Tuesday, March 25, 2014

Learning Revolution - Week's Free Events - Libraries Change Lives - Global Citizens - Great Keynote Recordings - NMC Weekly Top Ten Stories

The Learning Revolution
Weekly Update

March 25th


Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.
- John F. Kennedy

The technologies of the Internet and the Web are reshaping where, when, and from whom we learn--and even how we think about learning. The Learning Revolution Project highlights our own virtual and physical events and those of our more than 200 partners. We also highlight good conversations about learning taking place between educators, learners, leaders, and others from the school, library, museum, work, adult, online, non-traditional and home learning worlds. The Internet is shifting the boundaries of these worlds, and we believe that as they increasingly overlap and integrate they will be critical to framing and preparing for the learning revolution starting to take place.

Our projects have members from 200+ countries and the Learning Revolution newsletter is sent to 130,000 each week. To subscribe to this newsletter, please sign up at http://learningrevolution.com/.



Updates

Partner Spotlight

NewGlobalCitizens

New Global Citizens Mission: To inspire youth to be engaged global citizens. New Global Citizens programs provide students with a global perspective, an opportunity to create change, and the skills needed to thrive in a global knowledge economy. Our classroom curriculum, professional development trainings, and afterschool programs empower teachers and enable students to develop skills in global competency, critical thinking, collaboration, communication, digital literacy, and leadership. Vision: All students in the U.S. have the opportunity to become engaged global citizens who embrace their critical role as leaders, change agents, and advocates to solve the world’s greatest challenges. More information at http://www.newglobalcitizens.org/.

Interested in becoming a Learning Revolution Partner? Please fill out a Partner Application today.

Partner Announcements

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One Week Calendar

All events are listed in US-Eastern Daylight Time. To become an event partner and have your events listed here, please email admin@web20labs.com.

  • Wednesday March 26th - Friday March 28th School Leadership Summit 2014, The Technology Information Center for Administrative Leadership (TICAL) and Steve Hargadon are pleased to announce the second annual School Leadership Summit, Wednesday, March 26th - Friday March 28th. This free world-wide conference will be held online and will be a unique chance to participate in a collaborative global conversation on school leadership with presentations by your peers. Follow the conference at #ticalsls14. See the conference schedule in your time zone!.
  • Wednesday, March 26th at 12pm How to Power Education with Technology, If you want technology in your school, come get a fast-paced primer on the most popular free programs from Digital Wish. We’ll cover: Technology Donations, Lesson plan library, Grants, Digital wishes fundraising tools, Recycle forward, Teacher only discounts, Free training, BYOD hub. Sign up here.
  • Wednesday, March 26th at 4pm Multiply the Impact: Martin Esterman’s Newest Math Game, We welcome Martin Esterman, 2012 National STEM Video Game Challenge winner, for a look at his newest math game, Multiplication Blocks, available on GameUp! He’ll show you its ins and outs, focusing on the ways it can help increase performance. Martin will also talk about some of the problems he sees with traditional fluency building, and offer strategies for supporting students.
  • Wednesday, March 26th at 6pm Common Core Tech Conference - Virtual Edition, By popular demand we at OpenEd are offering our free Common Core Tech conference virtually. It will be held Wednesday, March 26th through Friday, March 28th from 3pm to 6pm PST. NOTE: we have some exciting new speakers so we have extended the conference one day to the 28th. Again the focus is on how ed tech can help with addressing the challenges of the Common Core.
  • Wednesday, March 26th at 9pm Teachers Teaching Teachers, Weekly conversations hosted by EdTechTalk, a collaborative open webcasting community. For more information, click here.
  • Saturday, March 26th at 12pm CR 20 LIVE Weekly Show, Our special guest will be Brad Hanks on the topic of "LucidChart". On Classroom 2.0 LIVE we love introducing you to free tools, teaching resources and educational leaders that will support teaching and learning in your classrooms. LucidChart is an amazing web-based diagramming program that is completely free for educators and students. Classroom 2.0 LIVE is an opportunity to gather with other member of the community in regular "live" web meetings. Details to join the webinar at http://live.classroom20.com. Follow us on Twitter: #liveclass20

For a full list of all upcoming events and conferences, click here.


Deadlines

  • Reform Symposium MiniCon April, April 6th 9:30am - 1pm EDT
    Upcoming deadlines: Sign up for the Tech & App Smackdown - Share your favorite web tool or app as we celebrate our amazing presenters from 2013 and look forward to #RSCON5 on July 11-13th, 2014. Your presentation will only be 2 minutes long with 2 images as your presentation. Or sign up to be an Inpire Presenter! You are invited to do a 3 to 5 minute presentation that either (1) gives us highlights of your RSCON4 presentation or (2) gives us a sneak peek at what you are thinking about presenting for RSCON5. Space is limited for these presentations, so sign up soon.
  • Learning Revolution Conference Online, April 24th - 25th, 2014
    Upcoming deadlines: Presentation proposals are being accepted between now and April 15th for the inaugural Learning Revolution Conference Online. The conference strands include Learning Theory, Learning Practice, Learning Science, Learning Spaces, and Technology & Learning. Please see the call for proposals and submission instructions here. Don't miss out on a great opportunity to connect about learning!

Highlighted Recordings

Julie Lindsay from the Global Education Conference - on "How to go Global - Lead, Learn, League"

Lindsay
http://youtu.be/DO9V9xvRPds

Moreno Barros from the Library 2.012 Conference - on "What Brazil Has to Offer"

Barros
http://youtu.be/BM1iS5Zz4d0

Steven W. Anderson from the School Leadership Summit 2013 - on "Leadership In The Digital Age"

Anderson
http://youtu.be/BGrY9EQNMI4

NMC Navigator Top Ten

  1. 10 Crowdfunding Success Stories to Love
  2. With A Voice Interface API For Any App, Wit.ai Wants To Be The Twilio For Natural Language
  3. Get past the gimmicks and gaze upon the future of augmented reality apps
  4. NEW INC will mentor the next generation of art-tech prodigies
  5. Knowledge pills, robo-graders, brain implants and other dystopian edtech
  6. How 3D printers forge new art from old etchings
  7. Edtech 'Buddy Systems': When the Little District Helps the Big District
  8. GEMS Education joins edX
  9. 10 next-generation science apps for education
  10. What Is The Role Of Content In Flipped Classrooms?

