Making the Digital Connection: Powerful Teaching Strategies For Digital Learners

5:00-8:00 Workshop Notes: Making the Digital Connection: Powerful Teaching Strategies For Digital Learners
I had to add this after the fact. The presenter really didn’t want people using computers which seems kind of weird considering the topic.
Anyway, this was the least useful/interesting workshop I attended. It was OK but mostly was stuff I already knew but [...]

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Starting From Scratch: Building School 2.0

3:30-4:30 Tuesday Session Notes: Starting From Scratch: Building School 2.0
Designing School 2.0–Science Leadership Academy (Philadelphia)
5 core values: collaboration, inquiry, research, reflection, presentation
Academic values vs. community values
How plan/design curriculum in student centered environment?
Need a goal or vision to start from, then core values become tools to attain
Needs to be dynamic, relevant, learning by doing, backward planning, [...]

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Reinventing Education for the 21st-Century (Designing School 2.0)

2:00-3:00 Tuesday Session Notes: Reinventing Education for the 21st-Century (Designing School 2.0):
Try out the Digital Literacy site. What is School 2.0? How can we support it?
What is it going to take to thrive in 2065?  What skill set is needed? How should education change?
No simple answer. It’s not just about having a computer and using [...]

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Global Awareness through Geotagging: Creating and Using Digital Photo Maps

12:30-1:30 Tuesday Session Notes: Global Awareness through Geotagging: Creating and Using Digital Photo Maps
This is a bring your own laptop session and the room looks pretty full. Unfortunately, I had to sit in the front so I can’t easily do a computer census which is always fun at conferences.
We needed a Yahoo account for this [...]

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Empowering Practice: Leveraging the Read/Write Web for Professional Growth

Tuesday 8:30-11:30 Workshop Notes
Believes that teachers need to understand and use the tools before they will use in their classroom practice and change schools. Uncertain times for educators, some things our students are using that we don’t understand. Many in-classroom educators don’t use these tools in their classrooms. We need to create a personal learning [...]

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Program Evaluation Tools and Strategies for Instructional Technology Workshop

Saturday 1:00-4:00 Evaluation Workshop Notes
Slide 5
Consider being a reviewer of grants at state or federal level for more insight.
Best thing on a proposal is to work with the evaluator when writing the
grant.
What works and how come it works. How to propagate that result without grant money to others.
Generate new and improved ideas for other funding [...]

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21st Century Learners Design Ultimate School of the Future Today

8:30-9:30 Monday: 21st C Learners, School of the future.
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Project Tomorrow used to be NetDay.
Participating schools/districts can get back aggregated data.
Check out their web sites. They have useful reports we could cite in articles.
Most tech sophisticated students are the youngest ones today–important [...]

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Assessing Students’ & Teachers’ Technology Skills: NETS as Benchmarks

Monday 10:00-11:30 Session: Assessing Student and Teacher Technology Skills
Handouts will be posted at NECC site.
Limited number of assessment providers. These are ones that have worked with ISTE for alignment with standards.
New standards want students to be creative, innovative. More engaged in learning.
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PBS TeacherLine
Teacher assessment. 130 courses for teacher PD for a variety of content areas. [...]

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