Super busy GEG Gyeonggi

GEG Gyeonggi had contributed to virtually training 5,000 teachers in the Gyeonggi district, South Korea helping the district administrators with 13 training sessions live with YouTube live streaming from July 22 to August 7. This has been the very first trial for the Gyeonggi Office of Education to run official and mandatory teacher training sessions only online and the GEG Gyeonggi leaders and captains dedicated their time to running training sessions, technical support like setting up streaming, checking attendance for all 13 sessions and answering questions from the participants.

13 speakers including the superintendent of the Gyeonggi Office of Education covered the topics from AI to Student autonomy activities. The leader of the GEG Gyeonggi Judy Kim presented about Z Generation’s global competence with Media Literacy and Digital Literacy and introduced GSuite for Education in her session. 400 teachers signed up and 1,200 viewers have watched her session so far.

Here’s the link for the playlist of the training sessions https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXMHrniMaR4pZaHnOEAroKWOfUPYFkKCY

Google EDU Winter Festival

Last December 19th, GEG Gyeonggi and GEG Seoul, with the amazing participation of The Gyeonggi Happy Teachers Group, hosted an EDU Winter Festival event at Google Korea’s office. Over 110 educators gathered to share their knowledge and learn from each other. 

The event started off with a bi-lingual sing-along where English speakers and Korean speakers both pushed themselves outside of their comfort zones.

The speakers came from many backgrounds and the topics were very diverse. Teachers had a hands-on presentation about the power of Google Classroom with Google Trainers Rob McElroy and TS Bray, where they played the role of both teacher and student to see how this tool can make their classrooms more collaborative and organized. They delved into the importance of showing students that the journey is as important as the destination with a presentation on Process-based assessment. 

The Gyeonggi Happy Teachers opened our minds to how interdisciplinary education based on system dynamics can change how and what materials we deliver to our students.

Finally, Judy Kim dazzled everyone with her Google Innovator project that focuses on making Google tools accessible to all. We at GEG Gyeonggi and GEG Seoul hope that 2020 will bring wonderful learning opportunities to everyone in GEG and we hope to host more beneficial and fun events in 2020.