Live and Interactive with Authors Trilling and Fadel on 21st Century Skills

Join me for a live and interactive interview in Elluminate with Bernie Trilling and Charles Fadel. In 21st Century Skills, Trilling and Fadel tell why and how the global landscape for learning is reshaping itself, and what this global transformation, often called the “21st century skills movement,” may bring to a school near you. 21st Century content includes the basic core subjects of reading, writing, and arithmetic-but also emphasizes global awareness, financial/economic literacy, and health issues. The skills fall into three categories: learning and innovations skills; digital literacy skills; and life and career skills. Based on a framework developed by the Partnership for 21st Century Skills, their book and DVD vividly illustrate the skills needed to survive and thrive in a complex and connected world.

DETAILS:

Date: Wednesday, March 17th, 2010

Time: 5pm Pacific / 8pm Eastern / 12am (next day) GMT (international times here)

Duration: 1 hour

Location: In Elluminate. Log in at http://tr.im/futureofed. The Elluminate room will be open up to 30 minutes before the event if you want to come in early. To make sure that your computer is configured for Elluminate, please visit http://www.elluminate.com/support. Recordings of the session will be posted within a day of the event at the event page.

Event and Recording Page:  http://www.learncentral.org/event/60487

OUR GUESTS:

Bernie Trilling and Charles Fadel, have long been completing each other’s sentences at Board meetings of the Partnership for 21st Century Skills (P21). Since 2005 they have co-chaired P21’s Standards, Assessment and Professional Development Committee, which produced P21’s breakthrough 21st century learning framework. This framework, plus the committee’s white papers, skills maps, policy guides, and “Route 21” web repository of 21st century learning examples and resources are all helping to guide the transformative work of education across the world.

In their global education roles, Bernie and Charles have spoken to thousands of educators and met with hundreds of education leaders on the move to a 21st century approach to learning.

Though they both have been deeply involved in the development of innovative technologies to reshape learning, Bernie and Charles share a deep conviction that the most important learning tools are our minds, our hearts and our hands, all working together.

Bernie Trilling is global director for the Oracle Education Foundation, directing the development of education strategies, partnerships, and services for the Foundation’s ThinkQuest program. He represents the Foundation as a board member of the Partnership for 21st Century Skills.

Bernie has worked on a number of pioneering educational products and services, and is an active member of a variety of organizations dedicated to bringing 21st century learning methods to students and teachers across the globe. Prior to joining the Oracle Education Foundation, Bernie was director of the Technology In Education group at WestEd, a U.S. national educational laboratory, where he led a team of educational technologists in integrating technology into both the instructional and administrative realms of education. He has also served in a variety of roles in both education and industry, including executive producer for instruction at Hewlett-Packard Company, where he helped lead a state-of-the-art, global interactive distance learning network.

As an instructional designer and educator, Bernie has held a variety of professional educational roles in settings ranging from preschool to corporate training. He has written dozens of articles for educational journals and magazines, as well as chapters for educational books, and is a featured speaker at numerous educational conferences.

Bernie attended Stanford University where he studied environmental science and education. He also took some time off from Stanford to help organize the very first Earth Day in Washington, D.C.

Taking Mark Twain’s advice of “never letting school interfere with one’s education,” Bernie has been a lifelong, self-propelled learner, spending much of his career furthering the kinds of learning experiences that he has found most engaging, collaborative, real-world, and powerful, working to make these experiences available to learners of all ages.

Charles Fadel is Global Education Research Lead at Cisco Systems, and the Cisco board member at the Partnership for 21st Century Skills (of which Cisco was a founding member) and Innovate/Educate (an organization 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 to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and actively works with three committees of the OECD — CERI, AHELO, and TALIS. He has consulted with a wide variety of education ministries/boards including Massachusetts, France, 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”, and frequently lectures on this topic, as well as STEM, and Education Technology.

He is presently advising two non-profit organizations, and an innovative school system in Chile (Innova100). He is also incubating a non-profit organization addressing the convergence of 21st Century Skills and STEM to better teach Statistics and Probabilities. He is a visiting scholar at Wharton/UPenn where he recently taught a class on Technologies for Learning. 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.

