Building Learning Communities 2013

This session explores ways to set up a successful year in the 1st5days, using Yahki. Come prepared for hands-on best-practice activities including:

-       Negotiated student goal setting
-       Flipped and AIM Framework approaches; student media curation and idea hatching
-       Learner democracy - student interests and choices
-       Formative assessment by Day 4
-       Student-led learner network building
-       Leveraging learner analytics with students
-       Reflective learning approaches
-       Involving parents and guests
-       Celebrating and featuring learner success across your community.

This session is 50% hands-on. Experience Yahki for the first time. Build Your Own Learning Community with Yahki in minutes. Create stories and challenges for students.  Stock up on a raft of fresh ideas to put your students in the driver’s seat for their learning. See how a social networking tool designed for the pursuit of democracy abroad has evolved into a vehicle for an ‘Education Spring’ for schools worldwide with the invention of ‘the education channel’ for each school globally. This is a BLC ‘first’.

Yahki founders, American-Egyptian architect and designer, Ashraf Tawakkol, and Australian global education entrepreneur, Mark Lamont, share a unique story of how social media R&D in the context of overseas democratic uprisings and the confluence of social media led to the development of Yahki -  a toolset that now offers breath-taking ‘learner democracy and liberation’. The R&D focused on content curation, mash up, and sharing in the public domain, not just at school, leading to the invention of the ‘education channel’. The channel enables everyone to move seamlessly between their public and school social media worlds. The outcomes and new opportunities for learners, teachers, parents and schools are amazing, for the 1st5days and beyond. This is a ‘world first’ not to be missed.”