{"success":true,"data":[{"ID":394,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1389932217,"CreatorID":62,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Open Pedagogy","Handle":"Dr-David_Wiley","ShortDescription":"Using open educational resources, like open textbooks, can both save money and increase student success. But using OER also unlocks new pedagogies unavailable to teachers who use textbooks and other curriculum from commercial publishers. In this workshop, Dr. Wiley will discuss the research base behind \"killing the disposable assignment\" and demonstrate how using OER allows student assessments to take on value and meaning for students and teachers alike.","Description":"Using open educational resources, like open textbooks, can both save money and increase student success. But using OER also unlocks new pedagogies unavailable to teachers who use textbooks and other curriculum from commercial publishers. In this workshop, Dr. Wiley will discuss the research base behind \"killing the disposable assignment\" and demonstrate how using OER allows student assessments to take on value and meaning for students and teachers alike.","Link":["http:\/\/opencontent.org\/blog\/"],"Audience":[],"Practice":".","Presenter":["Dr. David Wiley"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Shuttleworth Fellow","Scholar in Residence at the University of Utah","and Education Fellow at Creative Commons."],"PresenterEmail":["david.wiley@lumenlearning.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":6,"ScheduleLocationID":13,"SubmitterID":62,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":3},{"ID":395,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1389970604,"CreatorID":62,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"TBD","Handle":"TBD","ShortDescription":"TBD","Description":".","Link":[],"Audience":[],"Practice":".","Presenter":["To Be Determined"],"PresenterAffiliation":["."],"PresenterEmail":["dlaufenberg@gmail.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":6,"ScheduleLocationID":15,"SubmitterID":62,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":3},{"ID":393,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1389930741,"CreatorID":62,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Advisory 101: What Does It Look Like?","Handle":"Advisory_101:What_Does_It_Look_Like","ShortDescription":"This session is for educators who want to explore starting or improving an Advisory Program in their schools. Participants in this session will unpack what their ideal Advisory program would look like while examining questions around some of the ways an Advisory program can create challenges for teachers and students as they create a new dynamic for interaction in their schools.","Description":".","Link":["http:\/\/scienceleadership.org"],"Audience":["High School"],"Practice":".","Presenter":["Chris Lehmann","Pia Martin"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Science Leadership Academy"],"PresenterEmail":["clehmann@scienceleadership.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":16,"ScheduleLocationID":13,"SubmitterID":62,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":3},{"ID":357,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1383759097,"CreatorID":79,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"An Insider View of Inquiry and Project-Based Learning","Handle":"An_Insider_View_of_Inquiry_and_Project-Based_Learning","ShortDescription":"SLA Students and Teachers will lead a roundtable discussion on inquiry and project based learning.","Description":"Join SLA students and teachers as we puzzle through different experiences and challenges related to inquiry and project-based learning. Bring questions and experiences to share.","Link":[],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"Conversation","Presenter":["Joshua Block","Tim Best","& SLA Students"],"PresenterAffiliation":["SLA"],"PresenterEmail":["jblock@scienceleadership.org","tbest@scienceleadership.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":25,"ScheduleLocationID":5,"SubmitterID":79,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":3},{"ID":326,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1383149670,"CreatorID":79,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Authentic Student Choice: Honors Senior Seminar at Hudson HSLT","Handle":"Authentic_Student_Choice:Honor_Senior_Seminar_HSLT","ShortDescription":"Give your classroom back to your students!\r\n\r\nWhen you give authentic choice and control to studentsm you let students learn on their own terms. Students get to digest what they learn rather than have it thrown at them. What happens when you give students control of what they learn, how they learn, and how they are assessed?","Description":"Giving students control gives them a chance at leadership and not simply being handed everything. Together we'll explore methods and processes for student choice in Hudson's Indisciplinary  Senior Seminar.","Link":[],"Audience":["High School"],"Practice":"We plan on making this a conversation by first giving a short explanation of the program, and then allowing guest to get a glimpse of what the senior seminar is. They'll see a gallery of our past work, and also experience how the flow of our discussions work.","Presenter":["Grace O'Keeffe","Sarah Shahata","Matthew Pressman","Racheal Rydell-Klages","Osvaldo Castillo","Omar Abreu","Keenan Edwards","Zainab Oni"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Hudson High School of Learning Technologies"],"PresenterEmail":["Gokeeffe@hudsonhs.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":25,"ScheduleLocationID":2,"SubmitterID":79,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":3},{"ID":367,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1384189631,"CreatorID":88,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Creating a Global Citizen","Handle":"Creating_a_Global_Citizen","ShortDescription":"This panel will discuss the increasing importance of global education in today's classrooms. The four National Resource Centers at UPENN will share the latest trends in global pedagogy and resources available for Educators to facilitate a global curriculum.","Description":"Surveys recently conducted by the National Geographic Society and the Asia Society shed light on a growing concern: the decline of multicultural awareness. Their studies show that U.S. students lack an understanding and knowledge of different people, places, and cultures around the world. The need has grown for the public to demand more rounded, higher-quality education for today's youth, and for teachers to understand the value and necessity of developing lessons based on global education.The four National Resource Centers at Penn, The South Asia Center, Middle East Center, African Studies Center and the Center for East Asian Studies are dedicated to the promotion of global education in the Delaware Valley Region.","Link":["http:\/\/www.southasiacenter.upenn.edu"],"Audience":["High School","Middle School","Elementary School","All School Levels"],"Practice":"Representatives from the four Centers at UPENN will share their individual expertise on global education focusing on their specific world regions, and initiate a conversation among participants a conversation on the best practices in introducing global education in their class rooms. The conversation will also engage with the importance of a global world view for the students and in the promotion of multiculturalism in schools.","Presenter":["Raili Roy"],"PresenterAffiliation":["University of Pennsylvania"],"PresenterEmail":["railiroy@sas.upenn.edu"],"ScheduleSlotID":25,"ScheduleLocationID":3,"SubmitterID":88,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":3},{"ID":331,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1383201014,"CreatorID":79,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Cultivating Connections with the Arts","Handle":"Cultivating_Connections_with_the_Arts","ShortDescription":"Students find multiple avenues for expression through the Arts! Join this conversation to explore how the Arts enhance learning and create connections in traditional and inquiry-based lessons. Discussion will include research-based inquiry models, interdisciplinary connections, and how to incorporate the Arts, even when outside your comfort zone.","Description":"With a focus on the process of learning and reflection in today's classroom, the ability to express oneself and communicate becomes an essential piece of the process. Students find multiple avenues for expression through the Arts! \r\nJoin this conversation to explore how the Arts enhance learning and create connections in traditional and inquiry-based lessons. Discussion will include research-based inquiry models, interdisciplinary connections, and how to incorporate the Arts, even when outside your comfort zone. You don't have to be a music, art, or theater specialist to enrich your students' experiences with the Arts! Together, we\u2019ll create some strategies and lesson ideas to take back to your classroom\/school immediately.","Link":["http:\/\/avenue4learning.com","https:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/artsedconnection\/"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"Conversation Protocol: \"What? So What? Now What?\"\r\nAdditionally, we'll create a Google Document to capture our discussion points and share on the \"Cultivating Connections with the Arts\" Google Site. Twitter and\/or TodaysMeet will be used as a backchannel.","Presenter":["Michelle Baldwin"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Anastasis Academy"],"PresenterEmail":["michellek107@gmail.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":25,"ScheduleLocationID":8,"SubmitterID":79,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":3},{"ID":286,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1378823570,"CreatorID":88,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Discussing Change Within the Well-Functioning School","Handle":"Discussing_Change_Within_the_Well-Functioning_School","ShortDescription":"Collaborating around the topic of changes in a stable and successful institution can be difficult for a variety of reasons, not the least of which is motivating a sense of need for continual improvement. This session aims to open a dialogue among participants on both philosophical and technical means to facilitate these conversations among faculties.","Description":"While it may seem to be a \u201cfirst world problem,\u201d facilitating a conversation about improvement in an already-successful school can be difficult for a variety of reasons. Some topics to be addressed include:  \r\n-\ttechniques (Google doc collaboration, small groups phasing in work over time, etc.)  \r\n-\tmotivating the need for change  \r\n-\tincreasing buy-in for new approaches and ideas  \r\n-\tunderstanding the legitimate (and not-so-legitimate) causes of resistance to change among teachers and administrators  \r\n-\tintroducing data into a non-data-driven environment  \r\n-\tnot letting the good be the enemy of the great\r\n\r\nThe example of Eric Mazur\u2019s realization that his successful and happy Harvard physics students were actually learning very little, and his efforts to remedy this, will be a jumping-off point for the session. If you're coming, please watch [\"Confessions of a Converted Lecturer\"](http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WwslBPj8GgI) beforehand! If you're not up for the whole thing, the first 20 minutes or so are the general idea, and [here's an edit](http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=rvw68sLlfF8) condensing it to around 18 minutes.","Link":["http:\/\/tatnallsbg.blogspost.com"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"Modeling one of the practices that can work in a large and stable organization, the large group of participants will establish the goals of the discussion first, identifying several sub-questions, and will break into smaller groups, collaborating face-to-face within the group and intra-group using a shared Google doc. As groups add their input to the doc, they will see the input of other groups, and can add that information to their small group discussion, respond to the other groups, and otherwise form a large collaboration from many small collaborations. Each participant will be able to add his or her voice frequently, feel involved in a more personal small group dynamic at all times, and also be able to share ideas across a larger set of people. Each group will also not necessarily need to address each question, so that participants can add their input to the areas about which they are most invested, improving the average quality of thought of all contributions.\r\n\r\nGoogle docs for collaboration during the conversation:\r\n\r\nFirst Gdoc: [bit.ly\/educonchange1](http:\/\/bit.ly\/educonchange1) or [the direct link](https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1-SJiahgYmG-FS76wpnq_uNUfr20Yq5UqI61eZ0Q992E\/edit?usp=sharing)\r\n\r\nSecondGdoc: [bit.ly\/educonchange2](http:\/\/bit.ly\/educonchange2) or [the direct link](https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1QmnWocjXgclZNVZPujgMHSjrrbwrpoTrnYoQCSeUuqc\/edit?usp=sharing)\r\n\r\nThird Gdoc: [bit.ly\/educonchange3](http:\/\/bit.ly\/educonchange3) or [the direct link](https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/194uFZuD9_k7-oKPg2YQIW555Y9qGidFoKCt2G8NeUsk\/edit?usp=sharing)","Presenter":["Joshua Gates"],"PresenterAffiliation":["The Tatnall School"],"PresenterEmail":["jgates@tatnall.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":25,"ScheduleLocationID":12,"SubmitterID":88,"AdditionalComments":"Looking forward to EduCon this year!","LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":3},{"ID":328,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1383170589,"CreatorID":79,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Do Spiders Fart ? and Other Ponderings from the schoolyard","Handle":"Do_Spiders_Fart-and_Other_Ponderings_from_the_schoolyard","ShortDescription":"Do spiders fart? What do the footprints of a robin look like? Do ants climb trees? These questions were all inspired by our study of our schoolyard at the Mission Hill School.  Come discuss why no school should be without outdoor learning, how inquiry isn't just for science, and  how letting children lead an investigation will take your thinking deeper.\u201d","Description":"The conversation focus will be about the benefits of using the inquiry process for science, but also for many aspects of a students day.  \r\n\r\nThe conversation will include . . . \r\n - Myself and others sharing our experiences.  \r\n - Learning about The Quest Inquiry process out of Miami University\r\n- Discussion of what outdoor learning with inquiry can bring for children with special needs and English language learners.\r\n-Discussion will also include aspects of walking in the shoes of the students we teach and conducting inquiry our selves.\r\n- We will reflect on we we know and what are obstacles to helpers to getting thinking about inquiry","Link":["http:\/\/www.missionhillschool.org"],"Audience":["Elementary School"],"Practice":"I am a collaborative educator.  One of the first things I do is talk with the people who attend about the fact as a collective we are a force.  I bring up ideas to spark thought.  People then ask questions that others answer as well as my voice being a part of the conversation.","Presenter":["Katherine Clunis D'Andrea"],"PresenterAffiliation":["The Mission Hill School"],"PresenterEmail":["kdandrea@missionhillschool.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":25,"ScheduleLocationID":11,"SubmitterID":79,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":3},{"ID":291,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1379982475,"CreatorID":88,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Engaging as Networked Thought Leaders: Let's Write a Book In 90 Minutes!","Handle":"Engaging_as_Networked_Thought_Leaders:Let-s_Write_a_Book_In_90_Minutes","ShortDescription":"Leaders give and take from a range of networks, helping them to infuse their organizations with new ideas. Often lost in talk of networking, though, is that it requires particular habits of participation. Participants in this session will practice the network habit by writing, peer editing, and contributing media in a 90-minute workshop. We will write a book on the spot and publish it soon after. As an added bonus, participants will walk away with a new network from which to learn.","Description":"Slide Deck: https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/s\/u866nt45v4hs824\/educon.pdf\r\n\r\nPart I (18 minutes): Respond to at least one of the five prompts provided by the facilitators\r\n\r\nPart II (18 minutes): A brief introduction to our conversation\r\n\r\nPart III (18 minutes): Peer edit AND\/OR contribute media\r\n\r\nPart IV (18 minutes): Collection of contributor bios, contact info, and head shots (anonymous is ok)\r\n\r\nPart V (18 minutes): Reflection and Q &A; Presentation of proof of concept\r\n\r\nhttp:\/\/www.leadingonline.net\r\n\r\nIn the past, the idea of networking could carry a negative context, especially for educators. Some people certainly connect with others online as a form of self promotion, pushing an agenda that has more to do with their own aspirations for their careers rather than their aspirations for the schools at which they currently work. While this practice is unfortunate, it should not tarnish the reputations of those people who are consciously working to build their global, online networks in service of the work they do locally, and offline, at their home base schools.\r\n\r\nIndeed, networked individuals bring great potential value to their teams. While they develop personal brands and recognition as their competencies grow, their networking skills allow them to build their support systems before they need them. If your school faces a problem the likes of which it has never seen, the most networked individual on your team will know where to turn to begin to address the problem. Though your best solution may come from inside your school, why wouldn\u2019t you want to increase your odds of solving that problem by having access to a group of educators and non-educators spanning the globe?\r\n\r\nSo some educators publish and read blogs, and some educators go a step further, building and sharpening their leadership positions through more active entanglements in the online world. They not only follow thought leaders but also engage actively with them. They organize around a purpose. They share resources. They facilitate learning. They get a group moving. \r\n\r\nThis session provides the opportunity both to engage with thought leaders \u2014 the other participants in the room \u2014 and engage as thought leaders by constructing an authentic and shareable artifact in 90 minutes.\r\n\r\nFrom the first minute to the last participants will engage in activities that prompt them to think, reflect, revise, and share. Besides the introduction, this conversation is going to be an environment of activity and thought leadership. While participants are welcome to come as passive observers, we encourage the sharing of thoughts and ideas. Though we have never done anything like this before, we sincerely believe that it will be an amazing experience for all who join in this venture!","Link":["http:\/\/www.leadingonline.net","http:\/\/www.refreshingwednesday.com","http:\/\/www.constructivisttoolkit.com"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"From the first minute to the last participants will engage in activities that prompt them to think, reflect, revise, and share. Besides the introduction, this conversation is going to be an environment of activity and thought leadership. While participants are welcome to come as passive observers, we encourage the sharing of thoughts and ideas. Though we have never done anything like this before, we sincerely believe that it will be an amazing experience for all who join in this venture!\r\n\r\nPart I (18 minutes): Respond to at least one of the five prompts provided by the facilitators\r\nPart II (18 minutes): A brief introduction to our conversation\r\nPart III (18 minutes): Peer edit AND\/OR contribute media\r\nPart IV (18 minutes): Collection of contributor bios, contact info, and head shots (anonymous is ok)\r\nPart V (18 minutes): Reflection and Q &A; Presentation of proof of concept","Presenter":["Steve Valentine","Reshan Richards"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Montclair Kimberley Academy","Constructivist Toolkit"],"PresenterEmail":["svalentine@mka.org","rrichards@mka.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":25,"ScheduleLocationID":16,"SubmitterID":88,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":3},{"ID":336,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1383252749,"CreatorID":79,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Enriching the World Language Curriculum with the Arts","Handle":"Enriching_the_World_Language_Curriculum_with_the_Arts","ShortDescription":"How can we impact student achievement in a World Language classroom by providing a curriculum rich in the arts? World Language teachers often struggle with how to engage students, particularly with regards to speaking and writing. In this session, we will demonstrate multiple activities that use the arts as a vehicle for generating ideas, enthusiasm and creativity.","Description":"When our curriculum is rich in the arts, we make complex concepts accessible for students and give them multiple avenues for responding to pieces.The arts move students to think, analyze, relate, create and participate. In this session we will model activities and present resources that incorporate film, paintings and photography. Participants can expect to leave with new ideas and to share their own ideas and tools for incorporating the arts in ways that make world languages accessible to all students. Our collective wisdom will be compiled in a wiki to be shared with other World Language teachers.","Link":[],"Audience":["High School","Middle School"],"Practice":"We will have all of our resources on a wiki which we will add to as participants bring new ideas to the floor. Please be prepared to share and participate in activities as we model them.","Presenter":["Melanie Manuel","Shawn Merrill","Melissa Whitaker","Shay Kretowicz","Karen Aquino","Erica Saldivar Garcia"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Penn Graduate School of Education","Teach for America"],"PresenterEmail":["mmanuel@scienceleadership.org","shawnrmerrill@gmail.com","whitaker.melissa.a@gmail.com","shayspk@gmail.com","k.aquino729@gmail.com","saldivar.erica@gmail.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":25,"ScheduleLocationID":14,"SubmitterID":79,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":3},{"ID":368,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1384266415,"CreatorID":334,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"How Can Unions Help Foster Educational Reform?","Handle":"How_Can_Unions_Help_Foster_Educational_Reform","ShortDescription":"Are unions impeding or accelerating the pace of innovation and reform in education? How are unions affecting the way teachers are valued by parents and the public?  What can be done about these issues? Come to this session and we'll find out ... together!","Description":"Are unions impeding or accelerating the pace of innovation and reform in education?  By fostering traditional workplace rules regarding seniority and hours worked, are we discouraging teachers who put in longer hours and go beyond the standard requirements?  How are unions affecting the way teachers are valued by parents and the public? Let's have a discussion about how education is affected positively and negatively by unions and what can be done to foster reform without giving up the benefits of collective bargaining.","Link":["http:\/\/goo.gl\/zSQduv"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"We will use the \"What? So What? Now What?\" protocol to divide the conversation into three sections, using a timekeeper to ensure all three get addressed. A Google Doc (at a minimum) will document the discussion and act as a resource for further reflection and action.","Presenter":["Whitney Hoffman","Kevin Jarrett"],"PresenterAffiliation":[],"PresenterEmail":["ldpodcast@gmail.com","kevin.jarrett@gmail.