Global Educational Community Conference
Date: Friday, 6th of March 2015
Place: University of Helsinki Minerva Plaza, Siltavuorenpenger 5A, Helsinki
Registration: http://bit.ly/gecconf by 20th of February
Conference Program
09:00
Welcoming Words
Professor Jari Lavonen, Head of the Department of Teacher
Education, University of Helsinki
09:15
Building Global
Educational
Community (GEC)
Professor Guoli Liang, Executive Director of the Global Educational
Community, USA
Karen Schulte, Superintendent School District of Janesville, USA
Tiina Korhonen, Head of Innokas Network, Finland
GEC coaches
10:00
Modeling GEC
Minna Kukkonen and Kati Sormunen, Innokas Network coordinators
10:15
Global Education
Paula Mattila, Counsellor of education, Finnish National Board of
Education
11:15
Modeling GEC
Minna Kukkonen and Kati Sormunen
11:30
Lunch
12:30
ICT in Global
Education
Professor Jari Multisilta, Director of University Consortium of Pori
13:30
Innovation Education
in Global Context
Jari Lavonen, Tiina Korhonen, Minna Kukkonen and Kati Sormunen
14:30
Modeling GEC and
Reflection
Minna Kukkonen and Kati Sormunen
15:00
Join to the GEC!
Guoli Liang, Karen Schulte and Tiina Korhonen
15:30
Closing the Day
Jari Lavonen
About the Global Educational Community
Global Educational Community (GEC) is a no-profit organization registered in Wisconsin, USA. It has been
formed by the joint efforts of higher education institutions such as Stanford University,
professional institutions and organizations such as Buck Institute and Kappa Delta Pi, and global school
networks. Its activities are coordinated in collaboration with Innokas Network, a grass-roots network
promoting innovation and technology in the learning of 21st Century Skills. GEC has an international
advisory board with Dr. Guoli Liang, a full professor at University of Wisconsin, as the Executive Director.
GEC advocates the idea that children can study and learn 21st Century Skills together as a global
community. In the process children, their parents and their teachers can learn from each other and teach
each other as they are welcomed into a community where they all can become more competent as global
citizens. They will be exposed to artistic, scientific, authentic, and practical resources and interventions – all
available to families, schools and other stakeholders.
In the past two years, more than 2000 teachers and 100,000 students from China, USA, Australia,
Singapore, and Finland have participated in GEC activities. A call for new countries and schools is open; the
goal of GEC is to reach 500,000 to one million participants globally.
Schools and teachers participating in GEC plan and run projects in collaboration with their partner schools
from other countries. They share their experiences with other participating schools through web-based
tools, with the goal of sharing expertise and best practices on 21st Century Learning.
As the next activity, a Global Educational Community Conference will be organized in July 2015 in Beijing.
Each participating country will send teachers to participate and share their experiences and knowledge.
For more information, please visit
www.ibridgelearn.net
www.innokas.fi