Council on the Future of Education

What is Makerspace and what does it do for students? Makerspace has been around for a bit. How can we harness the benefits of a makerspace for our students.

The need to have a diversified teacher workforce as discussed with Dr. Cassandra Herring.

Tell me about your background? What led you to create Go2Science? Why do you think it is important to teach the scientific process to young children? How do you use technology? Go2Science seems to have a different approach than other educational technology offerings. Why? Who is your partner? Tell me about your advisory panel. What do you hope to achieve with Go2Science?

Our guest today is ( Brief Bio Here include websites, social media contact info for the audience)

 

Anja Green, Content Development Manager at Mango Languages, graduated with an M.A. in Applied Linguistics/Translation from Leipzig University in Germany. With 14 years under her belt as a linguist expert, the last nine have been spent with Mango Languages, where she leads teams of linguists and subject matter experts in the creation of learning content, development of new tools and features, and administration of new and innovative language instruction modules.

 Guided by its core purpose to enrich lives with language and culture, Mango Languages creates engaging language-learning experiences for academic institutions, libraries, corporations, government agencies, and individuals across the continent and around the globe.

 

To learn more about the company, its innovative products, or to explore a new language, visit mangolanguages.com.

 

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Opportunities for educational equity under the federal Every Student Succeeds Act – which replaced No Child Left Behind in 2015. States are responsible for implementing this important piece of civil rights legislation to leverage federal dollars for low-income students and school improvement. ESSA is an opportunity for states to do right by their kids by using the law to collect data and track the performance of all students so that families and the public know how schools and kids are doing; and use data to target federal dollars effectively and equitably to school communities. It is not enough for states to treat ESSA as a compliance exercise, each state ought to seize the opportunity to design an accountability system that meaningfully sets goals, weights indicators, and disaggregates data by subgroup – and then reports that out to the public in a transparent and accessible way.

We will be speaking with an Indy mobile app/game developer to discuss the need for diversity in mobile educational apps/games. This should be a real eye openner for those of you that understand the need for edu-tainment and how to use these for the advancement of education in a diverse world.

Dr. Sonny Magana is an award-winning educational futurist, best-selling author, and pioneering educational technology researcher. Sonny is a highly sought-after leadership consultant, speaker, and instructional coach with more than thirty years’ experience helping educational systems around the world realize the power of transcendent learning. The author of numerous research studies and articles, Sonny’s newest book, Disruptive Classroom Technologies: A Framework for Innovation in Education, was recently published through Corwin Press to wide international acclaim.

 

A tireless advocate for transcending the status quo, Sonny founded and served as Principal of Washington State’s first CyberSchool in 1996, a groundbreaking blended learning program that continues to meet the needs of at-risk students in Washington. He is a recipient of the prestigious Milken Family Foundation National Educator Award and the Governor’s Commendation for Educational Excellence. An avid musician, yoga practitioner, and beekeeper, Sonny holds a bachelor of science degree from Stockton University, a master of education degree from City University (where he was honored with the Presidential Award for meritorious scholarship), an educational administration endorsement, and a doctorate in educational leadership from Seattle University.

What has social media done to the educational system? Today we will be talking with a social media educational expert. Ai Addyson-Zhang will be our guest speaker. Quote "  I am a Digital Learning Consultant. I coach educators to leverage social and technology to enhance student learning outcomes. I also host a weekly Facebook live show, Classroom Without Walls."

We will be discussing the future of online courses and how Spider Learning is tackling some of the big questions in an online enviornment.

I am an educator working in further education in the UK. I also run a martial arts studio, writer, author, and I am in the process of setting up a leadership and communication consultancy. 

Over the last ten years I have seen mental health issues rise dramatically with our teens, so I became a Youth Mental Health First Aider, and a Neuro Linguistic Programming Practitioner, to help deal with this. 

As a media lecturer I love looking to the past at the Hero's Journey, and using that in the present as a vehicle for life. How can we embrace our own heroes journey to stay up to date with the modern world, and prepqare our students for a career that will pass through 2030, 2040 etc. What will that even look like?