[Cross-posted from http://www.stevehargadon.com]

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Live and Interactive: A View from the Commercial Side of Ed Tech

Join me for a live and interactive interview in Elluminate with Deborah Quazzo and Michael Moe from NeXtAdvisors.  We'll explore with these education-sector investors the relationship of commercial companies to education and educational change.  Where is education going and why or how do commercial companies need to be involved?  This look at the commercial side of education is guaranteed to stir some controversy.  

DETAILS:

Date: Thursday, March 18th, 2010

Time: 5pm Pacific / 8pm Eastern / 12am (next day) GMT (international times here)

Duration: 1 hour

Location: In Elluminate. Log in at http://tr.im/futureofed. The Elluminate room will be open up to 30 minutes before the event if you want to come in early. To make sure that your computer is configured for Elluminate, please visit http://www.elluminate.com/support. Recordings of the session will be posted within a day of the event at the event page.

Event and Recording Page:  http://www.learncentral.org/event/60488

OUR GUESTS:

Deborah Quazzo – Co-Founder, NeXtAdvisors, LLC
Deborah is a 20 year veteran of investment banking. In 2001 Deborah co-founded ThinkEquity Partners with Michael Moe; she was President and Head of Investment Banking. ThinkEquity was acquired in March 2007 by London-based Panmure Gordon (AIM: PMR) where Deborah was a Board member until her resignation in October 2008. She has been a longtime banker to the education sector where her clients have included Franklin Covey, The Princeton Review, Plato Learning, Thompson Corporation, Reed-Elsevier, American Public Education (APEI), and K12, Inc. (LRN).

Prior to ThinkEquity, Deborah was a Managing Director in Investment Banking at Merrill Lynch & Co., where she worked from 1987-2001. While at Merrill she founded and headed the Global Growth Banking Group, focused on education, business and marketing services and human capital sectors. She previously worked at J.P. Morgan. Deborah serves on the Illinois Board of The Nature Conservancy; Steppenwolf Theater Company; Teach for America Chicago; the Executive Committee of the Princeton Aspire Campaign; Marwen, a rigorous visual arts education provider for underserved youth; and America’s Promise – The Alliance for Youth, a collaborative founded by General Colin Powell and dedicated to the well being of children and youth. Deborah graduated cum laude with a BA in history from Princeton University in 1982 and an MBA from Harvard University in 1987.

Michael Moe – Co-Founder, NeXtAdvisors, LLC
Michael has over 20 years of experience and previously co-founded and was CEO of ThinkEquity Partners, a growth-focused investment bank. From Think’s inception in July 2001, the firm grew at a 50% CAGR to $70 million in revenue in 2007, reaching 180 employees. ThinkEquity was sold in March 2007 to London-based Panmure Gordon. Prior to that, Mr. Moe was Head of Global Growth Research at Merrill Lynch and before that he was Head of Growth Research and Strategy at Montgomery Securities. Mr. Moe has been named to Institutional Investor’s All American research team and has been awarded Best on the Street by The Wall Street Journal. Additionally, he has been called one of the best stock pickers in the country by BusinessWeek magazine. He has testified in front of the U.S. Congress on the subjects of education technology, the new economy and initial public offerings, and he has also appeared before the President’s Information Technology Advisory Committee. He is frequently cited in publications such as The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times for his opinions on growth companies and appears regularly on financial programs on CNBC and Fox Business News.

Mr. Moe is a contributor to the AlwaysOn Network – a blog site about new media technology and venture capital news. He is a member of the New York Society of Security Analysts, the San Francisco Analyst Society and is a past advisor for the Center for Innovation. He is on the Advisory Board of Institutional Venture Partners (IVP). Mr. Moe is also on the Board of Directors of Sharespost, an alternative stock market for private, emerging companies and on the Board of Advisors for the Venture Capital~Private Equity Roundtable. He was on the National Finance Committee for John McCain’s Presidential Campaign, and was a policy advisor. Mr. Moe is on the board of directors for the National Football Foundation/College Football Hall of Fame. In 2007, he published his first book, Finding the Next Starbucks: How to Identify and Invest in the Hot Stocks of Tomorrow(Penguin/Portfolio Books, 2006), which has gone through three printings and has been published in five different languages. He earned his BA in Political Science and Economics at the University of Minnesota.

[Cross-posted from http://www.stevehargadon.com]

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Live and Interactive with Cathy Davidson on "The Future of Thinking: Learning Institutions in a Digital Age"

Join me for a live and interactive interview with Cathy Davidson, co-author of "The Future of Learning Institutions in a Digital Age."

