft he best know brands in education, including Oxford University Press, Pearson and McGraw-Hill. Eylan also helped to transform the education resources and services that Oxfam provide, as well as working within policy for a UK government agency. Eylan is passionate about Games Based Learning and re-imagining Professional Development. Follow Eylan on Twitter to find out more @eylanezekiel.
 | Maggie Kaiser Primary Source GMT: Fri 19 Nov 03:00PM - click to find the time in your own time zone ELLUMINATE RECORDING: CLICK HERE This session has been held and the recording link is above |
Professional Development 2.0: Technologies that Connect Teachers with Global Knowledge, People, and Resources . Primary Source connects K-12 educators to global content in innovative ways. Learn how this innovative nonprofit is using Web 2.0 tools to foster effective and engaging professional development. Through the use of Moodle, a learning management system, and SpringShare’s LibGuides, a Web 2.0 multimedia platform for creating resource guides, Primary Source delivers high-quality professional development and resources to K-12 educators. In addition, tools such as Jing, Delicious, VoiceThread, and Glogster are used in professional development programs to illustrate how Web 2.0 tools can be used to bring global content into classrooms.
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As an Educational Technology Consultant at Primary Source, Maggie works to promote the use of technology in the organization’s face-to-face courses for educators. She also supports the implementation of online courses and workshops, ensuring expanded learning opportunities and increased global connections for K-12 educators.
 | Rushton Hurley CUE GMT: Fri 19 Nov 04:00PM - click to find the time in your own time zone ELLUMINATE RECORDING: CLICK HERE This session has been held and the recording link is above |
Multimedia's Power for Exploration of and Civility with Global Issues. Never before has information about the world's challenges been so accessible. What hasn't changed is our tendency to ignore the challenges, or even misrepresent them for petty gain. Multimedia technologies, however, offer the youth of the world the chance to bring attention to these challenges, and to do so at a more thoughtful and honorable level of discussion than is typically the case for the world's politicians. This session is about the free and powerful resources we can use for that purpose, and how to implement them as learning activities with our students.
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Rushton Hurley has been a Japanese language teacher, a principal of an online high school, a teacher trainer, an educational technology researcher, and a school reform consultant who has worked and studied on three continents. In 2006, he was chosen as one of the inaugural Google Certified Teachers, and he is now director of an educational nonprofit called Next Vista for Learning, which houses a free library of videos by and for teachers and students at http://NextVista.org. At Stanford University his graduate research included using speech recognition technology with beginning students of Japanese in computer-based role-playing scenarios for developing language skills. In the 1990's his work with teenagers at a high school in San José, California, led him to begin using internet and video technologies to make learning more active, helping him reach students who had struggled under more traditional approaches. Rushton has trained teachers around the United States, presenting at national and regional conferences. His fun and thoughtful talks center on the connection between engaging learning and useful, affordable technology, as well as professional perspectives of teachers.
 | Ken Graham ePals GMT: Fri 19 Nov 05:00PM - click to find the time in your own time zone ELLUMINATE RECORDING: CLICK HERE This session has been held and the recording link is above |
Integrating a District-Wide Global Collaboration Platform for 21st Century Learning . Ask teachers about their best days of teaching, or students about the teachers that have made a real difference in their lives, and they will describe the transformative power of authentic collaborative engagement. Technology Directors have seen school-safe collaboration platforms evolve significantly to include a full suite of easy-to-use cloud-based web 2.0 tools for communication and collaboration. Generous storage space resources have recently become available, and data center-based caching appliances can bring local management and support to a school district private cloud that minimizes costs and maximizes end-user experience in the classroom. These types of deployments are gaining in popularity, and support the ability of students to access district multimedia content from their collaborative global learning platform anywhere and anytime. Integrating a district-wide collaboration platform for 21st century learning can empower teachers and students to create their own transformative learning communities, across the district or across the world, and to enjoy more great days of teaching and learning together.
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Ken Graham has provided leadership for technology innovation for 25 years as Assistant Superintendent and Director of Educational Technology in several Long Island, New York school districts. Ken recently implemented a school-safe global collaboration platform for 21st Century learning district-wide in the Hauppauge Public Schools in Long Island, New York. Some truly remarkable results were obtained that inspired a school-industry partnership between Hauppauge, Dell, Intel, and ePals to create an advanced “caching cloud” solution to cost-effectively support the real-time, 24x7, multimedia-rich learning that occurred. Ken initiated related Hauppauge partnerships with Mediaflex/CERF to co-develop a new OPAC for their OPALS library system (including new search technology to integrate internet search metadata with library MARC record database searches); and with ETR to co-develop features of their MediaMaster video on demand system to pre-format stored multimedia content for mobile devices, wiki pages, and interactive whiteboards. Ken has contributed technology leadership to numerous other ventures, including the Robin Hood Foundation L!BRARY Project with the NY City Public Schools. He co-authored Study Skills Handbook: A Guide for All Teachers with former International Reading Association president, H. Alan Robinson.