Conversations

Classroom 2.0
Education Revolution Google+ Community
  • Why are economic principles governing our decisions about education? Ted Bauer asks the question, Why do we keep applying business/market principles to education in America? It doesn't appear to be working. Ted explores this question, referring to his experiences as an educator with Teach for America and the heavily-charged criticisms of No Child Left Behind then, and the Common Core Standards now. Read Ted's reflections here. What do you think?
  • Tips for gamifying your classroom. Christopher Pappas shares an eLearning article by Lesley Vos that includes techniques for gamifying virtual learning spaces. The article discusses what gamification is and what kind of learning experiences we can facilitate with gaming techniques. Read more here.

Library 2.0
  • How do you like to read? Tennessee middle school librarian, Candace Thomas, wonders what your thoughts are on ebooks versus print? In her work at the middle school, she finds that even digital natives still prefer print media for reading, but rely on electronic resources for research purposes. Do you have a similar distinction between your media preference? Share your thoughts here.
  • Attention cataloging librarians, et al.: How important is cataloging to the success of web searches? USC library science graduate student, Daisy Nip, is conducting a survey for a graduate project related to cataloging and it's influence on successful web searches. If you or your cataloger colleagues have a few minutes, please help Daisy with her research by filling out this survey. Thanks!

Submit a Video or Quote

We'd like to feature a user submitted video each week. Get creative! Post your short video answer to the question: What does the learning revolution mean to you? We'll be highlighting one video each week, and sharing the rest on our YouTube channel. You need to include #learningrevolution in the title of your YouTube video.

OR

Do you have a great quote on education? Send us your favorite education quote to add to our collection and we'll be sure to give you a shout out in our next newsletter.

Final Notes

The name of the Declaration for the Right to Libraries is "Libraries Change Lives." The Latin word "liber" appears to have etymological differences between two of its meanings: inner tree bark, which became the root word for book; and freedom. Thus the words library and liberty entice us with the idea that reading and freedom are related. For those like me who have no hesitation in seeing the two as intimately connected, may I suggest you consider signing the Declaration for the Right to Libraries as the ALA works to increase public awareness of, and community-building around, the critical role of libraries to our communities.

See you online!



Steve
Steve Hargadon
www.stevehargadon.com

The Free and Online 2014 School Leadership Summit Starts Wednesday! (Full Session List)

Our second annual School Leadership Summit is this week, and we hope you will consider joining us for some or many of the 60+ free online presentations and keynote addresses. We have had such an enthusiastic response to this event that we have expanded the conference this year: we will start Wednesday afternoon/evening and go through Friday mid-day (US Time).

A full list of the speakers and topics is included at the end of this message. We hope it gets you excited to attend! The conference is held in the online platform Blackboard Collaborate, and instructions for joining any sessions and to find the schedule in your own time zone are at http://admin20.org/page/schedule.

Tell a Friend / Colleague

The conference is open to ALL, so please tweet, blog, email, or shout at your friends and colleagues to let them know about us.

We have some great new features this year!
  • We have gotten much more mobile-friendly, as there are Collaborate apps for iOS and Android, and the conference schedule and session links can be easily accessed on mobile devices by going to http://www.admin20.org from your mobile device or clicking on the "mobile schedule" link in the Summit menu. You're going to be amazed at how easy it is to participate in a session without being bound to your desktop.
  • We have a live chat and help area which you can access from the conference menu or by going to theconferencelounge.me. It's a great way to continue conversations with other participants or to ask for help or advice.
  • We'll be tweeting out a reminder about an hour before for each conference session with each of the session links. If you want to follow those tweets, you can either track the conference hashtag #ticalsls14 or you can follow the Learning Revolution Twitter account at @learnrevproject.

We kick off the conference with two special pre-conference speakers on Wednesday night: Bill Brennan, one of last year's keynote speakers returns as a "distinguished speaker" at 4pm US-Pacific / 7pm US-Eastern Time; and Eric Sheninger is our first conference keynote speaker at 5pm US-Pacific / 8pm US-Eastern. Then the official conference opening keynote will be with Pam Moran and Ira Socol at 7am US-Pacific / 10am US-Eastern, followed by sessions until Friday at 12noon US-Pacifc / 3pm US Eastern. Scott McLeod is our mid-day keynote speaker on Thursday, and Mike Lawrence and Mike Muir serve as closing keynote speakers Friday in the last hour. More information on all of these great folks at http://admin20.org/page/keynotes.

Volunteers:

We can't say enough about the AMAZING conference volunteers who help to moderate conference sessions. (You are all terrific!) If you have the time we encourage you to be a conference volunteer--we need your help! More information at http://admin20.org/group/volunteers.

Sponsors:

A HUGE shout-out and thanks to our conference sponsors this year: founding conference partner TICAL, new partner/sponsor ACSA, and our good friend Larry Wilson from Wilson Consulting. They make it possible for this event to be free to all to attend, so tell them you appreciate them! And special thanks to Blackboard Collaborate for the terrific conference platform.

Sessions:

Below is the full list of conference sessions in US-Eastern Daylight Time (GMT-4). To see the conference schedule in your own time zone, and for instructions on how to click through and enter a session, please go to our schedule page.

Wednesday, March 26

7:00pm
  • DISTINGUISHED SPEAKER - Dr. Bill Brennan - Schools That Un-Learn: The Key to Sustainability

8:00pm
  • KEYNOTE - Eric Sheninger: Digital Leadership: Changing Paradigms for Changing Times

Thursday, March 27

10:00am
  • WELCOME + OPENING KEYNOTE - Pam Moran & Ira Socol - Maker Leaders Build Hope

11:00am
  • (ACSA) Data Privacy and Our Students- How much is being shared and who are we trusting with the information? - Rod Federwisch & Karen Goss
  • Assessing and Developing Modern Language Fluency For Global Communication - Harry Tuttle, Ed.D.
  • Blended Learning Cohorts for Powerful and Sustainable Professional Development - Chad Fairey, Head of School
  • The Easy and Hard Problems in the Transformational Use of Digital Media in Schools - James Bosco, Professor Emeritus
  • What are the traits of an effective Elementary Physical Education program in today's world - Francis J. Lynott III PhD

