HELP GIVE 21st CENTURY EDUCATION A VOICE AT ONE OF THE BIGGEST FESTIVALS IN THE US...VOTE CHRIS LEHMANN INTO SXSW!

Chris Lehmann is an edu-rockstar! His passion and enthusiasm for education is contagious and needs to spread to as many teachers, students, learners, thinkers, and dreamers as humanly possible. The 21st century education model is coming into form because of educators and innovators like Chris Lehmann. SXSW would be an awesome venue for Chris Lehmann to share ideas about the future of education and promote 21st century learning. Do education a great service and vote for him as a presenter. Thanks!

HERE IS THE LINK TO VOTE: I WANT CHRIS LEHMANN TO PRESENT AT SXSW!

I grabbed Chris Lehmann's presentation description from the SXSW Panel Picker website. Check it out! Building School 2.0: Creating the Schools We Need
	Chris Lehmann, Science Leadership Academy
	SXSW explores the ways social media has profoundly changed nearly every facet of society from government to commerce to dating and friendship. Despite incredible societal change, K-12 education has remained largely unchanged. Every day, students leave their smartphones and laptops at the schoolhouse door. As a result, students, parents and teachers feel a powerful disconnect between the time students spend in school and the lives they live outside of it. If school is to remain a vital piece of young people's lives - and our society - it must evolve to help students thrive in our changing world. This is the notion behind School 2.0. But what will these new schools look like? What are the philosophical ideas that form it? How can we marry the best of what we know about teaching and learning with the use of 21st Century tools to create schools that are engaging, caring, and relevant places of learning for everyone involved? The story of the Science Leadership Academy, a progressive, inquiry-driven, project-based 1:1 laptop public high school will frame this presentation. Conceived as a partnership between the School District of Philadelphia and The Franklin Institute, SLA is considered to be one of the pioneers of the School 2.0 movement and has been recognized as an Apple Distinguished School in 2009 and 2010 and has been written about in many publications including the Philadelphia Inquirer, Edutopia Magazine and EdWeek.
	How must schools innovate to prepare students for a changing world? What is the role of social media in school? What are the pressures on schools that keep them from changing? How can we marry the best of what we know about teaching and learning with the use of 21st Century tools to create schools that are engaging, caring, and relevant places of learning for everyone involved? What can non-educators do to help change schools?
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