E-1 Education Summit: Learning for Tomorrow Saturday, July 26, 2008 9:00am-5:00pm The Education Summit will explore the cutting edge of education. A full-day program, the Summit will look at what tomorrow holds for education, including new technologies, new techniques and approaches to teaching futures, and visions for the coming decades. 8:30-9:00am Light Continental Breakfast 9:00-9:10am Overview of Day 9:10-10:30am Global Online Learning Pioneers (Panel of 7 students) Ted Kahn, co-founder, president, and CEO, DesignWorlds for Learning, Inc. Neerja Raman, senior fellow, Stanford University and Media X Project Online and virtual learning are now expanding rapidly beyond the major industrialized countries. The availability of high quality learning and teaching resources on the Web, many free of charge through open source or open access portals, is opening up incredible learning opportunities for students of all ages all over the world. However, we also need equal focus on how these resources are put into practice and how to support the diversity of student learning needs. 10:30-10:45am Break 10:45-12:00n Some Suggested Priorities for Futurists in the Classroom John Smart, president, Acceleration Studies Foundation Ideas will be shared for better foresight curriculum development at all educational levels and online community development. A brief overview of what is involved in developing and teaching a foresight course at a leading university will be discussed. 12:00-1:00pm Lunch 1:00-1:45pm Designing the Future of Education Irene Brock, partner, FuturEd, LLC A comparative overview will be presented that enables participants to identify the critical differences between the old factory-model schools we still have and the 21st century learning centers we need. 1:45-2:45pm Teaching Futures and Futures Education Stephen Steele, professor of future studies, Institute for the Future@AACC Peter Bishop, president, Strategic Foresight and Development 2:45-300pm Break 3:00-4:30pmFuture Trends and Visions for Education David Pearce Snyder, principal partner, Snyder Family Enterprise Dennis Peterson, superintendent, Minnetonka School District Arthur Shostak, professor emeritus of sociology, Drexel University 4:30-4:45pm Summary of Days Events $75 members/$125 nonmembers (includes light continental breakfast)  Register Now QUESTIONS? E-mail Susan Echard or call 1-800-989-8274 For more information contact: World Future Society, 7910 Woodmont Avenue, Suite 450, Bethesda, Maryland 20814; Tel: 1-800-989-8274 or 1-301-656-8274;  Fax: 1-301-951-0394;  Web Site: www.wfs.org;  E-mail: sechard@wfs.org.