12:00pm
  • (ACSA) Facilitating 21st century Learning with Technology- Navigating the Change with a 20th Century Mindset - Dr. Charles Young & Bhavna Narula
  • Handling Ethical Issues for Developing Digital Citizenship - Dr. Revathi Viswanathan
  • Improved Reporting Triples Educators’ Accuracy When Analyzing Data - Jenny Grant Rankin, Ph.D. (Former Teacher, Site Admin, & District Admin)
  • Process Education: Effective Communication, Reaching Every Person - Tracy Watanabe Technology Integration Specialist and Common Core Co-Coordinator
  • SPOTLIGHT - Students as Producers of Content, Not Merely Consumers - Will Kimbley, Instructional Technology Consultant

1:00pm
  • (ACSA) Preventive Discipline - Sherman Garnett
  • ACTFL's New Can Do Statements: Implications for the Modern Language Classroom - Harry Tuttle, Ed.D
  • Free Synchronous Meeting Tools to Deliver Faculty Professional Development - Dr. Rochelle Franklin, Director of Faculty Training and Development
  • Providing follow-up support to village school teachers for improved teaching and learning processes - Mr. Asher Javaid
  • Who Has Time for Data? Making Data Informed Decision Making Part of the School Culture - Dr. Evelyn Wassel, Supervisor of Technology Integration
  • Cultivating Transformative Leadership Skills Among Teacher Candidates in Global Education - Melda N. Yildiz, Teacher Educator

2:00pm
  • Edmodo – An Asynchronous Métier - Ms. Amina Gorie Sindhi
  • SPOTLIGHT - Content Curation as a Context for Teaching and Learning in Science - Eric A. Walters, Director of Technology
  • SPOTLIGHT - Creating Multi-Media Presentations for the Flipped Classroom - Larry Wilson Consultant

3:00pm
  • KEYNOTE - Scott McLeod - Building Capacity: Taking Leaders From Vision to Implementation

4:00pm
  • (ACSA) Facilitating Academic Discourse - Dr. Angel Barrett
  • Bringing the World to Your Classroom - Kathryn Stoerzbach Educational Promotion Manager
  • GLOBAL SPOTLIGHT - A Vision for Education and Change in Post-Conflict Sierra Leone - Jennifer D. Klein, Global Education Consultant and Speaker
  • Meeting the Needs of Diverse Learners - Akevy Greenblatt
  • The A-Z Administrators Guide to Evernote - Jeffrey Bradbury

5:00pm
  • (ACSA) The Ignored Curriculum - Vicente Bravo & Maria Hwang de Bravo
  • Building Online Departmental Community Through Leadership - Barbara c.g. Green, Academic Assistant Chair Composition
  • Career and Work Readiness Global Success Story - Integrating economic, employment, and education outcomes - Brian Cunningham, President and Chief Strategist
  • Discussion Board Strategies - Marla Cartwright, Faculty Developer
  • Using On-line Collaborative Learning Platforms to Create Global Citizenship - Adam Carter, Teacher & Global Citizen

6:00pm
  • (ACSA) ON[the]LINE - Dr Kelly Calhoun & Elizabeth Calhoon
  • SPOTLIGHT - Say It With Social Media - A Student Perspective - Student Technology Leadership Team - Marymount School
  • Take Your Classroom Global! - Tania Rashid, Global Education Program Administrator
  • What School Leadership Should Look Like for the Future School Year - Mrs Fabiana Casella
  • “We are emotional beings in a social setting:” How the use of symbols, ritual, ceremony, and stories to build meaning, are the keys to positive school culture and climate. - Dr. Patrick Faverty, Executive director

7:00pm
  • Mobile Language Tasks For Authentic Learning - Kara Mac Donald
  • SPOTLIGHT - Bill Honig - Implications for Leadership in the Implementation of Common Core
  • The Passionate Professional: Understanding the Layers of Learning - Jennifer Marten, GT Coordinator/Online School
  • Using Artistic Praxis to Improve Classroom Practice - Willa J. Taylor, Director, Education and Engagement
  • Using Local Resources to Teach Globally - Gregory Adler

8:00pm
  • (ACSA) Closing the Secondary Achievement Gap Using Response to Intervention and Instruction (RtI2) - Erik Burmeister
  • Flipped or Flipped Out? - Susan Blakely Secondary Math Teacher
  • Globalizing the High School U.S. History Survey Course: Free, Collaborative, and Self-Paced Professional Development - Craig J. Perrier - High School Specialist, Social Studies; Adjunct Professor
  • SPOTLIGHT - Implementing BYOD—Instructional Strategies and Apps that Work - Susan Brooks-Young TICAL Cadre Member
  • Utilizing Electronic Portfolios in the Hiring, Mentoring, and Evaluation Processes - Ann Gaudino, Ed.D.

Friday, March 28

10:00am
  • Hosting Virtual Meetings with Google+ Hangouts - Rita Zeinstejer, EFL Teacher, Instructional Technology Integrator
  • SPOTLIGHT - Using Technology to Bridge the Rural/Poverty Divide - Daisy Dyer Duerr, PreK-12 Principal (NASSP Digital Principal)
  • The Application of Gestalt Principles to Online Course Design, Course Pacing, and Assignment Design - Don Larson - Program Director Instructional Design and Technology Master of Science Degree
  • Using Theatre to Illuminate Core Subject Matter - Kelly J. Reed

11:00am
  • Making a Better World: Digital Citizenship Resources for K-12 - Kelly Mendoza, Sr. Manager of Professional Development
  • Retention via Virtual Classroom Enhancement - Nancy A. Johnson, M.A.E., Professor
  • Two International Students With a Clear Vision of The Future of Education - Gabi Campos and Nik Hildebrandt (students)

12:00pm
  • Discovering and Curating High Quality Apps, Websites, and Games for Learning - Kelly Mendoza, Sr. Manager of Professional Development
  • Individual Professional Learning: when faculty owns their professional growth! - Dolores Gende. Director of Instructional Technology.
  • OpenEd - Free, Simple and Open Source - Lisa Blum, VP Maketing
  • Vision of Learning in changing world: Seeking academic credentials via blended learning mode - Rozina Jumani, Director Academic Affairs/Associate Professor

1:00pm
  • Balancing idealism and realism: A case study of sustainable educational leadership at school level - Rozina Jumani, Associate Professor/Director Academic Affairs
  • Blended Professional Development for Technology Integration to Meet the Common Core State Standards - Dr. Tracy Gray, Managing Director
  • Future Friendly Schools: living laboratories for 21st century teaching and learning - Michael Furdyk, Co-founder
  • What Montessori has to Share with the Modern Reform Movement - Jennifer Wyld, PhD Candidate, Research Assistant

2:00pm
  • CLOSING KEYNOTE - Mike Lawrence: Reclaim Your School's Teacher's Lounge - Develop Educational Entrepreneurs!
  • CLOSING KEYNOTE (following) - Mike Muir - Leading Beside: Change that Sticks

Wednesday, March 19, 2014

Learning Revolution - Week's Free Events - SLS14 Expanded! - Open Natural Math Class - Educate to Liberate or Control?

