Some of the Best Learning Happens Where You’d Least Expect

What kind of learning takes place when students have the opportunity to explore real interests & problems, especially through playing in out-of-school environments?

Friday, August 22 from 10-11am PT (1-2pm ET), this realtime chat took place with Stephen Brown — the documentarian behind films such as +Edutopia’s “Education Everywhere” series, and “Is School Enough?”

This webinar was part of a month-long series called “Cultivating Global, Entrepreneurial Learners in the Networked Age.” Check out all the details at http://bit.ly/entrepreneuriallearning

From this Series:

• Part 1—Hive Learning Networks: Championing Digital Skills and Web Literacy Around the World
• Part 2—Online Model U.N. – Helping Tomorrow’s Global Leaders Collaborate on Real-World Issues
• Part 4—Solutionary Congress: Empowering and Educating Global Problem-Solvers

View the Conversation
During the broadcast, the conversation also took place on Twitter using the hashtag #connectedlearning.

Guests for this webinar included:

• Stephen Brown – President of Mobile Digital Arts, which uses film and video to advocate for innovative educational practices, digital media programs, and 21st century approaches to learning. He is the creator of the documentaries “Is School Enough?” and “Digital Media: New Learners of the 21st Century.”
• Monika Hardy – Works with youth in Loveland, Colorado, encouraging self-directed learning that blurs the intersection of city and school
• Alex Gilliam – Director and Founder of Public Workshop in Philadelphia, which creates uniquely engaging opportunities for youth and their communities to shape the design of their cities
• Nikhil Goyal – 19-year-old activist, author of a forthcoming book on alternative education (Doubleday/2015), and one of Forbes’ “30 Under 30”

Resources for this webinar:

• Edutopia.org: “Is School Enough? Exploring Interest-Driven and Informal Learning”
• MindShift: “Quick Look: John Seely Brown on Interest-Driven Learning and Importance of Play”
• redefineschool.com – be you. a quiet revolution.
• Public Workshop – a program that creates service learning opportunities for youth by encouraging them to help design the communities around them
• Edutopia.org: “Education Everywhere: School Success Stories from Abroad”
• Watch the entire ‘Is School Enough?’ documentary via PBS.org

Photos/Edutopia.org

#ConnectedLearning Discussion on Twitter