What is #ASEFClassNet?
For over two decades, the ASEF Classroom Network (#ASEFClassNet) has been providing capacity-building opportunities for collaborative teaching and learning and a platform to explore the potential of cutting-edge EdTech tools and the integration of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) in secondary, high, and vocational schools in the Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) Partner countries. Its target group is broad, given its intergenerational & multi-stakeholder outreach. It ranges from students, teachers, school leaders, teacher trainers, researchers, policymakers, and to EdTech experts. Since its inception, about 1,900 teachers from all 51 ASEM Partner countries have participated in and become members of the ASEF Classroom Network. As a result, about 35,000 students have been engaged in over 430 Asia-Europe School Collaborations and local spin-off activities.
3rd ASEF Classroom Network Conference (#ASEFClassNet03)
The 3rd Conference, co-organised in collaboration with Madania School and the Department of National Education, Indonesia, with the theme on “Comparative Perspectives on Education and Professional Enrichment”.
The conference gathered 68 secondary and high school teachers and educators from 14 ASEM partner countries. Through a blend of workshops, visits and plenary sessions, the teacher participants engaged with the latest ICT education trends and the challenges of education in multi-cultural societies, before practically considering the resulting pedagogical opportunities.
During the conference, the teacher participants also collaborated on developing new school collaborations which help to further enrich the exchanges and dialogue among the secondary and high school student from Asia and Europe. As a result, seven new School Collaborations, involving around 50 schools from 14 countries in Asia and Europe, were endorsed during the conference.
At the same time, the ASEF ClassNet Awards were conferred to the top three School Collaboration project groups who have produced outstanding on-line learning platforms or applications under the ASEF Classroom Network Framework. The Awards were conferred to the following:
- Cultural Fusion – The Global Teenager
- Handshakes All Around the World – A Virtual Homestay
- Living in a Multicultural World
The social and cultural programme included a visit to the Bogor Botanical Garden and a courtesy call to the Presidential Palace in Jakarta, where the participants had the privilege of meeting the Indonesian former President, HE Mrs Megawati Soekarnoputri.
