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"The 2010 Global Education Conference will be held November 15 - 19, 2010, online and free.  Sessions will be held in multiple time zones and multiple languages over the five days.  We are now accepting proposals for presentations.  The conference is a collaborative and world-wide community effort to significantly increase opportunities for globally-connecting education activities and initiatives.   (To clarify, this is a worldwide conference on globally-connected education, not a "global conference on general education").  All sessions will be held in the Elluminate platform, will be broadcast live, and will be available in recorded formats afterwards."

"At the annual TED conference in Long Beach, Calif., organizers on Thursday are to announce the winners of the inaugural TED Ads Worth Spreading Challenge, a contest the group began in December to get advertisers to create online marketing videos that people actually want to watch, said Chris Anderson, the curator of the conference."

When we get together with others, even at a weekly meeting, it either works, or it doesn't. For me, it works - If everything is on the line, if in any given moment, someone is going to say or do something that might just change everything - If there's vulnerability and openness and connection .If there's support If it's part of a movement

Tweets from the recent 21st Century Learning in Hong Kong conference -- collated in a Google Doc

Essential readings from #beyondlaptops conference at Yokohama International School. Some really good articles here

a collection of professional development opportunities in the region, curated by Shamblesguru

Conference in Shanghai, China, Sept. 16-18

one-day professional development conference, Sat. Nov 13, 2010, at WAB in Beijing

These are the 10 movies that will be playing in the secondary library during the week of the Global Issues Network (GIN) Singapore conference in November.

Ten Surprising Truths about Video Games and Learning What we'd assumed about the importance of brain functions - following rules and logic and calculating - are no longer relevant. There's been a revolution in the learning sciences and the new theories say that human beings learn from experiences - that our brains can store every experience we've had, and that's what informs our learning process. Following that logic, he says, the best kind of learning comes as a result of well-designed experiences. Gee, who spoke at the Learning and the Brain Conference last week, used this theory to launch into research-validated reasons why video games are good for learning. Here are 10 truths, according to Gee."

The NMC is pleased to announce the interim results of the 2013 Horizon.K12 Project, as presented at the 2013 CoSN Conference in San Diego. The Horizon Project Advisory Board voted for the top 12 emerging technologies as well as the top ten trends and challenges that they believe will have a significant impact on teaching, learning, and creative inquiry in global K-12 education over the next five years. These initial results will be compiled into an interim report, known as the "Short List," and described in further detail.

""Take a look at the smartphone in your hand," Jaime Casap, Global Education Evangelist for Google, told the crowd during his keynote at the FETC 2013 conference in Orlando Wednesday. "That smartphone is just a phone to a kid. And to many kids, it isn't even a phone." Casap pulled his own phone from his pocket. "What you have in your hand is going to be their Commodore 64. It's going to be their Apple IIe. When they're in their twenties, it's going to be the thing they buy at a thrift store and put on a shelf in their hipster apartment just because it's cool to have one." That's the generation, he said, that's coming into our schools, and we need to be ready for that."

Nicki Hambleton's fabulous collection of resources to support Visual Thinking

This site does all the hard work out of converting meeting times to other locations' time zones.  Very easy to set up and use.

Archive and analysis of tweets from the ASB Unplugged conference.

A place to read all the Twitter traffic at the Learning 2.0: Exploring the Future of Learning -- Sep. 16-18, 2010 in Shanghai, China.

"This wiki has been created to support the 'Relationship between Teachers and Students' Cohort at the Learning 2.010 Conference held in Shanghai, September 16-18, 2010."

slide to learn conference, could be good to make connections, has a twitter feed