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":25,"ScheduleLocationID":6,"SubmitterID":334,"AdditionalComments":"THANK YOU!!!","LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":3},{"ID":352,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1383357888,"CreatorID":79,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Prototyping a School, Space, Program,Project, Class or Lesson","Handle":"Prototyping_a_Class","ShortDescription":"As experience designers, teachers have the ability to imagine, create, test, and improve their classes, projects, program and spaces each and every session. What does it mean to prototype ? How do you assess and improve each experience? How do you create a curriculum \"on-the-fly?\"","Description":"Join a conversation with Chris Aguda, Jaymes Dec and Lesa Wang from The Marymount \r\nSchool and Don Buckley from Tools At Schools about their experience \"Prototyping  a School, Space, Program,Project, Class or Lesson\". Marymount has developed a culture of Prototyping one example is a course called \u201cEngineering and Interaction Design\u201d. The subject of this course was an introduction to physical computing and programming with a focus on designing for the real world. Students were introduced to lean startup\/design thinking methodologies to solve real problem of an engineering nature. Students imagined, built, and tested prototypes of possible products\/experiences\/systems\/services. The course was not planned out in advance, but prototyped and designed \u201con the fly\u201d as needs and problems were identified. \r\n\r\nkey words\/hastags: engineering, electronics, startup, design thinking, physical computing, innovation, prototype, agility\r\n\r\nQ for discussions:  How do you build a culture of prototyping. How do you build a culture of agility? Why prototype a class? How do you prototype a class? Who decides the content of the class? How do you design such a experience? What should the space where this experience is taught look like? Who teaches this type of class?","Link":[],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"While discussing the key questions, participants will go through an abbreviated experience design cycle: imagining, prototyping, and testing a short and simple experience.","Presenter":["Don Buckley","Jaymes Dec","Chris Aguda. Lesa Wang"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Marymount School","Tools at Schools"],"PresenterEmail":["lwang@marymountnyc.org","jdec@marymountnyc.org","caguda@marymountnyc.org","donbuckley@gmail.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":25,"ScheduleLocationID":9,"SubmitterID":79,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":3},{"ID":346,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1383343036,"CreatorID":79,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Tell me a story: Sharing stories of innovation in schools","Handle":"Tell_me_a_story:Sharing_stories_of_innovation_in_schools","ShortDescription":"Join us for a story-sharing session about your work. So much of our professional knowledge is gained through the experiences we relate to each other \u2013 which in turn influence our horizon of possibilities. Let\u2019s gather to tell and listen to our stories of innovation in schools.","Description":"\u201cLet us put our heads together and see what life we will make for our children.\u201d \r\n-Tatanka Iotanka (Sitting Bull, Lakota Leader)\r\n\r\nOur professional lives are filled with stories \u2013 the stories we and our colleagues tell about our work. These story experiences are a training ground, as much (or more than) formal mentorship, coaching, and \u201cPD.\u201d What do these stories tell us about making change in schools? Join us for a story-sharing session about your work. First, we\u2019ll use a storytelling framework to share personal stories about innovating in schools. Then, we\u2019ll look critically at storytelling methods: How might they be deployed in service of our work?","Link":["http:\/\/www.izoneschools.org","http:\/\/www.tinyurl.com\/educoncampfire"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"We will use focusing questions and an adapted Campfire protocol to facilitate the initial sharing among all participants in the room. The story-threads that result will form the basis for our reflection together. We will also document our critical discussion of storytelling methods, compiling concrete strategies that are relevant to us as professionals and change-makers.","Presenter":["Cynthia Warner","Al Sylvia"],"PresenterAffiliation":["iZone (Office of Innovation","New York City Department of Education)"],"PresenterEmail":["cwarner3@schools.nyc.gov"],"ScheduleSlotID":25,"ScheduleLocationID":4,"SubmitterID":79,"AdditionalComments":"We are excited to propose this conversation! Please note that one of us (Al Sylvia) may or may not be able to attend the conference -- we are still working out the details. If not, we have a few colleagues in mind who might co-facilitate with Cynthia; if selected as a conversation, we will be able to confirm the finalized co-facilitator(s) to attend EduCon. \r\n\r\nThank you!","LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":3},{"ID":353,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1383500588,"CreatorID":88,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"The Boundless Classroom: Exploring the Learning Shift with Our Students","Handle":"The_Boundless_Classroom:Exploring_the_Learning_Shift_with_Our_Students","ShortDescription":"Technology allows us to take advantage of a boundless classroom where learning happens anywhere, anytime.  However, the crucial first step in developing this new learning ecology is to see students as partners. Join this conversation and consider how to prepare and nurture a culture of learning that encourages student agency.","Description":"The internet has disrupted virtually all aspects of our lives, and the traditional classroom hierarchy is no exception. Surprisingly, although there are now many conversations about student agency and the ways that students can leverage technology to make their learning more authentic, there seem to be fewer discussions that invite students to contemplate their roles and responsibilities in this new way of learning, to articulate their expectations for who they are as learners, or to ask questions about how they and their teachers can best negotiate this learning shift.  \r\n\r\nUnfortunately, without these discussions, many students find it difficult to move beyond their current technology experiences, which are primarily social in nature. While learning opportunities shift, it is imperative that together students and teachers figure out how to create a rich, compelling learning experience.  The purpose of this conversation, then, is to focus on an often overlooked component of the learning shift: students\u2019 notions of themselves as learners.  \r\n\r\nThe habits of mind nurtured by these conversations are as critical for their lives beyond school as are the moments spent helping them to see the productive possibilities of their devices.  Undoubtedly, school will not be the last time they will need to negotiate the way they interact and learn online. To be successful, they must acquire the thoughtfulness and skills to guarantee that their future relationships are positive, whether social, academic, or professional.","Link":[],"Audience":["High School"],"Practice":"Discussion of student generated questions regarding how they and teachers can best leverage the shift in learning.  In groups, we will compile possible answers, ideas, and follow-up questions to be shared with students in order to extend the conversation. Highlights of the exchange, and subsequent discussions with students, will be shared with the larger Educon community through social media.","Presenter":["Scott Glass","David Jakes"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Glenbrook South High School","The Third Teacher Plus"],"PresenterEmail":["sglass@glenbrook225.org","dsjakes@gmail.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":25,"ScheduleLocationID":10,"SubmitterID":88,"AdditionalComments":"If accepted, please do not schedule during David's presentation, \"Wonder, By Design.\"  Thanks for your consideration.","LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":3},{"ID":354,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1383758210,"CreatorID":88,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"What is the Role of the Teacher in a World With Digitally Enhanced Learning?","Handle":"What_is_the_Role_of_the_Teacher_in_a_World_With_Digitally_Enhanced_Learning","ShortDescription":"This workshop explores through dialogue the challenge of making real connections in a world where education is increasingly leveraging technology as a tool to teach.","Description":"At EduCon we are bombarded with great ideas of how to integrate technology in our classrooms. This conversation invites participants to sit back for a moment to consider how the intersection of technology and learning interacts with the fundamental pedagogical relationship between teacher and student. One of the contexts for this conversation is Marin Buber\u2019s \u201cI and Thou\u201d from which we will explore how technology might interfere and potentially potentiate the creation of the type of dynamic learning environment that creates real connection between people.","Link":[],"Audience":["High School","All School Levels"],"Practice":"This is a discussion generated from an initial exercise and examining quotes in small groups. Following that exercise, the group as a whole will discuss the central topic of the role of a teacher in a digitally enhanced classroom.","Presenter":["Matthew Baird"],"PresenterAffiliation":["SLA","TFI Cairo Project"],"PresenterEmail":["mbaird@scienceleadership.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":25,"ScheduleLocationID":7,"SubmitterID":88,"AdditionalComments":"Enjoyed presenting this last year but had a really small group attend my session. I have rephrased the blurbs to make the conversation more accessible to a broad audience.","LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":3},{"ID":312,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1382706991,"CreatorID":88,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Building a New SLA Campus","Handle":"Building_a_New_SLA_Campus","ShortDescription":"Educators from the new SLA campus inside Beeber Middle School will discuss the successes and challenges they have experienced opening up a new school with the same SLA Core Values and pedagogical approach.","Description":"Session attendees will hear first hand about the processes of building a school from the ground up. The SLA at Beeber staff will share personal stories and describe their own journey through the process of learning about SLA, building a team and learning how to collaborate on everything from day to day operations to pedagogical growth. Discussions will also include conversations about the challenge of creating a new school with the same Core Values and pedagogical approach as SLA without creating a carbon copy of the original campus.","Link":[],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"The staff will only speak for about 15-20 minutes, leaving time for session attendees to ask questions and engage in conversation with the presenters.","Presenter":["Mary Beth Hertz"],"PresenterAffiliation":[],"PresenterEmail":["mhertz@slabeeber.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":27,"ScheduleLocationID":9,"SubmitterID":88,"AdditionalComments":"Other presenters: Luke Zeller, Karthik Subburam, Matthew Roy, Chris Johnson, Marina Isakowitz, Leroy Gray, Max Rosen-Long, David Sokoloff","LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":3},{"ID":307,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1381944807,"CreatorID":1149,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"But how do we know? Assessing the arts and other subjective areas","Handle":"But_how_do_we_know-Assessing_the_arts_and_other_subjective_areas","ShortDescription":"The arts engage students in deep, inquiry driven, project-based learning experiences, but are often hard to capture and assess. If the trend is, \u201cWhat is measurable matters,\u201d how do we make our case for difficult to measure \u201csubjective\u201d areas? What can we learn from arts assessments about interpreting students\u2019 learning?","Description":"We will have a conversation about assessment in the arts but in the context of a broader conversation about how we can learn about our students\u2019 learning in subject areas that may be more difficult to assess, areas often described as subjective. The arts engage students in deep, inquiry driven, project-based learning experiences. But it is often hard to capture and hard to assess what students know and are able to do in the arts, and it is even harder to articulate. If the trend is, \u201cWhat is measurable is what matters,\u201d how do we make our case for the arts and other difficult to measure subject areas? How do we know and articulate what our students are learning in the arts? How do we move beyond, \u201cIt was good,\u201d and assess what students know and are able to do in the arts and other subjective areas? What can we learn from arts assessments about assessment methods overall? How might arts assessments give way to other alternative ways of understanding student learning?","Link":["https:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/cobaltstandards\/home\/discussion"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"In this conversation we will start by doing an activity to explore the complexities of assessment. Then we will actually engage in a sampling of an arts assessment that is used to measure student ability in the arts.  These experiences with assessing the difficult to assess will lead to a conversation about methods for investigating student learning in these areas. We will explore questions like, \u201cWhat worked?\u201d \u201cWhat didn't work?\u201d \u201cWhat works for you?\u201d \u201cWhy does it work?\u201d and, most importantly, \u201cNow what?\u201d Join in here: https:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/cobaltstandards\/home\/discussion","Presenter":["Aliza Greenberg","Otoniel Lopez"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Metropolitan Opera Guild","Metis Associates"],"PresenterEmail":["alizagreenberg@gmail.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":27,"ScheduleLocationID":11,"SubmitterID":1149,"AdditionalComments":"I am very interested in bridging conversations in the arts in education world with the larger education conversations. Assessment is a notoriously difficult topic for both and I think a really rich conversation can be had. While my affiliation is with the Metropolitan Opera Guild where I am working on a USDOE opera learning program with elementary schools, I have worked in arts education and explored arts assessment with all different schools, primarily high school populations. I think this conversation could be a really rich discussion of alternative assessment and a way to share practice in that area.","LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":3},{"ID":309,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1382334333,"CreatorID":88,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Developing Empathy with the World using Online Maps","Handle":"Empathize_with_the_World-and_tell_powerful_stories_about_it-using_online_maps","ShortDescription":"Everything happens somewhere in the world. When we hear about an event in \"Iraq\" it's helpful to drill down and see the street corner we're talking about -- or get as close as we can come. Taking the time to think about where others live and what their lives are like helps foster empathy. During this conversation, we will collaborate -- using tools such as Google Earth and YouTube videos -- to create online maps that help us empathize with the world (the US is less than 5% of the world -- students should know that)","Description":"Steve Goldberg, who has created more than 1,500 Google Earth place marks over five years, will spend 10-15 minutes showing the group some of what's possible with online map tools such as Google Earth and Google Maps Engine; each participant will then work to create place marks and collaborative maps that help us tell powerful stories about the world; in the remaining time, a few volunteers will share their stories verbally -- and we will all have access to each others' stories through the shared documents we create during the conversation. See http:\/\/bit.ly\/EduconMaps for the start of our shared document.  We will build a community of learners who can support each other in this work when we get back home from EduCon  Reviews of a Google Earth session Steve ran recently in Atlanta are available here -- https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1DC2C5Gpc_DyxSW4WcTCW4k0eLm6S7q2dOF4wV8CCm-M\/edit","Link":["http:\/\/bit.ly\/EduconMaps","http:\/\/wiltoday.wordpress.com","http:\/\/tlcmiddle.com"],"Audience":["High School","Middle School","Elementary School"],"Practice":"As described above, together, we will work in groups to build several collaborative maps that we can all use with our students (and colleagues) back home to show the power of maps in storytelling; the Google Earth maps will be shared via Drop Box, and the Google Maps Engine maps will be shared on the cloud; we will upload a few short videos to YouTube as well, if time (and sound conditions) permits; if the timing works, we may be able to bring the Kibera slum of Kenya to life by Skyping with my good friend Ken Okoth, a former history teacher and now a member of Kenya's parliament -- Google \"Ken Okoth\" to get a sense of Ken's background; even if Ken is not available, we will begin to empathize with life in one of the largest and most crowded slums in the world.","Presenter":["Steve Goldberg"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Triangle Learning Community Middle School","Durham","NC"],"PresenterEmail":["MrGoldberg@gmail.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":27,"ScheduleLocationID":16,"SubmitterID":88,"AdditionalComments":"The periods are not showing up for some reason in my submission; that's why I am making such liberal use of semicolons.  When I type periods, I don't see them.  Maybe you will see my missing punctuation marks :)","LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":3},{"ID":355,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1383758371,"CreatorID":79,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Developing MakerSpaces that Count","Handle":"Developing_MakerSpaces_that_Count","ShortDescription":"This conversation will center around ways to integrate \"MakerSpaces\" where students can tinker, hack, and create during the school day AND get credit for it.","Description":"Two years ago, I launched the Burlington High School Student Help Desk to support our iPad deployment (1,000). This course was modeled after Apple's Genius Bar and provided students with a space for tinkering, hacking, and inquiry during one period a day. This class of students also assisted our district technology, professional development, and conferences at Burlington Public Schools. While it was not a traditional course, it still met many of the standards of the Common Core. \r\n\r\nThis conversation will center on ways in which educators, administrators and tech and library leaders can disrupt the conventional course catalog and provide ways to integrate courses that promote exploring, hacking, and inquiry driven standards.","Link":["http:\/\/andrewmarcinek.com"],"Audience":["High School"],"Practice":"Using a collaborative document, participants will brainstorm ideas for a courses that can fit the needs of the curious, driven student. Documents will be shared on a Google Site for public view.","Presenter":["Andy Marcinek"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Director of Technology","Groton-Dunstable Regional SD"],"PresenterEmail":["amarcinek@gdrsd.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":27,"ScheduleLocationID":6,"SubmitterID":79,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":3},{"ID":319,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1383063169,"CreatorID":2187,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Envisioning a Digital Age Learning Organization","Handle":"Envisioning_a_Digital_Age_Learning_Organization","ShortDescription":"How can leaders promote the power of informal learning within the organization? This conversation builds off a National study of principals and virtual learning as a means to enhance professional learning, organizational change and innovative teaching and learning practices. Discussion will focus on reimaging the future of the learning organization.","Description":"Learning, a word that denotes opportunities, potential and growth, is undergoing an incredible revolution. Within our schools and around the world, there are passionate educators who are at the edge of learning. Are YOU a part of this conversation and is your organization ready to embrace it?  The research tells us, we must change the way we learn \u2013 that is \u201chow,\u201d from \u201cwhom\u201d and \u201cwhen\u201d we learn.  And, while many schools have passionate educators participating in connected learning, most leaders and their organizations find it difficult to breakthrough.\r\n\r\nIn this facilitated discussion, the conversation will focus on:\r\n\r\nWhat does it mean to be a learning organization in the Digital Age?  How do we develop individuals and entire organizations to break out of their comfort zones? Given the tools available to be \u201cconnected\u201d what are the organizational conditions that promote accelerated learning and innovation.  Can we embrace social technologies and re-think how we amplify the human and social capital towards building organizational capacity.  How are school leaders creating and leading next gen learning organizations?  \r\n\r\nWith a focus on Intelligence, Growth Mindsets and Leading Change, we\u2019ll unpack the questions \u2013 Can we Accelerate Intelligence; and how do we cultivate organizational intelligence?\r\n\r\nCONVERSATION LINK:\r\n\r\nhttp:\/\/bit.ly\/1ixDPfL","Link":["http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/DrBillBrennan","http:\/\/wbrennan.wordpress.com"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"In terms of leading the conversation, I will pose many though provoking questions to guide participants thinking.  Protocols will be used to keep the conversation focused on the outcome.  I\u2019ve learned that people can get distracted by sharing the barriers and\/or causations they see within their organizations, but that doesn\u2019t always lead us to the right path.  Our focus is to lead a conversation where we are thinking\/sharing the best ideas for building a digital age learning organization. \r\n\r\nI\u2019ve had some practice doing this over the last two years and have seen participants deeply engaged in thought and sharing of ideas.  When leading these discussions, I typically like to do a Google Hangout with others educators who are unable to attend, but are able to share their knowledge and experience of the topic.   Additionally, an online resource such as a wiki or Google doc will be used to capture the conversation. \r\n\r\nI\u2019ll provide a brief context for this discussion by illuminating findings (really just more questions) of my research (3-5 minutes).","Presenter":["William Brennan"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Farmingdale Public Schools","Fordham University"],"PresenterEmail":["wvbrennan@gmail.