The Learning Revolution
Weekly Update

March 18th


All of life is a constant education.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

The technologies of the Internet and the Web are reshaping where, when, and from whom we learn--and even how we think about learning. The Learning Revolution Project highlights our own virtual and physical events and those of our more than 200 partners. We also highlight good conversations about learning taking place between educators, learners, leaders, and others from the school, library, museum, work, adult, online, non-traditional and home learning worlds. The Internet is shifting the boundaries of these worlds, and we believe that as they increasingly overlap and integrate they will be critical to framing and preparing for the learning revolution starting to take place.

Our projects have members from 200+ countries and the Learning Revolution newsletter is sent to 130,000 each week. To subscribe to this newsletter, please sign up at http://learningrevolution.com/.


Updates

  • School Leadership Summit Dates Expanded! March 26th - 28th. We're extendeding the conference due to the amazing number of presentations we've received, and we will be featuring four more hours of sessions on the morning of Friday, March 28th. We are also excited to announce that Eric Sheninger will be delivering a special pre-conference keynote on Wednesday, March 26th at 5pm PDT and that Mike Lawrence will be giving the closing keynote on Friday, March 28th at 11am PDT! See the conference schedule for all the great sessions taking place next week.
  • CALLING ALL VOLUNTEERS! While the call for proposals for School Leadership Summit is now closed, we are still looking for volunteers to help moderate the sessions that we've added. Don't miss this opportunity to get involved with a great event! Please see information about volunteering here.
  • Reform Symposium (RSCON5) MiniCons. This year we are hosting 2 half-day free online events - Reform Symposium MiniCons. On April 6th, we will feature musical guest Jason Levine, keynote speaker Steven Anderson, a technology smackdown event that anyone can sign-up for, and eight Inspire Presentations that highlight RSCON4 and give you a sneak peek at what to expect at our annual Reform Symposium Free Online Conference RSCON5. RSCON5 will take place July 11th - 13th, 2014 and will feature 60+ presentations, 2 plenaries, 10 keynotes, student presenters, and much more. Learn more about our MiniCon events and how to sign up for these fun presentation opportunities here. Follow #RSCON5 for updates.

Partner Spotlight

NMC

New Media Consortium The New Media Consortium (NMC) is an international not-for-profit consortium of learning-focused organizations dedicated to the exploration and use of new media and new technologies. For 20 years, the NMC and its members have dedicated themselves to exploring and developing potential applications of emerging technologies for learning, research, and creative inquiry. More information at http://www.nmc.org/.

Interested in becoming a Learning Revolution Partner? Please fill out a Partner Application today.

Partner Announcements

Become a Learning Revolution Partner and share your Partner Announcements in our weekly newsletter!

One Week Calendar

All events are listed in US-Eastern Standard Time. To become an event partner and have your events listed here, please email admin@web20labs.com.

  • Wednesday, March 19th at 4pm BrainPOP: What's up on GameUp?, Now featuring 85+ games covering more than 340 topics across all our subject areas – including both BrainPOP and BrainPOP Jr. – GameUp has grown tremendously over the past year. Are you getting everything you can out of it? In this webinar, we’ll cover all the valuable resources it offers to support game-based learning. Get to know SnapThought – one of our assessment tools – and the new game Sortify, which adds another dimension to playful assessment. Join here!
  • Wednesday, March 19th at 7pm Empowering Our Students to Be Digital Citizens with Kelly Mendoza from Common Sense Media, As schools continue to integrate technology, they face increasing challenges with behavioral and ethical issues such as cyberbullying, inappropriate sharing and plagiarism. To meet these challenges, educators must teach digital citizenship, an essential digital age skill that students need to become safe, responsible and respectful participants in a digital world. Register here.
  • Wednesday, March 19th at 9pm Teachers Teaching Teachers, Weekly conversations hosted by EdTechTalk, a collaborative open webcasting community. For more information, click here.
  • Thursday, March 20th Character Day - Global Film Premier, Challenging the conventional belief that people are stuck with the character attributes they are born with, The Science of Character reveals how it is possible for anyone to build up their core character strengths and use them to achieve greater personal, academic, and professional success and happiness. The film premiere will serve as the centerpiece of #CharacterDay, a 24-hour series of live events and online conversations highlighting the expanding catalog of scientific research proving that positive characteristics like self-control, optimism, and gratitude can be nurtured and developed. Learn more about how you can participate here.
  • March 20th - March 22nd in Palm Springs, CA CUE Annual Conference + Invent to Learn Workshop, The CUE Conference is the largest and oldest education technology conference in California, and among the largest in the United States. Sylvia Martinez will lead a pre-conference Invent To Learn workshop, plus a conference session. Learn more and register here.
  • Thursday, March 20th at 2pm PDT CUE Workshop - Teaching Copyright and Fair Use to the Remix Generation, CCSS recognize the importance of building media literacy skills. Understanding copyright is a central component. This workshop will reduce copyright confusion, examine fair use, and explore the possibilities of remix. Presenters: Kelly Mendoza, Common Sense Media and Gail Densler, Elk Grove Unified School District. See details and register here.
  • Friday, March 21st at 8:30am CoSN Workshop: You've Got Technology, Now What? Curating the Best Content for Learning, Spending on education technology is now in the tens of billions dollars as schools push for broadband, computer labs, and 1-to-1 tablets. But what about content? There’s a lot of great games, apps, websites, and digital curricula to go along with tablets and computers. But finding, vetting, and delivering quality content to teachers is difficult. This panel tackles this challenge from a variety of perspectives ranging from educators, administrators, policymakers, and nonprofit leaders providing insight on how to effectively evaluate the learning potential of digital content, and how the educational system can best structure technology acquisition and implementation. Learn more here.
  • Saturday, March 22nd at the Dubai Modern Education School, UAE Know.Do.Serve.Learn. - Common Core Camp in UAE, The camps will introduce American curriculum schools, leaders and educators in the UAE who are new to the Common Core Standards. Learn more here.
  • Saturday, March 22nd at 12pm CR20 LIVE Weekly Show with Erin Klein, Classroom 2.0 LIVE is an opportunity to gather with other member of the community in regular "live" web meetings. Special thanks for this go to our sponsor, Blackboard Collaborate, for providing the service that allows us to do this! Details to join the webinar at http://live.classroom20.com. Follow us on Twitter: #liveclass20
  • Tuesday, March 25th at 10:45am in Syracuse, NY A Common Sense Approach to Enhancing Technology For Learning, Digital tools are entering our classrooms at an increasing rate and with that comes the opportunity and responsibility to help students harness the potential of technology for learning and for life. Common Sense Media will review free, research-based resources that provide schools with comprehensive tools to teach students to think critically, behave safely, and participate responsibly with technology. Details here.

