Program
The conference program as well as the youth program are available for download.
Media Release
It is essential that media release forms are signed. If you are under 18, please make sure that it is signed by a parent or guardian and bring it with you to the conference. If you are over 18, the form can be signed at the conference - Media Release Form
A list of Frequently Asked Questions can be found here.
A Youth Summit Brochure can be downloaded here.
Conference Goals
To facilitate communication and develop partnership between educators and youth locally, regionally and globally.
To use communication technology in education to improve health and welfare among communities.
To improve skills for better quality in education.
To establish institutional links among all partners of education.
To strengthen understanding of people for better education.
To support E-learning and professional development.
To promote inter cultural dialogue.
To share models for how educational telecommunications can be used to affect positive social, political and economic change, and address unmet human and environmental needs.
To share successful classroom project examples that make a meaningful difference, and ideas/models of curriculum/classroom learning enhancement.
To demonstrate and provide hands-on experience in leading technology.
To encourage cross-cultural understanding through the use of different languages in project work, making a place for voices which are not usually heard, and exploring other ways of breaking down barriers.
To enlarge the iEARN community to expand its global community of educators and youth leaders using telecommunications.
To share innovative educational resources from different centres, countries and organizations.
To identify steps toward enhancing and sustaining on-line project participation.
To create an environment for new collaborative project ideas to be developed, and enable participants to return home with specific action steps to create and/or expand educational telecommunications project work.
Scholarships
The Simcoe County Educators Teachers Federation has genereously offered a scholarship to one teacher to attend the conference. Conference fees, accomodation and meals will be provided. The successful applicant is responsible for their travel to the conference, visa and medical insurance.
iEARN Teachers who presently participate in iEARN Collaborations are eligilble for the scholarship. In order to apply for this scholarshop, please complete the following form.