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":27,"ScheduleLocationID":4,"SubmitterID":2187,"AdditionalComments":"Thank you!","LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":3},{"ID":302,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1381063986,"CreatorID":88,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"In The Trenches With Design Thinking","Handle":"In_The_Trenches_With_Design_Thinking","ShortDescription":"Design Thinking gives students the benefits of seeing change happen, leading group-life , and understanding the value of empathy in problem-solving. It's a great tool, but seriously where do I get started? This is a conversation around how teachers are doing DT and how you can implement it where you are.","Description":"Beginning with a group discussion on curiosity, the conversation will point to the common frustration in leading students to transfer learning into stuff that matters: engagement. Design Thinking is not just another thing, but it's a cultural shift in thinking that calls for students, and teachers, to be people-centered problem solvers. It is igniting curiosity by sparking empathy. We will discuss the value of storytelling, opportunities for leadership, and distributed experience of Design Thinking when adopted into a school's learning strategy.\r\n\r\nAt the end of our conversation, we will invite attendees to participate in a fast prototyping challenge around the following How Might We statements:\r\n\r\nHMW build curiosity and empathy with what we already do in the classroom?\r\nHMW make time for design thinking at our school?\r\nHMW develop passionate and curious student leaders that make a dent?","Link":["http:\/\/www.mountvernonschool.org\/","https:\/\/www.mountvernonschool.org\/page\/Institute-for-Innovation"],"Audience":["High School","Middle School"],"Practice":"We will be inviting others into the conversations of curiosity, fast prototyping, and organic Q & A as we go. Our hope is to share a little from our experience, but also to give plenty of time for interaction. Our hope is that attendees walk away empowered to jump in!","Presenter":["James Campbell","Jenny Novoselsky","TJ Edwards","Trey Boden"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Mount Vernon Presbyterian School","Mount Vernon Institute For Innovation"],"PresenterEmail":["tboden@mountvernonschool.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":27,"ScheduleLocationID":14,"SubmitterID":88,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":3},{"ID":310,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1382399368,"CreatorID":79,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Leading Learners to Level Up #LL2LU","Handle":"Leading_Learners_to_Level_Up-LL2LU","ShortDescription":"Are you a designer of assessment or a survivor? Have you ever been shocked to discover after learning episodes are complete that learners did not, in fact, learn? Do your assessments: Motivate and compel student questions, self-direction and calibration? Enable teacher-student partnership? Communicate \u201cYou can do this; I can help?\u201d","Description":"#LL2LU is about design, empathy, process, prototyping, and communication.  What is essential to be learned? What evidence do we need to demonstrate learning?  How do we communicate path(s) for success that learners can follow and riff on?\r\n\r\nThis conversation is designed to help teachers design paths for formative assessment that lead learners to level up.  Learners will be able to say \u201cI can...\u201d and \u201cCan you help me...\u201d based on the assessment -- empowering the learner to have control over a path to success. \r\n\r\nThis conversation is designed to build teacher confidence, experience, and understanding of non-graded formative assessment and feedback loops.  Strategies employed in this conversation will be experiential, hands-on, and collaborative.  At the end of this conversation, teacher-learners will be able to say\r\n--I can articulate the essential learnings for our student-learners in student friendly language.\r\n--I can describe and show what reaching the target for the essential learning looks like, calls for, and requires.\r\n--I can build a leveled assessment to provide a path for reaching the target level of the essential learning.  This leveled assessment will ask for and provide evidence of learning and opportunities for growth.\r\n--I can use the evidence collected from the leveled assessment to make course corrections for learners as needed to ensure that all learners become proficient.","Link":["http:\/\/jplgough.wordpress.com","http:\/\/www.findingthesignal.com","https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1lGSgNme8nY4-JCQZIus8X5BW5vpYN8PXPdXP-4mMczk\/edit"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"We will use the interview and fishbowl methods to model the #LL2LU process. We\u2019ll share our learning in real time through a digital backchannel for crowdsourced notes, questions and comments, inviting virtual participants to participate along with in-person participants. Learners will prototype a learning progression, participate in a gallery walk for a feedback loop, and iterate the progression based on feedback.  We will then work on developing an assessment for learners to provide evidence of learning.","Presenter":["Jill Gough","Shelley Paul"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Trinity School","Woodward Academy"],"PresenterEmail":["jplgough@gmail.com","shelley.paul@gmail.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":27,"ScheduleLocationID":15,"SubmitterID":79,"AdditionalComments":"Conversation design:\r\nhttps:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1lGSgNme8nY4-JCQZIus8X5BW5vpYN8PXPdXP-4mMczk\/edit\r\n\r\nFor additional information about #LL2LU in practice: http:\/\/jplgough.wordpress.com\/?s=%23LL2LU","LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":3},{"ID":299,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1380745580,"CreatorID":79,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"PropagandED","Handle":"PropagandED","ShortDescription":"How the propaganda, progressivist, and behaviorist movements have shaped the institution of schooling and have largely subverted the very principles of freedom and intellectual development that schooling purports to uphold.","Description":"The historical shifts that started with the selling of WWI to the American Public drove a new progressive mission to use schooling and propaganda as tools of managing the \"bewildered herd\" and a new vision of how democracy should work.  Combined with the science of behaviorism, the beliefs and practices both in schools and the larger culture that would support \"agency\" and \"self-direction\" have been subsumed by practices of \"directing\" and \"controlling\" others.  Our language and our behavior in how we get others to do things (think marketing) reflect beliefs that we can and should be using emotions and symbols to get other people to do what we think they should.  Articulating this tension helps to have candid discussions of the real purpose of schooling:  is it about personal liberation through learning or is it school as a form of social control?  When (and to whom) does it do the former, and when does it do the latter?","Link":["http:\/\/www.stevehargadon.com"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"I'm all about the conversation.  I'll give a very short history of propaganda and how deeply we have accepted this as a form of communication, and how effective it has been.  Then I'm anxious to explore this idea with those who attend.","Presenter":["Steve Hargadon"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Future of Education","Classroom 2.0","Web 2.0 Labs"],"PresenterEmail":["steve@hargadon.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":27,"ScheduleLocationID":13,"SubmitterID":79,"AdditionalComments":":)","LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":3},{"ID":363,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1383909341,"CreatorID":79,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Rules of Engagement \u2013 Boys Write Now and Save Our Skills Summer Programs","Handle":"Rules_of_Engagement-Boys_Write_Now_and_Save_Our_Skills_Summer_Programs","ShortDescription":"This conversation will introduce participants to writing and making as an interactive and engaging process. Presenters will share resources,  strategies and  web links, for the Boys Write Now  and Save Our Skills summer literacy programs for grades 1-12.","Description":"Presenters will describe what student engagement looked liked during their mutual observations at their respective programs. The emphasis on connecting summer and out of school programs to traditional school time practices will be covered.\r\n\r\nPresenters will elaborate on the need to create learning spaces that allow students to  manage their time while reading, writing and thinking.\r\n\r\nParticipants will be provided an opportunity to think, plan, write and discuss how to  engage students.\r\n \r\nParticipants may consider the following \r\n -       How to engage students in literacy?  What does engagement look like?\r\n -       How does art and writing co-exist in learning spaces?\r\n -       How can collaborating with other teachers and artist improve our practice? \r\n -       What connections do summer and out of school programs have with traditional school time\r\n-        What does it mean to be #HerePastSummer ?","Link":["http:\/\/blog.artandwriting.org\/2013\/09\/20\/boys-write-now-philadelphia-a-great-success\/"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"Participants will engage in discourse via multiple platforms.  Through Twitter participants will follow and contribute to the hashtag #BoysWriteNow which will allow for sharing resources and asking deeper questions. \r\n\r\nParticipants will also have access and contribute to the Start Write Now Google Document.https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1qmDQ5pq13l9tOPmmicW94Lv2rhmWmzwACPZgaHunghY\/edit\r\n\r\nThe sharing and curation of additional resources will provide participants with something they can take away, after the conversation is over.","Presenter":["Samuel Reed","Peggy Marie Savage","Chris Rogers"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Philadelphia Writing Project","Teachers Lead Philly","Teacher Action Group"],"PresenterEmail":["sriii2000@aol.com","taekwondospirit5151@gmail.com","christopher.r.rogers@gmail.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":27,"ScheduleLocationID":3,"SubmitterID":79,"AdditionalComments":"Both the Boys Write Now (Philadelphia Writing Project and Scholastic) Save Our Skills( Senator Hughes, Philadelphia Eagles Book Mobile,  Free Library of  Philadelphia, Children Literacy Initiative). summer programs received favorable media coverage and had positive impact in diverse communities in Philadelphia. \r\n\r\nIt would be timely to share this work with the Educon community, with hopes that other cities may be inspired to implement similar programs.","LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":3},{"ID":381,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1386446309,"CreatorID":62,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Standards, not Standardization","Handle":"Standards-not_Standardization","ShortDescription":"The phrase. Common Core, has been uttered so many times in the past 12 months that I think it might be the next 'word' added to the dictionary.  Having standards is not the same as standardization, the subtlety of which seems to be getting lost in the national conversation around Common Core and standards implementation.  Join me in a discussion surrounding standards implementation and the difficulties with standardizing instruction.","Description":"The phrase. Common Core, has been uttered so many times in the past 12 months that I think it might be the next 'word' added to the dictionary.  Having standards is not the same as standardization, the subtlety of which seems to be getting lost in the national conversation around Common Core and standards implementation.  Join me in a discussion surrounding standards implementation and the difficulties with standardizing instruction.","Link":["http:\/\/laufenberg.wordpress.com"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"A version of Focus\/Framing Questions - http:\/\/www.nsrfharmony.org\/protocol\/doc\/focus_framing_qs_ex.pdf","Presenter":["Diana Laufenberg"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Inquiry Schools"],"PresenterEmail":["dlaufenberg@gmail.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":27,"ScheduleLocationID":2,"SubmitterID":62,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":3},{"ID":379,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1386283696,"CreatorID":88,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Teacher Education That's More Like the Media Lab and Less Like Traffic School","Handle":"Teacher_Education_That-s_More_Like_the_Media_Lab_and_Less_Like_Traffic_School","ShortDescription":"What if we behaved as if teachers were competent and capable of growth?","Description":"This session will explore an educational model for pre and inservice teachers that nurtures creativity and grants agency while substantially raising expectations for teachers more than three decades since microcomputers first entered classrooms. Such intimate professional development should also influence the creation of productive learning contexts for children.","Link":[],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"TBD","Presenter":["Gary Stager"],"PresenterAffiliation":[],"PresenterEmail":["gary@stager.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":27,"ScheduleLocationID":10,"SubmitterID":88,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":3},{"ID":344,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1383336337,"CreatorID":88,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Teaching in the Connected Learning Classroom","Handle":"Teaching_in_the_Connected_Learning_Classroom","ShortDescription":"Teaching in the Connected Learning Classroom brings together examples of classroom practice and curates them into a collection looking at the principles of Connected Learning woven throughout. Unique in its focus of in-school examples, this ebook and related conversation acknowledges the emerging nature of this work, inviting inquiry and exploration.","Description":"Teaching in the Connected Learning Classroom, a new ebook published by the MacArthur Foundation, is edited by a group of National Writing Project (NWP) educators and takes examples of practice that teachers have shared online at the NWP Digital Is website and curates them into a larger collection looking at the principles of Connected Learning woven throughout classroom work and practices. Unique in its focus of in-school examples of connected learning, this ebook does not focus on the idea of \u201cbest practices\u201d but instead acknowledges the emerging nature of this work and invites inquiry and exploration into the ways that teachers are working and why. Connected Learning itself -- a set of design and teaching principles that have emerged by watching how youth learn in digitally rich and networked environments where they are supported in pursuing their passions and interests -- arguably also provides a pathway for increased teacher-as-learner agency in teaching. In this conversation then, five urban educators whose work is highlighted in this collection (including three from Philadelphia!), invite you into a conversation about Connected Learning through the lens of our own passions and practices and consider the possibilities and potentials of this work and framework.","Link":["http:\/\/digitalis.nwp.org\/"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"This session will be organized to be highly participatory. Ideas include:\r\n* Starting with a short making\/hacking activity that helps us refresh our brains and feel\/remember\/engage with our own agency in the room together\r\n* Small group reading of sections of the ebook collection followed by jigsawed sharing with the whole group.\r\n* Discussion\/remix activity of some sort (integrating CL in your work)","Presenter":["Christina Cantrill","Danielle Filipiak","Antero Garcia (virtual)","Larissa Pahomov","Meenoo Rami","Robert Rivera-Amezola"],"PresenterAffiliation":["National Writing Project and associated partners"],"PresenterEmail":["ccantrill@nwp.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":27,"ScheduleLocationID":8,"SubmitterID":88,"AdditionalComments":"Just a little more about the team in case helpful ...\r\n\r\nLarissa Pahmohov, Meenoo Rami, Robert Rivera-Amezola are all Philadelphia teachers whose work is featured in this ebook collection.\r\n\r\nAntero Garcia (virtual from Colorado State University WP) and Danielle Filipiak are both editors of the collection, Antero being the lead. Danielle is also an urban educator and her work is also featured.\r\n\r\nChristina Cantrill is the co-director of the NWP Digital Is project and is staff at NWP.","LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":3},{"ID":282,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1377864150,"CreatorID":38,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"The Benefits of Sharing: How Producing Free Educational Materials Helps Both You and the World","Handle":"The_Benefits_of_Sharing:How_Producing_Free_Educational_Materials_Helps_Both_You_and_the_World","ShortDescription":"The World Wide Web makes possible for the first time in human history the sharing of educational resources on a global scale.  This conversation will explore the implications of sharing educational resources through the web.","Description":"In 1999 the book \"How to think like a computer scientist\" was translated from the Java programming language to the Python programming language.  It has since been updated and translated several more times by various authors, and is now available in an interactive version.  The World Wide Web and new tools for on-line collaboration made this possible.  In this conversation the facilitator will share his experience producing free on-line educational materials and discuss with participants the opportunities and obstacles to sharing educational resources on-line.","Link":["http:\/\/openbookproject.net"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"Discussion and collaborative document.","Presenter":["Jeffrey Elkner"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Arlington Public Schools"],"PresenterEmail":["jeff@elkner.net"],"ScheduleSlotID":27,"ScheduleLocationID":12,"SubmitterID":38,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":3},{"ID":392,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1389707492,"CreatorID":62,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"The Chromebook Classroom","Handle":"The_Chromebook_Classroom","ShortDescription":"We have been promised for years that technology would make our  lives easier. With the emergence of cloud computing, omni-access, and Chromebooks that \"just work\", this is finally the truth! Come discuss all the ways 1:1 programs with Chromebooks and Google are connecting classrooms with ease.","Description":"We have been waiting for school technology solutions that provide near instant and always on learning. But there have been many challenges in the past to making this a functional practice. With Chromebooks, schools like SLA now have a solution that is affordable, sustainable, and manageable. Let's discuss  what makes a successful 1:1 program, strategies for deployment, and why the cloud has more promise for learning than we have ever seen before!","Link":["http:\/\/www.kikerlearning.com"],"Audience":["High School","Middle School","Elementary School","All School Levels"],"Practice":"I'd like to start the conversation with asking \"Why 1:1?\". Once the dialogue gets launched I'd like to plan several mini discussions including:\r\n\r\nHow do we afford these solutions?\r\nWhat is the implementation curve for teachers?\r\nHow do we maintain a quality tech support program?\r\nIs there value in being platform agnostic?\r\n\r\nWe will collaborate online in a shared doc and presentation for \"take aways\" with a number of  1:1 and Chromebook resources.","Presenter":["Rich Kiker"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Google Certified Trainer","Palisades School District"],"PresenterEmail":["rkiker@gmail.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":27,"ScheduleLocationID":13,"SubmitterID":62,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":3},{"ID":349,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1383353688,"CreatorID":88,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Unleashing Student Superpowers","Handle":"Unleashing_Student_Superpowers","ShortDescription":"Students have SUPERPOWERS. Often, these powers are hidden by the structures and constraints of school. How can we work, as educators, to unleash students' hidden talents and dreams? This session will engage you in interactive activities, games, and conversations to explore the world of student-driven learning.","Description":"What does it take to move the power in the classroom from the teacher to the student? Teachers are experimenting with new ways of empowering the learners in their classrooms. We ask the question: What will turn passive students into heroes in their own learning? Through participation in a variety of activities that model student powers, we investigate what new skills and strengths, students need in the digital age. Many of these are new for teachers and for students. We look at the steps that educators can take to learn these skills and pass them onto their students. We also discuss what student empowerment looks like in the classroom and share amongst ourselves what works and what hasn\u2019t.","Link":["http:\/\/www.kristenswanson.org","http:\/\/hadleyjf.com\/"],"Audience":["Elementary School"],"Practice":"We will use a series of interactive activities (analyzing student work in a gallery walk, evaluating engagement, etc.) to warm up the group. Then we will use conversational protocols to make meaning of both the research and our experiences. We'll end the session with the time for groups to create commitments to student superpowers.","Presenter":["Hadley Ferguson","Kristen Swanson"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Springside Chestnut Hill Academy","BrightBytes"],"PresenterEmail":["hadley722@gmail.com","kristennicoleswanson@gmail.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":27,"ScheduleLocationID":5,"SubmitterID":88,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":3},{"ID":356,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1383759019,"CreatorID":88,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Using Athletics as a Conduit to Success","Handle":"Using_Athletics_as_a_Conduit_to_Success","ShortDescription":"SLA softball and girls basketball coaches will lead a conversation about the benefits of athletics, ethic of care in extracurricular activities, and helping students to balance athletics and academics.  We will discuss using athletic participation to increase academic performance and improve socio-emotional well-being.","Description":"","Link":[],"Audience":["High School","Middle School"],"Practice":"","Presenter":["Erin Garvey","Zoe Siswick","+ SLA students"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Science Leadership Academy"],"PresenterEmail":["egarvey@scienceleadership.org","zsiswick@scienceleadership.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":27,"ScheduleLocationID":7,"SubmitterID":88,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":3},{"ID":371,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1384618971,"CreatorID":79,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Building an Openly Licensed World Civilizations Curriculum","Handle":"Building_an_Openly_Licensed_World_Civilizations_Curriculum","ShortDescription":"In this working session, we will collect, organize, write, and\/or curate activities and materials to create a comprehensive, openly licensed World Civilizations curriculum.","Description":"The goal of this session will be to make progress toward a comprehensive World Civilization curriculum that is largely project based and inquiry driven. This session will build on the initial scaffolding created for the K12 Open Ed conference, where we assembled the initial building blocks of an openly licensed curriculum. The content of this session will be appropriate for all grade levels, and the time in the session will be focused on creating and making the curriculum.","Link":["http:\/\/funnymonkey.com"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"As described above, this session will be a working session. All participants will be researching, organizing, writing, and publishing. This work can begin before the session, and continue after the session. If this session is accepted, I will create communal workspaces in Google Docs for collaborators. \r\n\r\nThe goal of this session is to provide an opportunity for interested participants to meet face to face to continue work that began asynchronously.","Presenter":["Bill Fitzgerald"],"PresenterAffiliation":["FunnyMonkey"],"PresenterEmail":["bill@funnymonkey.