For a full calendar of all upcoming events and conferences, click here.

Deadlines

  • Reform Symposium MiniCon April, April 6th 9:30am - 1pm EDT
    Upcoming deadlines: Sign up for the Tech & App Smackdown - Share your favorite web tool or app as we celebrate our amazing presenters from 2013 and look forward to #RSCON5 on July 11-13th, 2014. Your presentation will only be 2 minutes long with 2 images as your presentation. Or sign up to be an Inpire Presenter! You are invited to do a 3 to 5 minute presentation that either (1) gives us highlights of your RSCON4 presentation or (2) gives us a sneak peek at what you are thinking about presenting for RSCON5. Space is limited for these presentations, so sign up soon.
  • Learning Revolution Conference Online, April 24th - 25th, 2014
    Upcoming deadlines: Presentation proposals are being accepted between now and April 15th for the inaugural Learning Revolution Conference Online. The conference strands include Learning Theory, Learning Practice, Learning Science, Learning Spaces, and Technology & Learning. Please see the call for proposals and submission instructions here. Don't miss out on a great opportunity to connect about learning!

Highlighted Recordings


Tracey Wilen-Daugenti from the Future of Education Interview Series - on "How Technology is Reshaping Education, Work, and Society"

wilen-daugenti
http://youtu.be/Pmmn6DYZkLQ

Larry Johnson from the Global Education Conference - on "2012 Keynote Address"

johnson
http://youtu.be/9AFRXkK4rfU

Cristin Frodella from the Global STEMx Education Conference - on "Google Science Fair"

frodella
http://youtu.be/KFBZYekjGIo

NMC Navigator Top Ten

Top Learning Tech Stories of the Week from the NMC/Horizon Project Navigator.

  1. 4 Key Benefits To Using Open Source In Education
  2. Innovative K-12 Tests: Almost Always Just Around the Corner
  3. Making Your Mark: Perspectives on 3D Printing
  4. Virtual Reality Startups Look Back to the Future
  5. Time for an Academic Bitcoin
  6. Technology Leadership Evolved
  7. The MOOC Moment and Its Impact on K-12 Education
  8. Education progression relies on technology
  9. One-to-one: School districts arm kids with digital devices
  10. Students get hands-on with hands-free crutch

Conversations

Classroom 2.0
  • Engaging and Inspiring Leaders and Learners - Virtual Event. Classroom 2.0 member, Nicole Lakusta, shares the 21st Century School Systems – Engaging and Inspiring Leaders and Learners event with us. Virtual attendance is encouraged for those of us who are not in the Alberta area, so sign up here to register and view the agenda. Thanks, Nicole!
  • Calling all Diigo users: New Jersey graduate student and soon-to-be special education instructor, Mr. Astated, has some questions for those of you who use Diigo as a classroom tool. Share your experience with Diigo here.

Education Revolution Google+ Community
  • 2014 MoonBots Challenge. George Bartan reminds us that the 2014 MoonBots Challenge is under way. Do you have students or library users ages 9 - 17 that can answer the questions Do you have what it takes to put a robot on the Moon? Can you answer 'Why We Should Go Back to the Moon for Good?' Do you want to win a trip to Hawai'i and other great prizes? Consider helping them enter this fantastic contest! Learn more here. Thanks, George!
  • Ultimate Checklist for Using Video in eLearning. Christopher Pappas has shared a great tool for those of you using videos in eLearning environments. The checklist provides some simple guidelines that could really improve the learner experiences for our students, coworkers, clients, or guests. Thanks, Chris!

Global Education Conference
  • Reminder: Google Science Fair. Global educator, Ibrahim Bahati, reminds us that the Google Science Fair is currently accepting submissions from students ages 13 - 18. In partnership with our friends at National Geographic Education, the Google Science Fair is a challenge based learning project that gives participants an opportunity to identify a global problem and develop a solution. What an excellent way to learn to do something new, and make a real difference! Secondary teachers and YA librarians: this is a great opportunity for special programming. Check out the resources available here.
  • Calling multilingual families to participate. Global Education member, Joel Josephson, shares this opportunity for multilingual parents and teachers. Join our project reference group, to help evaluate the resources we make for the project to help families, educators and stakeholders raise children multilingually. The EU large-scale “Multilingual Families” project is targeted at preserving the languages and culture of immigrants and the many families with parents with more than one language. Learn more about participating in this project, and sign up here. Thanks, Joel!

Submit a Video or Quote

We'd like to feature a user submitted video each week. Get creative! Post your short video answer to the question: What does the learning revolution mean to you? We'll be highlighting one video each week, and sharing the rest on our YouTube channel. You need to include #learningrevolution in the title of your YouTube video.

OR

Do you have a great quote on education? Send us your favorite education quote to add to our collection and we'll be sure to give you a shout out in our next newsletter.

Kudos

Just a week left before we kick off the 2014 School Leadership Summit with opening keynote, Eric Sheninger! We have more than 50 presentations lined up for this year, and several impressive keynote speakers. Here's what participants had to say about last year's Summit - and a hint of what you have to look forward to next week!

  • I cannot believe how much new information I was able to receive in the 3 hours I was able to attend from my office! Just in time training and wonderful resources that I plan to infuse into our summer technology workshop schedule.
    -Elizabeth Kohut
  • Really enjoying it. Great learning. Great selection. Wonderful new connections.
    -Jason Flom
  • It's been an intense, but gratifying and exciting day of learning and building knowledge capital! I have been in sessions since the beginning of the conference. This is too great and free none the less! PLEASE KEEP DOING THIS!
    -Helen Marie Stevens
  • Espero que se repita muy pronto ha sido un placer asistir a esta Cumbre.
    I hope this happens again very soon, it has been a pleasure to attend this Summit.

