AN ONLINE MULTIMEDIA CONFERENCE BRIDGE TO IDEC 2006.

Thursday, July 13, starting at 8:00 am, Sydney Morning Time
For your local time, check the World Clock: http://timeanddate.com/worldclock/


UPDATE NOTES

>>> IDEC SESSION RECORDINGS NOW AVAILABLE FOR FREE DOWNLOAD go to http://pnyv.org/idec2006/recordings >>> TECHNICAL INFORMATION for Online Conference Participation >>> IDEC ISLE space SURF-MENU! Take a Virtual Multimedia Flight into the Global Stratosphere of Positive Changemaking. >>> RECOMMENDED READING materials listed below; all available free and online!

COMPLETE PROGRAMME & SPEAKERS - PREVIEW:

8:00 a.m. - 11.00 a.m.
PRESENTATIONS, followed by DISCUSSIONS
- Dame Julia Morton-Marr, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Council on Global Issues, http://ryerson.ca/~woc International Holistic Tourism Education Centre - IHTEC; http://ihtec.org Topic: Democratic and Sustainability Education SLIDES: http://www.homestead.com/ihtec/IDEC2006JMM.mht (7MB)
- Heiner Benking, Berlin, Germany Open-Forum; http://benking.de, http://in-betweener.org, http://open-forum.de Topic 1: Dialogue- and Conversation-formats for co-creative and open participation and democracy Topic 2: Worldmapping and Worldviews: Earth-Literacy, Map & Model Literacy SLIDES: http://benking.de/education/idec2006/
- Eric Schneider, Berlin, Germany Positive Nett-Works, PNYV! World Future School Project http://pnyv.org http://worldfutureschool.org Topic: THE ‚INVISIBLE‘ TREASURES - EXPLORING OPTIONS FOR INTERACTION : Can we interconnect alternative schools and state schools to learn from another, together and take the public school systems into the future? New, positive Learning Culture in avantgarde state schools and teacher training in Germany, and in the world's most recognised state school system: Finland (PISA "world champion"), Informal Sustainability Learning Environments & Instruments ISLEs, Treasure Mapping and Positive News Media, global and online-based youth changemaker communities. SLIDES:
10:00 a.m. UNFORTUNATELY CANCELLED - John Fien, Australia; National Coordinator for the United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development 11:00 a.m. - Open ended discussion, training etc.

INFORMATION:

On occasion of IDEC 2006, we are realising Live Sessions via Internet. Following the motto "democratic education - what's next", IDEC for the first time offers a space for a specific learning topic: in/formal sustainability learning. The aim is, to offer students, educators and parents a variety of rich learning environments, opportunities and instruments for exploring how better societies and futures are possible. Publications, example projects and contacts are to be understood as flowery meadows, gardens and practical tools and communities-in-heart-and-mind that young people can choose, pick up, study, apply, connect and interrelate with. The focus is on project based learning activities that evoke relevant change in the real world - "out there" and "inside us".

The sessions focus on outstanding aspects and projects for sustainability learning. They offer insights into instruments which children and youth develop and apply in self-organised manner - not only to develop their own horizons but for transforming their own world, lifestyle and community in positive ways. Also, examples of a new learning culture in state schools are discussed, and opportunities for cooperation in inter/national projects. Last not least, the common learning for a better world of the young generation across borders of state and alternative schools offers opportunities for a first-hand look at the potentials of the world of democratic learning.

Looking ahead, one aspect becomes very interesting - in how far will young people take up the opportunity to educate and engage themselves for turning their own priority of a better world into reality through collaboration with young people all over the world. Of course, there exist unique potentials in schools that offer young people the freedom to self-organise their learning. And here are also great chances for showing how essential their learning culture and spaces are for human beings as individual and as - more and more locally-globally interdependent - community. Especially because current state school systems demand and advocate Citizenship Education, Peace Education, Ethical Value Learning, Sustainability Learning with growing priority - but hinder their implementation by their basic frameworks.

The organisers of the multimedia sessions are at home in both worlds. IHTEC (Canada) develops holistic curricula for Global Peace and Sustainability Education, and focuses on digital distance training of teaching staff. Positive Nett-Works (Germany) develops instruments that establish access and exchange to precious avantgarde changemaking knowledge - between youth, school, communities, villages, civil society, sciences, the United Nations; - for nurturing and amplifying local and international communication, innovation, cooperation and transformation.

The organisers are also working towards the development of a multimedia conferencing platform that is open and free to use for schools and youth organisations around the world. To overcome widespread investment gaps for group conferencing and travel.