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":28,"ScheduleLocationID":9,"SubmitterID":79,"AdditionalComments":"If this conversation is accepted, I'll start reaching out to people almost immediately, and documenting different communication channels through which we ca work. Ideally, I'd love for the work of this session to begin before EduCon, and continue after Educon.","LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":3},{"ID":340,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1383274260,"CreatorID":79,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Civic Knowledge: The School's Role in Democracy","Handle":"Civic_Knowledge:The_School-s_Role_in_Democracy","ShortDescription":"What is the school's role in imparting civic knowledge? To what extent should schools be passing along \"democratic knowledge?\" How can schools prepare children to participate in the democratic process?","Description":"\"A society which is mobile, which is full of channels for the distribution of a change occurring anywhere, must see to it that its members are educated to personal initiative and adaptability.\" --John Dewey , Democracy and Education\r\n\r\nPublic schools originally intended to create competent laborers and educated citizens. As more careers require more education and training, what is the public school's new role in civic education? How can we prepare our students to navigate the complicated world of democracy? How can we teach our students to independently seek out information and formulate their own opinions so that when they leave school they remain informed citizens?","Link":[],"Audience":["High School","Middle School"],"Practice":"Save the last word for ME with 2 readings (TBD)","Presenter":["Caitlin Nelson","Alia Bukhowa","Jasmine Knowles","Louis DiPaola","Randy Medina"],"PresenterAffiliation":["TFA\/Penn GSE"],"PresenterEmail":["Caitanelson@gmail.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":28,"ScheduleLocationID":2,"SubmitterID":79,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":3},{"ID":337,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1383259562,"CreatorID":2244,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"College & Career Ready?  What does this really mean and look like?","Handle":"College-Career_Ready-What_does_this_really_mean_and_look_like","ShortDescription":"This conversation will about sharing a performance task based approach to teaching, learning, and assessing. Skills like effective communication, problem solving, analysis, and reasoning are the real characteristics of being prepared for life, work, and academic pursuits.  We'll see what it takes to develop these skills in our classrooms.","Description":"For the past 10 years the Council for Aid to Education (CAE) has been heavily invested in the schooling (K-12 and higher education) to working space.  Our work includes 10 years at the college level with our Collegiate Learning Assessment (CLA+), an assessment of higher order critical thinking skills, and 7 years with high school members of the College and Work Readiness Assessment CWRA+) which assesses the same skills.  The assessments take a performance task and constructed response approach to measuring these skills.  \r\nThe roles, responsibilities, and activities undertaken in college, in the world of work, and life are simply not practiced in many classrooms.  We\u2019ll spend a few minutes discussing what preparation for college and life really looks like.  Our goal is to demonstrate how effective performance tasks in the classroom can be a bridge to inquiry and a means to foster critical thinking with our students. We will role play, form groups to build model performance task frameworks where skills like effective writing, problem solving & analysis, quantitative & scientific reasoning, critical reading & evaluation, and critiquing an argument may be assessed.","Link":["http:\/\/cae.org","https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1gL1OR58fc9ds9McjLux9BnRbYWSn_DqimeqIpMjd9Kk\/edit"],"Audience":["High School","Middle School"],"Practice":"We\u2019ll use a modified version of the 4a text protocol.\r\nWe\u2019ll reads a selected passage from Tony Wagner\u2019s The Global Achievement Gap book on testing and college readiness (chapter 3) text silently, and then respond to the prompts:\r\n\r\n\u2022 What Assumptions does the author of the text hold?\r\n\u2022 What do you Agree with in the text?\r\n\u2022 What do you want to Argue with in the text?\r\n\u2022 What parts of the text do you want to Aspire to?\r\nIn a round, each person will identify one of the A\u2019s, citing the text, and allowing for follow up questions and comments.\r\n\r\nWe\u2019ll end the round with an open question, like the one below.\r\n\r\nInitial discussion of the problem \u2013 too much classroom is time taken up preparing students for standardized tests that can be considered irrelevant when preparing students for future academic pursuits, the new world of work, and engaged citizenry.  Can we align classroom routines with assessment better? \r\n\r\nSession ends with shared Aspire statement, and commitment to collaborate on development of performance tasks developed by teams at participant schools.  We will facilitate this collaboration in late March.","Presenter":["Lee Finkelstein"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Council for Aid to Education","PAECT"],"PresenterEmail":["lfinkelstein@cae.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":28,"ScheduleLocationID":14,"SubmitterID":2244,"AdditionalComments":"We will poll Educon attendees who may be members of current or past cwra's to learn if they'd be interested in co-facilitating with us.\r\nRegards, \r\nLee","LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":3},{"ID":334,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1383243508,"CreatorID":88,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Creating Communities of Care Among Diverse Learners","Handle":"Creating_Communities_of_Care_Among_Diverse_Learners","ShortDescription":"In this conversation, teachers and principals from Ashoka\u2019s Changemaker Schools Network will share specific strategies that they use to build community among diverse students, teachers, and families. Building community is one of the first steps in cultivating empathy and changemaker skills in students.","Description":"We all know how important school culture is to creating a strong learning community, but what are some specific ways that we can build empathy and care into our routines, curricula, and school systems? This is a question that we ponder often in Ashoka\u2019s Changemaker Schools Network, a community of traditional public, public charter, and private schools across the country that are finding innovative ways to educate students as empathic, collaborative leaders. In this fishbowl conversation, you will hear from teachers and principals at one traditional public, two public charters, and one private Changemaker School about approaches they use to build trust and empathy across difference. Specifically, we will discuss: how Academy for Global Citizenship in Chicago, IL is bridging school and community; how Mission Hill School in Boston, MA creates a culture of trust in its classrooms; how Prospect Sierra School in El Cerrito, CA teaches students about race and changemaking; and how Inspired Teaching School in Washington, DC equips teachers to create a caring school environment.","Link":["http:\/\/startempathy.org\/about\/changemaker-schools","http:\/\/startempathy.org\/"],"Audience":["Elementary School"],"Practice":"Following a brief introduction from each school, we will engage in a fishbowl conversation where everyone can ask questions and actively participate in the discussion. For the fishbowl conversation, five people sit in chairs in an inner circle and the remaining participants are arranged in a circle around them. Those in the inner circle will kick off the conversation, sharing how their school approaches creating communities of care. Throughout the 30 minute fishbowl conversation, any member of the audience can, at any time, join the fishbowl. When this happens, an existing member of the fishbowl must voluntarily leave the fishbowl and free a chair. The discussion continues with participants frequently entering and leaving the fishbowl. After 30 minutes, those not in the inner circle are invited to offer their thoughts and comments on what they are hearing in the inner circle. We will use the remaining time in four small groups, led by the Changemaker School representatives. We will generate a list of four topics that participants would like to explore more deeply after hearing the fishbowl conversation. We will spend about 35 minutes in these breakout groups. Each group will put together a poster illustrating one key take-away from their conversation about how they can create communities of care in their own school or context. One person from each group will briefly share the key take-away from their poster with the whole room, and we will wrap up the conversation highlighting the major themes uncovered.","Presenter":["Kathy Clunis D'Andrea","Mark Basnage","Jenni Schneiderman","Jenn Moore","Zoe Duskin","Sandra Hinderliter"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Ashoka"],"PresenterEmail":["shinderliter@ashoka.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":28,"ScheduleLocationID":7,"SubmitterID":88,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":3},{"ID":365,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1384034470,"CreatorID":79,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Elementary, PBL & Public Schools. Is it possible?","Handle":"Elementary-PBL-Public_Schools-Is_it_possible","ShortDescription":"Is PBL just for grades 6-12? In this discussion we will challenge whether or not authentic problem based learning is possible in a public elementary school. We will look at three components: curriculum, aesthetics and norms and flesh out each component to arrive at a working model of PBL in an elementary environment.","Description":"Problem and Project based learning is often practiced in grades 6-12, but rarely in grades K-5. Our essential question is, how can students at an earlier developmental age gain the foundation of literacy and math skills in a true PBL,K-5 setting? Is the design of a true PBL classroom developmentally appropriate for this age group and for public schools? This will be a hands-on, minds-on session that will examine and then construct curriculum,  aesthetics and norms. Come ready to share, build and challenge.","Link":["http:\/\/pottsedtech.blogspot.com"],"Audience":["Elementary School"],"Practice":"This will be a conversation that will take place in a large and then smaller groups. The larger group will be used for identifying pros and cons associated with such a learning environment, details for consideration and determine a goal for the end product. Then, the smaller groups will focus on the details of fruition; one group will construct the aesthetics, one construct the essential elements of the curriculum and the other discuss how norms need to be structured in a K-5 PBL school. Participants will organically come to see how each group's mission is intertwined. Google docs will be used for collaboration, construction tools (such as poster boards, blocks, etc.) will be used for building. Twitter will be used to share out conversation pieces and constructed visuals. The conversation will end with participants sharing what ideas from the session they will bring back to their colleagues (our form of a \"do now\").","Presenter":["Diana Potts"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Lambertville Public School","NJEA (consultant)"],"PresenterEmail":["pottsedtech@gmail.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":28,"ScheduleLocationID":6,"SubmitterID":79,"AdditionalComments":"This proposal comes from the want to see more elementary focused discussions on the menu of conferences like Educon. It also comes from a discussion recently had with an educator asking the same question, \"is a public K-5 elementary school really possible?\" As an educator who sits on the elementary\/middle school fence of practice, I've wanted to see more elementary focused sessions that engage educators of this specific, earlier developmental age group and challenges traditional, elementary pedagogy. This is the right place to do so.","LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":3},{"ID":361,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1383765181,"CreatorID":79,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Empowering Critical Relationships with Media","Handle":"Empowering_Critical_Relationships_with_Media","ShortDescription":"Your students are spending more time consuming media than any activity other than sleep.  This conversation will center on how understanding and applying a hierarchy of consumption, critical analysis, and creation of media can help teachers determine the most beneficial uses of and approaches to media in the classroom.","Description":"For the first time, the American Academy of Pediatrics\u2019 guidelines about children\u2019s screen time have changed to acknowledge a distinction between \u201centertainment\u201d screen time which should be limited, and educational and \"active\" screen time that can be beneficial. There is a place and means in every grade and subject area to help students become more thoughtful consumers and creators of media. This conversation will leverage the collective wisdom and varied experiences of the attendees to help us all better define empowering media experiences for our students.","Link":["http:\/\/www.roughcutschools.org"],"Audience":["High School","Middle School"],"Practice":"This conversation will be guided by Josh Weisgrau and Douglas Herman of Rough Cut Schools, as well as current and former SLA students who have made the critical leap from consumers to creators of media. \r\n\r\nRough Cut Schools hopes to inspire a critical and creative approach to consuming and creating media for all students that will lead to an empowered relationship with media in an overwhelmingly mediated society.","Presenter":["Douglas Herman and Josh Weisgrau"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Rough Cut Schools"],"PresenterEmail":["doug@roughcutschools.org","josh@roughcutschools.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":28,"ScheduleLocationID":8,"SubmitterID":79,"AdditionalComments":"Doug teaches Video and Photography here at SLA and founded Rough Cut Productions, SLA\u2019s student media production crew. Josh teaches Digital Literacy and is an Instructional Technologist at Friends\u2019 Central School.","LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":3},{"ID":324,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1383097483,"CreatorID":79,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Empowering Student Voice in the Humanities Classroom:  Creating Space for Meaningful Discourse","Handle":"Empowering_Student_Voice_in_the_Humanities_Classroom:Creating_Space_for_Meaningful_Discourse","ShortDescription":"Humanities classrooms hold vast potential for rich discourse. This connects students to each other and their world, and also encourages intellectual curiosity, and life-long learning. Empowering student voice is an intricate and involved pedagogical practice, and yet so vital to creating safe and dynamic classroom spaces. Be prepared to craft many ideas and strategies to deepen teaching and learning in your humanities classroom.","Description":"In addition to the above, we are looking to build a bank of ideas worth spreading...ways to encourage and sustain student voice and this notion of empowerment. We also will cover how to build students' social consciousness as they feel more in control over their learning, and more confident in themselves as game changers beyond the classroom walls.","Link":[],"Audience":["High School","Middle School"],"Practice":"This session will be comprised of a panel discussion followed by a workshop. Participants will be exchanging & workshopping ideas, and building a resource for the group to access these strategies after Educon is over.","Presenter":["Alexa Dunn (SLA) & UPenn GSE\/TFA Teachers"],"PresenterAffiliation":["SLA\/UPenn"],"PresenterEmail":["adunn@scienceleadership.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":28,"ScheduleLocationID":12,"SubmitterID":79,"AdditionalComments":"Chris was ok with scheduling UPenn\/TFA sessions for Saturday.","LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":3},{"ID":305,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1381800731,"CreatorID":337,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Face-to-Face With Our Public","Handle":"Face-to-Face_With_Our_Public","ShortDescription":"It's no longer enough for educators to engage our students; if we believe in the mission of meaningful public education for all, we must directly engage with the public as a whole. Come to this conversation to brainstorm about how we can best do that!","Description":"For too long, educators' voices have been ignored in the debates over contentious issues in education policy: standardized testing, school finance, curricula and standards, privatization of schools, and more. It's time that we take our knowledge, our passion, and our beliefs about the meaning of public education to the public directly - not just through op-eds and social media, but through face-to-face, direct, and most importantly personal engagement. This conversation will be a place for us to discuss the strategies for engagement, and tactics that can facilitate those strategies (e.g., what allies do we have to facilitate such meetings? what type of presentation will be most effective?) for reaching out to our natural allies: parents and interested citizens.","Link":["http:\/\/hyperbolicguitars.wikispaces.com\/Educon+2.6+-+Face-to-Face+With+Our+Public"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"This will truly be a brainstorming session, where interesting and useful ideas will be collected and transferred to a public wiki (open during the session). The goal will be to create a strategy for engagement with the public, with specific tactics also enumerated on the wiki.","Presenter":["Mike Thayer"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Summit Public Schools"],"PresenterEmail":["michael.r.thayer@gmail.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":28,"ScheduleLocationID":11,"SubmitterID":337,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":3},{"ID":380,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1386445479,"CreatorID":62,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Facilitating Change in Traditional Settings","Handle":"Facilitating_Change_in_Traditional_Settings","ShortDescription":"Creating new schools is one way to introduce a more modern pedagogy, but most systems need to facilitate change in existing traditional systems.  Join us for a conversation around how to facilitate that change, share stories of what's working and brainstorm possible pathways for making change in the traditional systems and structures of school.","Description":"Creating new schools is one way to introduce a more modern pedagogy, but most systems need to facilitate change in existing traditional systems.  Join us for a conversation around how to facilitate that change, share stories of what's working and brainstorm possible pathways for making change in the traditional systems and structures of school.","Link":["http:\/\/scienceleadership.org"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"","Presenter":["Diana Laufenberg","Chris Lehmann"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Science Leadership Academy and Inquiry Schools"],"PresenterEmail":["dlaufenberg@gmail.com","clehmann@scienceleadership.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":28,"ScheduleLocationID":13,"SubmitterID":62,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":3},{"ID":283,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1377869219,"CreatorID":88,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"I'm the Other Woman! - Finding Yourself Online","Handle":"I-m_the_Other_Woman--_Finding_Yourself_Online","ShortDescription":"More and more headlines creep in of educators being fired for their online postings. We walk a fine line between being our true self and being our \"image\". Why? Do we need \"professional\" social media accounts and personal ones? What is our responsibility as educators online today? Let's talk!","Description":"How can educators be transparent when we are repetitively told to conform to a fictitious model of \"good\" constructed by society? For years we have encouraged educators to separate their personal and professional lives online. In a world where every search and online interaction is connected, it's becoming increasingly difficult to do. Should we even be doing it any more? Extending the conversation from the opening panel, how can educators be honestly and freely transparent today?\r\n\r\nMany argue we are creating fake images of ourselves that even we can't live up to. We share the good, the great, and the wonderful, but rarely the down and dirty process. In doing so, we create these mythical creatures of perfection and bliss. What we share and present online is so very far from the reality we live and breathe. As educators, we know students are always watching but does that deny us the right to be \"true\" online? What should (or shouldn't) we post online, and why?","Link":["http:\/\/www.bigpurplehat.com"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"This could be done well using a dual Chalk Talk with opposing views on opposing sides of the room (wall mounted paper for each side). All participants contribute to both sides with ideas, rebuttals, and even a little devil's advocate. Conversation recorded and used to create a collaborative document of \"social media guiding ideas for educators.\"\r\n\r\nThe following links are blog postings from the last couple of years that offer varying perspectives on this issue.\r\n\r\nFrom Will Richardson\r\nhttp:\/\/weblogg-ed.com\/2009\/leadership-transparency\/\r\n\r\nDean Shareski\r\nhttp:\/\/ideasandthoughts.org\/2013\/07\/24\/understanding-sharing\/\r\nhttp:\/\/ideasandthoughts.org\/2013\/08\/26\/the-mixed-message-of-digital-citizenship\/\r\n\r\nGeorge Couros\r\nhttp:\/\/georgecouros.ca\/blog\/archives\/1810","Presenter":["Kristy Vincent"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Hardin ISD"],"PresenterEmail":["kvpurplelife@gmail.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":28,"ScheduleLocationID":16,"SubmitterID":88,"AdditionalComments":"Ideally Dean Shareski will co-facilitate this conversation. At this time he cannot fully commit to attending.","LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":3},{"ID":330,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1383190615,"CreatorID":88,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"MakerEd Design Sprint","Handle":"MakerEd_Design_Sprint","ShortDescription":"Move beyond a shopping list version of Maker Culture and design projects for \"Monday, not someday.\"  With the support of veteran educators with MakerEd experience, participants will form small teams for MakerEd design sprints that bring everyone\u2019s expertise and esoteric knowledge to bear on challenging topics for your class, grade or faculty.","Description":"For schools to harness the potential of MakerCulture and digital fabrication, those principles and experiences can't stay cooped up in isolated labs or electives. \r\n\r\nLike great PBL, MakerEd requires preparation that's at odds with traditional classroom instruction and planning. \u201cCelebrate excellent mistakes\u201d make a great bumper sticker, but shaping your classroom around divergent, and sometimes dubious, student-led investigations can be terrifying. Our session confronts that reality, and reminds every teacher that they don\u2019t have to solve all those problems on their own, all at once.