Global Kids' Online Leadership Program

In January, Global Kids had the opportunity to give three presentations at the Jewish Day School Conference in Teaneck, New Jersey. We had a great time talking about our work with digital media, games and social networks. And apparently our participants got a lot out of it as well.

We just received the results of the post-conference evaluation, and got some nice feedback on our two sessions on "Games Based Learning 101" and "Social Media Production & Constructionist Learning." All of the participants said that they "learned something new" and all but one found our sessions to be "inspiring." Both presentations received a rating of 4.5 out of of a scale of 5!

Among the written comments about us:

• "Loved it! great new ideas even for a participant who is already very knowledgeable about social media."
  
• "Nice conversation around table shared good ideas."

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This week, Barry, Amira and Rik were thrilled to present with a wide array of partners and colleagues across four different panels at the MacArthur Foundation's first Digital Media and Learning Conference - themed "Diversifying Participation" - held February 18-20 in San Diego, California. Below are videos, Prezi's and youth media referenced within the presentations. [note: This is a work is progress and material will be added as they get uploaded]

The four panels were:
-- Barry and Amira co-presented with Cathy Arreguin, Beth Wellman, and Kelly Czarnecki on "Breaking Boundaries with Virtual Worlds in a Science Classroom and a Teen Jail: Two Case Studies."
-- Barry spoke on the panel "Data Visualization for K-12 Learning."
-- Rik Panganiban co-presented with Common Sense Media and Harvard's Good Play Project "Meeting of Minds: Cross-Generational Dialogue on the Ethics of Digital Life."
-- Barry co-presented with Project New Media Literacy "Mad Skills: Making New Media Literacy practices accessible to educators and students alike."

Continue reading "GK at DML 2010" »

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Just a reminder that Barry, Amira and Rik of Global Kids will be presenting on four different panels at the amazing "Diversifying Participation" conference from February 18-20 in San Diego, California.  We are honored to be on the same program as some of the top thinkers and practitioners in the field, from Henry Jenkins to Sonia Livingston, danah boyd, James Paul Gee and many, many more. 

For those that will be there, you can find us nearly the entire day on Friday February 19 at these times and places:

• 8:00am: Barry Joseph and Amira Fouad will be speaking on "Breaking Boundaries with Virtual Worlds in a Science Classroom and a Teen Jail: Two Case Studies" in the Theater.
• 11:30am: Barry Joseph will be speaking about "Data Visualization for K-12 Learning" in the Theater.
• 2:00pm: Rik Panganiban will be speaking about "Meeting of Minds: Cross-Generational Dialogue on the Ethics of Digital Life" in Room 5004.
• 3:45pm: Barry Joseph will be speaking on "Mad Skills: Making New Media Literacy practices accessible to educators and students alike" in room 6004.

There are many other amazing panels and presentations planned over the three days, making it hard to plan your day! Check out the full program here.  Here's the sad news: registration is closed to new registrations because of it's amazing popularity.

Check out the full descriptions of each of these panels after the jump....

Continue reading "Update on Global Kids at DML Conference February 18-20 in San Diego" »

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