Date: Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010

Time: 5pm Pacific / 8pm Eastern / 12am (next day) GMT (international times here)

Duration: 1 hour

Location: In Elluminate. Log in at http://tr.im/futureofed. The Elluminate room will be open up to 30 minutes before the event if you want to come in early. To make sure that your computer is configured for Elluminate, please visit http://www.elluminate.com/support. Recordings of the session will be posted within a day of the event at the event page.

Event and Recording Page:  http://www.learncentral.org/event/60489

(Part of the http://www.FutureofEducation.com interview series.)

From the MIT Press site:  

"Over the past two decades, the way we learn has changed dramatically. We have new sources of information and new ways to exchange and to interact with information. But our schools and the way we teach have remained largely the same for years, even centuries. What happens to traditional educational institutions when learning also takes place on a vast range of Internet sites, from Pokemon Web pages to Wikipedia? This report investigates how traditional learning institutions can become as innovative, flexible, robust, and collaborative as the best social networking sites. The authors propose an alternative definition of "institution" as a "mobilizing network"—emphasizing its flexibility, the permeability of its boundaries, its interactive productivity, and its potential as a catalyst for change—and explore the implications for higher education.

"The Future of Thinking reports on innovative, virtual institutions. It also uses the idea of a virtual institution both as part of its subject matter and as part of its process: the first draft was hosted on a Web site for collaborative feedback and writing. The authors use this experiment in participatory writing as a test case for virtual institutions, learning institutions, and a new form of collaborative authorship. The finished version is still posted and open for comment. This book is the full-length report of the project, which was summarized in an earlier MacArthur volume, The Future of Learning Institutions in a Digital Age."

From Wikipedia:  "Cathy N. Davidson is an American scholar and university professor. She has served as the Ruth F. DeVarney Professor of English at Duke University since 1996 and has held a second distinguished chair as the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies since 2006. She has served in leadership roles at Duke and a variety of organizations and has authored or edited eighteen books. Her work for the last decade has focused on technology, collaboration, cognition, learning, and the digital age."

Over the past two decades, the way we learn has changed dramatically. We have new sources of information and new ways to exchange and to interact with information. But our schools and the way we teach have remained largely the same for years, even centuries. What happens to traditional educational institutions when learning also takes place on a vast range of Internet sites, from Pokemon Web pages to Wikipedia? This report investigates how traditional learning institutions can become as innovative, flexible, robust, and collaborative as the best social networking sites. The authors propose an alternative definition of "institution" as a "mobilizing network"—emphasizing its flexibility, the permeability of its boundaries, its interactive productivity, and its potential as a catalyst for change—and explore the implications for higher education.

From the HASTAC site:

Key Findings 

Young people today are learning in new ways that are both collective and egalitarian.
They are contributing to Wikipedia, commenting on blogs, teaching themselves programming and figuring out work-arounds to online video games. They follow links embedded in articles to build a deeper understanding. They comment on papers and ideas in an interactive and immediate exchange ofideas. All these acts are collaborative and democratic, and all occur amid a worldwide community of voices.

Universities must recognize this new way of learning and adapt or risk becoming obsolete.
The university model of teaching and learning relies on a hierarchy of expertise, disciplinary divides, restricted admission to those considered worthy, and a focused, solitary area of expertise. However, with participatory learning and digital media, these conventional modes of authority break down.

Today's learning is interactive and without walls.
Individuals learn anywhere, anytime, and with greater ease than ever before. Learning today blurs lines of expertise and tears down barriers to admission. While it has never been confined solely to the academy, today's opportunities for independent learning have never been easier nor more diverse.

Ten Principles for Redesigning Learning Institutions 

The authors offer ten principles that can guide universities and other institutions of learning in adapting to learning in a digital age. They focus on college-aged students, although the recommendations also apply generally for all age groups.

Self-learning: Today's learners are self-learners. They browse, scan, follow links in mid-paragraph to related material. They look up information and follow new threads. They create their own paths to understanding.

Horizontal structures: Rather than top-down teaching and standardized curriculum, today's learning is collaborative; learners multitask and work out solutions together on projects. Learning strategy shifts from a focus on information as such to learning to judge reliable information. It shifts from memorizing information to finding reliable sources. In short, it shifts from learning that to learning how.