\r\n\r\nThat's what Educon is for.  \r\n\r\nTaking advantage of this unique environment of bold and creative educators, a group of MakerEd veterans will develop open inquiry based prompts to match specific subjects, grades and materials. This isn't a \"which 3D printer is best\" session, but a collaborative planning session to build generative, productive scaffolding for investigation in a specific classroom, using the materials, tools and resources already available.\r\n\r\nThink of it as a workshop or bootcamp or Iron Chef for architects of student inquiry. Each prompt will turn into a robust MakerEd \"lesson plan\" that focuses on the brass tacks of managing a sprawling inquiry driven classroom.","Link":["http:\/\/tieandjeans.com","http:\/\/geekymomblog.com","http:\/\/inventtolearn.com","http:\/\/k12makers.org\/maker-promptssprint\/"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"Our conversation starts with a post-it wall of potential projects. We\u2019re equally ready to tackle the fundamental shifts of MakerEd homerooms and the challenging edge cases of content teachers looking to enhance student choice within the confines of standards and assessment.\r\n\r\nWe\u2019ll form teams of 3-5 educators, with one of the conversation leads in each one. This includes Laura Blankenship, Andrew Carle, Sylvia Martinez, Lindsey Own and as many others from #makered and #dtk12 as will fit in the room. \r\n \r\nOur planning format focuses on these five essential components:\r\n\r\nPrompt: What's the challenge in its most elegant post-it note form? \r\nParticipants: Who is doing this thing and when? Is it students in your class or a faculty meeting?\r\nMaterials: What are the baseline materials that participants NEED to get started? How can you reach out to organizations for access to \u201cdream\u201d tools and materials?\r\nSupport: Where can you find allies for this work within your school? How can your PLN activley support you and your students during the project? \r\nAudience: What happens when things are done? Who, besides you and the student, will offer meaningful feedback on the work?\r\n\r\nAll lessons created live and collaboratively will be immediately posted to k12makers.org, inviting open reuse, extension and remixing. More importantly, each lesson will have a unique conversation tag, so that teachers can find peers and cohorts interested in exploring particular projects.","Presenter":["Andrew Carle","Laura Blankenship","Jim Tiffin Jr","Sylvia Martinez"],"PresenterAffiliation":[],"PresenterEmail":["andrewcarle@gmail.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":28,"ScheduleLocationID":10,"SubmitterID":88,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":3},{"ID":339,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1383265054,"CreatorID":88,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Read This! Watch This! Do This!","Handle":"Read_This-Watch_This-Do_This","ShortDescription":"Let\u2019s have a conversation about the landscape of online learning for students and faculty. In this session, online learning experiences will be shared and analyzed.","Description":"Questions for discussion:\r\nCan online learning be a carbon copy of offline learning?  Should it be?\r\nHow can MOOCs work in a K-12 environment?or can they?\r\nHow can MOOCs be used for faculty professional development (Conference 2.0)?\r\nDoes the online environment work for specific content types? \r\nHow much asynchronous vs. synchronous does one need in an online environment?\r\nWhat are ways to be collaborative in an online environment?\r\nHow do you bring the outside in?\r\nWhen do you bring the outside in?\r\nHow can you assess online learning experiences?\r\nWhat is the future of online education?","Link":["http:\/\/donbuckley.info","http:\/\/lucygrayconsulting.com\/","http:\/\/karenblumberg.com"],"Audience":["High School","Middle School"],"Practice":"We hope to discuss and establish protocols and guidelines for creating and assessing effective online learning opportunities.","Presenter":["Don Buckley","Lucy Gray","Karen Blumberg"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Tools at Schools LLC","Lucy Gray Consulting","The School at Columbia University"],"PresenterEmail":["donbuckley@gmail.com","elemenous@gmail.com","karenblumberg@gmail.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":28,"ScheduleLocationID":15,"SubmitterID":88,"AdditionalComments":"Thank you!","LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":3},{"ID":377,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1386127113,"CreatorID":1,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Starting from scratch (sort of): bringing old ideas of inquiry and project based learning to life in a new building.","Handle":"Starting_from_scratch-sort_of-:bringing_old_ideas_of_inquiry_and_project_based_learning_to_life_in_a_new_building","ShortDescription":"Two co-founders of The Workshop School, a new public high school in Philadelphia, will lead a conversation about what project based learning looks and feels like when you have a chance to start a school.  Simon Hauger, principal and co-founder, will talk briefly about the thrills and tensions of being a teacher at heart while working as a school district administrator in a new school; Michael Clapper, teacher and co-founder, will talk briefly about the thrills and tensions of trying to start a new school from a seat in a classroom.","Description":"Two co-founders of The Workshop School, a new public high school in Philadelphia, will lead a conversation about what project based learning looks and feels like when you have a chance to start a school.  Simon Hauger, principal and co-founder, will talk briefly about the thrills and tensions of being a teacher at heart while working as a school district administrator in a new school; Michael Clapper, teacher and co-founder, will talk briefly about the thrills and tensions of trying to start a new school from within a classroom.   \r\nThere are multiple areas where we\u2019re making progress but would like to discuss with this audience: \r\nSimon Hauger \r\n1.\t Great \u2013 I\u2019ve made it as a teacher. Now I\u2019m a principal. Sigh.  What are the ways in which I\u2019ve tried to bring my teaching practice to my new staff?  How do I support teachers teaching within a brand new model?  \r\n2.\tOne of the joys of the project based approach is the unexpected places the students travel to.  But planning is critical, right?  As a leader, how do I help teachers as they plan new projects and units? How do I balance the need for planning with the freedom necessary for projects to develop in unique ways?     \r\nMichael Clapper \r\n3.\tGreat \u2013 I\u2019ve made it as a teacher.  Now I get to teach in the way I\u2019ve always wanted.  Hooray!  What are some of the new discoveries I\u2019ve made alongside my students about the rewards and struggles of project based learning?   \r\n4.\tOne major tension any school feels around project based learning is where the academics come from?  What are the new ways we\u2019ve found as a school to demonstrate the efficacy of this approach?   How have we succeeded and where do we need help?","Link":["http:\/\/www.workshopschool.org"],"Audience":["High School"],"Practice":"We are going to present two ideas each.  We\u2019re going to talk briefly about our experiences of starting the school by describing a tension we\u2019ve felt in our past experiences and how we\u2019ve attempted to resolve it this year.  Once we\u2019ve presented, audience members will have the option to offer advice or feedback, or to relay a story from their own experiences (we will ask them to identify which strand they wish to address).   We will try to alternate types of comments from the audience, with a goal of generating two texts: one, a list of advice\/feedback to be shared later, and two, a list of the common stories that emerge from starting a school.","Presenter":["Simon Hauger","Michael Clapper"],"PresenterAffiliation":["The Workshop School"],"PresenterEmail":["simon.hauger@workshopschool.org","michael.clapper@workshopschool.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":28,"ScheduleLocationID":4,"SubmitterID":1,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":3},{"ID":345,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1383337494,"CreatorID":88,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"The Mindful Teacher","Handle":"The_Mindful_Teacher","ShortDescription":"Most professional development is geared toward supporting our students, but what are ways can we support ourselves? By introducing practices such as meditation and mindful awareness, we will explore how to manage our stresses to be more present for students.  Discussion will also include how to share these practices school-wide.","Description":"Through my professional development work, classes at Naropa University's Contemplative Education Master's program, and my own practice, I am working with a Professor of Education and the Director of Counseling from Bowdoin College, my school's Dean of Students, and the President of Chewonki, to create a 4-day institute for educators next summer.  This institute is geared toward building mindfulness skills, enhanced self-awareness and the development of collegial support as pathways to a more balanced and sustainable commitment to working in education.  I would like to bring some of the program work to educon via a mini \u201cretreat-style\u201d conversation.\r\n\r\nAs teachers, we often feel guilty or unprofessional when we experience strong emotions in the classroom, and often feel we have to hide or ignore our worries. This results in a high turnover rate in education. However, these stresses and emotions can be seen not as something to avoid but as tools to help us become more aware of ourselves and therefore more present for our students. Using hands-on techniques like meditation and mindful awareness, in conjunction with brain research on stress, this workshop is designed to give teachers tangible tools to manage the myriad emotions that can come with teaching.\r\n\r\nIt is imperative that teachers have a community to reinforce this work. Time will be devoted to discussing ways teachers can bring these practices to their schools.  I will share how I\u2019ve created a \u201cmindful morning\u201d before school program for faculty and a \u201cyoga-tation\u201d activity for middle schoolers, combining yoga and meditation.","Link":[],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"This workshop is designed to be hands-on and conversational. We will introduce some practices, and then discuss what 'came up' for individuals.  As each person has a different teaching experience\/background, we can then brainstorm ways they can use this tools in their schools, and how they can share these practices with colleagues.  My goal is to create a mini retreat within the conference, as it is hard to understand the practices without having felt their effect first-hand.","Presenter":["Sarah Macdonald","Lydia Maier"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Waynflete School","Portland","ME"],"PresenterEmail":["smacdonald@waynflete.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":28,"ScheduleLocationID":5,"SubmitterID":88,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":3},{"ID":306,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1381871531,"CreatorID":88,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"The Right Tool for the Job: Promoting Student Choice","Handle":"The_Right_Tool_for_the_Job:Promoting_Student_Choice","ShortDescription":"In this session we will talk about how to manage a classroom so that students can be in charge of their own learning. We will look at how teachers can use technology to encourage student choice and explore how to manage a classroom where students are sometimes using different tools.","Description":"Progressive educators are still wrestling with the idea of what the relationship between progressive ideals and technology is. At our school we work to be very thoughtful that our technology program is meaningful, child centered and projects are process oriented. We encourage students to assess their learning and choose the tools that are best for them. \r\n\r\nIn this session we will explore how to manage a classroom so that students can be in charge of their own learning. We will look at how teachers can use technology to differentiate their instruction and encourage student choice. We will look at different tools students can use for note taking and project creating and will suggest language educators can use to create this empowering classroom environment.","Link":[],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"In this session we will learn together as a group. Participants will be guided on how to identify their own dominant learning style(s) (ie. linguistic, logical-mathematical, musical, bodily-kinesthetic, spatial, interpersonal, interpersonal or\/and naturalistic). Participants will then break up into learning style groups and try out tools that support their learning style. They will share resources and ideas in a wiki of how to teach for students of that learning style. We will end the session with a discussion of how to manage a classroom that supports students of many learning styles and I will share some of examples of ways we\u2019re doing this at my school.\r\nParticipants will leave the session with access to the wiki which will have resources on how to support a variety of learning styles.","Presenter":["Kim Deveaux"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Ethical Culture School"],"PresenterEmail":["Kim.Deveaux1@gmail.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":28,"ScheduleLocationID":3,"SubmitterID":88,"AdditionalComments":"Thank you for considering my proposal! I attended the conference last year and really enjoyed it!","LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":3},{"ID":358,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1383759448,"CreatorID":79,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Advisory and the College Admissions Process","Handle":"Advisory_and_the_College_Admissions_Process","ShortDescription":"SLA counselors, Karina Hirschfield and Zoe Siswick, will discuss the role of the advisor in the college process.","Description":"SLA counselors, Karina Hirschfield and Zoe Siswick, will discuss the role of the advisor in the college process. As the college counselor, Karina shares important information and announcement with advisors such that they can disseminate it to the students in smaller groups. The advisors then guide their advisees through the process with a watchful eye and a great deal of oversight. Karina will share the benefits to this system from a counselor's role. As a former senior advisor, Zoe will share the benefits as an advisor. Student TBD?","Link":[],"Audience":["High School"],"Practice":"Roundtable dialogue, sharing of best practices","Presenter":["Zoe Siswick","Karina Hirschfield","Alums TBD?"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Science Leadership Academy"],"PresenterEmail":["zsiswick@scienceleadership.org","khirschfield@scienceleadership.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":33,"ScheduleLocationID":7,"SubmitterID":79,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":3},{"ID":304,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1381454105,"CreatorID":88,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Augmented Awesomeness: Augmented Reality in the Classroom","Handle":"Augmented_Awesomeness:Augmented_Reality_in_the_Classroom","ShortDescription":"5th-8th graders came together on Wednesdays to experiment with a promising application, Aurasma, that makes creating interactive experiences a snap through layering virtual objects over images in the Greene Street Library. What was gained from this experiment? How can you harness the potential of augmented reality in your school?","Description":"Aurasma (www.aurasma.com) is a FREE app for iOS and Android devices that brings the potential of augmented reality into your hands. Intuitive and simplified, with Aurasma you can begin to layer virtual objects (videos, animations, pop-ups, links, etc.) over trigger images in your camera's view. Think QR Codes, but instead of those squares, actual art and full scale images. At Greene Street Friends School in the Germantown section of Philadelphia, a \"Choices\" group (synonymous with electives) of 5th-8th graders spent their Wednesday afternoons experimenting with the application within the GSFS Library. As more schools come to embrace BYOD and 1-to-1 technology integration models, teachers and administrators can find innovative ways to use this technology to engage and interest students, create new outlets for students to display and reflect upon their work, and also redefine the way that students can interact with print texts. Students from the project shall be on hand to discuss their experience, what they enjoyed, and the potential pitfalls.\r\n\r\nTIP: We will make available iPads for those who do not have an Aurasma capable device already. However, if you do, I would suggest downloading the app in advance of the Conversation for our Make-n-Take plans.\r\n\r\nEDIT: (12\/16\/2013) I'm working on my presentation using a Google Document that is open for comments. Feel free to ask questions, make suggestions, etc. in this document. http:\/\/bit.ly\/educonAR\r\n\r\nUPDATE (1\/23\/2014): Rethinking the use of Twitter and will continue to use Google Doc (http:\/\/bit.ly\/educonAR) through the presentation. Added some info over the weekend and changed the setting to allow editing from everyone.\r\n\r\nUPDATE (1\/24\/2014): Added Presentation Slides: http:\/\/bit.ly\/1eYdzWd","Link":["http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/edinterwebs","https:\/\/plus.google.com\/u\/0\/communities\/114687849554484156659"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"We plan to have iPads on hand for conversation participants to experiment live with Aurasma and create their first augmented reality experience.  Students shall act as group leaders. Backchannel conversation will be funneled through GoogleDocs to create a collaborative resource take-away.","Presenter":["Christopher Rogers"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Greene Street Friends School","Philly Connected Learning Group"],"PresenterEmail":["crogers.greenestreet@gmail.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":33,"ScheduleLocationID":6,"SubmitterID":88,"AdditionalComments":"WiFi Connectivity for the iPads will be necessary for the app demonstration.","LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":3},{"ID":320,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1383068703,"CreatorID":79,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"BYO BYO (Build Your Own Bring Your Own)","Handle":"BYO_BYO-Build_Your_Own_Bring_Your_Own","ShortDescription":"We describe the work done to prepare for a successful 1-1 laptop roll-out this year at The Baldwin School.  We will identify the biggest challenges we faced, describe how we faced them, and encourage audience members to share their own strategies.","Description":"Last year, a group of faculty at The Baldwin School began meeting informally to talk about teaching with technology.  We decided the main obstacle keeping us from moving forward was a lack of access for too many of our students and a culture that viewed technology as either an encroachment (faculty) or entertainment (students). A 1:1 program, we decided, could change both.  We formed an ad-hoc 1:1 group, and then, through a very grass roots process, we decided on a platform and a process for implementing this program.  We built our own hybrid bring your own device program.  It was the collaborative grass-roots nature of the process that we credit with the success of the implementation.   We faced many challenges, including gaining buy-in from all constituencies, choosing a platform, aligning the technology choices with our pedagogy, managing costs, and handling upgrades to our technology infrastructure.  We will share our approach to these challenges, showing how we came out relatively unscathed on the other side.  Through group conversation, we will ask attendees share their own approaches to tackling technology initiatives.","Link":["http:\/\/geekymomblog.com"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"For the conversation piece, we will have attendees in small groups think about a big technology initiative that might be on the horizon or that they have just gone through.  We would ask them to think through what the process might look like when working with a faculty group.  Who would they include in that group? What are the pain points and how would the group address them? How would the group involve the administration? Students? Parents? How will the group reflect on the process and improve it? What role will the group have in maintaining the change they initiate? Groups will share their conversations. We want attendees to leave with a better idea for how small groups of faculty can effect institutional change by working together and by thinking institutionally together.  We hope they will go home with a plan of who they might gather together and what questions they might start asking.\r\n\r\n [Google Doc Handout] (http:\/\/goo.gl\/hcC5fx)\r\n[Our Notes] (http:\/\/goo.gl\/zGPc48)\r\n[Decision Diagram](http:\/\/goo.gl\/2aJQ5f)\r\n[Decision Flow Chart](http:\/\/goo.gl\/JX0TxS)","Presenter":["Laura Blankenship","Jeffrey Goldader"],"PresenterAffiliation":["The Baldwin School"],"PresenterEmail":["lblankenship@baldwinschool.org","jgoldader@baldwinschool.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":33,"ScheduleLocationID":5,"SubmitterID":79,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":3},{"ID":360,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1383763814,"CreatorID":79,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Depth, Inquiry, and Authenticity in traditionally hierarchical content areas","Handle":"Depth-Inquiry-and_Authenticity_in_traditionally_hierarchical_content_areas","ShortDescription":"How do you get students thinking on a deep level with surface level skills? How do you get to the interesting questions and meaningful activities when you're learning primary skills?\r\n\r\nIn other words, how can we encourage students to play Mozart (or feel like they are), when they only know Chopsticks?","Description":"How do you get students thinking on a deep level with surface level skills? How do you get to the interesting questions and meaningful activities when you're learning primary skills?\r\n\r\nIn other words, how can we encourage students to play Mozart (or feel like they are), when they only know Chopsticks? \r\n\r\nWhat are the essential questions and enduring understandings that we want students to work through and hold on to, when their skills only allow them to access basic content? \r\n\r\nWe are first-level math and Spanish teachers at SLA Beeber, grappling with how to create meaningful, authentic activities that engage students and encourage them to think deeply- even though the content itself may not be deep on its own.","Link":[],"Audience":["High School"],"Practice":"This is intended to be a conversation and a sharing of best practices. We will be brainstorming in small groups, and sharing out via chart paper and commentary.","Presenter":["Marina Isakowitz and Max Rosen-Long"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Science Leadership Academy @ Beeber"],"PresenterEmail":["misakowitz@slabeeber.org","mrosen-long@slabeeber.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":33,"ScheduleLocationID":12,"SubmitterID":79,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":3},{"ID":314,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1382818382,"CreatorID":79,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Education for what?","Handle":"Education_for_what","ShortDescription":"Schools and school systems struggle to strike a balance between the many expectations they carry: basic skills, exploration, college and\/or career preparation, citizenship and many others. What (and who) is education for, and who gets to decide?","Description":"With the wave of interest in portfolio approaches to reforming urban districts, school accountability systems have become more important than ever in determining the future of public education. Schools and educators adapt to their expectations, meaning many of the new, small schools lack artistic and extracurricular opportunities that long sustained schools in disadvantaged communities. Recently, there has been a shift towards career and technical education and early college as reform practices for high schools. The premise seems to be that relevance is the key.