Events Filed Under: Education

Explore the history and culture of U.S. immigration and migration through community stories, objects and experiences with Smithsonian curators and experts.

Join faculty, staff and administrators in higher education worldwide as they share their expertise and engage in productive forums about the use of educational technology for teaching and learning.

Smithsonian educators share ready-to-use resources for the classroom that explore the role of the presidency and highlight historic inaugural ceremonies of the past.

Join Smithsonian experts as they share historical facts, stories, and connections with museum objects that surround inaugurations — from the first Inauguration of George Washington to the upcoming Inauguration of Barack Obama.

Explore the work of many leaders, ordinary citizens and students undertook during the Civil Rights Movement to make a difference in today’s world.

Explore women’s contributions in relation to the women’s rights movements from the late nineteenth century to today.

Explore the history and culture of U.S. immigration and migration through community stories, objects and experiences with Smithsonian curators and experts.

Explore Civil Rights and Smithsonian collections with curators, experts, and educators in a free online conference.

The National Youth Summit brings middle and high school students together with scholars, teachers, policy experts and activists in a national conversation about important events in America’s past that impact the nation’s present and future.

The National Air and Space Museum will be offering a free, live webcast for early childhood educators, parents, and enthusiasts to learn how to teach inquiry science to three-, four-, and five-year-olds.

Jonathan Finkelstein, founder of LearningTimes and director of the BadgeStack Project, recently spoke to Dr. Martha J. Kanter, Under Secretary of Education at the U.S. Department of Education. The discussion turned towards digital badges and the role they can play in education and workforce development.

Join faculty, staff and administrators in higher education worldwide as they share their expertise and engage in productive forums about the use of educational technology for teaching and learning.

Join us for the National Rural Education Technology Summit 2.0 - a one-day online event for teachers, students and rural education stakeholders sponsored by the US Department of Education. The engaging and interactive program will showcase how technology is being used to overcome the challenges of distance and increase access to educational opportunities in distant and remote rural areas.

Learn how to access the MicroObservatory robotic telescope network operated by the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.

The MicroObservatory telescopes can be used in a variety of ways to facilitate powerful STEM learning for your students - come learn how to use it with your students.

Join the National Air and Space Museum for an interactive online conference developed especially for teachers and secondary students. Historians and educators from the Museum, and guests from the Department of the Navy and National History Day, will demonstrate critical thinking skills they use to evaluate information.

The most popular guide books on Online Teaching and Learning come to life as an Online Conference. Interact with over a dozen authors and hundreds of colleagues, right from your desktop. All participants receive a choice of 3 books.

TCC, Technology, Colleges and Community, is a worldwide online conference designed for university and college practitioners including faculty, academic support staff, counselors, student services personnel, students, and administrators.

Grab your phone, laptop or iPad because on April 27, 2011, IOC is going mobile! The 9th annual conference, Going Mobile in Higher Ed, will focus exclusively on mobile technologies in higher education.

The Smithsonian National Museum of American History, National September 11 Memorial & Museum, Pentagon Memorial Fund, and Flight 93 National Memorial offer a free online conference for designed to provide K-12 educators with resources and strategies for addressing the September 11 terrorist attacks.

Join us September 21, 2011 for the next free event in the Shout online conference series featuring Smithsonian experts. We'll explore the forest service, look at earth from space, hear the latest on the Tree Banding citizen science project, and connect with a panel of Smithsonian scientists to hear the latest on their environmentally-related work.

Author Parker J. Palmer of the Center for Courage & Renewal kicks off a series of conversations about “doing democracy from the inside out.” Thousands join the first event online from hundreds of convening sites around the world.

Designed for department chairs with more experience who want to know how to deal successfully with the key challenges of their position.

A professional, economical, and timely webcast series for department chairs to get the orientation and support they need to excel in their role.