October 13, 2008 – K12 Online Conference

The date and time for our first fireside chat with Dr. Stephen Heppell in the 2008 K-12 Online Conference has been finalized. The fireside chat will take place at 11:00 PM Thursday, October 16 GMT. Use the previous link to determine the start time in your local time zone.

To join the fireside chat, use the following link to enter our Elluminate Live room: http://snurl.com/3xbc0

Details and links for our other two fireside chats are available on our conference wiki. The Elluminate link for each fireside chat will remain the same. Dates and times our week1 and week2 fireside chats are:

3:00 PM Saturday, October 25 GMT
Fireside Chat With Week One Keynoter and Presenters
The direct link to the time converter for this event:
TO JOIN THE SESSION
http://snurl.com/3xbc0 [sas_elluminate_com]

1:00 AM Tuesday, October 31 GMT
Fireside Chat With Week Two Keynoters and Presenters
TO JOIN THE SESSION
http://snurl.com/3xbc0 [sas_elluminate_com]

Also remember our 24 hour culminating event, “When Night Falls,” begins at 12:00 AM Saturday, November 1st GMT. Learn more on the “When Night Falls 2008” wiki and sign up to be a session moderator.

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Professor Stephen Heppell St Katherine Docks, Tower of London, England
Blog Stephen’s Phone Blog http://phone.heppell.mobi
Twitter: @stephenheppell

Bio CEO Heppell.net,
Professor Bournemouth University, Chair in New Media Environments,
Emeritus Professor Anglia Ruskin University: Chair in New Learning Environments,
Visiting Professor University of Wales, Newport.
Executive chairman LP+
Chair of Trustees: The Inclusion Trust

“Europe’s leading online education expert” Microsoft 2006
“the most influential academic of recent years in the field of technology and education” Department for Education and Skills (DfES), UK, 2006
Bio Page http://rubble.heppell.net/heppell/quiickbiog.html

Presentation Title “It Simply Isn’t the 20th Century Any More Is It?: So Why Would We Teach as Though It Was?”
Description: We are in the throes of a financial crisis unparalleled on our lifetimes, and at the same time in front running 21st century schools around the world learning is seeing a transformation that seemed unthinkable in the dark days of 20th century factory schools.

As we move to a new tomorrow built on mutuality, collegiality, communication, community and ingenuity can we learn anything from the colossally expensive financial collapse of Wall Street, the City of London and many of the world’s financial centres.

In three sections, and in a conversational, intimate style, Stephen examines the certainties that stare us in the face from past learning projects that clearly mapped a new world of 21st century learning; he reflects on the impact on technology on the world around us, including the financial world, and ponders on what this means for education, for learning, and for the necessary pace of change as we experience the death of education and the dawn of learning.

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