From presumed authority to collective credibility: Reliance on the knowledge authorities or certified experts is no longer tenable amid the growing complexities of collaborative and interdisciplinary learning. A key challenge in collaborative environments will be fostering and managing levels of trust.

A de-centered pedagogy: To ban or limit collective knowledge sources such as Wikipedia in classrooms is to miss the importance of collaborative knowledge-making. Learning institutions should instead adopt a more inductive, collective pedagogy based on collective checking, inquisitive skepticism, and group assessment.

Networked learning: Learning has traditionally often assumed a winner-take-all competitive form rather than a cooperative form. One cooperates in a classroom only if it maximizes narrow self-interest. Networked learning, in contrast, is committed to a vision of the social that stresses cooperation, interactivity, mutual benefit, and social engagement. The power of ten working interactively will invariably outstrip the power of one looking to beat out the other nine.

Open source education: Traditional learning environments convey knowledge via overwhelmingly copyright-protected publications. Networked learning, contrastingly, is an 'open source' culture that seeks to share openly and freely in both creating and distributing knowledge and products.

Learning as connectivity and interactivity: Challenges in a networked learning environment are not an individual's alone. Digital tools and software make working in isolation on a project unnecessary. Networking through file-sharing, data sharing, and seamless, instant communication is now possible.

Lifelong learning: The speed of change in this digital world requires individuals to learn anew, face novel conditions, and adapt at a record pace. Learning never ends. How we know has changed radically.

Learning institutions as mobilizing networks: Rather than thinking of learning institutions as a bundle of rules, regulations, and norms governing the actions within its structure, new institutions must begin to think of themselves as mobilizing networks. These institutions mobilize flexibility, interactivity, and outcomes. Issues of consideration in these institutions are ones of reliability and predictability alongside flexibility and innovation.

Flexible scalability and simulation: Learning institutions must be open to changing scale. Students may work in small groups on a specific topic or together in an open-ended and open-sourced contribution.

These ten principles, the authors argue, are the first steps in redesigning learning institutions to fit the new digital world. By assessing some of the institutional barriers to change, the authors hope to mobilize institutions to envision formal, higher education as part of a continuum of the networked world that students engage in online today.

To view the report online, visit: http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/chapters/Future_of_Learning.pdf

[Cross-posted from http://www.stevehargadon.com]

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This Week's Super-Charged Live and Interactive Events

Below are this week's public, free, and interactive webinars through LearnCentral.org, the social learning network for education that I work on for Elluminate.  Looking at the quantity of great events this week, all I can say is "Wow!"

The time of the events below will show up automatically in your own time zone when you are registered in LearnCentral and when you have chosen your time zone in your profile. Event recordings are posted and available after the events if you aren't able to attend them live. Be on the lookout for Australia-time-friendly events as part of the new Australia Series!

I also hope you'll consider hosting your own public webinars using the LearnCentral public room--instructions are available by joining the "Host Your Own Webinar" group on the main announcement tab (http://www.learncentral.org/group/3432/host-your-own-webinars).


Monday, March 22nd

• 6:00pm Pacific Time (US) / 1:00am (next day) GMT/UTC (intl times):
  "Next Vista: The Dream Team Does A Video For You!" Next Vista Dream Team teacher Jeff Schmidt wants his students to make a video for you! Join us for what surely will be a life-changing experience. Or at least an opportunity to get a video made!
  LearnCentral Link:  http://www.learncentral.org/event/60321
  

• THE AUSTRALIA SERIES:  9:45pm Pacific Time (US) / 4:45am (next day) GMT/UTC (intl times):
  "Tech Talk Tuesday - Meeting your Network - Stories from Educon 2.2" Jenny Luca, recipient of the John Ward Award from the School Library Association of Victoria (SLAV), shares with us her recent experiences and findings from attending the recent conference, Educon, USA. Educon is an innovative education conference re School2.0 and as much about conversations as technology around the future of education.
  LearnCentral Link:  http://www.learncentral.org/event/63493

Tuesday, March 23rd

• 6:30am Pacific Time (US) / 1:30pm GMT/UTC (intl times):
  "E- Books And Libraries: Read Something New. Read An E- Book" Join us for a morning of sharing and discussion on e-books, their benefits, features, and future in libraries from the perspective of LYRASIS and five e-book publishers including IGI Global, Sage, Gale, Books 24x7 and Springer. LearnCentral Link:  http://www.learncentral.org/node/62829
  