\r\n\r\nThis session will be led by one of the founders of Pathways in Technology Early College High School (P-TECH), a new 9-14 school in Brooklyn that prepares students for careers in information technology and engineering through partnerships with NYC College of Technology (CUNY) and IBM. The school is in its third year, with the original class of students in their junior year. It is a small school of choice, which leads to difficulties that are common to such schools: an inability to provide as broad a menu of courses as students and parents would like. Likewise, the school is subject to the same imperfect accountability system as every other NYC public school. Students from Mr. Ehrenfeld's government class will be present to offer their perspectives on a unique new school and their role in shaping it.\r\n\r\nHow do schools and systems make decisions about which of their students' needs to meet, and which to neglect? Who is allowed to participate in that conversation, and where does it take place? How do we continually have this dialogue democratically and inclusively?","Link":["http:\/\/www.ptechnyc.org\/\/site\/Default.aspx?PageID=57"],"Audience":["High School","All School Levels"],"Practice":"The session will include stories from P-TECH and the establishment of a new school model, balanced with small and large group brainstorming and discussion. In the spirit of democratic dialogue, the precise format is undefined pending the input of participants. The goal is a collaborative conversation on how decisions are made in schools, with input included from Twitter along with in-person attendees. Follow the conversation at #ed4what","Presenter":["Will Ehrenfeld"],"PresenterAffiliation":["NYC DOE teacher"],"PresenterEmail":["w.ehrenfeld@gmail.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":33,"ScheduleLocationID":11,"SubmitterID":79,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":3},{"ID":323,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1383096402,"CreatorID":79,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"How can wearable technology be used to enhance learning?","Handle":"How_can_wearable_technology_be_used_to_enhance_learning","ShortDescription":"We've heard a lot about how wearable technology could impact medicine (http:\/\/www.livescience.com\/39207-google-glass-surgery.html) commerce (http:\/\/www.businessnewsdaily.com\/5341-glasspay-bitcoin-mobile-payments.html) and personal health (http:\/\/www.inc.com\/scott-jones\/future-of-wearable-technology.html)...but how about the classroom?","Description":"We've heard a lot about how wearable technology like Google Glass could impact medicince (http:\/\/www.livescience.com\/39207-google-glass-surgery.html) commerce (http:\/\/www.businessnewsdaily.com\/5341-glasspay-bitcoin-mobile-payments.html) and personal health (http:\/\/www.inc.com\/scott-jones\/future-of-wearable-technology.html)...but how about the classroom? \r\n\r\nWe will have a panel of perspectives ranging from entrepreneurs to local teachers and teacher educators and will address the question. \"How can teachers and students benefit from the use of wearable technology?\" The focus of this conversation will be the advantages, and disadvantages, and not merely a discussion of features.","Link":["http:\/\/www.chrispenny.com"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"We will use the What? So What? Now What? protocol for our conversation.  WHAT is wearable tech? SO WHAT does wearable tech mean for our work as educators, for our students, for our schools, for teacher education? NOW WHAT do we need to do about it?","Presenter":["Chris Penny","Christine DiPaulo"],"PresenterAffiliation":["West Chester University"],"PresenterEmail":["cpenny@wcupa.edu"],"ScheduleSlotID":33,"ScheduleLocationID":9,"SubmitterID":79,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":3},{"ID":386,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1387493531,"CreatorID":2787,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"How do we help the next generation of teachers become connected public practitioners?","Handle":"How_do_we_help_the_next_generation_of_teachers_become_connected_public_practitioners","ShortDescription":"Traditional teacher education has focused on preparing teachers with content knowledge and field experience - but what about connectedness and networking? How can we redesign teacher ed to help pre-service and new teachers learn to and through networking with \"experts\" (i.e. teachers!) in the field?","Description":"The aim of this conversation is to rethink teacher education from the perspective of building a context\/ecosystem of connectedness between the students\/institution and the broader community of professional educators (rather than thinking of teacher education as providing content or skills from a singular source - the college\/university).  The conversation is meant to explore this idea and begin to build a network of thinkers on this topic. We'll discuss questions like: What would this re-design mean for teacher education (implications)? What would it look like? Are there current examples? What are the challenges? What are the benefits? What connections would be beneficial for beginning teachers?","Link":["http:\/\/kbakerdoyle.wordpress.com"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"Conversation format:\r\n-Opening introductions: What drew you to this conversation? What questions\/ideas does it raise for you?\r\n--> Summary of themes --> List, Group, Label (identify 3-4 topics that came up and break into small groups to discuss each)\r\n--> Small groups report back (time for clarifying questions and suggestions for each)\r\n--> Summary of themes, next steps\r\n\r\nTools:\r\n-We will use a shared google doc - small groups will write talking points\/resources in the doc and presenter will polish it for group\r\n-Twitter hashtag #NetworkedTeacherChat for real-time and continued discussion.\r\n-Google doc will be posted on presenter's blog for continued discussion.","Presenter":["Kira Baker-Doyle"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Arcadia University School of Education"],"PresenterEmail":["bakerdoylek@arcadia.edu"],"ScheduleSlotID":33,"ScheduleLocationID":15,"SubmitterID":2787,"AdditionalComments":"It would be great to have a range of teacher educators and teachers interested in connecting with pre-service\/beginning teachers in this conversation.","LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":3},{"ID":321,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1383074106,"CreatorID":88,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Imagining a Different Path:  Charting a course for Teacher-led schools","Handle":"Imagining_a_Different_Path:Charting_a_course_for_Teacher-led_schools","ShortDescription":"How can we organize schools that empower teachers to be responsive to the individual curricular and social needs of students? What would a school led by teachers look like and what conditions need to exist to create such a place?","Description":"Too often our schools rely on a top-down model of leadership and curriculum development that isn't responsive to the needs of individual students in a 21st century environment. Imagine a school where everyone teaches and all decisions - from curriculum to scheduling to discipline policies - were made by teachers. There are schools where this fantasy is a reality and there is research that suggests this model might be just what our education system needs. Join Teachers Lead Philly to explore the research around teacher-led models for schools.  Through an overview of the theory behind the model and actual examples of teacher-led schools from around the country, we\u2019ll develop an idea of what teacher-led schools might look like in our own districts and what conditions might be necessary to create such schools.  The conversation will conclude with the development of action-steps to pursue schools that allow teachers to drive policy, practice, and curriculum.","Link":["http:\/\/www.teachersleadphilly.org\/"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"Participants will conduct collaborative inquiry informed by their own practice and research. The conversation will culminate with expectations, implications, and actions steps for pursuing a teacher-led model in schools.","Presenter":["Chris Angelini","Jessie Gluck","Annie Huynh"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Teachers Lead Philly"],"PresenterEmail":["chris@teachersleadphilly.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":33,"ScheduleLocationID":14,"SubmitterID":88,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":3},{"ID":325,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1383132653,"CreatorID":79,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Preventing the Zombie Apocalypse: Engaging All Learners","Handle":"Preventing_the_Zombie_Apocalypse:Engaging_All_Learners","ShortDescription":"Engagement doesn\u2019t have to be elusive. In this interactive session, we will design a learning environment to maximize cognitive engagement. Synthesizing current research about the brain and best practices in instruction, we will continue an ongoing reflection about what school means and our roles as educators.","Description":"Preventing a Zombie Apocalypse will be both the context of the session's activities and a metaphor for the understanding of student engagement. Engagement is not something which can be mandated or enforced; it is a result of the planning and design work of the teacher, and every aspect of the learning environment affects it. We\u2019ll begin with an exploration of a classroom activity which could be adapted to any level. After some group processing of the task, we\u2019ll have a whole group discussion of the educational \u201cdiseases\u201d which create zombies in the classroom. Finally, we\u2019ll design the cure by exploring four specific elements of the learning environment: classroom culture, physical space, teaching, and assessment. The designs will be compiled in a Google Doc to be shared and archived.","Link":["http:\/\/www.geraldaungst.com"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"Participants will work in small groups to collaborate and share knowledge about engagement. At specific points during the session, we will have whole group sharing and discussion of the work done so far. I will also model specific techniques that enhance conversation and engagement such as the \"Debate Team Carousel\" and \"Networking Session.\"","Presenter":["Gerald Aungst"],"PresenterAffiliation":["School District of Cheltenham Township"],"PresenterEmail":["geraldaungst@gmail.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":33,"ScheduleLocationID":3,"SubmitterID":79,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":3},{"ID":383,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1386685776,"CreatorID":88,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Reading Writing Workshop gone Digital","Handle":"Reading_Writing_Workshop_gone_Digital","ShortDescription":"Come hear from SLA students and their teaching team about the joys, challenges, and lessons of adopting a workshop model for English class\u2014including thoughts about how to bring the traditional model into the digital age.","Description":"At the start of this school year, my 10th graders agreed to embark on a grand experiment with me -- to turn our English class into a self-directed workshop for reading and writing. Students pick their own independent reading books, and also decide what they most needed to write, and the lessons would grow organically out of their choices. This model has been described plenty \u2013 notably by Nancie Atwell, whose book \u201cIn the Middle\u201d provided much inspiration \u2013 but at SLA, we are taking the next step by integrating digital tools, as well as scaling the model up for larger class sizes. Come hear from students and their teaching team about the joys, challenges, and lessons of building a class together.  The ideas we have to share about inquiry and self-directed learning apply to any and all disciplines.","Link":[],"Audience":["High School"],"Practice":"Students from the class will be the primary facilitators of this conversation. Discussion will happen both as one group and in breakouts. The session will also provide space for attendees to identify where they could incorporate these practices into their own classroom or school.","Presenter":["Larissa Pahomov"],"PresenterAffiliation":[],"PresenterEmail":["lpahomov@scienceleadership.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":33,"ScheduleLocationID":8,"SubmitterID":88,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":3},{"ID":385,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1386890309,"CreatorID":88,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Teaching and Learning Through Community Partnerships","Handle":"Teaching_and_Learning_Through_Community_Partnerships","ShortDescription":"Amazing things happen when educational programs define their own goals and pull resources from inspiring community partners. Whether sewing with circuits or gazing through the observatory of a science museum, these opportunities can redefine a student's learning experience. In our conversation we'll discuss how this programming can be designed and implemented.","Description":"In this session, we will briefly present how Science Leadership Academy has set up systems and partnerships.  \r\n\r\nThe session will be very interactive; participants will work to come up with ways to extend learning opportunities beyond the expertise of the faculty already in a school.  Together, we will workshop ways to integrate community partners into the existing structures of a school and start to identify types of programs people would like to bring to their learning environment.\r\n\r\nWorking with community partners (museums, universities, businesses, individuals) to create \u2018informal\u2019 programming can effectively complement a school\u2019s formal curriculum. It can be an especially attractive option when funding and other resources are scarce, since partnerships leverage the resources of other entities, often in mutually beneficial ways.","Link":["http:\/\/sokoscart.wordpress.com","http:\/\/slapartnership.weebly.com","http:\/\/goo.gl\/9h5qqC"],"Audience":["High School","Middle School","Elementary School","All School Levels"],"Practice":"The first part will be a brief presentation from a series of programming Google Docs people will have access to and can comment on - to provide context and background to what \u2018informal\u2019 programming can be.\r\n\r\nValues conversation on what meaningful programming is and should be - not specific partnerships or programs but TYPES of programs - brainstorm categories on shared Google Doc.\r\n\r\nGroup research: looking for individuals, programs, organizations, etc. that might fit into one or many of the categories above.\r\n\r\nShare out:\r\n- what research yielded\r\n- how they might bring those programs to their school.","Presenter":["David Sokoloff","Luke Van Meter","Jeremy Spry"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Science Leadership Academy","The Franklin Institute"],"PresenterEmail":["david.sokoloff@gmail.com","lvanmeter@fi.edu","jspry@scienceleadership.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":33,"ScheduleLocationID":4,"SubmitterID":88,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":3},{"ID":294,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1380489602,"CreatorID":442,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"The Privileged Voices in Education","Handle":"The_Privileged_Voices_in_Education","ShortDescription":"Whose voices are heard in education (education reform, education technology) circles? While it might be easy to identify (and lambast) the \"corporate\" voices, are we truly offering and supporting diverse voices in response? Who gets to speak \"for\" students, for teachers, for change? How can we do better?","Description":"The people that are often praised as education leaders, no matter where they might sit on the \" politics of education reform\" spectrum  -- the right or the left, from the public or private sector, \"insiders\" or \"outsiders\" -- often share a lot in common: namely, their privilege. Their class privilege. Their gender privilege. Their racial privilege. Their age privilege. Their health privilege. Their credential privilege. \r\n\r\nWe need to stop and ask: whose voices are we hearing? Whose voices are we ignoring? Whose voices are we amplifying? Whose voices are we squelching?\r\n\r\nEducation writers Audrey Watters and Jose Vilson will talk about the \"Top 10\" lists that get crafted, the awards and the recognition that get given, and how we can address questions of diversity (or the lack of diversity) therein. They'll chat race, class, gender and the future of education (which is almost the title of Vilson's new book!), how privilege plays out in the politics of education, and how it plays out in those we send into the public sphere to articulate our political (and pedagogical) positions.","Link":["http:\/\/hackeducation.com","http:\/\/thejosevilson.com\/"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"We could start with a question that seems to be popular among ed(tech) bloggers: who are the most prominent voices in education? Let's reflect on who these are? Who's missing? This session will begin as a conversation between Vilson and Watters, but the goal is to open some of our provocations up to the larger audience.","Presenter":["Audrey Watters","Jose Vilson"],"PresenterAffiliation":[],"PresenterEmail":["audrey.watters@gmail.com","jose.l.vilson@gmail.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":33,"ScheduleLocationID":10,"SubmitterID":442,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":3},{"ID":298,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1380718905,"CreatorID":79,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Understanding, Intention and Awareness: Lessons for everyone from a therapeutic school","Handle":"Understanding-Intention_and_Awareness:Lessons_for_everyone_from_a_therapeutic_school","ShortDescription":"What does \"therapeutic school\" mean and how does it look? Learn how one small therapeutic school uses understanding, intention and awareness to do our best work, and how to apply frames and perspectives from therapeutic school to your own setting.","Description":"Centerpoint School is an independent, alternative, therapeutic school in northwest Vermont. We use the frame of understanding, intention and awareness to do our best work, while balancing each student's motivation, skill and capacity. Some of our other approaches include unconditional positive regard, paradoxical interventions, and collaborative problem-solving. Most of what we do at therapeutic school can be translated or adapted into public school settings and support \"mainstream\" kids. With the current focus in the media on \"character education,\" and the teaching of social-emotional skills, come see how one school is \"walking the talk\" and how you can too.","Link":[],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"We'll base our conversation around storytelling, inquiry, and applying the frameworks of therapeutic school to our own work.","Presenter":["Alex Shevrin"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Centerpoint School"],"PresenterEmail":["alex.shevrin@gmail.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":33,"ScheduleLocationID":2,"SubmitterID":79,"AdditionalComments":"I loved facilitating a conversation last year (The Other 18 Hours) and people seemed really intrigued by how we \"do school\" at a therapeutic school. Hoping to share my work & passion with everyone again this year!\r\n\r\nTwitter handle is @shevtech","LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":3},{"ID":301,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1380893773,"CreatorID":88,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"What to expect when you're expecting","Handle":"What_to_expect_when_you-re_expecting","ShortDescription":"Are you entering in a BYOD or 1:1 initiative? Do you have questions about what to expect when your students have access to information at their fingertips? Come discuss with us all that goes into planning\/implementing a successful BYOD\/1:1 initiative.","Description":"Schools and classrooms all over the country are going 1:1 and\/or BYOD. It's important that we think about all that goes into making these programs successful and sustainable. Come join us for a conversation where we will brainstorm all the different things to consider when implementing a program. When we are finished we will leave with ideas on what it takes to implement a BYOD\/1:1 on a large scale or just in your classroom.","Link":["http:\/\/www.educationdreamer.com"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"I will create a public folder in Google Docs where we will start off by brainstorming the main areas schools and classrooms need to consider when going BYOD\/1:1. Then we will break into groups and each group will discuss 1 key area. Finally, each group will share out their thoughts and resources as they build documents for each area inside the public folder on Google Docs.","Presenter":["Brett Clark"],"PresenterAffiliation":[],"PresenterEmail":["mrbrettclark@educationdreamer.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":33,"ScheduleLocationID":16,"SubmitterID":88,"AdditionalComments":"I have worked in 1:1 schools for the past 6 years. I am currently the director of technology for Greater Clark County Schools in Jeffersonville, IN. We recently went 1:1 with Samsung Chromebooks in grades 3-12. We have over 9,000 devices in our district. We certainly don't have it all together and we are learning every week on how we can improve our initiative. I see this as a great opportunity for us to learn from each other and I hope I have the opportunity to lead this discussion at Educon.","LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":3},{"ID":313,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1382722148,"CreatorID":88,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Wonder, By Design","Handle":"Wonder-By_Design","ShortDescription":"What if school was a base camp for wonder?  How could you create the conditions for wonder in school? What implications would that have for the expedition that students would take through their education? What are the infinite possibilities for imagining, designing, and creating when learning is based in wonder?","Description":"To change schools, to improve learning, to help students reach and extend past their goals, requires special people who have the imaginative capacity to believe in human potential.\r\n\r\nWe begin our lives with learning everything we can.  We wonder about why things happen and how things work.  Our imagination lights up with question after question about our how the world works...we engage in observation, in play, and in trial and error just to learn everything we can.  Over time, as we know more, and become more conscious of the act of learning, and of knowing, our capacity for childlike learning diminishes  Certainly, we may be curious about new subjects and different types of learning, but it is rare to be able to capture the same spirit of wonder about learning that inhabits all children.\r\n\r\nBut that\u2019s exactly what\u2019s needed in education right now.\r\n\r\nSchool, with the classrooms of our past, filled with rigid arrangements of space and instruction, policies, and protocols, requires a new design - one that promotes wonder, one that fuels the imagination, and one that re-establishes wonder as the essential element of the learning equation.  What if school was a base camp for wonder?\r\n\r\nCome explore wonder with us.  Recharge your imagination with wonder, and have the opportunity to see the same things in a new way and new things in a new way.  