My Learning Network Just Went Global: Yours can too!

I just got back from the hundrED Summit in Helsinki, Finland where about 200 Education Innovators from around the world converged for three days to teach and learn from each other.  Countries represented included Cambodia, Spain, Norway, Denmark, UK, Canada, Mexico, Venezuela, Taiwan, Philippines, Bangalore and many others.  

New Tech High: Blog Portfolios had been selected to be a part of HundrED 2017, as one of the most inspiring innovations in K12 education. This means New Tech had been through a rigorous research process carried out by HundrED’s own in-house research team, been analyzed by educational expert advisory boards, and had also been reviewed by student advisory boards too!

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The core goal of HundrED is to help good practices in education spread, as education is the key to a happy and healthy future. HundrED hopes to inspire people in education all over the world to improve education where they are. HundrED’s findings are always shared with the world for free.

For me the Summit was an incredibly affirming event that let me know that the work New Tech does fits in well with the rest of the innovators out there around the globe.  The educators at the Finnish schools we visited agreed that we could easily be sister schools in that we are wrestling with the same issues in education these days.  How powerful it is to know that what we are doing with the New Tech Network is right up there with one of the leading education nations of the world!
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Besides the nice pat on the back, the most powerful part of attending was making new relationships with other like-minded people around the globe.  I already have plans to take a new astro-physicist friend in Whales up on his offer to have students play with his 20 networked telescopes across the globe and plans are in the works next year to do a joint video project with another authentic PBL school based in Cambodia.  

When the education narrative in the U.S. is one of despair and divisive politics, the Summit painted for me, a much broader and hopeful picture.  If you are interested in exploring, you can find the selected innovations at hundred.org. There are opportunities to become a hundred school, to try innovations, to become a hundred ambassador, and to nominate new innovations.

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