Also, watch out for the ’teaser trailers‘, which will be released in the weeks preceding the conference.
In the meantime, you can join in the 2nd live LAN party from 6:00PM to 8:00PM EDT (10pm GMT) on 20th October 2009. Gather in the EdTechTalk chatroom with colleagues to view two past conference presentations and engage in lively discussion.
“Your assignment, should you choose to accept it, is to outline what it takes to get your state or province from ‘here’ to ‘there.’ In other words, what would it take to get from our current system of schooling to a robust, province- or statewide system of 21st century learning?”
His post and the accompanying comments are well worth a read. Would this scheme work for the Irish education system or your country’s education system?
I enjoyed listening to Stephen Heppell’s keynote presentation, this week, for the opening of the K12 Online Conference 2008. I, particularly, liked his analogy with the crisis that is currently affecting the financial system and his warning that this too could happen to the education system, if we do not act now!
Professor Heppell talks about a new model of learning that involves “schools built around mutuality and usness and sharing and democracy“. He warns us that “if we don’t adopt it then the old model of learning will disintegrate and will bite us in the face“.
However, Professor Heppell believes we can meet the challenge saying “For me, this is the most exciting time ever. This is absolutely the death of education but, you know, it is wonderfully the dawn of learning“.
This year, the Conference convenors are adding all the video content to the DotSub website, which enables any account member to add to the video’s transcription or translate the original text into another language. What a great idea!
It is, however, a very slow task requiring the help of many volunteers, but after all “many hands make light work“. Why not join in and add your bit or better yet encourage your students to also lend a hand.
What a wonderful opportunity for language students to participate in a ‘live’ and meaningful exercise. A global flat classroom project open to all :-)
K12 Online Conference Teaser from Sharon Betts. Trying to get the [embed scale =] tag to work but it is not co-operating. Anyone know how to get it working on a blog platform?
Patricia Donaghy
