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EPIC WIN! EPIC FAIL!

media type="custom" key="26691542" **Opening Keynote** === Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education 2012 === Notes & Resources === Read more about the VWBPE 2012 conference on Gridjumper's Blog ===

=That Change Everything! = ||  ||=  || ||   || === **Mapping the Learning ** ===
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 * [[image:WoWinSchool.png width="208" height="116" link="@http://wowinschool.pbworks.com/w/page/5268731/FrontPage"]]
 * [[image:WoWinSchool.png width="208" height="116" link="@http://wowinschool.pbworks.com/w/page/5268731/FrontPage"]]

Taking a commercially successful MMOG and aligning it to the standards... that's EPIC!

Visionaries: Lucas Gillispie & Peggy Sheehy || ||  || === **Following the Learning ** ===
 * [[image:Massively_Minecraft.png width="268" height="95" link="@http://massivelyminecraft.org"]]
 * [[image:Massively_Minecraft.png width="268" height="95" link="@http://massivelyminecraft.org"]]

Making the decision to simply play with the kids and observe how they use the platform //**before**// laying down a curriculum... that's EPIC

Visionaries: Jokay Wollongong, Dean Groom & Bron Stuckey || ||  || === **Making Assessment Relevant ** ===
 * [[image:3DGameLab.png width="144" height="109" link="@http://3dgamelab.org.shivtr.com/"]]
 * [[image:3DGameLab.png width="144" height="109" link="@http://3dgamelab.org.shivtr.com/"]]

Challenging the status quo of assessment, and designing a system based on leveling rather than failing... that's EPIC

Visionaries: Lisa Dawley & Chris Haskell ||
 * [[image:btwf_logo.png link="@http://bornthiswayfoundation.org/"]] ||  || === **Building Community for Change ** ===
 * [[image:btwf_logo.png link="@http://bornthiswayfoundation.org/"]] ||  || === **Building Community for Change ** ===

Busting out of our professional silos to come together, share our expertise and collectively address how to improve the lives of students... that's EPIC

Visionaries: Lady Gaga, Cynthia Germanotta, John Palfry and danah boyd

[|Harvard Graduate School of Education] teamed up with the Berkman Center for Internet & Society,  John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and California Endowment’s Building Healthy Communities Program to launch Lady Gaga's Born This Way Foundation. As part of that launch, they brought over 75 researchers, activists, teachers, and funders together to help set the agenda for the foundation's work. The objective was to get get "experts" out of their individual professional silos and bring them together to share their knowledge and make a game plan based on the collective knowledge of what works. ||

=[|For Making Change!] = ||  ||=  ||
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 * [[file:OSTWG_Final_Report_070610.pdf]] ||  || =**<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Lay a Foundation for Digital Citizenship **=
 * [[file:OSTWG_Final_Report_070610.pdf]] ||  || =**<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Lay a Foundation for Digital Citizenship **=

[|//A New Culture of Learning//] highlights how participatory media is a vital part of the world in which our children live. It is important to provide mentored opportunities for children to learn & practice citizenship within these online communities. Anne Collier, Co-Chair of Obama's Task Force for Online Safety & Technology Workgroup , advocates the importance of finding ways to work with children using the tools of their world. In fact, it is critical if we are to help them develop the skills necessary to function in a safe, civilized and knowledgeable manner online. Summary of Recommendations found on page 6 of OSTWG Final Report. ||
 * [[file:+Prensky-The_Reformers_Are_Leaving_Our_Schools_in_the_20th_Century-please_distribute_freely.pdf]]
 * [[file:+Prensky-The_Reformers_Are_Leaving_Our_Schools_in_the_20th_Century-please_distribute_freely.pdf]]

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">In the age of Google, <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">What Content is essential to teach?

//"If you can Google it, Should you be teaching it?"// ~Peggy Sheehy ||  || === **<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Question Content ** ===

**The Reformers Are Leaving Our Schools in the 20****th** **Century** **Why most U.S. school reformers are on the wrong track, and how to get our kids’ education right for the future** By Marc Prensky

//**"Fix the Education, Not the System**// //Currently, lots of money is being spent on trying to fix the educational “system.” But what the reformers haven‟t yet understood is that it‟s not the “system” that we need to get right; it’s the education that the system provides. This distinction is critical, because one can change almost everything about the “system” – the schools, the leaders, the teachers, the number of hours and days of instruction, and so forth – and still not provide an education that interests our students and gets them deeply engaged in their own learning, or that teaches all of our students what they need to be successful in their 21st-century lives.//

//Unless we change how things are taught and what is taught, in all of our classrooms, we won‟t be able to provide an education that has our kids fighting to be in school rather than one that effectively pushes one-third to one-half of them out. And this is true for all our kids, both advantaged and disadvantaged."// ||
 * [[file:Game to Learn.pdf]] ||  || === **<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Learn to Play... Play to Learn ** ===
 * [[file:Game to Learn.pdf]] ||  || === **<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Learn to Play... Play to Learn ** ===

**GAME TO LEARN** BY MARIANNE MALMSTROM

When hearing the term “21st Century [|Learning],” many conjure images of fancy computer labs and classrooms equipped with smart boards. Others think in terms of cutting-edge software and Web 2.0 tools that allow students to create, collaborate and publish online. While these are all tools that are reshaping our culture, simply learning //how// to use them does not prepare students to successfully adapt to a constantly changing world. The heart of “21st Century Learning” is not about the tools, it is all about learning //how// to **learn**. Helping our students become proficient and independent life- long learners is central to their success in navigating through uncharted change. ||