Sunday, November 17, 2013

What's happening?

The highlight of this week's Next Generation Global Education paper.1i is the fourth annual Global Education Conference.   This is aweek-long online event starting tomorrow, November 18th and running through Friday, November 22, 2013 (depending on you time zone).  

Click here to see the 2013 schedule of sessions.

Of special note:
*Tuesday, November 19 at 10:00 PM EST Julie Lindsay will be the keynote speaker:  How to go Global - Lead, Learn, League

Tuesday, November 12, 2013

FIVE ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS

DON'T MISS OUT ON TOMOROW'S INTRODUCTORY WEBINAR
WITH THOMAS STANLEY AND RICK KAZEE.
WHAT ARE THE 5 ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS THAT ALL TEACHERS NEED TO BUILD SUCCESSFUL PBL LESSONS?
COME TO GOOGLE TALK:  9:00 am pst, 10 am mst, 11 am cst, and 12 pm est.
SIGN UP ON NGGE CALENDAR OR EMAIL testanley01@gmail.com.

Monday, November 11, 2013

5 Essential Elements of PBL lessons

Engage in a discussion of the 5 essential elements that every teacher needs when building their pbl lesson for the classroom. Join Tom Stanley and Rick Kazee for an introductory webinar on, "Making PBL work for you" Wednesday, November 20, 2013 from 9:00 am pst, 10 am mst, 11 am cst, and 12 pm est on Google Talk. Email Tom Stanley at testanley01@gmail.com if you plan to attend or sign up at http://www.ngge.org/calendar-of-events.html.  
This is the first of many events we hope to host as we begin to design the Universal Library for Learning.

Thomas Stanley has conducted professional development about teaching online, using technology effectively, and how to integrate project-based learning in the online classroom. His innovative 5 Points of the Star program for online and blended learning are the tools of an effective and interactive classroom. His specialty is the organization and direction of global Project Based Learning activities and he enjoys connecting local, state, national, and international groups of students for projects such as; the Shark Project, Cultural exchange projects, the Global Ocean Acidification project, European Union project, Yucca Mountain project, Save Walker Lake project, Dafur Refugee project, and Undocumented Immigration project.  

Saturday, November 9, 2013

Google Hangout-on-Air

 At 9:00 PM, NGGE is holding their second Google Hangout-on-Air to explore their new website. Our goal is to combine best practices in order to personalize education for all learners.

Wednesday, November 6, 2013

PBL means…?

Tomorrow,  at 9:00 AM EST, NGGE will hold our first November GAB hangout.
Our topic is around assessing learner's mastery or competency using standardize testing or real-time, hands-on pbl activities. When you see the letters, PBL, what do you think of; Project-Based Learning or Problem Based Learning? Are they the same or different? Is one better then the other? If so, Why? And most of all, will they give us less, the same or more information then what we get using standardize tests.

We will repeat this hang-out on November 21st. Join us for one or for both. Feel free to also invite others who may be interested. This will be an open, on-air hangout so that it can be viewed or reviewed.  We hope you will come hang-out with us.

Saturday, November 2, 2013

CCEC Shares

Allowing learners to choose how they share their knowledge allows them to become more actively involved.
After a few lessons together, the class shares what they learned about Antonyms.  Notice that they have used many senses.  An excellent job.

Take it away Cheery!



Friday, November 1, 2013

We have released phase one of our website and hope each person that visits discovers something new.   If we are to give learning back to our children to explore and discover then we need to relearn it ourselves.
 What's NGGE all about?  An introduction to our new site.
We will walk you through our new site and answer your questions.  Find out the “Universal Library for Learning”.  How are we using John Holt's philosophy of “unschooling”?  What place will digital badging have?  What trainings will be offered?  How can you become involved?
For the next 4 Saturdays we will hold a Google Hangout on Air.
    *Times given are EST - Use the Time Zone Converter for your local time:

  • November 2   at  9:00 AM
  • November 9   at  8:00 PM
  • November 16 at  9:00 AM
  • November 23  at 8:00 PM
We look forward to seeing you in the hangout.