Presentation Description: Teachers and leaders are planners by nature. You have to make sure your students and teachers are ready to learn, have the tools they need, and have enough time to be successful. Sometimes though, you can spend more time planning than you actually spend doing. Learn how to streamline you technology goals, build capacity in your school, find strength in collaboration, and promote change by planning less and doing more.
Presentation Description: Over the past three years, international educators and global collaboration experts Kim Cofino and Julie Lindsay have together run workshops within schools that are designed to open doors to new modes of teaching and learning and focus on the learner (teacher and student) as a communicator, collaborator and creator. A hands-on approach is emphasized in the workshops with opportunities for learners at all levels to explore, discuss and model 21st Century pedagogy using digital tools. The focus of the workshop is for participants to design an engaging, technology-rich, collaborative project to implement in their classroom. This presentation will share via video the methodology of the “Create the Future’ workshop and focus on participants as they work through the challenges presented during the two days.
Presentation Description: Clever Teachers 2.0
Virtual environments and especially, new teaching practices require better trained and informed teachers and especially the development or integration of creative strategies and sensitive when facing a learning environment. What we call a teacher giving witty able to meet the challenges of education 2.0
Docentes Ingeniosos. 2.0
Los entornos virtuales y en especial, las nuevas prácticas pedagógicas requieren de docentes mejor formados e informados y sobretodo del desarrollo o incorporación de estrategias más creativas y sensibles a la hora de enfrentar un ambiente de aprendizaje. Lo que estamos dando a llamar un docente ingenioso capaz de enfrentar los retos de la educación 2.0
Presentation Title: Connected Learning Communities (CLC): Learning and Leading in the Digital Age
Presentation Description: Professional learning communities can engender much-needed meaningful collaboration and learning among educators — collaboration that leads to improved practice, greater student achievement and positive school reform; collaboration now further enabled by the affordances of current technologies.
As a result of this presentation participants will understand the dispositions and skills required to become self directed learners in a participatory culture, to engage in inquiry-driven learning, to share ideas and expertise in global ever-growing sustainable personal/professional learning networks as well as situated and virtual learning communities.
Presentation Description: Snapshots of Classroom 2.0 Live and Parents as Partners webcasts.
Dr. Debbie Pushor
Mike Herrity
Aviva Dunsiger
Karen Bantuveris
Toronto District School Board
are featured sharing best practices in engaging parents in student learning.
Presentation Title: The Classroom Teacher As a 21st Century Instructional Leader
Presentation Description: A completely different take on teacher leadership in the 21st Century, this presentation offers a fresh perspective and a call to action. Hopefully, after watching this presentation, you, as well as your work, and our entire profession will never be the same!
Presentation Title: Creative Commons: What Every Educator Needs to Know
Presentation Description: Creative Commons is the most powerful mechanism for media development you’ve never heard of. In this presentation, you will discover how learners of all ages are gaining access to millions of free images, audio files, video elements, and written materials allowing the creation of unique multimedia products.
Presentation Title: Liderando el cambio: Escuela 2.0, educando la participación Leading the Change: School 2.0; educating in participation
Presentation Description: Open Social Learning, escuela y revolución cognitiva, social y creativa en la web. School and cognitive revolution, Social and Creativity on the web
Docente, Consultora distintas Universidades / Centros / Empresas Educator, Consultant for various universities, business and other centers.
Experta en Comunidades, Social Media, Tendencias web, Innovación educativa. Expert in online communities, Social Media, Web tendencies, and education innovation.
Presentation Title: Googlios: A 21st – Century Approach to Teaching, Learning, & Assessment
Presentation Description: As the first decade of the 21st century comes to end and blogs, wikis, and podcasts have become more mainstream, it is important that educators step back to see how we, as professionals, are best using these tools to serve our students’ learning needs. If these modern technologies are going to be sustained in contemporary pedagogy, it is time that we “kick it up a notch” and tie these tools to both a higher theme and to learning theories. In other words, rather than using technology for technology’s sake, we need to rest on a new 21st-century foundation of teaching, learning, and assessment theory. Through a screencast, webcam, and Power Point video, “Googlios” offers not simply a “how to” but a “why to;” it introduces a model of how one educator has come to understand and organize these tools to support a 21st-century constructivist and connectivist approach to “bridge the divide” in educating our digital natives.
More specifically, this presentation will shed light on a model that demonstrates relationships between emerging tools and learning theories and between Personal Learning Environments (PLEs), Personal Learning Networks (PLNs), and ePortfolios. By using Google Sites as a main dashboard that “mashes up” multiple Google Apps like Blogger, Youtube, Google Reader, Google Maps, Google Docs, and iGoogle into an ePortfolio, students can build and organize their own Personal Learning Environment (PLE) simultaneously with “building bridges” through their Personal Learning Network (PLN)–all while supporting e-portfolio authentic assessment. One last word of caution: “Googlios: A 21st-Century Approach to Teaching, Learning, and Assessment” seeks to ignite an educational renaissance.
