Sessions

Dreaming Without Borders: Values, Dreams, and SDGs at the iEARN Conference

      

Jeffrey Harlan

Cloud Cloth Education

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Jeffrey Harlan


Jeffrey has 30 years experience as a teacher and community program organizer. While teaching full-time he founded a program connecting students around the world through shared dreams by expressing them in words and art on cloth and connecting them. More than 120,000 students in 35 countries have participated. He created the Dreamline Program and founded the nonprofit Cloud Cloth Education to support it. He recently left classroom teaching to work full-time  on Dreaming Without Borders and on the expanding Dreamline Program. He was a workshop presenter at the 2017 iEARN conference in Morocco. That is where he and Michael Smolens met.

Michael Smolens

Dotsub

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Michael Smolens


Michael has more than 40 years experience in international business development and executive leadership, starting factories in Haiti, Mexico, Hungary, Romania, Egypt, Jordan, India, Turkey, Pakistan, and Azerbaijan. He has spent the last 13 years reaching across language barriers as founder and president of Dotsub, the first browser platform enabling video in any language to be available in any other language for clients including Apple, IBM, Facebook, Spotify, and Microsoft. He delivered the opening keynote at the 2017 iEARN conference in Morocco. That is where he and Jeffrey Harlan met.

      
Session Details

Type: Interactive Workshop

Location: Room 1306

Date: Thursday

Time: 2:00-3:20 PM

This session relates to the Dreamline iEARN Project!

Session Description

Dreaming Without Borders is about collecting our shared dreams, connecting them to our own values, and creating networks of people everywhere with aligned values, shared dreams, and a commitment to positive change--in their own lives and the life we all share on this planet. We will present the vision and accomplishments to date for Dreaming Without Borders including interactive Dream and Value flags from our recent pilot launch in Haiti. We will invite everyone at the conference to become involved and explain how to join.

What will educators learn and be able to do at the end of the session?

To inspire everyone to join in our global initiative to change the mindset of humanity through involvement with Dreaming Without Borders - directly aligned to UN SDGs.

Additional Session Information

We will present the vision and accomplishments to date for Dreaming Without Borders including:

Interactive Dream and Value flags from our recent pilot launch in Haiti. View a short video of our recent school pilot launch of our Dream and Value Flag program at Ecole Nouvelle Zorange in Port-au-Prince, Haiti here

Explanation and demonstration of how we are already aligning student dreams to UN SDGs. Our test trail of this is explained in the article: Dreamline and UN SDGs, A Clear and Present Voice for Change. Search sample Dreamline flags by any UN SDG  topic or number in our Dreamline gallery here

Updates on recent events and initiatives as we are moving forward. 

We will invite everyone at the conference to become involved and explain how. 

Session Resources

Dreaming Without Borders
Youtube Channel for Cloud Cloth Education

Dreaming Without Borders - Website 1
Dreamline Program Website

Dreaming Without Borders - Website 2
Dreamline Program Blog: IMPACT