    -Mada
  • Love learning from national and international experts in the field right from my desk! Thank you!
    -Anonymous

For a full list of the 2013 School Leadership Summit kudos, click here.


Final Notes

This past week I spoke at the annual Fresno-Pacific Leadership Day conference for Teacher Librarians. Preparing my remarks allowed me to think about libraries and librarians, and their important roles in encouraging intellectual curiosity, independent study, and deep engagement. It's increasingly clear to me that societal narratives for education revolve around two very different aims: to liberate or to control. While we often describe education as providing a framework and skills for critical and independent thinking, our practices more and more focus on mandatory compliance to standardized objectives. The tension between the educational goals of liberation and control are as old as civilization, with the cultural strength and wisdom to educate for free and rigorous thought being the exception rather than the norm. If there were ever a time in the history of mankind when we truly needed a public that is educated and capable of important dialog, it is now. The Internet has created a huge virtual commons, where information and ideas are no longer primarily mediated by institutions, and we have a choice: we either commit ourselves to strengthening the capacity of everyone in our society to understand and to participate well in the increasingly difficult conversations and challenges ahead; or we accept a model of education based largely on compliance and tracking, and where independent thinking is not a virtue but a nuisance. I simply do not think we can afford the latter.


See you online!



Steve
Steve Hargadon
www.stevehargadon.com

Thursday, March 13, 2014

School Leadership Summit in Two Weeks - Call for Volunteers - Saturday Final Proposal Deadline

The second annual School Leadership Summit is Thursday, March 27th, from 7am to 7pm US-Pacific (10am - 10pm US-Eastern). This free online event is open to all to attend; register at http://www.schoolleadershipsummit.com to be kept updated. This is a unique chance to participate in a collaborative global conversation on school leadership by and with your peers.

Please do pass this notice around to colleagues!

The hour-by-hour conference schedule is posted on the site in multiple time zones. While we have a full set of conference presentations, we are still taking presentation proposals through Saturday, March 15th, and accepted sessions at this point will either be placed on a wait list or we may start the conference an hour or two early to give more opportunities to present.

We also have a GREAT lineup of keynote and distinguished speakers, with Eric Sheninger, Ira Socol + Pam Moran, Scott McLeod, Bill Brennan, and a couple of surprise keynotes still to be announced. Eric, in fact, will be presenting Wednesday evening, March 26th, as a special pre-conference keynote, and we may also even do the same thing Tuesday night. We'll keep you posted! So much fun!

As is our custom, we now announce the call for volunteer moderators. If you have attended one of my events before, you will know that the volunteer support is a HUGE part of these highly-participative events. It's hard to describe the camaraderie of those who volunteer to help moderate these virtual conferences, and what a pleasure and privilege it is to be a part of this. We don't require that volunteers are Blackboard Collaborate (the conference platform) pros, but we do ask that you take the one-hour training (live or recorded). Thank you!

You may already be aware that the School Leadership Summit and the rest of my virtual and physical events are now aggregated under the LearningRevolution.com project. If you haven't been to LearningRevolution.com, we've got a great event calendar of free and community events listed by many of our over 200 partner organizations, plus lots of other great content and a weekly newsletter to keep you collaborating with peers in the larger conversations about learning. Do join us!

Many thanks to conference sponsors TICAL and ACSA. Hope you can "tune in" in two weeks!


Tuesday, March 11, 2014

Learning Revolution - Week's Events - AERO - National Geographic - Top Tech Stories - Rankin on Revolution - SAT Talk - More

The Learning Revolution
Weekly Update

March 11th


The greatest sign of success for a teacher is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist."
- Maria Montessori

Welcome to the Learning Revolution. The technologies of the Internet and the Web are reshaping where, when, and from whom we learn--and even how we think about learning. The Learning Revolution Project highlights virtual and physical events that we hold and from our over 200 partners, and provides valuable links to learning conversations taking place in the school, library, museum, work, adult, online, non-traditional and home learning worlds.

To subscribe to this newsletter, please sign up at http://learningrevolution.com/.



Updates

  • Next week: CoSN Conference in Washington DC. March 19th - 22nd in Washington DC will be the annual CoSN Conference. CoSN is designed for education leaders to better understand their changing roles in creating the new face of learning, and it's a great event with terrific history and high-powered speakers. The conference starts with an opening "Town Hall Forum" with the Hon. Bob Wise and Yong Zhao, has David Pogue as closing keynote, and has special pre- and post-conference events and tours. Join us Thursday and Friday of the conference for CoSN Camp, an unconference event. Included in the fun will be "Spectacular Failures," a fast-paced sharing of risk-taking adventures that taught us something valuable (read: failures)! I'll be there helping the organizers, as well as sharing one of my own many "spectacular failure" stories. Don't miss the fun!
  • School Leadership Summit - March 27th. This is the final week to submit presentation proposals for the second annual School Leadership Summit. The session schedule is almost full, but we do place presentation proposals on a waitlist in case of cancellations. The call for volunteers will go out this week, so be on the lookout for how to get involved!
  • Learning Revolution Conference Online. The Learning Revolution Conference call for proposals is now open. This free, online event all about learning will have two days of open sessions on April 24th and 25th. The conference strands include Learning Theory, Learning Practice, Learning Science, Learning Spaces, and Technology & Learning. We encourage all to participate, so please see the submission instructions available here.
  • Register for Deep Dive Black Mountain. Come join us in Black Mountain, North Carolina for three+ days of deeper conversations about learning and for the first ever Alternative Education Film Festival. Register for this event here. See you in May!
  • AERO 25th Anniversary Conference. AERO is holding it's 25th anniversary conference June 26th - 29th on Long Island. Keynotes include Zoë Neill Readhead, Jerry Mintz, and a special panel of Brooklyn Free School students and teachers. Learn more or register hereand see my notes at the bottom of this post!
  • Walden University researcher, Rose Arnell, is looking for survey participants: I am a doctoral student at Walden University and am conducting a study called, Teacher Beliefs on Self-Learning, Collaboration, and Participation in Virtual Communities of Practice. I am in need of 10 participants who would be willing to discuss their experiences within Classroom 2.0 through 2 interviews and through patterns found within their Ning contributions. My goal is to understand the benefits of participating in a virtual community and how this learning transformed teaching. Any communication will be independently coordinated outside of Classroom 2.0. Are you interested in participating? Please fill out this invitation to be considered for this study. Thanks for sharing, Rose! Your research interest is highly relevant for our communities!
  • Nominate your favorite keynote speakers for Library 2.014. We're excited to be gearing up for the fourth annual Library 2.014 conference on October 8th and 9th. Thanks to input from information professionals worldwide, the lineup of keynote presenters during the past Library 2.0 virtual conferences has been phenomenal. We enthusiastically invite you to nominate dynamic speakers who will lead the global conversation about the future of libraries during the Library 2.014 Worldwide Virtual Conference. This is your chance to help shape this open online conference! Fill out this form to submit your nomination by March 31st.
  • New Partners. A big welcome to our new calendar partner, New Global Citizens! You'll now see their great events listed in the main calendar at learningrevolution.com. Join @NGCitizens for #globaledchat every Thursday at 8pm ET - topics changing weekly!

