Flaxmere Students will Buzz

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Flaxmere (is) having a kids conference, where the children will have opportunity to share some of the things they have been doing this year with the interactive whiteboards, skype, wikis, blogs, digital movie making, etc etc. Not sure who the keynote speakers will be for that, but again you’ll know when I know.

..I wonder where in the world something like a ‘kids ICT conference’ has happened and what it looked like.

What a wonderfully appropriate idea.  I would also like to see kids talking about, and/or actually presenting about their outsidetheclassroom information experiences — with World of Warcraft, MySpace/Xanga, Club Penguin, IM, etc.

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  1. David,

    Are you familiar with the Megaconference Jr.? Now in its 4th year, this event provides students with an international audience for talking about ways they are using technology. I joined a group of 6th graders from Arthur C. Butler Elementary School in the Elk Grove School District this year as they shared their Youth Radio project. The team at Magpi (University of Pennsylvania) provides all the support.

    In the 3 years I’ve joined the conference, I have observed that a) kids like to talk about their projects and b) even more import to them, they just want to talk with each other and discover similarities and differences. This year, the Butler kids were amazed to see the classroom in Australia they were chatting with dressed in shorts, since it was still summer “down under.” And then there was the class in Taiwan…it was still Thursday in California, but in Taiwan, already Friday. The world just got a little closer by the end of this 12-hour event.

    Gail Desler

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