This short set of slides provides a great background on what is “invisible learning” and how we can all contribute to the discussion at www.invisiblelearning.com.

Again, the conversation continues at www.invisiblelearning.com!

Friends and colleagues in Uruguay are invited to attend a presentation of the Plan Ceibal book (on OLPC) tomorrow at 7pm in Montevideo:

Note: Education Futures is on a reduced publication schedule for the summer, and will return with its regular schedule in mid-August.
Slides from Saturday’s talk at World Future Society’s World Future 2009 conference in Chicago:
Destination Imagination is the world’s largest creative problem solving program for kindergarten through college-aged learners. DI participants develop life skills while solving [...]

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I just returned from my talks at the Creative Company Conference, ITSMF Academy, and the University of Oxford. The themes of each presentation were different, but I was able to work from a common subset of slides that built from ideas shared in the Designing Education 3.0 series at Education Futures:

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Spring semester at the University of Minnesota will conclude in about a month, and I am already busy assembling my summer schedule. So far, it’s looking great!

May 20-24, 2009, various talks, Destination ImagiNation Global Finals, Knoxville
May 26, 2009, opening keynote, ITSMF Academy, Garderen (Netherlands)
May 26, 2009, talk/presentation, Creative Company Conference, Amsterdam
May 29, 2009, talk/seminar, [...]

Posting at Education Futures has been somewhat sparse as I’ve been taking Education 3.0 and the Society 3.0 framework on a road trip in Latin America, China, and now: Czech Republic. Over the next few days, I will meet with faculty and students at Charles University (Prague), Masaryk University (Brno), and Metropolitan University in [...]

The e-competencies conference is over –and, by all measures, it seems to be a resounding success! Many, many thanks go to Cristóbal Cobo and Jutta Treviranus for the co-organization of the event.

I am particularly grateful for our amazing participants. A few of their presentations are already online:

Martín Parselis (Video) [UCA]

Guillermo Lutzky [...]

I’m back from the ASOMEX technology conference in Monterrey, where we had a series of conversations on educating children of the 21st century. Our discussions were focused on the effective and purposive use of technologies in schools, and were joined by educators at private, English-language schools throughout Mexico.

My presentation focused on building education for [...]

This morning, the Star Tribune published a piece on a push by DFL legislators for a “New Minnesota Miracle,” through an injection of $2.5 billion into K-12 education in Minnesota. From the article:

The plan would pour money into basic education funding for schools to use as they see fit. There also would be more [...]