Project Tomorrow

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Julie Evans Joins Steve Hargadon and other special guests for a two-hour live online discussion on Mon, Oct 4th, 2010 at 2:00pm PST. Sponsored by FutureofEducation.com and Edutopia the purpose of this special online discussion is to bring together educators to discuss their vision for the future of education and discuss ways that we could move toward that vision in a way that would be positive and proactive. When: Mon, Oct 4, 2010 Time: 2pm Pacific / 5pm Eastern / 9pm GMT Location: In Elluminate. Log in at http://tr.im/futureofed. The Elluminate room will be open up to 30 minutes before the event if you want to come in early. To make sure that your computer is configured for Elluminate, please visit http://www.elluminate.com/support. In addition to Julie, confirmed speakers include: writes and speaks widely on human behavior, education, and parenting. The author of eleven books and scores of articles, he lectures at education conferences and universities as well as to parent groups and corporations. Kohn’s criticisms of competition and rewards have been widely discussed and debated, and he has been described in Time magazine as “perhaps the country’s most outspoken critic of education’s fixation on grades [and] test scores.” -Chris Lehmann is the founding principal of the Science Leadership Academy, a progressive science and technology high school in Philadelphia, PA. The Science Leadership Academy is an inquiry-driven, project-based, 1:1 laptop school that is considered to be one of the pioneers of the School 2.0 movement nationally and internationally. The school was recognized by Ladies Home Journal as one of the Ten Most Amazing Schools in the US, has been recognized as an Apple Distinguished School in 2009 and 2010 and has been written about in many publications including Edutopia Magazine, EdWeek and the Philadelphia Inquirer. -Deborah Meier has spent more than three decades working in public education as a teacher, principal, writer, advocate, and ranks among the most acclaimed leaders of the school reform movement in the U.S. Meier was born in New York City in 1931 and was educated at Antioch College and the University of Chicago. She began her teaching career in Chicago, New York, and Philadelphia as an elementary and Head Start teacher, continually fascinated with why schools did not work well and what was needed to fix them. -Will Richardson considers himself an “evangelist” for the use of Weblogs, RSS and related Internet technologies in classrooms and schools. Over the past six years he’s had the chance to speak and work with thousands of educators from around the world on the merits of “The Read/Write Web.” He was a classroom teacher for over 20 years who integrated these technologies into his curricula for over four years. In various Weblog projects, his students have collaborated with best-selling authors, Pulitzer Prize winning journalists, and with students in classrooms from around the world. -Sir Ken Robinson, PhD is an internationally recognized leader in the development of creativity, innovation and human resources.

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