 | Carissa Johnson World Savvy GMT: Fri 19 Nov 05:00PM - click to find the time in your own time zone ELLUMINATE RECORDING: CLICK HERE This session has been held and the recording link is above |
Educating for Global Competence through Media and the Arts: Best Practices from the World Savvy Professional Development Model. World Savvy’s mission is to educate and engage youth in community and world affairs, and among the most effective ways to broadly achieve this mission is to empower educators with the skills, knowledge and capacity to tackle complex and challenging global issues in their classrooms. Our Media and Arts Program is a unique model for middle and high school educator professional development, to ensure they can educate for global competence: Providing students with the Knowledge, Skills, Attitudes and Behaviors for responsible global citizenship. Carissa will showcase best practices for training and supporting teachers of all disciplines in making global issues accessible and locally relevant to their students, using the arts both as a lens for students to learn about global themes and a platform to express new knowledge and perspectives. She’ll also be sharing case studies from schools in New York and San Francisco who effectively embedded global education into classroom instruction using media and the arts.
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Carissa Johnson joined World Savvy’s New York office in early 2009 and is now Program Manager for the Media and Arts Program in both New York and San Francisco. She is an artist and educator who passionately believes in the personal growth and empowerment potential of the arts. A former Peace Corps Volunteer (Tonga, 02-03) and an avid traveler, her work in the arts and education has crossed cultural borders and built communities all over the world. She has served schools as an artist-in-residence, created arts integration workshops for teacher professional development, and run her own educational consulting firm that created courses in arts, yoga/wellness, and personal development for schools, community centers and corporations in Chicago and Portland, OR. Carissa holds a B.S. in Performance Studies from Northwestern University and a M.Ed. in Arts in Education from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. In her other life, she is a spirited Yoga Teacher and Licensed Massage Therapist.
 | Michael Furdyk TakingITGlobal GMT: Fri 19 Nov 06:00PM - click to find the time in your own time zone ELLUMINATE RECORDING: CLICK HERE This session has been held and the recording link is above |
Connect to the World through TakingITGlobal. This session explains and illustrates how information, media and communication technology can work to enhance students’ knowledge of global issues, intercultural understanding, and overall sense of empowerment. It will guide participants through takingitglobal.org, the world’s largest social network for social good, highlighting how the site inspires, informs and involves youth to create positive change in their local and global communities. Participants will gain a better understanding of how social media, now central to the lives of young people, can promote global citizenship and activism and learn more about the content and features of TakingITGlobal.org.
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Michael Furdyk is the Co-founder and Director of Technology for TakingITGlobal.org, a global online community for young people, providing a platform for millions of youth across more than 200 countries to engage with social issues. Along with managing the technology team at TakingITGlobal, Michael was involved in developing the TIGed education program, which won the Tech Museum Education Award in 2007. He has spoken to over 50,000 educators about the importance of engaging students and integrating technology and global perspectives into the classroom, and in 2008, he was named by Contribute Magazine as one of 10 Tech Revolutionaries Redefining the Power and Face of Philanthropy. In the past, he has turned his interest in technology into a series of successful online companies, co-founding MyDesktop.com (later sold to Internet.com) and BuyBuddy.com (which raised $4.5-million of venture capital). Michael has provided insights on the Net Generation to a number of Fortune 500 companies, including a 6-month engagement developing youth strategy with Microsoft in Seattle, Washington. As one of Teen People's "20 teens that will change the world", Michael has shared his expertise in youth engagement and experiences bringing the power of technology to the non-profit sector by speaking at dozens of events, including the World Congress on IT, the US Government's National Youth Summit, The Business Council, and TED. He has made numerous media appearances including The Oprah Winfrey Show, Time Magazine, Fast Company, BusinessWeek, and USA Today. He is a board member and advisor to numerous groups including Better the World, Microsoft Partners in Learning, Virgin Unite, Greenpower Canada, and several other national and global organizations.
 | Milton Chen Edutopia GMT: Fri 19 Nov 07:00PM - click to find the time in your own time zone ELLUMINATE RECORDING: CLICK HERE This session has been held and the recording link is above |
Education Nation: Six Leading Edges of Innovation in our Schools. Author and former executive director of The George Lucas Foundation, Milton Chen will share his insights on the leading edges of innovation based on the work at GLEF and their website, Edutopia.org. He will share short films illustrating how educators are changing their thinking, redesigning curriculum, incorporating technology, and working in co-teaching teams with other teachers, parents, and community experts. He will also describe how schools and their community partners can redefine themselves, create more learning time for students, and welcome the digital skills of this generation of learners into the classroom.
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Dr. Milton Chen is senior fellow and executive director, emeritus at The George Lucas Educational Foundation (GLEF), a non-profit operating foundation in the San Francisco Bay Area that utilizes its multimedia website, Edutopia.org, and documentary films to communicate a new vision for 21st Century schools. He has served as the founding director of the KQED Center for Education (PBS) in San Francisco, director of research at Sesame Workshop in New York, and as an assistant professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. During 2007-08, was one of 35 Fulbright New Century Scholars conducting research on access and diversity issues in education . His book, Education Nation: Six Leading Edges of Innovation in our Schools, based on his work at Edutopia, was published by Jossey-Bass in 2010.