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  Join me and other education leaders at the upcoming online conference  Engage 2021  sponsored by Kognity. Many of your favorite speakers including George Couros, Eric Sheninger, Monica Burns, and David Geurin, and more will be sharing their expert tips with you. I’ll be sharing my 50+ ways to use technology in the classroom updated with new tools and tips for the challenges of teaching in 2021. In this post, I’ll share three reasons you’ll want to sign up now and how to register. This post is  sponsored  by  Kognity , sponsor of Engage 2021. I am speaking at this conference. All opinions are my own.   1. Engage 2021 Has Exciting Speakers on Problems You Need to Solve Now As you check out the schedule and topics, remember that the website is in GMT +1 time (That is 6 hours time difference for me here in the US Eastern Time Zone. So my keynote of  50+ Ways to Use Technology in Your Classroom  shows at 4 pm on their schedule and is at 10 am in...

Image by Julie Lindsay via Flickr ISTE 2011 Just put in acceptances for the following items at ISTE 2011. Julie and I will be teaching our DigiTeacher workshop again on Sunday morning, June 26th from 8:30-3:30. DigiTeacher: Digital Citizenship within a Project-Based Learning Environment. Registrations for that should be opening up pretty soon. It was a great class last year and you'll get a flavor of how we do project based learning in the workshop as well. Bookmarks, PLN's and More: How to SuperCharge Your learning Network with Diigo founder Maggie Tsai - 12:15 - 1:15 pm Tuesday 6/28/2011 - this always fills up. Last year Julie and Maggie did the BYOL - this year Maggie and I will do it and I'm psyched. With Delicious "dying" or whatever is happening it will be one you want to join us for. Wonderful World of Wikis for Intermediate and Advanced - Tuesday 6/28/2011 from 2-3 pm with Wikispaces co-founder Adam Frey. In this Adam and I will be sharing how t...

This is the week of the Global Education Conference !  More than 370 sessions from 62 countries.  View  the schedule in your time zone (I want to know how they did that -- very very cool!)  Perhaps the most useful thing is that the recordings are being archived and posted for you to listen to later. I'm one of the many keynoters for this and will be presenting Thursday at 6 pm Eastern. The information is pasted below so you can join. We have some Flat Classroom   students and there are many students intermixed. I hope that you'll take the time to join in! The New PD My question for you.  If you're a professor - would you rather your students read a book about global collaboration or would you rather them attend some of these live sessions and come back and discuss them in class?  If you're a principal - would you rather them sit in a session and learn how to make a wiki or pick two or three sessions that interest them and get fired up abou...

Sometimes meaning can transcend language barriers.  Take this, for example. As I prepare to attend the Microsoft Worldwide Innovative Education Forum in Cape Town, South Africa as my first true event as a "member of the press" I have been following our hashtag for the event #msief   - this tweet came across the tag: "RT @ cafepedagogique : Innovative Teachers already present in the Café Pédagogique blog .. In French http://tinyurl.com/2vsd4ay #msief " Curious, I went to the post aptly titled, Décrocher les étoiles , translated as "Unhook the Stars" and saw French and Arabic coexisting on the same post.  Curious, I started translating. Now, I know that Google Translate is SO FAR FROM PERFECT and there are thousands of you out there who will translate this for me in a much more accurate way, but in this case, the translation that came through Google translate had a certain halting poetic beauty that caused me to stop and reflect: A Pedagogica...

Image via Wikipedia Just want to give a shoutout to everyone I'll get to meet in the coming weeks. For those of you who may not know or who will be there, here is my schedule for the upcoming weeks. Some of my very dearest friends are in these places and it is such a joy to get to spend time with them and learn from them. Such beautiful, wonderful educators! O ctober 11-12 I owa Technology and Education Conference  Keynote: 21st Century Influencer Spotlights: I'll be doing 6 different spotlights here from wikis to blogs to libraries and global collaboration and differentiation - going to be  a whirlwind and a lot of fun. October 14-15 - ACTEM - Maine Keynote with Angela Maiers! Workshop on Thursday and spotlights on Friday! October 26-29 - Microsoft Innovative Teachers Conference Cape Town, South Africa I'm going here as a learner and to live blog as much as possible as teachers from around the world compete and share what they are doing in their classrooms! ...

While it is on my mind, I wanted to share some upcoming dates with you: June 8 - Opening Keynote TNT Conference Teaching and Technology Conference Bismarck, North Dakota USA http://www.bsc.nodak.edu/ceti/tnt/ ISTE 2010 Citizenship, Gridizenship: Online Community Building for Self-Sustaining Safety [Formal Session : Panel] (50012999) Scheduled: Monday, 6/28/2010,  8:30am–9:30am  MF343L Digiteacher Workshop: Digital Citizenship within a Project-Based Learning Environment [Workshop : Lab-Based] (50085973) Scheduled: Monday, 6/28/2010,  12:30pm–7:30pm  Seven Steps to Flatten Your Classroom [Formal Session: Lecture] Wednesday, 6/30/2010, 10:30am–11:30am  TF446B Flat Classroom Workshop: 7 Steps to Global Collaboration [Workshop: BYOL(w)] Tuesday, 6/29/2010, 12:30pm–7:30pm  BW301 Wonderful World of Wikis: Practical Classroom Wiki...

I'm sitting in a session about  the Students involved with Technology Conference in Illinois. These are my live notes.  I'm so impressed, this is a conference by students and for students.  Every student has to choose what they want to be:  a participant or a presenter-participant.  If they do a presentation, they have to have a sponsor. They give demos and presentation on hardware topics, robotics, gaming, web design, video editing and many other topics.  So, the students sign up - they charge $18.  They charge to cover minimal costs, but if you don't charge, they don't show up.  They have GREAT prizes:  laptops, wii's laptops, HDTV's.  They go up to 500 students -- it is all about the keynote speaker, they say.  If you have a great keynote, it helps.  Students grades 3-12 from Dewitt, Livingston, McLean and other counties in Central Illinois (and beyond.)  Last year, they sent the video out by keynote.  ...

Education needs to take a lesson from This Week's Web 2.0 Summit .   It is time to move on and think bigger. Jeremiah Owyang, a blogger in my " Circle of the Wise " says in his post Thinking Bigger: Web 2.0 Summit Gives a Purpose : " Unlike previous Web 2.0 events the theme was very clear to me, these social tools are now impacting so much more than the tech blogger circle jerk that we all tire of. With our future President launching a blog on Wednesday, Lance Armstrong discussing politics, ego and the web , and Al Gore on stage discussing how energy and global crises can help be solved from collaborative means. It’s been a long time since I’ve been at a tech conference where we didn’t fondle the hammer and actually focused on building the house. Actually choosing an objective to apply these tools to much bigger problems: cancer, health, politics, global warming, energy crises, and connecting the world." Yesterday, Julie Lindsay , John Turner and I spent ...