With Lisa Parisi, Karen Janowski, Paul Bogush, Christine Southard
I love listening to these guys on EdTechTalk! Very excited for this session.
Sunday, January 31, 2010
Wikis for a Dynamic Curriculum
Wikis for a Dynamic Curriculum
Deon Metelski
Kent Place School
The session will use the Tuning Protocol to view and assess a part of the wiki curriculum. Attendees will be able to add to the discussion page of the wiki their "warm" and "cool" feedback.
Deon Metelski
Kent Place School
The session will use the Tuning Protocol to view and assess a part of the wiki curriculum. Attendees will be able to add to the discussion page of the wiki their "warm" and "cool" feedback.
Re-thinking Teacher Education
With Alec Couros and Dean Shareski
(Re)Imagining Social Media & Technology in Teacher Education
Join Dean Shareski and Alec Couros to discuss innovations in teacher education for developing technical skills and new literacies in preservice teachers. We'd like to share our experiences, but more importantly, we'd like to lead a conversation discussing the role of teacher education programs for developing innovative teachers.
(Re)Imagining Social Media & Technology in Teacher Education
Join Dean Shareski and Alec Couros to discuss innovations in teacher education for developing technical skills and new literacies in preservice teachers. We'd like to share our experiences, but more importantly, we'd like to lead a conversation discussing the role of teacher education programs for developing innovative teachers.
Saturday, January 30, 2010
Lucy Gray: Using tech to foster exploration and reflection
Using technology to foster exploration and reflection in science.
Lucy Gray, Debbie Leslie, and Jeanne Century
Lucy Gray, Debbie Leslie, and Jeanne Century
Model for online particpatory leanring online
At 12:30pm. I think this might be incredibly useful as our students travel. . .
Many to Many
Many to Many-- How Entire School Communities Can Collaborate
When:
Session One: Saturday 10:00am–11:30am
Who:
Jim Heynderickx
Affiliation: Director of Technology, American School in London
Conversational Focus/Audience:
All School Levels
Conversation Description:
Clay Shirky has published and presented on several interesting concepts about how the Internet can enable "many to many" communications and support. He has also noted that technology tools become socially interesting when they become technologically boring. The main idea of this conversation is to discover if his ideas are becoming apparent in our schools, and specific ways that we could foster their growth. In this context, we will also review the problems with type of change, and how some long-term beliefs and structures may need to be reviewed.
When:
Session One: Saturday 10:00am–11:30am
Who:
Jim Heynderickx
Affiliation: Director of Technology, American School in London
Conversational Focus/Audience:
All School Levels
Conversation Description:
Clay Shirky has published and presented on several interesting concepts about how the Internet can enable "many to many" communications and support. He has also noted that technology tools become socially interesting when they become technologically boring. The main idea of this conversation is to discover if his ideas are becoming apparent in our schools, and specific ways that we could foster their growth. In this context, we will also review the problems with type of change, and how some long-term beliefs and structures may need to be reviewed.
Opening Speaker at Educon--Saturday
Marilyn Perez --superintendent of Philly Schools.
Coming next:
Conversation Description:
Many to Many-- How Entire School Communities Can Collaborate Hosted by Jim Heynderickx Affiliation: Director of Technology, American School in London
Clay Shirky has published and presented on several interesting concepts about how the Internet can enable "many to many" communications and support. He has also noted that technology tools become socially interesting when they become technologically boring. The main idea of this conversation is to discover if his ideas are becoming apparent in our schools, and specific ways that we could foster their growth. In this context, we will also review the problems with type of change, and how some long-term beliefs and structures may need to be reviewed.
Coming next:
Conversation Description:
Many to Many-- How Entire School Communities Can Collaborate Hosted by Jim Heynderickx Affiliation: Director of Technology, American School in London
Clay Shirky has published and presented on several interesting concepts about how the Internet can enable "many to many" communications and support. He has also noted that technology tools become socially interesting when they become technologically boring. The main idea of this conversation is to discover if his ideas are becoming apparent in our schools, and specific ways that we could foster their growth. In this context, we will also review the problems with type of change, and how some long-term beliefs and structures may need to be reviewed.
