Sessions
Dreaming Without Borders: Values, Dreams, and SDGs at the iEARN Conference
Jeffrey Harlan
Cloud Cloth Education
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
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.
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