USEFUL READING FOR TUNING IN:

Living Planet Report, WWF
44 illustrated pages, http://panda.org/news_facts/publications/key_publications/living_planet_report/lpr04/index.cfm, document: http://panda.org/downloads/general/lpr2004.pdf

Handbook on Global Issues & Viable Solutions
Full Handbook, 22 pages, online / document & slideshow presentation, Helmut Burkhardt, Canada, presented at World Peace Forum in Vancouver Canada, 23-28 June 2006

Sustainability Literacy
Paper, 3 pages, online / document & Slideshow Presentation, Dame Julia Morton-Marr, Canada, presented at World Peace Forum in Vancouver Canada, 23-28 June 2006

Global Action Priorities
Paper, 1pager, online / document, presented at EWOC 2004, Helmut Burkhardt and Julia Morton-Marr, Canada

Democratic Education & Sustainability Learning
"Learning How and What we Want or Learning for what we Care for?" Eric Schneider, Berlin
Article, 2 pages, online / document

Global Democracy & Sustainability Literacy Learning - Why They Must Go Hand-in-Hand
A look at concrete instruments, - ISLEs, IDLEs, IGLEs - for nurturing Fair Global Citizenship - sound, co-creative decision-finding and -implementation for the Greater Common Good - in the future generation.
Eric Schneider, Berlin; Paper for 1st Virtual Congress on World Citizenship and Democratic Global Governance, 1-31 July 2006
Paper, 9 pages, http://pnyv.org/idec2006/fairglobalcitizenship

Dialogues and Conversations
Participation and Moderation/Mediation ways and means towards re-inventing Democracy and Good-Governance,
Heiner Benking, Open-Forum, Berlin; Paper for 1st Virtual Congress on World Citizenship and Democratic Global Governance, 1-31 July 2006
Paper, 12 pages, http://benking.de/dialog/dialogue-conversation2006/

Earth Literacy & Map-Literacy
Article, 1page: http://pnyv.org/idec2006/earthliteracy and a rich website: http://in-betweener.org/flatworlds and http://in-betweener.org/flatworlds/maps/earth-literacy.html


SESSION THEMES, related materials

Global Peace & Sustainability Education
- Introduction: http://www.ihtec.org/index.php?id=89
- Programs: http://www.ihtec.org/index.php?id=60

Informal Sustainability Learning & Relevant and Effective Youth-led Action
- ISLEs : Informal Sustainability Learning Environments : introduction / concept, example / application
- Treasure Mapping: http://www.pnyv.org/index.php?id=85
- PNYV! Positive Change & Amplifier Instrument: http://www.pnyv.org/index.php?id=134 evolving in 25 languages

Global Democracy & Sustainability Literacy Learning - Why They Must Go Hand-in-Hand
A look at concrete instruments, - ISLEs, IDLEs, IGLEs - for nurturing Fair Global Citizenship - sound, co-creative decision-finding and -implementation for the Greater Common Good - in the Young Generation.
Eric Schneider, Berlin; Paper for 1st Virtual Congress on World Citizenship and Democratic Global Governance, 1-31 July 2006
Paper, 12 pages, http://pnyv.org/fairglobalcitizenship

Earth Literacy
- http://in-betweener.org/flatworlds
- http://in-betweener.org/flatworlds/maps/earth-literacy.html



FURTHER EXCELLENT READING

BROWN, LESTER, R. : Plan B 2.0: Rescuing a Planet Under Stress and a Civilization in Trouble, 2006, (COMPLETE BOOK ONLINE)
http://earth-policy.org/Books/PB2/Contents.htm

EARTH CHARTER INITIATIVE : The Earth Charter in Action - Towards a Sustainable World,
http://earthcharterinaction.org/eci_book.html (COMPLETE BOOK ONLINE)

EARTH CHARTER INITIATIVE : The Earth Charter, in 32 languages http://www.earthcharter.org/innerpg.cfm?id_menu=19

FULLER, R. BUCKMINSTER - VARIOUS COMPLETE BOOKS & ARTICLES
incl. Humanity's Option for Success, Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth, Big Picuture Thinking, Education Automation, ...
http://bfi.org/taxonomy/term/32 (COMPLETE WORKS ONLINE)

TRANSPARENCY INTERNATIONAL - VARIOUS PUBLICATIONS
- Teaching Integrity to Youth, special edition tool kit 2004, Experiences and emerging strategies from civil society, Examples from 11 Countries (COMPLETE BOOK ONLINE) http://transparency.org/tools/e_toolkit/corruption_fighters_tool_kit_special_edition_2004
- Stealing the Future : Corruption in the Classroom 2005, Ten Examples from Ten Countries, 88 pages (COMPLETE BOOK ONLINE), http://transparency.org/global_priorities/education/corruption_education
- Corruption Fighters' Tool Kit (COMPLETE BOOKS ONLINE) http://transparency.org/publications/toolkit

VARIOUS SCIENTIFIC PAPERS
http://ihtec.org/index.php?id=208


MORE UPCOMING AND WILL BE COLLECTED AND FEATURED AT:
- http://pnyv.org/index.php?id=131