2. Who came?
26 Delegates, 11 countries
USA
Mexico
Poland
Saudi Arabia
India
Malaysia
Ontario, Canada
Rio, Brazil
Romania
Thailand
New Zealand
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
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3. Symposium Guests
● 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?
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5. 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
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6. 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
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7. 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
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8. Economic Models to Target Educational Inequity
Brett O’Riley
Board Member, Manaiakalani Education Trust
Hon. Nikki Kaye
Associate Minister of Education, New Zealand
Andrew Rotherham
Co-founder and Partner, Bellwether Education
John Hanna
CEO, Network for Learning
Richard Culatta
Director, Office of Edu Technology, US DOE
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9. Setting a National Vision & Policies
Puan Rosnani Binti Mohamed Ali
Director of Educational Technology
Division, Malaysia Ministry of Education
Wing Lee
CEO, YTL Communications
Michael Horn
Co-Founder and Executive Director,
Education at Clayton Christensen Institute
Tom Vander Ark
CEO, Getting Smart & Partner, Learn Capital
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10. Innovative New Learning Models in Education
Paulette Altmaier, Head of Education Partnerships, Khan Academy
Esther Wojcicki, Teacher, Palo Alto High School
Dr. Gene M. Kerns, VP & Chief Academic Officer, Renaissance Learning
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11. The Future of Innovation: Google’s Moon Shots
Mohammad Gawdat, VP of Business Innovation, Google[x]
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12. Visit to Milpitas Unified School District
Teacher as a coach
Group work
Personalized Learning
Blended Learning
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14. 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
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25. BRAINSTORM
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informal work group on:
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teaching
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infrastructure & tools
inequity
create online forum, hangouts
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hangouts with Googlers
hangouts with experts
regional focus groups - EMEA, SE Asia, etc.
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have ppl at Google pull up regional themes with descriptors, summaries, documents, case studies
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can we identify best practices quickly and surface them quickly to the group
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need to grow beyond this circle
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specific topics of interest -- find the best experts and bring them to a hangout for everyone
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have delegates also send/recommend experts, highlight best practices
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26. Best moments
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students were so articulate about CBs and cloud computing - unscripted, 10 years old, about how amazing
his experience has been
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blended learning style, blended IT into the schools, into teaching
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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
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great to see teachers proud of their work, ppl proud of their work
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reality of business and public education working together
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idealism doesn’t just exist in education, making the world a better place has a place in a corporation
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that for profit companies can really make a difference
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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