Sesame Street comes to Google: Improving our education system at the Breakthrough Learning forum

There is a national invitation-only conference going on today and tomorrow at Google in Mountain View, California.
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/10/sesame-street-comes-to-google-improving.html

“The Breakthrough Learning in a Digital Age forum is one step we're taking to address some of our most pressing national education system issues…. This event will bring together 200 of the nation’s thought leaders in science and technology, informal and formal education, entertainment media, research, philanthropy and policy to design a strategy for scaling up effective models of teaching and learning for children, with an emphasis on technology. The forum will showcase new research, proven and promising education innovation models to challenge decision-makers to refresh and reboot American global leadership in education.”

Here is the agenda… prominent speakers are featured from Harlem Children's Zone, MacArthur Foundation, Carnegie Foundation, Netflix, Facebook, Sesame Workshop, US Dept. of Education, and of course Google: http://www.google.com/events/digitalage/agenda.html


Here’s a way to follow the conference via social media:
http://www.google.com/events/digitalage/community.html

There’s a live broadcast here (starts at 4pm pacific time today)
http://investor.shareholder.com/googpr/eventdetail.cfm?eventid=72855