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ATC21S will be represented at iCTLT in Singapore

Next month, members of the ATC21S Singapore team will present at the 3rd International Conference on Teaching and Learning with Technology (iCTLT) to be held in Singapore.  The iCTLT, which runs from the 27th to the 30th of March, provides a forum for participants to discuss many aspects of educational technology, including cutting-edge innovations, research, [...]

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Recent presentations by ATC21S Singapore team

The ATC21S team in Singapore presented at two recent events: the EduTech Seminar and the Gifted Education Seminar.
The inaugural EduTech Seminar, held on September 5, 2011, was organized by the Educational Technology Division of the Singapore Ministry of Education (MoE).  It was attended by school leaders and teachers from around Singapore, as well as senior [...]

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ATC21S will be at AERA 2012

The 2012 American Educational Research Association (AERA) convention will be held from Friday, April 13 to Tuesday, April 17 in Vancouver, Canada, and the ATC21S team will be there.
During the convention the ATC21S team will hold a roundtable discussion, open to all AERA convention attendees.  This 1.5 hour session, titled “Assessment of Technology-Based Collaborative Skills: [...]

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ATC21S team represented at the Pearson Global Research Conference 2012

On January 27-28 the 2012 Pearson Global Research Conference was held in Western Australia.  The theme of this year’s conference was the role of technology and assessment in system-wide improvement.  The conference aimed to foster discussions about how technologies can be used strategically to improve teaching and learning at broad, system-wide levels.  The ATC21S project [...]

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Day 3 of EWF/BETT week: Education Leaders Briefing

Wednesday was the third and final day of the Education World Forum, and it also marked the official opening of the 2012 BETT show.
The other exciting event attended by the ATC21S team on Wednesday was the 2012 Education Leaders Briefing. The Education Leaders Briefing was jointly hosted by the British Council and Microsoft right in the [...]

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Day 2 at EWF: The ATC21S Ministerial Session

The second day of the 2012 Education World Forum (EWF) was a busy one, with a full schedule of talks and events.
In the morning opening keynote addresses were delivered by representatives of UNESCO, the Commonwealth Secretariat, the Brookings Institute, and Intel.  This was followed by two plenary sessions; the first addressed research from large-scale pilot [...]

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Live updates from the ATC21S team at the EWF

This week the ATC21S consortium is in London for the 2012 Education World Forum (EWF).  The EWF, held once per year, is a prestigious global summit for education ministers.  This event brings government representatives, industry leaders, and major organizations from more than 60 countries together and provides a forum for rich discussion on current issues, [...]

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ATC21S will be at the Educational World Forum (EWF)

We are excited to announce that the ATC21S consortium will be represented at the next Educational World Forum (EWF), to be held in London from January 9th to 11th, 2012.  The EWF is a prestigious global summit for education ministers and brings together government representatives, industry leaders, and major organizations from around the world.  Several [...]

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ATC21S represented at EC Presidency conference in Warsaw, Poland

Updates on the ATC21S project were presented recently at the EC Presidency conference in Warsaw, Poland.  The conference theme was Effective Policies for the Development of Competencies of Youth in Europe.  Dr. Martina Roth, Director of Global Education Strategy, Research and Policy at Intel, and ATC21S TaskForce Lead, gave a keynote on the ATC21S project on [...]

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UPDATE: 21st century skills in the Finnish school system

In October 2011 Dr. Arto Ahonen, a member of the ATC21S Finland group, delivered a keynote address at a conference organized by the APS, a non-profit Dutch organization for school improvement, and Cito, an educational measurement institute based in the Netherlands.  The conference, called 21st Century Skills @ School, focused on the teaching of 21st century [...]

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