Webinar Notes: The Future of Education

Classroom 2.0

A live and interactive FutureofEducation.com interview with Sam Chaltain, author of American Schools: The Art of Creating a Democratic Learning Community.

Date: Wednesday, July 28th, 2010
Time: 5pm Pacific / 8pm Eastern / 12am (next day) GMT (international times here)
Duration: 1 hour
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. Recordings of the session will be posted within a day of the event at the event page.
Event and Recording Page: http://www.learncentral.org/event/86940


Sam Chaltain is a DC-based educator and organizational change consultant. He works with schools, school districts, and public and private sector companies to help them create healthy, high-functioning learning environments. Previously, Sam was the National Director of the Forum for Education & Democracy, an education advocacy organization, and the founding director of the Five Freedoms Project, a national program that helps K-12 educators create more democratic.

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Collaboration can't be effective without that self-reflection, or individuals will be counteractive in the collaborative efforts.

Order, Structure, Control. Three vital aspects of education.

"Begin talking locally about order then decide the structure that will achieve that order."

Structures: http://mc2paedia.wikispaces.com/
Other website to explore: http://rethinklearningnow.com/

Modern Society The Matrix... Jeff McMullen... Mining our minds for the precious material. Need a deeper paradigm shift individual that is realized collaboratively.

Rethinking education is a process.

Seeing major shifts now. The shift will never end. The process is slow.