world wide workshop august 2013 newsletter

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gust 2013 Newsletter Vol 6: Issue 2 World Wide Workshop Newsletter

Dear Partners and Friends, The end of summer is always exciting for us at t

Workshop, as we welcome thousands of new learners to our Globaloria Platfo

toInvent+Build+Share! This year, we welcome back schools and clubs in Californ

Texas, New York City, and West Virginia, and we launch in Wyoming. Edtech is proving

be a hot topic this back-to-school month. Innovative education is being used to addre

the digital divide, economic development, and to increase civic engagement and creativity among t

next generation. EdSurge published a new guide to games in school, and leaders around the nation a

the world are calling for improvements to computer science and engineering education. We hope you w

take a moment to vote for us to appear at SXSWedu next year, where we will discuss these topics amore. But please hurry, voting closes September 6th! Cheers, Idit

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In This Month's Issue:

1. Welcome Wyoming!2. Sustaining Expansion in California3. Empowering Seasoned and Trailblazing Students in Texas4. Growing Globaloria in New York City5. West Virginia Governor Awards Grant to Statewide Globaloria Deployment6. Is Silicon Valley Beginning to Invest in Disrupting Education?7. EdSurges New Guide to Games in School8. Help Us Get to SXSW in 2014 by September 6!9. Globaloria Advisory Board Chair Talks CS Education at SheCodes Conference

1. Welcome Wyoming!This fall, Globaloria will launch in a new state: Wyoming. In

partnership with the Sheridan County School District #1, Globaloriawill be brought to all 6th and 7th grade students in the district as apathway to STEM skills and for college and career readiness.Reaching 240 students in this inaugural year, Globaloria inSheridan County will be the lighthouse implementation for neighboring counties to lead into innovation.

2. Sustaining Expansion in CaliforniaThe Workshop is proud that 2013-14 will be a second consecutive year of 100% retention of Globaloriasites in California. Additionally, we are happy to welcome two new schools to the network: Sylvandale


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Middle School and Blanca Alvarado Middle School. With 1700 youth participating in Globaloria acrossSan Jose/Silicon Valley this coming year, California is our largest network in the nation. Workshoppartner the Silicon Valley Education Foundation helped us to launch this years program by hosting thenetwork leaders for the Leadership Academy, which inspires and engages district and schooladministrators, the very people who have helped Globaloria expand so dramatically in California.

Globaloria students at Christopher Middle School, a pilot site for Globaloria in CA.(Credit: Mary McHenry Photography)

3.Empowering Seasoned and Trailblazing Students in TexasThe 2013-14 school year is underway in Austin, Texas, where hundreds of students are participating inGlobaloria. At East Austin College Prep, students take part in Globaloria in every grade as part of thecore curriculum, which means this year many 9th graders are mastering game design in their fifth year oGlobaloria! Over in Manor Independent School District, students at Manor High School are beta testing new Globaloria curriculum: 3-D Game Design. We are looking forward to seeing the games that ourseasoned and trailblazing Austin students create!


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EAPrep teacher Mandy Laurence assists a Globaloria student with his work.

4. Growing Globaloria in New York City

The Workshop is pleased to announce the expansion of Globaloria within oheadquarters hometown: New York City. Growing our partnership withthe Young Women's Leadership Network (YWLN), which began last year a

The Young Women's Leadership School of Astoria in Queens, NY,Globaloria will expand this year to The Young Womens Leadership Schoolof the Bronx. YWLN students will engage in Globaloria as a cross-curricula

STEM learning platform integrated into core classes and will continue to demonstrate the capacity ofyoung women to be leaders in computer science.

This year, Globaloria also launches at the Bronx Writing Academy, where all 7th gradestudents will participate in Globaloria as part of their comprehensive STEM, digital and21st century learning. This expansion represents a tripling in program sites andquadrupling in program participants from last years New York City network.

Globaloria in New York City is supported by a number of partners, includingthe Scholastic Art & Writing Awards. On August 22nd, the Scholastic Art &Writing Awards team hosted new and returning educators and leaders fromGlobaloria New York City at the Scholastic offices in Manhattan, where they

wrapped up four days of in-person training and learned how their students could be the next national Ar& Writing Award winner!


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5. West Virginia Governor Awards Grant to Statewide Globaloria DeploymentGlobaloria in WV is embarking on its seventh year. Since 2007, Globaloria has partnered with the WVGovernor, Schools, RESAs, WVDE and local and national foundations, and is on the path to reaching5000 youth and educators across the state.

On August 5th, students and teachers gathered at the WV Center for Professional Development withleaders from the WV Department of Education and Board of Education to celebrate the 5th AnnualGlobey Awards Ceremony. Students received recognition for educational video game design,withDangers from Space! by Hurricane High School senior Jacob, earning the grand prize. Watch Iditdeliver opening remarks for the event by Skypeembodying the blended virtual-physical model on whicGlobaloria is built!