  
• 1:30pm Pacific Time (US) / 8:30pm GMT/UTC (intl times):
  "Digital Tools and Math" hosted by MSP2.  Are you wondering how Glogster, Google Docs, or Scratch can be of service in your math classes? Have you seen a great way to build students' math vocabulary via podcasting? Are you looking for digital tools that can give your students more hands-on experience with algebra concepts?  Get together with other math teachers to share ideas and resources to strengthen student learning in math through the use of digital tools. This will truly be a discussion and sharing session among peers.  Eric Biederbeck and Tom Jenkins will moderate what, we hope, is a lively conversation!
  LearnCentral Link:  http://www.learncentral.org/node/58417
  
  
• 3:00pm Pacific Time (US) / 10:00pm GMT/UTC (int times):
  "Document Sharing: Can You Digg It? Web Applications for Research" with Rochelle Rodrigo. Although the popular image of the lone writer in the garret still persists, we know that good research is done in collaboration with others. Document sharing technologies can help researchers through all stages of the research process, from initial ideas to project presentations.
  LearnCentral Link:  http://www.learncentral.org/event/52299
  
  
• 5:00pm Pacific Time (US) / 1:00am (next day) GMT/UTC (intl times):
  "Classical Conversations" with Tammy Moore. An overview of Classical Conversations' K-5 thru 12th grade classical studies within a Biblical Worldview. It teaches parents the classical model: the tools for learning any subject and connects families with others who homeschool using the classical method.
  LearnCentral Link:  http://www.learncentral.org/event/62645

Wednesday, March 24th

• THE AUSTRALIA SERIES:  1:00am Pacific Time (US) / 8:00am GMT/UTC (intl times):
  "eT@lking - Developing Personal Networks." Sue Waters shares how to develop a learning network that will ensure you are able to learn, share, discuss and stay at the edge of cutting technology.
  LearnCentral Link:  http://www.learncentral.org/node/61274
  
  
• 6:00am Pacific Time (US) / 1:00pm GMT/UTC (intl times):
  "Using Elluminate In International School Partnerships." Val Brooks showcases using Elluminate Live within an international context, sharing examples of how Elluminate has been used collaboratively and giving you the opportunity to experience some of the collaborative tools available.
  LearnCentral Link:  http://www.learncentral.org/node/62830
  
  
• 11:00am Pacific Time (US) / 6:00pm GMT/UTC (int times):
  "Jane Bozarth's The Nuts And Bolts Of Social Media." This session will cover basics of creating and sustaining community via social media tools. Rather than theory, participants will walk away with an understanding of how to implement and utilize these applications.  Briefly, we will look at several popular social media tools, such as blogs, wikis, Facebook and Twitter, then basics of using these tools for 1) Creating Community & Community Management; 2) Fostering Communities of Practice; 3) Knowledge Transfer and Management.
  LearnCentral Link:  http://www.learncentral.org/event/62831
  
  
• 4:00pm Pacific Time (US) / 11:00am (next day) GMT/UTC (intl times):
  "Twitter for Beginners"  Join Lorna Costantini and Kim Caise to learn how to use the microblogging tool, Twitter. If you have never used Twitter or signed up for an account but forgot you had the account then this webinar is for you! If you are an experienced Twitterer, please feel free to refer colleagues who have never used Twitter or a microblogging tool before.
  LearnCentral Link:  http://www.learncentral.org/event/63524
  
  
• 5:00pm Pacific Time (US) / 12:00am (next day) GMT/UTC (intl times):
  "Learning Civics through Gaming: Our Courts."  As the vision of Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, OUR COURTS is a free website offering several online games, with accompanying teacher materials, designed to teach students civics and inspire them to be active participants in our democracy.
  LearnCentral Link:  http://www.learncentral.org/event/56830
  
  
• 5:00pm Pacific Time (US) / 12:00am (next day) GMT/UTC (intl times):
  "William Kist on The Socially Networked Classroom."  Join Steve Hargadon for a live and interactive interview with Bill Kist, author of The Socially Networked Classroom: Teaching in the New Media Age. Web sites like Facebook and Twitter have transformed the way young people interact and communicate. With appropriate guidelines, students’ social networking skills can be harnessed to develop new literacies and deepen teaching and learning in the 21st century.
  LearnCentral Link:  http://www.learncentral.org/event/60490
  
