The Learning Revolution
Weekly Update

December 18th, 2014

Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.
- Roger Lewin

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.

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Updates
Partner Spotlight
Partner Announcements
Calendar of Events
Deadlines
Highlighted Recordings
NMC Navigator Top Ten
Conversations
Final Notes

Updates

Kickstarter to Help Support the 2015 Student Technology Conference Team!. The Marymount School of New York's Student Technology Leadership Team and their network of student technology teams has been working hard to launch the first ever Student Technology Conference, a full day online event on Saturday, January 31st, 2015. This week, the organizing team has launched a Kickstarter to help generate support for this great event. As a supporter, you will be recognized on the conference website and you could also receive a great t-shirt from the team of student organizers! Check out the Kickstarter and pledge your support for this exciting event.
Teachers and teacher librarians: Be sure to let your students know of this upcoming opportunity to present their awesome technology skills in a student-led forum. This is a great project for your students to work on over their holiday break!
OZeLive 2015: Call for Proposals Now Open + Promotion. The Call for Submissions is now open for OZeLive 2015! Be sure to check out this year's conference strands and consider submitting your proposal soon. The Australian team has created a great flyer for you to share with your colleagues and extended networks. Be sure to visit http://australianeducators.ning.com/ for the latest conference news, and to learn how you might get involved.

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Learning Revolution Events

Student Technology Conference, January 31st, 2015
OZeLive 2015, February 27th - March 1st, 2015
School Leadership Summit, March 26th, 2015

Partner Spotlight

The mission of Light Way Schools is to co-create a world-wide network of consciousness-based learning environments which fully support our children in reaching their unlimited potential within a self-sustaining community built on trust, joy, harmony, love and peace. Light Way Schools guides parents in the design and implementation of alternative and democratic home schooling programs through our Empowered Parents, Inspired Children course, known as E.P.I.C. More information at http://www.lightwayschools.org/.

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Deadlines

2015 Student Technology Conference, January 31st, 2015
Upcoming deadlines: The call for proposals for the 2015 Student Technology Conference is now open! Proposals can be submitted until January 17th, 2015. Please see the conference strands and encourage your students to submit their proposals soon!
OZeLive 2015, February 27th - March 1st, 2015
Upcoming deadlines: the Call for Submissions is now open! Strands for this year's conference include Media, Teaching and Learning, Theory, Technology and Pedagogy, Personal Learning, Global Education, Innovation in Education, Professional Development, Apps for Learning, Public Speaking and Family History. Learn more about how to become a presenter here.

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Highlighted Recordings

Christie Vilsack from the 2014 Global Education Conference - on "Developing Partnerships"

http://youtu.be/c8k_3gQuLj4
Liz Dawes Duraisingh & Paul Salopek from the 2014 Global Education Conference - on "Out of Eden Learn: Slowing down and exchanging stories in the digital age"

http://youtu.be/B2oEZcHOqUc
Thomas Röhlinger from the 2014 Global Education Conference - on "Global Education strategies for a world at an historic 'tipping-point'"

http://youtu.be/_cNZ7TGDHhM

NMC Navigator Top Ten

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

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