The Learning Revolution
Weekly Update
November 5th, 2014
The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
- Herbert Spencer
The Learning Revolution Project holds online and physical learning events, and highlights professional development opportunities from a network of 200 partners in the learning professions. The great majority of these events are free to attend. 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.
Updates
- We really need you! Volunteer at the 5th Annual Global Education Conference. Looking for a way to get involved with the global education community and to have a ton of fun at the same time? (Really!) Consider volunteering at this year's Global Education Conference! We will provide training for volunteers over the next few weeks, and your assistance will be greatly appreciated by our conference presenters. If you're interested in volunteering, please join the Volunteer Group and follow the instructions there for booking your times. Thank you, in advance, for your contribution to this great event! (PLUS: if you're a seasoned veteran, and you'd like to be one of our elite "super volunteers," we are looking for some select few who help us to oversee larger blocks of time and organize the regular volunteers when Lucy and I are taking our breaks! Email me--steve@hargadon.com--directly!)
- Did you miss the deadline on the GlobalEdCon call for proposals? You can still sumbit. The call for proposals is now officially closed. However, if you submit a proposal before November 15th and put this submission in the category "2014 Proposals Submitted After November 1 - Waitlist)", we will still be reviewing proposals on a case by case basis. Proposals still will have to relate to our mission and acceptances will only be given if we have room in the conference schedule. It is most likely that we will not add more slots to the conference schedule. Submit here.
- Call for High School or University Journalism Students for Coverage of GlobalEdCon. We're so excited to be kicking off the fifth annual Global Education Conference in two weeks. Our amazing conference co-chair, Lucy Gray, has shared a great idea with the Global Education community which we'll share here for any of you who may be interested in participating. From Lucy, "One of our goals this year has been to increase student participation, and I'm happy to say that we are seeing more student/teacher teams submitting proposals. We would also like to see students be active participants in sessions. One way to accomplish this might be to have students write news articles about various sessions. There are 2 ways we can go about this: 1. Individual students can attend sessions and write articles about these sessions. They would submit these to me, and I would probably put them in a newsletter each evening (GMT-6) so that our attendees have an overview of some of the sessions that have taken place that day. 2. A high school journal team can take responsibility for writing a few articles, editing submitted conent, and publishing them using a tool of their choice. Individual students from other schools could submit articles to this team for review as well." Is this something you or your students may be interested in? Be sure to see details for getting involved here.
- NMC Virtual Symposium on the Future of Libraries. Mark your calendar for November 12 to join the NMC and the Learning Revolution for the "NMC Virtual Symposium on the Future of Libraries." In this half-day event, library professionals, educators, and thought leaders will explore four major themes from the NMC Horizon Report > 2014 Library Edition, which was downloaded over 1 million times in the first eight days after publication! The themes are: Increasing Access and Discovery Opportunities; Emphasis on Mobile; Content Management and Technical Infrastructure; and Rethinking the Roles and Relationships of Librarians. Engage with the panels on these topics and help shape the conversation – get your burning questions answered! Wednesday, November 12, 2014 (10am-2pm ET/ 9am-1pm CT/ 7am-11am PT). We encourage you to attend with colleagues from your library or institution as each session will be interspersed with discussion questions to prompt deep thinking around actionable trends and ideas. Come curious, and leave inspired to meet the future head on. This event does have a cost. http://www.nmc.org/event-manager.
Learning Revolution Events
2014 Global Education Conference | November 17 - 21
Partner Spotlight
The Earl Center for Learning and Innovation is the learning and curriculum resource center of Wheelock College. For over 125 years Wheelock College has been educating teachers, social workers and other students in the helping professions. The motto of Wheelock is Making the world better for children and families. In this vein the Earl Center strives to support the students, faculty and the Wheelock community in exploring, inventing and learning in a facility that ranges in activities from makerspace to curriculum center. More information at http://www.wheelock.edu/library/earlcenter.
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One Week Calendar
All events are listed in US-Eastern Time. To become an event partner and have your events listed here, please email amy@learningrevolution.com.
- Wednesday, November 5th at 11am NMC On the Horizon > Creating Authentic Learning Opportunities, Join the NMC and our panel of Creating Authentic Learning Opportunities thought leaders on Wednesday, November 5 at 8am PT / 10am CT/ 11am ET (check for local time). This one-hour session will be held in the Google+ On Air platform and broadcasted live on YouTube. Participation is free for all attendees. More information at http://www.nmc.org/events/horizon-creating-authentic-learning-opportunities.
- Wednesday, November 5th at 9pm Teachers Teaching Teachers, Weekly conversations hosted by EdTechTalk, a collaborative open webcasting community. For more information, click here.
- Thursday, November 6th in Raytown, MO CoSN Missouri CTO Clinic, Join us for an exclusive professional development event covering the key issues facing ed tech leaders in Missouri and beyond. Learn more about this event and register to participate here.
- Saturday, November 8th at 12pm CR20 LIVE Weekly Show - November Featured Teacher: Jamie Reynolds, 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 at #liveclass20.
- Monday, November 10th at 8pm TL Virtual Cafe - #TLChat LIVE!, Second Monday of each month is the Teacher Librarian Twitter Chat. Follow #TLChat on Twitter to participate.
- Wednesday, November 12th at 10am NMC Virtual Symposium on the Future of Libraries, Join us for the NMC Virtual Symposium on the Future of Libraries. In this half-day event, library professionals, educators, and thought leaders will explore four major themes from the NMC Horizon Report > 2014 Library Edition: Increasing Access and Discovery Opportunities, Emphasis on Mobile, Content Management and Technical Infrastructure, and Rethinking Roles and Relationships of Librarians. More information here.
For a full calendar of all upcoming events and conferences, click here.
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Highlighted Recordings
Peter Morville from Library 2.014 - on "The Architecture of Understanding"Sherry Gick & Matthew Winner from Library 2.014: Connected Librarian Day - on "When Sherry Met Matthew"
Jia Yang from Library 2.014 - on "Exploring the Use of Information Visualization for Library"
NMC Navigator Top Ten
Top Learning Tech Stories of the Week from the NMC/Horizon Project Navigator.
- Online Ed Skepticism and Self-Sufficiency: Survey of Faculty Views on Technology
- “Fliperentiated” Instruction: How to Create the Customizable Classroom
- Beyond Bologna
- Santa Clara U Students Get Mobile Lab for Controlling Satellites
- Beyond the Skills Gap: Making Education Work for Students, Employers and Communities
- A Call for a Public College Quality Compact
- Opening the Curriculum: Open Education Resources in U.S. Higher Education, 2014
- Rethinking vocational high school as a path to college
- Blackboard Releases Tablet App for Teachers
- What’s Going on Inside the Brain Of A Curious Child?
See you online!
Steve
Steve Hargadon
www.stevehargadon.com
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