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
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