The technology team from Avenues: The World School is excited to announce that they will be hosting a two-day InnovatED conference on their New York City campus, July 10th-11th. InnovatED is specifically designed for those who are interested in learning about innovative practices for implementing a successful one-to-one program. If your school is currently one-to-one or is thinking of going one-to-one, with either iPads or laptops, then InnovatED is the conference for you! Administrators, teachers, librarians/media specialsts, technology integrators, and learning specialists will benefit from attending.

• Creation & Publication of Authentic Content
• Improved Learning Ecologies for Workflow & Management
• Personalized Learning & Differentiation
• Global Collaboration
• Innovative Lessons from Avenues Spotlight Faculty
• Opportunities to Grow your Personal Learning Network

If you are a teacher looking to open your classroom walls, a school leader looking to develop 21st century skills in your school or a systems level education innovator looking to reach a more global audience – we challenge you to join this dialogue. 

Join us for an evening of keynotes, a panel discussion, breakout sessions and light snacks. Walk away with a book and an action plan to support your role in a more globally focused education. 

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Wendy Kopp, Founder of Teach For America and Teach For All

Stephen Hodas, Executive Director of Innovate NYC Schools (NYC Dept. of Ed)

Chris Whittle, CEO of Avenues: The World School

Peter Gorman,  Former Superintendent of Charlotte Schools and EVP of Education Services at Amplify

Kenneth Porter, Teacher at Community Voices Middle School and Active UClass User

Lucy Gray, Founder of the Global Education Conference Network

Zak Malamed, Student and Founder of Student Voice

Every Participant Will Walk Away With One of These Books:

 Ready for the World: Preparing Elementary Students for the Global Age (2010)

 Going Global: Preparing Our Students for an Interconnected World (2008)

 Expanding Horizons: Building Global Literacy in Afterschool Programs (2009)

This year’s event will feature frequent GETideas.org Hangouts on Air guest Don Buckley, Director of Innovation at the School at Columbia University. 

What is TEDx?

In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TED has created a program called TEDx. TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. Our event is called TEDxNYED, where x = independently organized TED event. At our TEDxNYED event, TEDTalks video and live speakers will combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events, including ours, are self-organized.

Registration information is available here. 

Visit this event invitation on Google+ for more information. Show notes can be found here. 

+GETideas.org  is the incubator where education leaders can develop their professional learning networks. This community provides tools, research, and inspiration to help transform learning institutions. The primary goal of GETideas.org is to bring people together to exchange ideas towards solving education challenges. 

During the last few months, GETideas.org has been specifically exploring four themes particularly relevant to today’s school leaders. These themes have been:

-The Cultivation of Leadership
-The Design of Modern Learning Environments
-Technology-Driven Innovation
-The Future of Digital Content

Our Learning Trends collection of content and resources on these themes can be viewed here in the GETideas.org community: http://goo.gl/vd9yA. Additional resources can also be found in our various social media channels including Pinterest, Twitter, Google+, LinkedIn, and YouTube.
As part of these Learning Trends, GETideas.org has also held online conversations with various thought leaders via Google Hangouts on Air, a tool that makes video conferencing easy and accessible.

On April 24th at 4:30 PM PDT (UTC-7), GETideas.org’s Executive Director Mary Anne Petrillo will welcome a select group of very special education standouts to the conversation including Alan November of November Learning, Dr. Chip Kimball of Singapore American School, Michael Searson of Kean University, Pam Allyn of LitWorld, and Roz Hussin of Stanford University. Jim Gerry and  Dr. Stephanie Pace Marshall of the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy will also be a part of this event. Please join us for what promises to be an extraordinary conversation with extraordinary education leaders!

• To find out what time this event will occur in your time zone, add this invitation to your Google Calendar or visit http://timeanddate.com to convert time zones. 
• Show notes with more information and resources, including the distinguished biographies of our panelists, are available here: http://goo.gl/wAAcm.
• At the appointed day and time, please visit our Google+ page to view this Hangout on Air: https://plus.google.com/115848119890273950575/posts. Please use the comments below the recording post to comment and interact with other viewers. 
• This event will be recorded and archived on our YouTube channel:http://youtube.com/user/getideas. 
• For more content, please visit our main site, http://getideas.org, and join our community in order to receive our weekly newsletter. 

Teachers from all over the world join students to explore the essentials of global project design and have the opportunity to learn with and from experts in this field. Develop collaboration and leadership skills with real and virtual team members on an action project with a global theme. The conference leverages technology to connect, communicate and collaborate to improve the world. Participants should come prepared to engage in exciting and meaningful work of creating global projects to “flatten classrooms!”

More details: http://flatclassroomconference.com

Educators and students interested in global issues and improving their international connections should join this conference.

Educators who want to transform their learning and embrace global collaboration in their curriculum are invited to join Julie for a unique professional development experience at International School of the Americas in San Antonio, Texas.

Apply Now! Places are limited. This is a rare opportunity to work in the USA with global educator, innovator and leader and one of the co-founders of Flat Classroom, Julie Lindsay(who is based in Australia), in a carefully designed collaborative environment.

All details: http://globalcollaboration.flatclassroomproject.org/Flat+Classroom+Workshop+2013

Rather than spend days listening to a series of speakers, Constructing Modern Knowledge is about action. Attendees will work and interact with educational experts concerned with maximizing the potential of every learner.

While our outstanding faculty is comprised of educational pioneers, bestselling authors and inventors of educational technologies we depend on, the real power of Constructing Modern Knowledge emerges from the collaborative project development of participants.

The agenda will be shaped by the community, but the following is a list of potential themes for exploration:

Through the Playful Learning Initiative, the Learning Games Network  and Games+Learning+Society Center will launch an online knowledge base guiding teachers’ use of video games in the classroom, support an Advisory Board of classroom teachers and education leaders, and help facilitate regional Playful Learning Summits at national conferences focused upon games, digital media, and learning. According to Jennifer Groff, Vice President of Learning and Program Development at LGN, “Playful Learning marks an opportunity for the field of game-based learning to take the next big step forward–through a national network of people, tools, and resources that empowers educators to leverage games for deeper learning opportunities. We are incredibly excited that the Playful Learning Summit at Games+Learning+Society will be the prime event to kick off this initiative.”

On Tuesday, June 11th, the Playful Learning Summit at GLS 9.0 will feature a keynote address by Danielle Herro, Assistant Professor of Digital Media and Learning at Clemson University, over a dozen hands-on workshops facilitated by educators, researchers, and designers from leading universities and organizations, and three specialized professional development tracks for selected participants. To learn more about the GLS Playful Learning Summit, visit here.