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Sri Lankan teachers at Microsoft’s Innovative Teachers’ Conference in Korea
Microsoft recently hosted its 2nd Innovative Teachers’ Conference in Korea, with education policy makers joining over 150 teachers from 23 countries globally to share best practices in the innovative use of technology in education today, and for the future.

Organized under Microsoft’s Partners in Learning program , the November 3-10 conference was co-hosted by Korea Education & Resource Information Service (KERIS), and Ministry of Education & Human Resources Development, Republic of Korea and supported by Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education, UNESCO and EBS. Sri Lanka was represented by L. R Chandimali of Nuwara Eliya Galpalama Sinhala Vidyalaya, K. A. W Perera of Malabe Boys Model School and Y.M. K B Yapa from Bandarawela Heel Oya Sri Sumanagala Maha Vidyalaya. They were national winners of the Innovative Teachers Competition 2005 held earlier this year.

In addition to poster sessions where teachers shared their innovative teaching practices, the event featured keynotes by notable educators and thinkers such as Professor Eduardo Chaves, Coordinator of the UNESCO Chair in Education in Human Development at the Ayrton Senna Institute, in São Paulo, SP, Brazil as well as Professor Kyungsook C. Lee, President of Sookmyung Women's University and member and Board of trustee of Korea Education & Research Information Service (KERIS).

This first Innovative Teachers’ Conference was held last year in Singapore, which brought together top Asian education leaders, policy makers and more than 120 teachers from 16 Asia-Pacific countries. Globally Microsoft is investing over US$250 million in the next five years in its Partners in Learning program that delivers information and communication technology skills training, tailored curriculum development, technical support, and research funds and resources to students and teachers.

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