iEARN Aligns Global Online Project work to Sustainable Development Goals – The YES! Network

In 1988 a small group of individuals came together to create an online educational network that had as its purpose: “to enable young people to undertake projects designed to make a meaningful contribution to the health and welfare of the planet and its people.” Envisioning a world in which young people could use technology to […]

Giving Gifts

The iEARN 2015 conference has so far offered an appreciable amount of shared knowledge, educational best practices, digital media story telling, and plenty of thought provoking conversation. One thing that makes an iEARN conference singular is the emphatic and sincere spirit of collaboration and friendship that pervades interactions between attendees. A hallmark of an iEARN […]

My Name Around the World

iEARN teachers and students are familiar with the My Name Around the World project. In it, students share the story of their names by creating posts in iEARN’s Collaboration Center. Do they have a nickname? Were they named after a famous person? What does their name mean?! We’re all about flipping things here at iEARN. We decided […]

iEARN Conference and Youth Summit 2015

Oi! We are looking forward to what is most certainly going to be a memorable time with members of the iEARN global family during the 22nd annual iEARN Conference and Youth Summit in Brasilia. Not only will we collaborate with fellow educators and share our skills and experiences, but we will attend amazing sessions with […]

Want to make a difference? Help support students around the world to learn about and with each other.

Dear iEARN Friends, As we come together around the July 4th holiday in the US and annual iEARN Conference in Brazil, the two of us are reminded that these events provide opportunities to come together for iEARN and for its vision that the world can be a more peaceful and just place if young people […]

Global Ready

Dear iEARN Family, Followers, and Friends, What an incredible honor to be a member of the iEARN community for the past 17 years. As I move on to my next career adventure, I send you a fond farewell. The extent to which iEARN shaped my sense of global connectedness is indescribable. The impact on my personal […]

Looking for World Read Aloud Day 2015 Connections! (#WRAD15)

Originally posted on The Global Classroom Project:
Kathy Kaldenberg, based in the USA, is looking for Skype Read-Aloud partners for March 3 and 6, 2015. Please contact her via Skype (scsdmedia), Twitter (@scsdmedia), or email kkaldenberg AT solon.k12.us On March 4th, we will celebrate World Read Aloud Day with LitWorld. This is always such a special…

Explore Where You Live With the World

This lovely 1973 classroom virtual exchange image is today’s #PinoftheDay, a daily feature of the Historypin global community. The photo shows students from Lunalilo Elementary School, Honolulu, Hawaii talking to peers in Alaska on PEACESAT, the Pan-Pacific Education and Communication Experiments by Satellite. PEACESAT has been working to lessen the information and communication technology (ICT) divide in the Pacific Islands […]

Changing Teaching Through Global Project-Based Learning

Teaching is changing. We’re educating students for jobs that don’t exist yet using technologies that haven’t been invented. -Katherine, Pattonville High School Teacher Through global project collaborations, iEARN educators are meeting the challenge of teaching students for tomorrow and equipping them with the 21st Century Skills they will need to succeed in their future academic, […]

Knitting the World Together a Million Relationships at a Time

Originally posted on Connect All Schools Blog:
Two global education champions, Asia Society’s Tony Jackson and Soliya’s Lucas Welch, have published blog posts this week that go to heart of the mission of our Connect All Schools consortium. Both posts are stark reminders of how little US and Muslim relations have changed since September 11,…

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Learning with the world, not just about it…