Brad Ovenell-Carter
San Francisco, CA
Head and World Literature Teacher
BLC12 Presentation:
Building the ∞:1 Program, or why your 1:1 program is short-sighted
About Brad Ovenell-Carter:
Brad Ovenell-Carter is the Head of School at THINK Global School (TGS), the world’s first global, mobile high school. They have no building they can call home. Instead they take students and faculty from 12 countries to live, study and explore in three different international cities each year–Stockholm, Sydney and Beijing in year one, for example. Instead of bricks and mortar, they run have a 3:1 program (iPhones, iPads and MBPs) held together by a custom-made ELGG-based web platform.
Brad is fascinated with web technologies and their influence in reshaping education. As an Apple Distinguished Educator and avid blogger, and tweeter, he has consulted at individual schools and has been ask to speak on developing best practices in this field to the Canadian Association of Independent Schools, the Independent Schools Association of British Columbia and BLC10.