{"success":true,"data":[{"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}],"conditions":{"Status":"Accepted","ConferenceID":3,"ScheduleSlotID":27},"total":16,"limit":false,"offset":false}