Thursday, January 28, 2010
Headed to Educon!
I'm so excited to be headed to Educon tomorrow morning! There's supposed to be snow, yikes!
As usual, I'll be live blogging everything I can. I have a feeling there will be a lot less sitting and listening than is typical at conferences, so I'm not sure how the live blogs will work out. Still, I'll give it a try. Especially since there might be some people who are snowed in and more likely to come by to check it out than one might expect on a January weekend!
I don't have my whole schedule worked out quite yet (actually I don't have it worked out at all). I'll post it here as I get it worked out. I'll post my notes from the school day visit to SLA in a separate blog entry.
This post will contain the live blog of the opening session. Here are the details for that:
Join us at the Franklin Institute from 6-8pm on Friday, January 29th, 2010 to see a group of societal visionaries speak about their ideas on intelligence in a panel discussion.
Introductions for the evening will be made by Dr. Dennis Wint, CEO of The Franklin Institute and the panel will be moderated by Dr. Frederic Bertley, Vice President of the Center for Innovation and Science Learning at The Franklin Institute
Panelists Include:
* Loren Brichter - CEO of atebits Software and developer of Tweetie Twitter software.
* Prof. Martha Farah - Director, Center for Neuroscience & Society and Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Pennsylvania
* Happy Fernandez — President of the Moore College of Art
* Prof. Eddie Glaude - William S. Tod Professor of Religion and African American Studies. Chair, Center for African American Studies, Princeton University.
* David Shenk - Author of The Genius in All of Us, Data Smog and The End of Patience (and others)
Please, please feel free to drop in questions on any of the live blogs--these will be interactive presentations and there's a good chance I'll be able to ask your question.
As usual, I'll be live blogging everything I can. I have a feeling there will be a lot less sitting and listening than is typical at conferences, so I'm not sure how the live blogs will work out. Still, I'll give it a try. Especially since there might be some people who are snowed in and more likely to come by to check it out than one might expect on a January weekend!
I don't have my whole schedule worked out quite yet (actually I don't have it worked out at all). I'll post it here as I get it worked out. I'll post my notes from the school day visit to SLA in a separate blog entry.
This post will contain the live blog of the opening session. Here are the details for that:
Join us at the Franklin Institute from 6-8pm on Friday, January 29th, 2010 to see a group of societal visionaries speak about their ideas on intelligence in a panel discussion.
Introductions for the evening will be made by Dr. Dennis Wint, CEO of The Franklin Institute and the panel will be moderated by Dr. Frederic Bertley, Vice President of the Center for Innovation and Science Learning at The Franklin Institute
Panelists Include:
* Loren Brichter - CEO of atebits Software and developer of Tweetie Twitter software.
* Prof. Martha Farah - Director, Center for Neuroscience & Society and Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Pennsylvania
* Happy Fernandez — President of the Moore College of Art
* Prof. Eddie Glaude - William S. Tod Professor of Religion and African American Studies. Chair, Center for African American Studies, Princeton University.
* David Shenk - Author of The Genius in All of Us, Data Smog and The End of Patience (and others)
Please, please feel free to drop in questions on any of the live blogs--these will be interactive presentations and there's a good chance I'll be able to ask your question.
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Faculty Meeting January 11, 2010
On Monday, January 11th, the GDS faculty met to envision the GDS of 2030. You can read all the notes contributed by the groups on the webpage we built together during the meeting.
Here are two Wordles made from our responses to a couple of the questions posed in our faculty meeting. Click on the image to get a bigger view (you'll be able to actually read the words that way).
Question Two: What skills will a kindergarten child of today need to be successful in this world you have imagined 20 years from now?
Question Three: Think about your own life and the times when you were really learning – the “peak learning experiences” of your life. What were the conditions that made your high-performance learning experiences so powerful?
Here are two Wordles made from our responses to a couple of the questions posed in our faculty meeting. Click on the image to get a bigger view (you'll be able to actually read the words that way).
Question Two: What skills will a kindergarten child of today need to be successful in this world you have imagined 20 years from now?
Question Three: Think about your own life and the times when you were really learning – the “peak learning experiences” of your life. What were the conditions that made your high-performance learning experiences so powerful?
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