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Event SummaryNovember 11-13, 2013


26 Delegates, 11 countries

Representing: Ministries of Edu (national and state level), Ministry of ICT, Presidential Office of Digital Strategy, Key gov. partners and agencies

40+ Googlers: Organizing team, speakers, guests

Who came?

USAMexicoPolandSaudi ArabiaIndiaMalaysia

Ontario, CanadaRio, BrazilRomania

ThailandNew Zealand


● Tell us about your delegation - who is joining us here?

● What is the most critical education issue you face?

● What would you like to get out of the Symposium?

Symposium Guests


Inequity

Teaching

Infrastructure

Tools


Jimmy Sarakatsannis, State of Education (Technology)Education Practice, McKinsey & Company

● 89% of school age kids have access to basic education

● Quality of education drives economic growth

● An increase of one standard deviation in test for Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) was linked to 2% average additional GDP growth

● Quality of the teacher is the single most important factor to student success

● Personalized learning is the key


Sundar Pichai, Role of Technology in Education

● Excited for 5-6B people to access to information. Growing up he only had 20hrs of computer time during his undergraduate studies

● Making connectivity affordable is key. Google is stimulating the market in that direction with Fiber and Loon

● Future of technology in the classroom is equal access and making it seamless and transparent for teachers and students


Eric Schmidt, The Future: Getting the next 5 billion online

● Entrepreneurs create new jobs (not big companies). Education is the key to developing more entrepreneurs

● Google’s quest is to make our solutions even smarter. Help people figure out answers to the questions they are likely to ask. Technology is bringing unprecedented ability to scale education

● Technology cannot build the personal connections of a teacher


Economic Models to Target Educational InequityBrett O’Riley Board Member, Manaiakalani Education Trust

Hon. Nikki KayeAssociate Minister of Education, New Zealand

Andrew Rotherham Co-founder and Partner, Bellwether Education

John HannaCEO, Network for Learning

Richard CulattaDirector, Office of Edu Technology, US DOE


Puan Rosnani Binti Mohamed Ali Director of Educational Technology Division, Malaysia Ministry of Education

Wing Lee CEO, YTL Communications

Michael HornCo-Founder and Executive Director, Education at Clayton Christensen Institute

Tom Vander ArkCEO, Getting Smart & Partner, Learn Capital

Setting a National Vision & Policies


Innovative New Learning Models in Education

Paulette Altmaier, Head of Education Partnerships, Khan AcademyEsther Wojcicki, Teacher, Palo Alto High SchoolDr. Gene M. Kerns, VP & Chief Academic Officer, Renaissance Learning


The Future of Innovation: Google’s Moon ShotsMohammad Gawdat, VP of Business Innovation, Google[x]


Teacher as a coachGroup workPersonalized LearningBlended Learning

Visit to Milpitas Unified School District


Amit Singh, Google in Education


How can we start to address these challenges?

Group 1: Inequity● Poland, Saudi Arabia, Brazil,

Thailand

Group 2: Teaching● Malaysia, Canada, New Zealand,

Mexico, YTL

Group 3: Infrastructure & Tools● India, Romania, New Zealand, YTL


THANK YOU!










APPENDIX


BRAINSTORM● informal work group on:

○ infrastructure & tools

○ teaching

○ inequity

● create online forum, hangouts

○ hangouts with Googlers

○ hangouts with experts

● regional focus groups - EMEA, SE Asia, etc.

○ have ppl at Google pull up regional themes with descriptors, summaries, documents, case studies

● can we identify best practices quickly and surface them quickly to the group

● need to grow beyond this circle

● specific topics of interest -- find the best experts and bring them to a hangout for everyone

● have delegates also send/recommend experts, highlight best practices


Best moments● students were so articulate about CBs and cloud computing - unscripted, 10 years old, about how amazing

his experience has been

● blended learning style, blended IT into the schools, into teaching

● inspiring to get to know ppl from very different places and know that they are proud of their work they are doing and their willingness to do something different, making lives better, children with better futures

● great to see teachers proud of their work, ppl proud of their work

● reality of business and public education working together

○ that for profit companies can really make a difference

● idealism doesn’t just exist in education, making the world a better place has a place in a corporation

○ google thinks about the world and their community

● the notion of getting the next 5 billion online, the potential of Loon --> of bringing a lot of brains online, bring the next generation think, analyze better, combined with well-intentioned technology, is cause for great optimism

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