  
• 6:30pm Pacific Time (US) / 1:00am (next day) GMT/UTC (intl times):
  "Math 2.0: Art of Problem Solving." Richard Ruskzyk, the founder, will present The Art of Problem Solving community of avid math students.
  LearnCentral Link:  http://www.learncentral.org/event/63028

Thursday, March 25th

• 10:00am Pacific Time (US) / 5:00pm GMT/UTC (intl times):
  "Positioning Yourself For Job Opportunities In Social Networking And Collaborative Learning." It took organizations ten years to realize that value of e-Learning. It will only take 2-3 years for organizations to start looking for analysts, content producers, leaders, coaches, and anthropologists in the new fields. This will be a huge opportunity for e-Learning professionals to position themselves, acquire new skills and advance their careers and incomes.  The session will presents early indicators on where the new careers are in demand and what skill sets, backgrounds, and specialization they require.
  LearnCentral Link:  http://www.learncentral.org/node/62832
  
  
• 10:00am Pacific Time (US) / 5:00pm GMT/UTC (intl times):
  "Riches In Niches: How To Make It Big In A Small Market: Part One" with Susan Friedmann.  Learn the secrets to master your niche and maximize the reward. This session will provide you and your team with instant and actionable tools and methods to maximize your profits from a successful, unified niche marketing strategy for your business – no matter what the size.
  LearnCentral Link:  http://www.learncentral.org/node/62833
  
  
• 11:00am Pacific Time (US) / 6:00pm GMT/UTC (int times):
  "Elluminati Connecting Classrooms." Explore how Elluminati members are experiencing tremendous success using Elluminate to connect classrooms across the hall and around the world. Coupling Elluminate with interactive whiteboards such as Promethean and SmartBoards allows students in the physical classroom to observe while their classmates near and far learn together.
  LearnCentral Link:  http://www.learncentral.org/event/61677
  
  
• 12:00pm Pacific Time (US) / 7:00pm GMT/UTC (intl times):
  "How to be your Gifted Child’s Best Advocate – Supporting Your Child at Home and at School."  Parenting a gifted child can be challenging. Margaret Keane and Anna Giblin of Giftedkids.ie examine ways in which parents can help their exceptionally able children at home and at school.
  LearnCentral Link:  http://www.learncentral.org/event/53372
  
  
• THE AUSTRALIA SERIES:  4:00pm Pacific Time (US) / 11:00pm GMT/UTC (intl times):
  "Edublogs Tools and Strategies - Teaching with Moodle."  Join us and guest presenter Tomaz Lasic (teacher, coach & mentor). Currently at Moodle HQ where he is an interface between educators and Moodle developers, Tomaz has many Moodle stories to tell - today he will give us an overview and then throw the session open to questions (not-tech) about using Moodle "on the ground"
  LearnCentral Link:  http://www.learncentral.org/event/59852
  
  
• 4:30pm Pacific Time (US) / 12:30am (next day) GMT/UTC (intl times):
  "VSTE Webinar: Innovators as Advocates: John Hendron and G21."  Using technology to support innovative instructional practice is a great way to demonstrate the power of educational technology. Join us in our first series of webinars as VSTE begins talking about advocacy and innovation—a partnership for positive change. VSTE board members Heather Blanton (Wise County) and John Hendron (Goochland County) join forces to discuss how to jump-start grassroots advocacy through innovative classroom practices. Discussed will be the Goochland County model for inspiring change in pedagogy with a focus on twenty-first century skills: the G21 framework.
  LearnCentral Link:  http://www.learncentral.org/event/53607
  
  
• 5:00pm Pacific Time (US) / 12:00am (next day) GMT/UTC (intl times):
  "PBS & Classroom 2.0--The Buddha: Teaching Mindfulness."  Filmmaker David Grubin will show clips from his new film, The Buddha, and talk about making the film and what he hopes audiences, particularly teachers and students, will take away from it.
  Link:  http://www.classroom20.com/events/pbs-cr-20the-buddha-teaching
  
  
• 5:00pm Pacific Time (US) / 12:00am (next day) GMT/UTC (intl times):
  "David Hill on Demos with Positive Impact (MERLOT Series)." 
  LearnCentral Link:  http://www.learncentral.org/event/60490

