Google Anywhere School 2020

 

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12 August 2020, Google organised the Anywhere School 2020. There were 3 versions, 1 for Americas, 1 for Europe and 1 for Asia Pacific. For us in Singapore, the APAC one makes most sense (although there's no presentation by Singapore). You should be able to watch/catch the videos here.

I was impressed by the student leader's confidence in communicating clearly to a global audience

A truly diverse panel from NZ

4Rs and more from the Aus and NZ Educator Resource guide

At 9am GMT+08, New Zealand's representatives shared about equity in education and at 9.30am Australia's reps spoke about student wellbeing which is definitely a hot topic with the current Covid situation where a lot of learning and more is happening online.

Started off his segment with a little gesture to the indigenous people of the land. Respect!

Well-being of students go beyond Cyber Wellness

In the break between Australia and Korea's sharing, a duo from 'Using Technology Better' shared a bit more on the use of Google Tools for Social and Emotional Learning. Amongst the points shared included the fact that Google Meet complies with many international privacy standards if that was a concern for the use of videoconferencing tools.

Unfortunately, the sharing by Korea on the New Normal was in the Korean Language and even though I had previously made some efforts to learn the language, I was still unable to understand much. Perhaps you may want to watch the rest of the videos yourself if they still have it on Youtube. I could not watch the rest live as I had work that I needed to focus on then. Also, apparently some of  the other Asian sharing were not in English so I could only take notes for the ones from Malaysia and Indonesia due to my knowledge of Bahasa Melayu.

Reinventing Schools for the New Normal even in PE

Ryu Changdong taught remotely using tech as it helped make teaching and learning more accessible for him and his students

Japan's version of PDLP through the use of chromebooks as part of its GIGA plan with Google

Member, House of Representatives, Chief Secretary, Special Committee for Digital Nation, Liberal Democratic Party (LDP)

MD Google Indonesia, Guru Berbagi and other podcasts/resources.

Country Head for Google Malaysia sharing about DELIMa, or 'Digital Educational Learning Initiative Malaysia', together with Google, Microsoft and Apple

Proud to see my friend, Kamarulzamri, from the #SEA19 Batch of Google Innovator sharing about his use of GC for e-learning (kelas maya)

Sharing about internet safety and internet legends

Sharing by Wales reps

Other updates from Google for Education

Upgraded Google Classroom with assignments and originality report

On a side note, here is a document detailing the various tools in the G Suite apps for education prepared by the Global GEG (Google Educators Group).

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