Partner Spotlight

National Geographic

National Geographic is dedicated to helping young people learn about their interconnected world. Through our Center for Geo-Education, we create learning materials and educational experiences for learners and the adults who teach them. Our mission is to make sure that young people receive the education about their dynamic, interconnected world that they will need to function effectively and act responsibly throughout their lives. More information about about our programs is available at NatGeoEd.org.

Interested in becoming a Learning Revolution Partner? Please fill out a Partner Application today.

Partner Announcements

  • Moebius Noodles: 5-year-olds can learn calculus. Discussions of early math spread after The Atlantic interviewed Dr. Maria Droujkova. Read here.

Become a Learning Revolution Partner and share your Partner Announcements in our weekly newsletter!

One Week Calendar

All events are listed in US-Eastern Daylight Time. To become an event partner and have your events listed here, please email admin@web20labs.com.

  • Wednesday, March 12th at 9am PDT in Seattle, WA Maker Movement at NCCE 2014 with Sylvia Martinez, Join colleagues for a day of hard fun and problem solving — where computing meets tinkering and design. The summit begins with the case for project-based learning, making, tinkering, and engineering. Attendees will discuss strategies for effective prompt setting. Exploring powerful ideas from the Reggio Emilia Approach, breakthroughs in science education, and the global maker movement combine to create rich learning experiences. Learn more here. $245 registration fee
  • Wednesday, March 12th at 9am at Montclair State University, NJ Common Sense Media - Teaching Digital Citizenship in an iPad Classroom, If you have iPads, you know that teaching digital citizenship is more important than ever. With the tablet classroom in mind, Common Sense Media, well-renowned for their digital citizenship curriculum and resources, now offers resources for teaching digital citizenship in an iPad classroom.
  • Wednesday, March 12th at 6:30pm TICAL - ON[the]LINE: A California 21st Century District Initiative, with Dr. Kelly Calhoun and Elizabeth Calhoon. There is a burden being carried by CA school districts, each struggling individually with how to manage technology policies and guidelines appropriately for the future. This initiative, which has been providing resources to California districts for over a year does the following: Explores and establishes principles to guide the process; Establishes a suite of resources to support 21st century school districts/COEs, including: policies (adoptable or locally modifiable using est. principles), best practice codes of conduct samples, guidelines, and much more! This session will highlight the building of the initiative and how integral partners were brought into the process to provide a central space for all districts to use in one very large state with a plethora of individual district needs. Register here.
  • Wednesday, March 12th at 9pm Teachers Teaching Teachers, Weekly conversations hosted by EdTechTalk, a collaborative open webcasting community. For more information, click here.
  • Thursday, March 13th at 4pm Digital Wish - Photography Training, We’ll cover the basics of digital photography. Every attendee gets an 80-slide presentation to support your photography or yearbook club! Learn about the shutter lag, sports shooting, rule of thirds, leading lines, and foreground interest. Then we’ll share a photo contest that teachers and students can enter. We’ll wrap up by showing you a fast tool for building your yearbook online, and share how other schools generated profits from their yearbook club. Sign up here, and join us here.
  • March 14th - March 15th in Washington DC Teaching & Learning 2014, T&L 2014 is where the profession meets to secure the future of PreK-12 education. Through one-of-a-kind keynote speakers, inspiring panels and practical workshops, T&L 2014 will tackle some of the toughest challenges facing educators today and showcase solutions that work. From Common Core State Standards to education technology to advancing issues of equity in the classroom, educators from all types of classroom settings will have unique opportunities to share their stories, gain new tools, learn from the nation’s top innovators and get inspired to achieve greatness in their classrooms and communities. Register here.
  • Friday, March 14th at 8:30am PDT NCCE 2014 Keynote: "Making, Love, and Learning" with Gary Stager. Gary will deliver his new keynote address, “Making, Love, and Learning” at the 2014 NCCE Conference in Seattle, WA on March 14th. A book signing will follow. Learn more here.
  • Saturday, March 15th at the MADAR International School in Al Anin, UAE Know.Do.Serve.Learn. - Common Core Camp, The camps will introduce American curriculum schools, leaders and educators in the UAE who are new to the Common Core Standards. Learn more here.
  • Saturday, March 15th at 12pm DonorsChoose: Tips for Success, If you have important learning projects, tools, books or even technology hardware/software you need for your classrooms and can't find funding to purchase them, this is a show you won't want to miss. Laura Candler and Francie Kugelman will be our special guests for this Classroom 2.0 Live show and they will be sharing how to use DonorsChoose.org to obtain funding for your classroom projects. Follow #liveclass20, and join the session at http://tinyurl.com/cr20live.

For a full list of all upcoming events, click here.


Deadlines

  • The free School Leadership Summit online conference, March 27th, 2014
    Upcoming deadlines: Presentation proposals are being accepted between now and March 15th, 2014. Proposals are be accepted on a rolling basis, so consider submitting now! Please see the instructions for submitting a proposal here.
  • Learning Revolution Conference Online, April 24th - 25th, 2014
    Upcoming deadlines: Presentation proposals are being accepted between now and April 15th for the inaugural Learning Revolution Conference Online. The conference strands include Learning Theory, Learning Practice, Learning Science, Learning Spaces, and Technology & Learning. Please see the call for proposals and submission instructions here. Don't miss out on a great opportunity to connect about learning!