Saturday, March 27th

• 7:00am Pacific Time (US) / 2:00pm GMT/UTC (intl times):
  "Opening up Professional Development: Online Training for EFL/ESL Educators" with Benjamin Stewart.  Merging professional development and e-learning provides educators not only opportunities to interact with each other but also with other educators outside the institution. This talk with present a current online workshop dedicated to EFL/ESL educators interested in discussing and practicing ways in integrating technology that promotes English as a foreign and second language learning. Participants are encouraged to share their experiences with similar courses they have had either as a teacher, facilitator, and/or learner. 
  LearnCentral Link: http://www.learncentral.org/node/61431
  
  
• 9:00am Pacific Time (US) / 3:00pm GMT/UTC (intl times):
  "Choosing and Using Video Games in the Classroom: Coaching During Play " Now that you're ready to bring the games to the classroom, how do you maximize their effectiveness as a learning tool? How can we support students during labs, yet still give them time to explore? Effective coaching and management can affect results.  This is the fourth installment of the Learning Games Network's "Choosing and Using Learning Games in the Classroom" series. 
  LearnCentral Link: http://www.learncentral.org/node/58441
  
  
• 9:00am Pacific Time (US) / 3:00pm GMT/UTC (intl times):  Kim Caise, Peggy George, and Lorna Costantini host the weekly Classroom 2.0 LIVE! show.  This week: "Earthcast 2010" with special guests Matt Montagne, Sheila Adams and Jose Rodriguez.
  Link:  http://live.classroom20.com

• 10:00am Pacific Time (US) / 5:00pm GMT/UTC (intl times):
  "Designing eGames: Play Testing."  Play testing may sound easy, but it is frequently one of the most difficult (and beneficial!) parts of game development. Play testing involves changing the game and rewriting rules on the fly as players react, ask questions, and provide feedback. It is important to be flexible and really listen to players’ responses to make the game more fun and effective. Then revise, edit, and revise the design plan again.  This is the next session in the Learning Games' Network's Designing eGames series.
  LearnCentral Link:  http://www.learncentral.org/event/61836
  
  
• 7:00pm Pacific Time (US) / 2:00am GMT/UTC (intl times):
  LeRoy Hill hosts the regular CEN (Caribbean Educators Network) meeting.
  LearnCentral Link:  http://www.learncentral.org/event/58880

Thanks for your attention, and see you online!

[Cross-posted from http://www.stevehargadon.com]

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Live and Interactive with Sir Ken Robinson

Join me for a live and interactive interview with Sir Ken Robinson, author of The Element:  How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything.

Date:  Tuesday, March 30th, 2010

Time: 5pm Pacific / 8pm Eastern / 12am (next day) GMT (international times here)

Duration: 1 hour

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(Part of the http://www.FutureofEducation.com interview series.)

Sir Ken Robinson, PhD is an internationally recognized leader in the development of creativity, innovation and human resources. He has worked with governments in Europe, Asia and the USA, with international agencies, Fortune 500 companies, and some of the world’s leading cultural organizations. In 1998, he led a national commission on creativity, education and the economy for the UK Government. ‘All Our Futures: Creativity, Culture and Education’ (The Robinson Report) was published to wide acclaim in 1999. He was the central figure in developing a strategy for creative and economic development as part of the Peace Process in Northern Ireland, working with the ministers for training, education enterprise and culture. He was one of four international advisors to the Singapore Government for its strategy to become the creative hub of South East Asia.

For twelve years, he was Professor of Education at the University of Warwick in the UK and is now Professor Emeritus. He has received honorary degrees from the Open University and the Central School of Speech and Drama; Birmingham City University, Rhode Island School of Design, Ringling College of Art and Design and the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts. He has been honored with the Athena Award of the Rhode Island School of Design for services to the arts and education; the Peabody Medal for contributions to the arts and culture in the United States, and the Benjamin Franklin Medal of the Royal Society of Arts for outstanding contributions to cultural relations between the United Kingdom and the United States. In 2005 he was named as one of Time/Fortune/CNN’s Principal Voices. In 2003, he received a knighthood from Queen Elizabeth II for his services to the arts. He speaks to audiences throughout the world on the creative challenges facing business and education in the new global economies.

His new book, a New York Times Best Seller, ‘The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything’ (Penguin/Viking 2009) is being translated into sixteen languages.

Sir Ken was born in Liverpool, England as one of seven children. He is married to Therese (Lady) Robinson. They have two children, James and Kate, and live in Los Angeles, California.

[Cross-posted from http://www.stevehargadon.com]

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