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.
5th ASEF Classroom Network Conference (#ASEFClassNet05)
The 5th ASEF Classroom Conference with the theme “New Technologies – A Major Catalyst for Greater Learning?” and 80 secondary and high school teachers and educators from 23 ASEM partner countries in Asia and Europe gathered to see new education technologies transforming learning. The conference provides the educators to learnt from educational technology experts and shared their use of ICT in the classroom, encouraged reflection on the role of the teacher in this digital era.
During plenary sessions, interactive presentations, and visits to local schools, participants were exposed to the challenges and priorities in Chinese education and to practical ways of bridging the digital divide within classroom across Asia and Europe.
ASEF ClassNet teachers co-designed 12 new proposals for future Online Collaborations that spanned the numerous topics; all of which encouraged intercultural understanding and the development of ICT skills within their students and their fellow teachers. Three of the previous year’s School Collaborations were presented with ASEF ClassNet Awards in recognition of their outstanding work:
- Cultural Kaleidoscope 2005
- The World in a Book
- Utopia@VirtuaIHomestay