At the Globey Awards Ceremony, Educator Inspiration Awards were presented to Stacy Ward of TaylorCounty Technical Center, for Best New Educator in West Virginia, and Denise Stalnaker of RandolphTechnical Center, for national Best Returning Educator. Outstanding superintendents and principalsthroughout Globalorias West Virginia network were also recognized with Leadership Inspiration

Awards this month, as part of a national awards program sponsored by the Entertainment SoftwareAssociation Foundation.

Student finalists and winners and Educator Inspiration Awards recipients pose with Dr. William White of WVBOEand Dr. Monica Beane of WVDOE at the WV Globey Awards Ceremony.

The West Virginia Office of the Governor awarded this month a grant to support Globaloria deploymentthroughout the state in the 2013-14 school year, by providing matching funds to WV schools andRESAs. Governor Tomblin has been a longtime supporter of the innovative digital learning Globaloriabrings to the schools of West Virginia, and we look forward to reaching 12 counties across West Virginia


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in the coming year with the help of this grant.

6. Is Silicon Valley Beginning to Invest in Disrupting Education?

Idit published a blog on Huffington Post Impact, Is Silicon Valley Beginning to Invest inDisrupting Education?, which explains how big tech companies partnering with

independent innovators can be a force multiplier in disruptive education. Her blog calls fomore corporations to invest in pioneering education initiatives as a path to repairing thedigital divide plaguing not only Silicon Valley, but the nation and the world.

Knight Foundation Blog Features Globaloria in Silicon Valley: World Wide WorkshoCommunications Manager Kara Burritt wrote a guest blog for our Globaloria funder, theKnight Foundation, Silicon Valley Kids Use Tech to Create and Learn, spotlightingGlobaloria summer camps that were held at the Boys & Girls Clubs of Silicon Valley thissummer and examines how learning to create with technology through Globaloriaempowers youth to become digitally-literate citizens.

Idit Named Fellow of Disruptor Foundation: Idit was recently named a DisruptorFoundation Fellow, a community of accomplished and promising innovators who applytrans-disciplinary approaches in their work and daily lives to further the study andapplication of disruptive innovation. Co-founded by Harvard Professor ClaytonChristensen and Criag Hatkoff in 2009, the Disruptor Foundation mission is to raiseawareness of and encourage the advancement of disruptive innovation theory and its

application in societally-critical domains. Other Fellows include: Alec Ross, former Senior Advisor forInnovation at U.S. State Department; Tiffany Shlain, Filmmaker and Founder of The Webby Awards;Rachel Sterne Haot, Chief Digital Officer, New York City; Jason Silva, Futurist and Filmmaker; RusYusupov, Co-Founder of Vine; and Brian Sirgutz of Huffington Post Social Impact, among others. Idit wcontribute to this thought leadership her experience of and theories on the power of disruptive innovatioin education.

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For more information on Clayton Christensens original theory of disruptive innovation, pleasevisit:www.claytonchristensen.com/key-concepts .


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7. EdSurges New Guide to Games in SchoolEdSurge released a new EdSurge Guide: Playing Games in Schools.The comprehensive resource was edited by Tony Wan of EdSurge, andauthors published in the guide include friends of the Workshop, MichaelLevine of the Joan Ganz Cooney Center and James Paul Gee of ArizonaState University. Also published in the guide is a Guest Article by Idit: Video Games: The Shoebox

Diorama of the Future, which explores how learning to make a video game cultivates more than justprogramming skills by empowering students as authors with capacities in story-telling, perspective-takinand knowledge representation. Idit concludes that creating a video game is a deeply epistemologicallearning experience.

8. Help Us Get to SXSW in 2014 by September 6!We are excited to announce that the World Wide Workshop is again beingconsidered as a presenter forSXSW 2014 in Austin. But we need your voteto get there!

This year we organized a power panel, When Does EdTech Just Become

Education?, with provocative edtech thought leaders: Jaime Casap(@jcasap), Audrey Watters (@audreywatters), Tony Wan (@tonywan), andIdit (@idit). Vote online for our SXSWedu panel, and help us get toSXSWedu!

We are also organizing a SXSWinteractive session featuring Idit on Creating Engaged Learners throughMakerspaces.

Please vote online and help us get to SXSW!

But hurry voting closes September 6!

9. Globaloria Advisory Board Chair Talks CS Education at SheCodes ConferenceOn August 9, Jennifer Argello, Chair of the Globaloria in Silicon Valley Advisory Board,presented at SheCodes, a conference to connect and empower Bay Areas technicalprofessional women.Her presentation, The Little Girl Geek Wants to Play, described thelack of computer science education opportunities for K-12 girls in the United States, andhow professional women can work with youth to make up for these shortcomings andimprove their own careers and well-being.

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