Most importantly, begin transforming your classroom or school by creating a climate and culture of wonder that unfolds unlimited opportunities for learning.","Link":["http:\/\/jakes.editme.com\/wonder"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"This conversation is based in a series of design challenges that ask participants to actively engage with each other to examine the concept of wonder and its relationship to learning, schools, and school change.","Presenter":["Christian Long","David Jakes"],"PresenterAffiliation":["The Third Teacher Plus and Cannon Design"],"PresenterEmail":["clong@cannondesign.com","djakes@cannondesign.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":33,"ScheduleLocationID":13,"SubmitterID":88,"AdditionalComments":"We would respectfully request being scheduled on Saturday if possible.  Thank you for your consideration.","LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":3},{"ID":372,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1384802609,"CreatorID":2440,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Augmented Reality - Spectral Learning- a Conversation Moderated by Courtney Pepe","Handle":"Augmented_Reality-Spectral_Learning-Look_Again-2","ShortDescription":"Augmented Reality is the practice of taking 2 dimensional objects in the classroom and making them into 3 dimensional and 4 dimensional live learning objects.  We will talk about what changes occur when we shift the culture in our classroom from a flat 2D paper to a 3d or 4d surface that allows the classroom to expand beyond its four walls...","Description":"This conversation will explore the role that Augmented Reality plays in making the 21st century digital classroom a dynamic place to teach and learn. The research behind the Augmented Reality phenomena will be presented to show that it is a sound educational practice. Most importantly elementary, middle, and high school teachers as well as college professors will leave this conversation with several tools in their tool belt. Participants will dialogue about which Augmented Reality platforms are appropriate choices to enhance learning in their individual learning environment. The facilitator will share how Augmented Reality is changing and quickly as is technology and the shape of knowledge. The facilitator collaborates with various Augmented Reality lovers from all over the world.  In fact AR educator and world renowned author  Paul Hamilton from Australia will be joining the conversation from half way across the world.  We will ultimately create a course in iTunes U that we can all use in our learning environments.","Link":[],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"Participants will make an iTunes U course together during the workshop.  We will do a Google Hangout with some of colleagues around the world who are AR lovers.\r\n\r\nhttps:\/\/itunesu.itunes.apple.com\/enroll\/EZT-MZE-84E (link to iTunes Course)\r\n http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/kr2xkgn (link to slide deck presentation)\r\nhttp:\/\/mrspepe.com\/ (My Blog)\r\n https:\/\/todaysmeet.com\/educonar (link to backchannel for session)","Presenter":["Courtney Pepe","Paul Hamilton"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Apple Distinguished Educator","Teacher Monroe Township Schools NJ"],"PresenterEmail":["courtney.pepe@monroe.k12.nj.us"],"ScheduleSlotID":35,"ScheduleLocationID":11,"SubmitterID":2440,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":3},{"ID":303,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1381373828,"CreatorID":88,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Bringing the world into the classroom","Handle":"Bringing_the_world_into_the_classroom","ShortDescription":"Using examples of studio-based learning projects, learn how to infuse design thinking elements into the classroom and get students to work on and solve real-world challenges. Learn about and discuss how the studio model and multidisciplinary collaborative projects enhance inquiry-based learning and interest from students.","Description":"What is design thinking? What is the studio model? How do they relate to multidisciplinary collaborative projects?\r\nThis workshop will engage participants in a discussion about how design thinking elements and the studio model can lead to students' higher interest and and hands-on approach to multidisciplinary projects.\r\nParticipants will learn about Beaver Country Day School' s innovative approach to working on real-world, authentic assessments. \r\nParticipants will also be invited to comment and share ideas about these projects and to create their own projects using design thinking elements.\r\nParticipants should bring ideas of projects on which they would like to work.","Link":["http:\/\/www.bcdschool.org\/"],"Audience":["High School","Middle School"],"Practice":"We plan on presenting our main ideas and examples on design thinking and collaborative projects, and then allow participants to join www.spiderscribe.net or www.padlet.com to share their ideas and how to apply them in their respective schools.","Presenter":["Kader Adjout","Lisa Brown","Rob MacDonald"],"PresenterAffiliation":[],"PresenterEmail":["kadjout@bcdschool.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":35,"ScheduleLocationID":12,"SubmitterID":88,"AdditionalComments":"We are excited to present at Educon.\r\nWe loved it when we attended last year.\r\nWe hope we will be able to present this year.\r\n\r\nThank you.","LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":3},{"ID":347,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1383346660,"CreatorID":79,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Go to the Gemba","Handle":"Go_to_the_Gemba","ShortDescription":"Have you ever looked at your school experience through the eyes of a student?  Have you lived as a student for a day?  As educators, we are \"designers\" of the student experience, yet do we understand how the implications of our design directly impact our students?  In this session we will look at our schools through the lens of a student.  What can we do to make sure that we are designing the best possible learning environment for them?","Description":"Inspired by Deb Adler\u2019s talk at TedxRVA about her experiences as a designer and \u201cgoing to the gemba\u201d, I realized that we are \u201cdesigners\u201d of the student experience in our schools.  \u201cGemba\u201d is a japanese word that refers to the place where all the action happens.  As an academic technologist, my gemba is the student using technology in their classes.  Though I thought I knew what that looked like for our students, to be honest I wasn\u2019t sure. \r\n\r\nInspired by her talk, I embarked on a project in my school to find out what the actual student experience looks like.  We make decisions and changes based on what we think will make their experience more valuable, but is it really happening?  \r\n\r\nJoined by my colleagues, we set out to research our student technology experience in PK-12 to find out what is working and what changes need to be made.  We shadowed students for entire days and conducted surveys of students to see what their days were like. \r\n\r\nIn this session, we will share our findings as well as the way our project changed how we look at our role as designers, not just technology coordinators.","Link":["http:\/\/www.tinyurl.com\/educongemba"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"In this session, we will practice a \"gemba circle\" and reflect on the process of going to the gemba.  Each participant will leave with an action plan for designing their own gemba.","Presenter":["Carey Pohanka"],"PresenterAffiliation":["St. Christopher's School"],"PresenterEmail":["pohankac@stcva.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":35,"ScheduleLocationID":2,"SubmitterID":79,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":3},{"ID":359,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1383761308,"CreatorID":79,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Interdisciplinary Learning in Heterogenous Math and Science Classes","Handle":"Interdisciplinary_Learning_in_Heterogenous_Math_and_Science_Classes","ShortDescription":"This conversation will focus on the ongoing development of an interdisciplinary curriculum involving math and physics.","Description":"As math and science teachers, we regularly set the goal of creating more interdisciplinary learning opportunities for our students. This conversation will focus specifically on the design and implementation of interdisciplinary projects and lessons. SLA's math and science teachers will facilitate a discussion aimed at strategizing how to support student growth in simultaneous, overlapping classes.","Link":[],"Audience":["High School"],"Practice":"Conversational Protocol; shared discussion on obstacles and strategies.","Presenter":["Brad Latimer","Rosalind Echols","Erin Garvey"],"PresenterAffiliation":[],"PresenterEmail":["egarvey@scienceleadership.org","rechols@scienceleadership.org","blatimer@scienceleadership.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":35,"ScheduleLocationID":8,"SubmitterID":79,"AdditionalComments":"Google form: http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/kkp5dg9\r\n\r\nFolder of Resources: http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/ny24gn7","LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":3},{"ID":370,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1384486428,"CreatorID":334,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Make Art, Not Pics: a Visual Conversation about Learning and Space at SLA","Handle":"Make_Art-Not_Pics:a_Visual_Conversation_about_Learning_and_Space_at_SLA","ShortDescription":"Part photowalk, part art exercise, part respite from the intellectual gymnastics of the day, this session is for anyone who enjoys expressing themselves with a device that takes pictures (including smartphones, tablets, etc.) Our subject will be SLA itself. No prior experience or expensive camera equipment required, just your passion for photography and a desire to improve your craft.","Description":"Part photowalk, part art exercise, part respite from the intellectual gymnastics of the weekend, this session is for anyone who enjoys expressing themselves with a device that takes pictures (including smartphones, tablets, etc.) Our subject will be SLA itself. Seeking to create extraordinary photos of ordinary things, we will roam the hallways of SLA taking pictures of anything and everything. We'll learn from each other, trade technical tips and advice, and finally, share the art we create online (Creative Commons Licensed, of course) for all to enjoy.","Link":[],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"We'll have plenty of conversation as we roam SLA in teams trying to capture our images. We'll share them to the Flickr group (below), on Twitter and Instagram. Remember to use the hashtags: #makeartnotpics #educon #sla\r\n\r\nResource Doc: http:\/\/goo.gl\/TxrXYw\r\nHaiku Deck: http:\/\/goo.gl\/zSK6ZS","Presenter":["Kevin Jarrett"],"PresenterAffiliation":[],"PresenterEmail":["kevin.jarrett@gmail.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":35,"ScheduleLocationID":14,"SubmitterID":334,"AdditionalComments":"This is a little 'odd' as far as sessions go, hope you like the idea. With luck we'll generate some kickass photos for SLA to use in any way desired.","LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":3},{"ID":378,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1386194128,"CreatorID":88,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Renting vs. Owning Education","Handle":"Renting_vs-Owning_Education","ShortDescription":"A discussion about the meaning of student ownership (empowerment) of learning and how it\u2019s related to and contrasts with student engagement. In addition, some practical applications to foster student ownership (empowerment) in the classroom. Participants will have the opportunity to plan activities and develop measurable goals associated with student ownership (empowerment) of learning.","Description":"Most teachers want to engage students. But is it enough? Are we asking our students to \u201crent\u201d their education from us as educators, rather than \u201cown\u201d it themselves? What does it mean to have an \u201cengaged\u201d student? What does it look like? How do you grade engagement? Is it linked to knowledge? Are we actually just looking for compliance? Next, how is an engaged student different from an \u201cempowered\u201d student? How do we foster ownership (empowerment) of learning and how do we grade such learning?\r\n\r\nIn this media-rich environment of education, where buzzwords seem to be more important than what is going on in the classroom, what does it mean to have an \u201cengaged\u201d student? And how does that contrast with an \u201cempowered\u201d student or one that has taken \u201cownership\u201d of his or her own learning? \r\n\r\nIn this discussion, educators will have the chance to define and debate what it means to be engaged with learning versus having ownership (empowerment) of learning. Utilizing practical examples, participants will have the chance to reflect on what they are doing in the classroom and categorize it as engagement and\/or ownership (empowerment). Two educators from a New York City public high school will share from-the-field examples, including English classes where the students create their own unit plans, lessons, rubrics and grading policies, as well as choose their own texts. Also shared will be Science lessons where students take on the role of instructor and facilitate laboratory lessons.\r\n\r\nConversational Practice:\r\n1.\tIntroduction & Appetizer Upon entry, participants will be given an index card that asks the question: \u201cWhat does an engaged student look like?\u201d Participants should write their answer on their card. Responses will be collected and entered into a digital word cloud projected on the wall. Participants can also log in to see the Word Cloud on their own device. Repeated concepts will appear bigger than lesser mentioned concepts, thus showing the commonalities of thought. Facilitators will open with a brief welcome, introduction and short discussion of the responses.\r\n\r\n2. Renting Vs. Owning One\u2019s Education Big Questions\/Lenses Introduced:\r\n\u2022\tAre we asking\/expecting students to figuratively rent their education from us? \r\n\u2022\tOr, are we giving students the power to create and thereby own their education with us?\r\n\u2022\tAnd finally, when students have ownership, are they then more authentically engaged?\r\n\r\n3.\tModified Consultancy Protocol: Throughout the room, chart paper will display various questions of practice.  \r\n\u2022\t What does student engagement look like in your classroom\/school?\r\n\u2022\t What does student engagement sound like in your classroom\/school?\r\n\u2022\t How do you measure student engagement in your classroom\/school?\r\n\u2022\t What are some examples of student ownership in your classroom\/school? Or are there none?\r\n\u2022\t What helps students become more engaged\/invested in their learning?","Link":[],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"Round 1: Participants will walk around and stick their answer on each chart paper. (Yellow Post-It)\r\n    Round 2: Review other responses & ask a probing or clarifying question on each chart paper. (Pink Post-It)\r\n    Round 3: Participants review and respond to Round 2 questions on each chart paper. (Blue Post-It)\r\n\r\nEach group will quickly review and report on the findings, questions and thoughts of one of the chart paper discussions. \r\n    \r\n4. Video  Facilitators will show a video of student ownership (empowerment) in planning English classes and student engagement while teaching various science lessons. \r\n\u2022 Any clarifying questions about the student engagement or ownership (empowerment) from the video?\r\n\u2022 Analyze what we saw \u2014 how does it match our definitions? How is it different? What does it have in      common with your personal experiences? What is different? What can we measure?\r\n\u2022 From that analysis, any extension questions or insights or adaptations?\r\n\r\n5. Group Work & Discussion Time: \r\n\u2022\tHow can I extend my best practices for student engagement or student ownership (empowerment) in the classroom? \r\n\u2022\tWhat can I take back to my classroom? School? Or even District?\r\n\r\n7. Wrap-up and reflection.\r\n\r\nFinal Comments:  For last three years, educators from Hudson High School of Learning Technologies have been coming to EduCon, and the chance to share best practices and discuss ideas and concepts has really impacted our own practices. We always come home feeling revived and excited, brimming with new ideas. The opportunity to facilitate a discussion on an issue for which we have passion and  to gather the wisdom of other like-minded educators is what motivated this particular proposal. In past conferences, we have been asked to explore our own best practices and reflect on our ideas of what it means to engage students with any particular material. We would be honored to share with EduCon population in a continuing practice of professional generosity what we have adapted from prior discussions and continue to evolve as a larger community.","Presenter":["Anastacia Brie","Jennifer Gunn"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Hudson High School"],"PresenterEmail":["stacebrie@yahoo.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":35,"ScheduleLocationID":16,"SubmitterID":88,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":3},{"ID":350,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1383355743,"CreatorID":79,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Rethinking School to Focus on What Matters","Handle":"Rethinking_School_to_Focus_on_What_Matters","ShortDescription":"Based on our forthcoming book, which provides school leaders with a hands-on guide to rethinking practices to create truly innovative schools, this session will present a framework and step-by-step guide for school transformation.  School leaders are invited to bring their whole team along to engage in several exercises to kick-start the process.","Description":"It is our belief that the concept of \u201cschool\u201d as most of us know it arose out of century-old needs; our world has changed and so must the notion of \u201cschool.\u201d  Many existing and even new schools continue to focus on tinkering to make the old way better; what is needed is a whole new way.  In contrast to traditional schools that often focus on the needs of adults and rely on \u201cthe way we\u2019ve always done it,\u201d 21st century schools must focus on students\u2019 needs as the primary driver.  By focusing clearly on each school\u2019s vision and instructional goals, and building all structures and designing all processes in support of those goals, we believe schools can begin to transform their schools into the 21st century learning environments our students need.\r\n\r\nWhile many educators understand WHY schools need to change, few existing tools and resources actually show educators HOW to engage in the school transformation process.  Our book (on track for publication by Teachers College Press in March 2014) was written to provide a framework for how educators can begin to rethink school practices, with examples to demonstrate and inspire innovation, and step-by-step exercises that will guide school leaders\/designers and their teams through the process of making it happen.   This session will provide participants with an overview of this process and the opportunity to engage in several of the activities; it is our goal to help participants clearly define and articulate their visions and to begin rethinking how practices align.","Link":["http:\/\/www.novareschools.org"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"5 min\tWelcome, introductions and goals for the session\r\n\r\n10 min\tBackground\/history of the iSchool and an overview of the four levers for school transformation: time, human capital, curriculum, and culture\r\n\r\n35 min\tDifferentiated Workshop time:  Participants will focus on one or more of the following foundational activities (based on exercises from the book):\r\no\tDefining your goals and values\r\no\tDeveloping a preliminary vision\r\no\tIdentifying the gaps\r\nThen participants will, based on their school\u2019s needs, focus on exercises related to the area of change they believe will provide the greatest lever for school transformation.  All exercises include a hands-on guide and activities designed to engage school leaders and their teams in a step-by-step process.\r\n\r\n10 min\tSharing, wrap-up and session feedback","Presenter":["Mary Moss"],"PresenterAffiliation":["NYC iSchool\/Novare Schools\/Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools"],"PresenterEmail":["mmoss@novareschools.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":35,"ScheduleLocationID":15,"SubmitterID":79,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":3},{"ID":362,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1383787155,"CreatorID":79,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"The Effective Hybrid Teacher ~ Models that help students flourish.","Handle":"The_Effective_Hybrid_Teacher-Models_that_help_students_flourish","ShortDescription":"Hybrid teachers, who spend 1\/2 their time in the classroom and 1\/2 their time in stewardship of the profession, can help colleagues enrich K-12 education.  How can hybrid teachers develop their educational leadership while they are supporting students, collaborating with colleagues, negotiating employment contracts, etc.?\r\n\r\nParticipant recommendations will evolve into an opt-in article for publication.","Description":"In order for K-12 teachers to be more effective, we need opportunities to  study the intersection of curriculum, instruction, assessment and policy.  For example, as federal agencies call for more teacher research, and states design high-stakes standardized assessments of student growth, teachers need to be more involved with what goes in in schools and districts. One of the challenges we face is that many teachers already work 50 hours a week; where do we find the time we need to lead?  Data from the 2013 Measures of Effective Teaching study also shows that teachers also seek opportunities to lead without leaving the classroom.\r\n\r\nParticipants will review aspects of the national discussion on hybrid teachers, discuss sample case studies, and design local models for the effective hybrid teacher.","Link":["http:\/\/bit.ly\/1e1e8wR"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"A conceptual \"map\" of the hybrid teacher research will be provided through a brief introduction. Participants will be asked to identify their own inquiry with regard to 1) the roles of hybrid teachers and\/or 2) the policies that will support hybrid teachers and\/or 3) the mechanisms needed to evaluate the effectiveness of the hybrid teacher role. Small discussion groups will integrate their experiences with the provided literature to develop informal recommendations.","Presenter":["Gamal Sherif","Bruce Taterka"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Science Leadership Academy"],"PresenterEmail":["gsherif@ProgressEd.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":35,"ScheduleLocationID":7,"SubmitterID":79,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":3},{"ID":341,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1383313363,"CreatorID":88,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"What do educators want from EdTech? A conversation moderated by Bobbi Kurshan","Handle":"a_conversation_w_Bobbi_Kurshan_of_Academic_Innovation-Penn_GSE","ShortDescription":"A conversation facilitated by Dr. Bobbi Kurshan of Academic Innovation @ Penn GSE. This is an opportunity for educators to engage in meaningful dialogue with current education entrepreneurs about what educators of all stripes want from EdTech.","Description":"The panel will be comprised of current members of the Education Design Studio Inc. (EDSi), a hybrid seed fund\/incubator and design thinking curriculum; will be local companies in the EdTech Space; and\/or will have come through the Milken Penn GSE Education Business Plan Competition.  \r\n\r\nThis panel is intended to be a shared learning opportunity for panelists as much as for audience members. We will consider participation on this panel as a formal, hands-on element of the EDSi curriculum. Specifically, this session will be a lesson in how to engage with customers and elicit feedback, and it will serve to deepen entrepreneurs\u2019 understanding of the education market at the grassroots (rather than district or even corporate) level. In addition, it will serve as a chance for ventures\u2019 founders to learn from front-line practitioners about what works in their classrooms and schools, how they use existing tools, what\u2019s on their wish lists, and the challenges they face, too. How can entrepreneurs and educators (who are not always mutually exclusive!) join forces to bring fruitful products and services to students, families and fellow educators? And further, what should entrepreneurs be aware of when working within the wild world of education?","Link":["http:\/\/www.nestcentral.org"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"Bobbi: intro to conversation\r\nPanelists: Brief explanation of products\/ventures\r\n-\tChalk Talk: audience members take 10 minutes to silently write their responses to the question \u201cWhat do Educators want from Educational Technology?\u201d on a large piece of butcher paper on the wall of the space. \r\n-\tDiscussion: (25 min) Use the points made on the wall to inform an open discussion","Presenter":["Bobbi Kurshan","Brigittte Daniel","Shiv Galgani","Betty Hsu","Harshil Parikh"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Penn GSE Academic Innovations; edIQ; Osmosis; Professor Word; TuvaLabs"],"PresenterEmail":["cmcmanus@gse.upenn.edu"],"ScheduleSlotID":35,"ScheduleLocationID":10,"SubmitterID":88,"AdditionalComments":"For the moment I (Cat) will serve as contact person for this conversation; Bobbi is inundated with emails so it's easier this way. \r\nThanks, \r\nCat","LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":3},{"ID":388,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1388011298,"CreatorID":79,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"A new leadership school","Handle":"A_new_leadership_school","ShortDescription":"Society could use more effective leadership, but what institutions teach it? We know how to teach it, but almost no institutions focus on leadership first.\r\n\r\nIf you'd like to see a school teach the skills for leadership (probably post-graduate) or have experience starting schools or teaching leadership, please join.","Description":"SLA's mission begins asking how we learn and what it means to lead. \r\n\r\nSociety could use more effective leadership. But where do we teach it? If leadership includes knowledge and skills like emotional intelligence, self-awareness, decision-making, negotiation, managing conflict, perceiving others, influence and persuasion, motivation, and managing groups and teams, and they are teachable, where does our educational system teach them? Some schools of education teach them, as do some other graduate schools, but always mixed with fields like business.\r\n\r\nWhat about a school for leadership that teaches leadership solely and comprehensively? Where better than a new school with Leadership in its name to discuss the possibility?\r\n\r\nThe presenter is a Professor at NYU passionate about teaching leadership (and entrepreneurship) who believes leadership skills are teachable but rarely taught effectively. Inspired by SLA's success at the high school level, proposes discussing creating a school for leadership at the graduate level.\r\n\r\nIf you'd like to see a school focus on these subjects or have experience starting schools, please join the conversation.","Link":["http:\/\/joshuaspodek.com\/leadership-problems-today-call"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"I (the presenter) seek a conversation with people with relevant experience and common interests, not a presentation, since I haven't started a school or created a curriculum.","Presenter":["Joshua Spodek"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Columbia University and NYU"],"PresenterEmail":["josh@spodek.net"],"ScheduleSlotID":36,"ScheduleLocationID":14,"SubmitterID":79,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":3},{"ID":318,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1382996052,"CreatorID":79,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Can Anyone Hear Me? Utilizing Student Voice in Schools","Handle":"Can_Anyone_Hear_Me-Utilizing_Student_Voice_in_Schools","ShortDescription":"Why is it that the people making the decisions are rarely the ones having to live with them?  Join a conversation led by students at the NYC iSchool to learn how we can make schools and our classrooms places that are created both for and BY students.  Find out what it\u2019s like to be in a community where student voice and student choice are a main priority and walk away with plans (both big and small) to incorporate student voice in to your school community and classrooms.","Description":"What would it look like if students not only got to pick their courses starting in their freshman year but were also able to decide which courses were offered?  What would happen if students were asked to evaluate both their courses and their teachers at the end of every quarter and if that feedback was then used to improve teaching practice?  The NYC iSchool was founded on three main beliefs: that students thrive when given choice and responsibility, that learning should be real-world relevant, and that the high school experience should be developmentally appropriate and individualized.  Paramount to the implementation of each of these beliefs is creating a school community where students are getting what they want and need when they need it and the iSchool knows that one of the best ways to determine student needs and wants is to ask the student\u2019s themselves.  During this conversation, our students will lead a discussion about how their voice is heard at the iSchool and how other schools use student voice.  iSchool students will then provide participants with tangible ways to incorporate student voice in their own classrooms and schools.","Link":["http:\/\/www.nycischool.org"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"After a very brief introduction to situate the NYC iSchool in the context of other public high schools, students will facilitate a speed-dating-type protocol that will encourage participants to engage in conversations about various common student experiences: schedules, curriculum, class projects, clubs, etc. Each student will facilitate a conversation with one of these experiences, will share how their own voice has transformed these experiences at the iSchool, and will invite participants to share their own stories. Each group will rotate after about 10 minutes, with time for a closing activity.","Presenter":["Michelle Leimsider","Christina Jenkins"],"PresenterAffiliation":["NYC iSchool"],"PresenterEmail":["cjenkins@nycischool.org","mleimsider@nycischool.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":36,"ScheduleLocationID":3,"SubmitterID":79,"AdditionalComments":"We developed this proposal in collaboration with our students. I drafted the language for convenience and clarity, but our kids would lead this one. They all have experience as school tour guides for prospective 8th grade families, and are very comfortable interacting with adults from diverse backgrounds. I tried to add their first names, separated by commas, in the presenter box above, but the form wouldn't accept first names only. - Christina","LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":3},{"ID":382,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1386685687,"CreatorID":88,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Choice. Motivation. Electronic Things.","Handle":"Choice-Motivation-Electronic_Things","ShortDescription":"This workshop will ask participants to consider standard\r\nassignments within their classrooms or colleagues' classrooms and\r\nthink about how they can be re-imagined given what we know about\r\nthe importance of choice, our understanding of motivation, and the\r\nelectronic devices available to them.","Description":"Bring an assignment you'd like to workshop.","Link":["https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/19st0-V-KR-GRlxxyUjh-rMndkqpbe2diqOHp6ZrZLe4\/edit?usp=sharing"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"Participants will work together to examine traditional assignments and workshop them to move closer to the aspirations of situated motivation and seamless, logical use of electronic things.","Presenter":["Zac Chase"],"PresenterAffiliation":["St. Vrain Valley School District (Former SLA Teacher)"],"PresenterEmail":["zac.chase@gmail.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":36,"ScheduleLocationID":13,"SubmitterID":88,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":3},{"ID":387,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1387663339,"CreatorID":88,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Gamification: A framework for instructional design","Handle":"Gamification:A_framework_for_instructional_design","ShortDescription":"Gamification refers to using elements of game design, specifically video games, as a model for instructional scaffolding. Join us in exploring how gamification can be leveraged to create an instructional cycle that supports challenge-based inquiry, differentiation, and cooperative interdependence, as learners \"play\" to unlock \"powers\" for greater learner autonomy.","Description":"Gamification refers to using elements of game design, specifically video games, as a model for instructional design and scaffolding. In this conversation we will explore a model where learners \u201cplay\u201d to earn badges and skill points to unlock greater autonomy in directing their own learning. \r\nLike compelling video games, a gamified classroom engages learners with achievable, incremental challenges, designed to build skills and knowledge necessary for meeting more sophisticated challenges as learners move from one level to the next.  A \u201cGamified\u201d class uses a mastery system and so failure is encouraged. Failure (making mistakes) is valued as a legitimate technique for practice and feedback provides learners with cues, hints, and partial solutions to keep them progressing and motivated, as well as acknowledgement of incremental goal progress. If students fail a quiz, lab, or assignment challenge, they may repeat it until they have mastered the skill.  This in turn creates a system that is leveled, allowing for differentiation and students to progress at a personal pace.","Link":["http:\/\/www.21stcenturylab.org\/","http:\/\/classroom2pt0.wikispaces.com\/Gamification"],"Audience":["High School","Middle School"],"Practice":"Implementing a gamified class requires planning, curricular reorganization, and a pedagogical shift. Participants will be provided with all session materials in advance (http:\/\/prezi.com\/hzqbzhjmcuyl\/gamification\/) and challenged to use the templates and exemplars, Google Apps and an LMS of choice, to begin designing their own gamified units of instruction, ideally leaving with the tools and framework for scalable implementation. At checkpoints we will share innovations and challenges that emerge. At the conclusion, participants will be invided to join the Gamification in Education Google+ community, for continued collaboration.","Presenter":["Philip Vinogradov"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Centennial School District"],"PresenterEmail":["vinogradovphilip@gmail.com","pvino1@mac.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":36,"ScheduleLocationID":9,"SubmitterID":88,"AdditionalComments":"Presenter Background:\r\nPhilip Vinogradov is a Google Certified Teacher and the Instructional Technology Specialist for Centennial School District in Warminster PA, providing embedded and sustained professional development for faculty in leveraging emerging technologies. He is also the program developer for the district\u2019s 21st Century Learning lab and Classroom Initiative, working to build learner and teacher capacity for authentic project based learning. He has led workshops on gamification and the flipped classroom at ISTE 2013, PETE&C, Google in Education Summits, and other regional conferences. He has also presented on topics of leveraging emerging technologies to support instruction, collaboration, and design thinking at PETE&C, NAIS, and NSTA conferences.","LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":3},{"ID":322,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1383094895,"CreatorID":88,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Positive Psychology in the Classroom: Creating Happy, Healthy Schools","Handle":"Positive_Psychology_in_the_Classroom:Creating_Happy-Healthy_Schools","ShortDescription":"Positive Psychology is the scientific study of what makes individuals and communities happy. This session will center around how to infuse classrooms and school environments with more joy--for learning, for life pursuits, and for building lasting relationships. Be prepared to workshop  practical, useful ideas to infuse into your school. C'mon, get happy!","Description":"The conversational focus centers around this notion of Positive Psychology and how we can apply it to our school environments. With 7 workshop facilitators (all working in myriad schools: public, charter, cyber, etc), we envision being able to create panel discussion, and also break out sessions to tackle how to enact these practices in various school settings.","Link":[],"Audience":["High School","Middle School","Elementary School","All School Levels"],"Practice":"Conversation will happen with panel discussion and then workshop break out sessions led by teachers.","Presenter":["Alexa Dunn (SLA) & UPenn GSE\/TFA Teachers"],"PresenterAffiliation":["SLA\/UPenn"],"PresenterEmail":["adunn@scienceleadership.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":36,"ScheduleLocationID":12,"SubmitterID":88,"AdditionalComments":"Just a reminder: Chris was good with scheduling TFA sessions for Saturday.","LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":3},{"ID":317,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1382992232,"CreatorID":88,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Say goodbye to the textbook.","Handle":"Say_goodbye_to_the_textbook","ShortDescription":"Are iTunes U Courses a new disruption in education? Our teachers said goodbye to textbooks and hello to collaboratively building courses in iTunes U, becoming course designers, creative problem solvers, better researchers, collaborative team members, and authorities about content as it relates to curriculum standards and student needs.","Description":"Our new faculty will soon to be published authors of personalized curriculum, aligned to state and common core standards. Academic subject area teachers are collaboratively building courses that are delivered to our students through iTunes U on the iPad.  No more printing, copying, or shuffling papers for our teachers. No more heavy book bags, notebooks, folders, papers and pen for our students. Now our students have immediate 24\/7 access to carefully chosen digital resources that meet the needs of all learners. Our students are equipped with an iPad and a stylus to write with. Could this be a better way to guide instruction and ask students to research, question, and discuss topics? Let's talk more about this new model for creating, teaching and learning that can change the ways of traditional educational practices.","Link":["http:\/\/www.stringtheoryschools.com"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"In groups, the conversation is designed to help answer \"what\" is purpose of a textbook? and continues as we collectively discuss \"so what\" is so great about textbooks? Finally \"now what? Can we think about moving away from printed materials to digitally created content that is personalized to guide instruction?","Presenter":["Christine DiPaulo","Dr. Margery Covello","Dr. Chris Penny"],"PresenterAffiliation":["String Theory Schools"],"PresenterEmail":["christinedipaulo@gmail.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":36,"ScheduleLocationID":15,"SubmitterID":88,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":3},{"ID":285,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1378611499,"CreatorID":1676,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Supporting Democracy Beyond Content","Handle":"Supporting_Democracy_Beyond_Content","ShortDescription":"Preparing students for citizenship gets less attention these days than it deserves. Let's try to rectify that as we talk about what democracy demands from its citizens. From old-fashioned brainstorming to Google Docs collaboration, we'll build ideas to bring democracy beyond content and into the fabric of our schools.","Description":"One reason that our schools face such challenges in creating a democratic culture is that many people continue to disagree about what democracy entails and what it demands from its citizens. This conversation will bring those questions to the forefront and, if not resolve them, provide some clarity and possible direction for the future.\r\n\r\nJane Addams had a vision of the social settlement as an educational institution that would be directly connected to the concerns of the community and give citizens the knowledge that they needed to actively participate in democratic society. Many theorists today argue for a definition of democracy that does not require the public to be so involved. The first part of the conversation will highlight and compare these different visions of democracy.\r\n\r\nEven the least-participatory vision of democracy requires some engagement by the citizens, and theories such as deliberative democracy place strong demands on content and skills. Research skills, knowledge of government institutions, and the ability to evaluate arguments are examples of what citizens in a democracy may need in order to be effective. The second part of the conversation will be a group brainstorm to identify as many of these essential elements as possible.\r\n\r\nSome elements can be taught as part of classroom content. Others can be conveyed through extracurricular activities or school culture. Others may involve organizing the school community for external activism. The final part of the conversation will share ideas that we can take back to our schools to support democratic culture.","Link":["http:\/\/www.notnews.org"],"Audience":["High School"],"Practice":"You can check out the [outline for the conversation in this presentation](https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1Ozbh_Xmu6qyaSD-vxBd6__GyjrlG9nT96qaj_oMpeYw\/edit?usp=sharing). The presentation has links to three Google Docs that we'll work on as a group, and which will serve as a digital \"take-home\" resource. The goal of the conversation is to lay out the challenges and brainstorm solutions rather than present an argument for one particular method. Of course, [I have my own opinions on the matter](http:\/\/www.notnews.org\/philosophy\/the-school-for-society-principles-for-a-school-centered-reform\/), so as a backup in case the people in the room are feeling shy, I will have a few ideas ready to present as proposals for review in order to create some conversation starters. But feel free to bring your own instead!","Presenter":["Dave Thomer"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Parkway Center City High School"],"PresenterEmail":["davethomer@gmail.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":36,"ScheduleLocationID":7,"SubmitterID":1676,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":3},{"ID":376,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1386114803,"CreatorID":62,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Toward a \"Modern Learning Alliance\"","Handle":"How_Do_We_Keep_The_Conversation_Moving","ShortDescription":"It's time to for progressive, connected educators to start building a larger movement for modern learning in schools and communities. Let's talk about how to do just that.","Description":"Students First. Foundation for Excellence. Network for Public Education. All around us, education reform \"movements\" are growing. Most center on doing school \"better\" through privatization, charters, or a return to traditional schooling without standardization and testing. For progressive, connected educators who see the world of education and learning fundamentally changing because of technology, however, no organized movement exists. \r\n\r\nLet's have a conversation around how to create just such a movement. What groups might align with such a movement? What would be the principles we promote? How would we create an organization? And more.\r\n\r\nWe won't build it in 90 minutes, but we can get the conversation started.","Link":["http:\/\/willrichardson.com\/"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"Short contextual presentation, process discussion, Google Doc, interaction with live webcast audience.","Presenter":["Will Richardson"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Modern Learner Media"],"PresenterEmail":["weblogged@gmail.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":36,"ScheduleLocationID":10,"SubmitterID":62,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":3},{"ID":369,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1384310937,"CreatorID":79,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"What if Schools...","Handle":"What_if_Schools","ShortDescription":"Please join this conversation to imagine what is possible for schools and classrooms. \"What if Schools...\" is a prompt to encourage us to think beyond traditional models of school structure and strategy.  With each other as resources for innovation, we can develop new lenses through which we can imagine education.\r\n\r\nThe source of innovation is within each other, our experiences, and our ideas. Therefore, please join this opportunity to push for transformation of traditional school models.","Description":"\"What if schools...\" is a prompt for educators to tap into their own innovation and imagine what is possible within and beyond schools and classrooms. When teachers enter the profession, we face a tradition and paradigm of education that has merit, but also needs to be constantly modernized and rethought for the present age and the future. We can become mechanicized by the boundaries of the classroom, and we may not even consider what is else is possible, unless we start asking ourselves, \"What if...?\"\r\n\r\nThis conversation has many potential threads: 1) School structures, locations, and identities. 2) Equity in education. 3) Technology in education. 4) Instructional practices that should not be lost in the process of \"too much\" innovation. 5) Teaching beyond classroom walls and communities.\r\n\r\nBy encouraging people from many different backgrounds to brainstorm and collaborate, everyone should be able to walk away with an enriched sense of what schools and education are capable of.","Link":[],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"This is completely intended to be a conversation. Whereas I may share some photos of different classrooms in which I have taught in America and in other countries, they would only be conversation starters. I would prefer to meet in a circle and have people work in small groups to collaborate and share ideas about the prompt, \"What if schools...\" \r\n\r\nIn addition, I would like to capture the ideas with either a twitter hashtag or a googledoc.\r\n\r\nAn ultimate goal is also to have a \"What if Schools...\" Wordpress blog. I would like to use some of the ideas from the session for a potential opening essay for the blog. Also, I would hope to solicit future writers for writing entries.","Presenter":["Luke Zeller"],"PresenterAffiliation":["SLA Beeber","School District of Philadelphia","Philadelphia Writing Project"],"PresenterEmail":["lzeller@slabeeber.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":36,"ScheduleLocationID":8,"SubmitterID":79,"AdditionalComments":"Thanks!","LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":3}],"conditions":{"Status":"Accepted","ConferenceID":3},"total":80,"limit":false,"offset":false}