From 19 June 2008 till 21 June 2008 Location: Bristol, UK The Second Bristol International Conference on Education for Real-Life Learning
DATE: 19-21 June 2008 LOCATION: University of Bristol, United Kingdom
'This Learning Life 2’ is for everyone who wishes education to provide all young people with a more powerful preparation for life in the 21st century.
It follows on from the very successful ‘This Learning Life’ conference hosted in April 2006 by the Graduate School of Education and the Institute for Advance Study (IAS).
The presumption is that current 'schooling' often develops a rather arcane and anachronistic set of learning skills and attitudes; and if education is in part a preparation for lifelong learning, richer models of learning might prove fruitful.
In the first This Learning Life (TLL) conference in 2006, we heard from top
scientists, sportspeople and politicians, as well as academics Shirley
Brice Heath (Stanford) and David Perkins (Harvard). In TLL 2, we will have
Professors John Bransford (Washington) and Barbara Rogoff (U California,
tbc), as well as people like a celebrity chef, an international
horse-riding instructor, a media scientist, a young musician, a top
business executive - and a clown. All will be asking: what can we learn
from people's learning lives; and how can we use this knowledge to make
schools and colleges more powerful preparations for a learning life?
There will be presentations, demonstrations, conversations, workshops,
submitted papers - and plenty of discussion.
From 24 June 2008 till 28 June 2008 Location: Utrecht, The Netherlands
ICLS2008 in the Netherlands: International Perspectives in the Learning Sciences
- Cre8ing a learning world
IMPORTANT INFORMATION: Call for Papers: deadline: 19 November, 2007
Utrecht University is busy preparing for the 2008 International Conference for the Learning Sciences. The theme for the conference is International Perspectives in the Learning Sciences. This conference will attempt to broaden the geographical, cultural, and intellectual scope of the learning sciences community, while maintaining its focus on the innovative consideration of learning as it occurs in authentic contexts.
KEYNOTES:
• “Beyond design experiments: interventions for expansive learning” - Yrjö Engeström, University of Helsinki, Finland
• “The Game of the Future” - Mark H. Overmars, Utrecht University, The Netherlands,
• “Pop cosmopolitanism, cognition, and learning on the virtual frontier” - Constance Steinkuehler, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
• “Conceptualizing systemic contextual differences for design research: Insights from International comparative studies of pedagogical
practices and technology use” - Nancy Law, University of Hong Kong
• “Pedagogical benchmarks: Does the homo zappiens need anything more than just good teaching?” - Theo Wubbels, Utrecht University, The
Netherlands
• “The Folksemantic Web: Tools for a Human-Centered Approach to the Semantic Web” - Shelley Johnson, Utah State University, USA
• “Internal and external scripts: Studies on the interplay of discourse, cognition, and instruction in computer-supported collaborative learning"
- Frank Fischer, Department of Psychology, University of Munich
• “Is Educational Investment in the Poor a Good Public Investment?” - Hank Levin, Columbia University, USA
• “Key elements for a framework to understand and conceptualise the social outcomes of learning” - Richard Desjardins, Danish University
of Education, Denmark
DATE: 24-28 June 2008 LOCATION: Utrecht, The Netherlands
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