This week, our staff is excited to travel to the 2013 iEARN Annual Conference and Youth Summit, hosted by iEARN-Qatar/ROTA (Reach Out To Asia) in Doha, Qatar from July 1-6. Educators, students, administrators, ministry officials, non-profit, and corporate partners will be presenting and sharing models for using technology to build global understanding and enhance teaching and learning. Read more >
For 25 years, generous contributions by institutions and individuals have made it possible for iEARN-USA to help teachers and students to learn with the world, not just about it. Still, only a small fraction of U.S. students currently have access to some kind of international experience, whether physical or virtual. Read more >
The national conversation about online learning has focused on what and how, but has given with whom short shrift.
In his remarks this week to the Foreign Service Institute Overseas Security Seminar, US Secretary of State John Kerry underscored the importance of “with whom,“ highlighting virtual exchange as a key US government strategy to provide educators and youth with a meaningful cross-cultural experience: Read more >
For the past 25 years, iEARN educators, like Deanne McBeath from Trenton, New Jersey, have helped create an alternative to the “us vs. them, online vs. face-to-face, virtual vs. physical†construct.
Perhaps the zero-sum framing of online vs. face-to-face learning and virtual vs. physical exchange is inevitable. Resources are constrained. Our education system is not designed to change at the rate that new technologies are changing our lives. Read more >
This April 26-28, iEARN is proud once again to be a Global Youth Service Day partner and help celebrate young people making a positive contribution to the health and welfare of the planet and its people. Similar to how Every Day is Earth Day for our network, every day is also a day for youth to serve their local and global communities. For 25 years iEARN has asked all project participants to address the question, “How will this project improve the quality of life on the planet?†Read more >