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GlobalLab

Introducing a New Age of Exploration & Learning for All

Dr. Boris Berenfeld

Founder, Chairman, and Chief Scientist

GlobalLab integrates inquiry, crowdsoircing and instruction to revolutionize collaborative learning

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Pedagogical innovations

Technological innovations

GlobalLab Where Technological & Pedagogical Innovations Meet

Where Technological & Pedagogical Innovations Meet

Technological innovations

An integrated environment supports crowdsourcing and authoring of the investigation- driven learning modules

• Virtual research environments

• Data enrichment technologies

• Data exchanges, aggregation, and visualization

• Collecting data from probes directly via the Internet

Pedagogical innovations

A new generation of learning materials that transcend national, cultural and language barriers

• Collaborative inquiry – based pedagogy

• Specialized social network for education

• Real-world context for engaged learning

• Real science integrated into classroom instruction



GlobalLab “The World’s Biggest Science Class”

““TThhee WWoorrlldd’’ss BBiiggggeesstt SScciieennccee CCllaassss””

• Piloted in 3000 Schools in 30 countries

• Featured in Fortune, Science, and Wired magazines

• Publications in peer-reviewed international educational journals

• Bulletin UNESCO called GlobalLab “The World’s Biggest Science Class”



GlobalLab Benefits and Value Proposition

Benefits and Value Proposition

For Students. Social networking combined with hands-on learning opportunities

For Parents. A small fee – Very large learning outcomes

For Teachers. “Off-the-shelf” inquiry projects utilizing existing infrastructure

For Schools. Meeting the call for the centrality of inquiry and critical thinking

For Employers. Skills required for the workplaces of the future

For Governments. Science-literate citizens



GlobalLab Leadership Team

Dr. Boris Berenfeld, Chief Scientist Over 20 years of experience in the development of IT learning solutions for leading institutions worldwide (MIT, TERC, IBM, GLOBE project). Fellow, The World Technology Network.

Dr. Tatiana Krupa, President More than 10 years of experience in spearheading large teams in the development, marketing, and sale of award-winning education software products in Russia and CIS.

Leadership Team

Founder Dr. Boris Berenfeld is a world renown expert in the field of advanced technologies in education

The team: experts in IT, programming, mobile applications, business development, modern pedagogy and instructional design

Dr. Alexander Kharshiladze, Chief Executive Officer Mathematician and financier, close to 20 years experience in commercialized products for education markets. Highly skilled in organizational management and planning.

Arseny Lebedev, CTO/Head Software Developer Developer of sophisticated search engine technologies, lead developer of advanced web-based solutions, and for the last five years, lead developer of the Global Lab platform.

Yana Zlochevskaya, Chief Tutor A pioneer of the Russian Global Lab, lead developer of training materials, has taught teachers to implement GlobalLab in daily classroom practice.



GlobalLab Designed for an always connected world

GlobalLab is designed for an always connected world.

Join us as we reinvent learning and discovery in the age of pervasive, cloud-based social media.

Thank You!



GlobalLab First Generation Brain–to–Cloud Interface

When you see somebody on the street, your visor will tell you their name and other quick information so your brain won’t have to do all that work.

From Ray Kurzweil



GlobalLab New generation of social networking

CROWDSOURCING DATA SOURCING CITIZEN SCIENCE

The excitement of simply being connected is being replaced by a new generation of social networking activities – people doing something together out of civic responsibility or scientific curiosity



GlobalLab Citizen science involves millions

According to IBM, “A whole class of citizen scientists will emerge using simple sensors that already exist to create massive datasets for research”

GlobalLab anticipated this development over ten years ago



GlobalLab You are a walking sensor

Sensors in our phones, cars, wallets, and even tweets will collect data that give scientists real-time pictures of our environments and ourselves



Wired but not Connected

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Wired and Connected

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GlobalLab History of classroom technologies

Classroom technologies:

from mentoring with clay tablets

to mobile computing



GlobalLab Targeting the education market

Education is on the brink of a revolution caused by a new generation of digital textbooks

New type of content

• Dynamic • Adaptive • Renewable

Beyond content

• Input from cameras, recorders, digital probes • Record observations, essays, etc. • Enable to join social networks • Aggregate and display crowdsourced data



GlobalLab Delivering inquiry learning

Our goals

Our products

New types of educational materials:

• Support collaborative investigations by communities of citizen scientists & students

• Allow the implementation of project-based curriculum into school practice

• Meet national educational standards

Internet resources

• A specialized social network for crowdsourcing & education

• Web applications that support citizen science & student investigations

• Aggregation & scientific visualizations of data

• Learning modules and integrated science courses & content



GlobalLab Collaborative Platform for Citizen Science & Education

GlobalLab is a framework for education & discovery

GlobalLab uniquely provides a technological platform, tools, databases & resources for crowdsourcing and citizen science projects



GlobalLab Centrality of Inquiry

Collaborative Investigations in Biology




Collaborative Investigations in Earth Science



GlobalLab Working with any probe

Any probe – even smartphones – can send data to the GlobalLab platform

We work with an increasing number of applications that support environmental monitoring from acid rain to radiation to sound and light pollution



GlobalLab Lowering the entry barrier

By loading the GlobalLab applications on a mobile device every student in the word can participate in the data-streaming crowdsourcing, participate in discussions and develop a sense of belonging to the worldwide network of citizen-scientist



GlobalLab Comparing data globally

GlobalLab not only captures data, it also displays datasets on world maps

Users can compare their findings with data worldwide

Crowdsourcing & citizen science become

• Relevant • Engaging • Easy • Fun

Moscow School 2030




Collaborative Investigations in Physics



GlobalLab GlobalLab and Big Data

Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work and Think

Causality or simple correlations?

Knowing why or knowing what?…

Learn to trust what the data is

telling us before we fully understand why…



GlobalLab Developing science process skills

How professional scientists compare results obtained by different research groups?



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