{"success":true,"data":[{"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":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":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":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":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":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}],"conditions":{"Status":"Accepted","ConferenceID":3,"ScheduleLocationID":10},"total":6,"limit":false,"offset":false}