10 Tips on Creating a School 2.0 from Chris Lehmann

In the above video, Chris Lehmann, Principal of the Science Leadership Academy in Philly speaks on the future of education (which is now) at the #140 Character Conference this Tuesday. In 12 minutes, Lehmann sums up the ever-changing world of education, how it is affected by the real time web, what schools need to do to change and how we can get there. What seems like a painful task for our nation seems pretty simple for Lehmann.

K12 Online09 Day 3 Presentations: 9 December 2009

Day 3 presentations include:

GETTING STARTED

If You Host It They Will Come
Jennifer Wagner

Presentation Description: A chat with Jen Wagner about Online Projects. Ideas of how to start planning your own project. Several projects will be highlighted as “examples” and “possibilities”.

Options for Building Your Teacher Website
Cyndi Danner-Kuhn

Presentation Description: Every educator needs to build and maintain his or her own teacher Website. Technology provides teachers with more effective ways to communicate with students, their families, and the community than ever before. This session will help you learn how to use technology to communicate with different audiences through your classroom website. There are endless benefits of a maintaining a classroom Website. A classroom website gives students Resources, Relevance, Connections, Access and Experience. This session will provide links and resources to simple tools that allow any teacher, regardless of technical know-how, to create a live Website for free. The best way is for schools to install and support a tool that allows teachers to create Websites easily, but since many schools are not at that point yet, teachers should given both the encouragement and the freedom to build their own sites. You can make use of some very good tools for building free, live classroom Websites. I may leave out your favorite, so please add yours to the list, or tell us know what tool your school is using and what you like and dislike about it!

LEADING THE CHANGE

Digiteens: Digital Citizenship from Digital Teenagers
Vicki Davis

Presentation Description: Much of digital citizenship education focuses on adults compiling information to share with students, this method provides a framework for students to conduct authentic research with global partners on the aspects of digital citizenship and creation of action projects at their schools. This presentation’s goal is to: 1) demonstrate the efficacy of a project based approach to digital citizenship education, 2) provide insight into teen-mentoring of younger students, 3) effective coaching practices for teachers and educators wishing to encourage a project based learning approach to digital citizenship, 4) an overview of the aspects of digital citizenship salient to teenagers around the world and what they think the message of educators should be to their students, and 5) a concrete experience allowing students who have thoroughly researched this topic to share their thoughts with a global audience and engage in global discussion on this.

You Might be a 21st Century Leader if…
David Wells

Presentation Description: 21st Century School Leaders are critical to the success of students and the advancement of technology integration in our schools. But would you know a 21st Century Leader if you saw one? My presentation describes how the standards for good leadership match up with the standards for being a 21st Century Leader.

Whither Eportfolios
Drew Buddie

Presentation Description: A somewhat provocative viewpoint of what constitutes an ‘ePortfolio’ and a very brief cursory overview of the use of one ePortfolio tool that can be integrated within a VLE. The presentation will suggest that ePortfolios are ubiquitous, its just that they are not seen as such. How can non-traditional ePortfolio formats be formalised, accepted and given authority? In fact what IS an ePortfolio?

2009 K-12 Online Conference Presentations

Yesterday I posted about the 2009 K-12 Online Conference .

If you read the post then you probably saw the conference schedule. I will be posting some of the presentations but not all 50 of them. If you want to browse the rest just follow the conference schedule.

This is the keynote speaker for this years conference.

Going Global: Culture Shock, Convergence and the Future of Education

Presenter: Kim Cofino

Location: Bangkok, Thailand
Link to presenter’s K12Online Ning Profile page

Presentation Title: Going Global: Culture Shock, Convergence and the Future of Education

Presentation Description: Looking at daily life in foreign lands reveals a colorful spectrum of inspiring metaphors for the shifts we need to make in education. Often what we may find initially chaotic, disorienting and strange in other countries can actually spark new ways of thinking about teaching and learning. Through the voices of teachers and students from around the world, we’ll examine the unique aptitudes which allow successful expats to thrive in any environment. These are exactly the skills that future students and teachers will need to confidently enter the digital, global, converging, collaborative world of tomorrow – wherever they might be physically located.

K-12 Online Conference 2009

I have been following the K-12 Online Conference since 2007. I wrote several posts with the 2008 conference presentations.


The 2009 conference theme is "Bridging the Divide"

This year’s conference begins with a pre-conference keynote by classroom teacher and international educator Kim Cofinothe week of November 30, 2009. The following two weeks, December 7-11 and December 14-17, over fifty presentations will be posted online to our conference blog and our conference Ning for participants to view, download, and discuss. Live Events in the form of three “Fireside Chats” are listed on the events page of our conference Ning and Facebook fan page, and live events will continue in 2010 through twice-monthly “K-12 Online Echo” webcasts on EdTechTalk.

You can view the conference schedule by clicking on the following link:

K12 Online Conference 2009 Schedule

EARCOS Teachers' Conference 2009

The East Asia Regional Council of Overseas Schools is an organization of 112 member schools in East Asia. These schools have a total of more than 72,000 pre-K to 12th grade students. EARCOS also has 102 associate members— textbook and software publishers and distributors, universities, financial planners, architectural firms, insurance companies, youth organizations, etc— and over 41 individual members.

The conference set up a wiki space with information, presenters and workshops given in the conference. You can download each of the handouts given by the presenters.