Highlighted Recordings

Michael Graffin from the OZeLive 2014 - Ed Tech Down Under Conference - on "Building the Global Classroom - An Australian Teacher's Story"

graffin
http://youtu.be/ERItAYqOPOQ

Jackie Gerstein & Sylvia Martinez from the Connected Café - on "Innovating STEM & Literacy"

Gerstein-Martinez
http://youtu.be/AU97gTh-IlM

Kathryn Greenhill & Mal Booth from the Library 2.012 - on "Creativity and Libraries"

Greenhill
http://youtu.be/1FWe05zqI-Q

NEW FEATURE: NMC Navigator Top Ten

Top Learning Tech Stories of the Week from the NMC/Horizon Project Navigator.

  1. Researchers testing tiny ear computer
  2. Continuous professional development: teachers teaching teachers
  3. New tertiary education strategy focus: Workplace skills
  4. Infographic: Fueling a Personalized Learning Revolution
  5. A Guidebook for Social Media in the Classroom
  6. This startup wants high-schoolers to invent. First up: 3D prosthetic hands
  7. Scientists work on backing up human brain with computers
  8. A MOOC MYSTERY: WHERE DO ONLINE STUDENTS GO?
  9. Code.org Uses Flappy Bird As Tool To Teach Kids How To Program Their Own Game (Video)
  10. The world's largest photo service just made its pictures free to use

Conversations

Classroom 2.0
  • Curated content: The Best of the Week. Classroom 2.0 contributor, Karen Cameron, gives us another great gift this week - the best education-related blog posts, news articles, apps and resources of the week. It's so easy to get behind on all the great material being created each week, so curated sources like this are super helpful! Curated blogs are on our short list of upcoming projects, so stay tuned if this is something you're passionate about. Thanks, as always, Karen!
  • Geography games for the classroom, library, after-school program, or just for you!. Check out World Geography Games - Can you point out Sudan on the map? How about the Strait of Hormuz? This website will bring you many entertaining and stimulating map games to improve your geographical knowledge. The quizzes include questions about countries, capitals, flags, regions, bodies of water, mountains, deserts, metropolitan areas and other topics that will test and challenge your brain. For everyone who wants to explore and learn about the world, you've come to the right place! This is such a fun and challenging way to learn more about the world. Try it out this week!

Education Revolution Google+ Community
  • Speaking of games: The secret to effective e-Learning games. Google+ community member, Christopher Pappas, shared this article by e-Learning writer Stephanie Ivec. Check out Stephanie's top five secrets to designing effective games for edcuation.
  • Google Science Fair 2014. Educator, George Bartan, shared this great YouTube announcement about Google Science Fair 2014. The Google Science Fair is a global online science and technology competition open to students ages 13 to 18. Learn more about getting involved and how the young people in your life can participate here. Thanks for this, George!
  • So much to say about the SAT changes. It seems like everyone's got something to say about the proposed changes to the SAT. Ted Bauer is concerned about some of the language being used to describe the strengths of the revised test. Clay Forsberg sees the changes as another nail in the coffin of American writing skills. And Kirsten Winkler speculates about the economic effect of the Kahn Academy / College Board partnership on the test-prep industry. What do you think? What conversations have sparked over the changes in the SAT in your world? Share them here.

Global Education Conference
  • Announcing the Global Competence Certificate program. Jennifer Lofing shared a great PD opportunity for teachers this week. The Global Competence Certificate Program is the first-of-its-kind online graduate level certificate program in global competence education for educators. The GCC combines engaging online coursework, immersive fieldwork with partners across the globe, and collaborative practice groups with an interdisciplinary group of peers to help educators integrate global competence into their practice, while building engaging and relevant instructional methodology. Developed by Teachers College, Columbia University, World Savvy, and Asia Society, the program is facilitated by Teachers College faculty and renowned educators from across the country. Participants may choose to earn a Certificate in Global Competence plus either 48 Continuing Education Units or 12 Graduate Credits. Thanks for sharing, Jennifer! Visit http://www.globalcompetencecertificate.org/ for more information.
  • European Conference in the Applications of Enabling Technologies - ECAET 2014: Call for papers. Looking for an excellent reason to travel to Glasgow, Scotland this November? Here it is: ECAET is an international refereed conference dedicated to the advancement of the theory and practices in the use of Web2.0 technologies in education, leisure and business. The ECAET promotes collaborative excellence between academics and professionals from a range of disciplines providing an opportunity for researchers from various fields with cross-disciplinary interests to bridge the knowledge gap, promote research esteem and the evolution of the usage and uptake of technology. ECAET 2014 invites research papers that encompass conceptual analysis, design implementation and performance evaluation. All the accepted papers will appear in the proceedings and modified versions of selected papers will be published in special issues of peer reviewed journals. Learn more here. Thanks for sharing, Joel!

Submit a Video or Quote

We'd like to feature a user submitted video each week. Get creative! Post your short video answer to the question: What does the learning revolution mean to you? We'll be highlighting one video each week, and sharing the rest on our YouTube channel. You need to include #learningrevolution in the title of your YouTube video.

OR

Do you have a great quote on education? Send us your favorite education quote to add to our collection and we'll be sure to give you a shout out in our next newsletter.


This Week's Submitted Favorites

Jenny Rankin - on "What #learningrevolution Means to Me"

Rankin
http://youtu.be/MKAB_fDu-ao

Plus, thank you to Peggy George, Classroom 2.0 Live co-host and super-educator, for providing us with these quotes and so many more! We loved her submissions so much that we've given her a special page on the Learning Revolution site. Thanks, Peggy!

  • We need to move beyond the idea that an education is something that is provided for us, and toward the idea that an education is something that we create for ourselves.
    - Stephen Downes
  • Our task is to provide an education for the kind of kids we have... Not the kind of kids we used to have... Or want to have... Or the kids that exist in our dreams.
    - Mary Kay Utech
  • To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
    - Edmund Burke

Final Notes

I really sorry to miss the AERO conference this year (the dates conflict with the ISTE conference, to which I am attached at the hip). AERO was by far the most interesting and productive conference I attended last year--which I did as a first-time attendee. I'd heard about the conference for a couple of years because guests on my Future of Education show kept mentioning it. If you don't have a date conflict like me, I highly encourage those of you who are interested in expanding their conversations about learning beyond traditional classroom and school discussions to consider attending. AERO's mission is "to help create an education revolution, to make learner-centered education available to everyone," which is not only a perfect fit with LearningRevolution.com, but formed a significant part of the impetus for me to bring the AERO-related conversations into my own learning world and events. Their workshops and attendees come from all kinds of alternative learning organizations, and you will likely leave with lots of bold new ideas!

See you online!



Steve
Steve Hargadon
www.stevehargadon.com