The Global Education Conference Network

"Announced in 1994, GLOBE began operations on Earth Day 1995. Today, the international GLOBE network has grown to include representatives from 111 participating countries coordinating GLOBE activities that are integrated into their local and regional communities." "The Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment (GLOBE) program is a worldwide hands-on, primary and secondary school-based science and education program. GLOBE's vision promotes and supports students, teachers and scientists to collaborate on inquiry-based investigations of the environment and the Earth system working in close partnership with NASA, NOAA and NSF Earth System Science Projects (ESSP's) in study and research about the dynamics of Earth's environment."

One of the foremost sites for global collaboration in the Science field, for any group of students in K-12 using real scientific data.

Is assessing basic skills enough in a global economy?

Yong Zaho is right, the US will loose by teaching to and assessing for basic skills. As Richard Florida and Dan Pink write about it is the Creative Class where there is real growth.

An initiative of the International Telecommunication Union and supported by the UN: connect all primary, secondary and post-secondary schools to ICT by 2015.

This seems to be more about the actual connectivity than the education, but still something to keep an eye on.

If you are interested in networking with others participating in the Global Education Conference, please leave your information here. Partners, sponsors, presenters, volunteers and attendees are all welcome! This spreadsheet will be public, so that others can find you. For more information about the conference, please visit http://globaleducationconference.com where you can sign up for general information updates and to present on this site. Our social network supporting the conference will be the Global Education Collaborative: http://globaleducation.ning.com.

Cristobal Cobo - Aprendizaje invisible: ¿Cómo aprender a pesar de la escuela?

John Moravec - Leapfrogging toward knowmad society

Great presentation about transliteracy.

If you are interested in networking with others participating in the Global Education Conference, please leave your information here. Partners, sponsors, presenters, volunteers and attendees are all welcome! This spreadsheet will be public, so that others can find you. For more information about the conference, please visit http://globaleducationconference.com where you can sign up for general information updates and to present on this site. Our social network supporting the conference will be the Global Education Collaborative: http://globaleducation.ning.com.