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Constructing Identity with an iPad
Presenter: Claire Kreuger
Location: Moose Jaw, SK CANADA
@ClaireKreuger
Presentation Title: Constructing Identity with an iPad
Presentation Description: “”¦everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That story makes you what you are. We build ourselves out of that story.”
“ Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind
Join Claire Kreuger as she shares the ways in which she has used iPads in her classroom to help her students construct their own identity. She will show you a variety of different apps and how to use them. This presentation will be useful for all teachers interested in using or improving their use of iPads in their classrooms. It is also of particular interest for teachers in Canada looking for ways to integrate Treaty Education into their programs.
In Saskatchewan, teachers are required to teach Treaty Education at every grade level. This is a program that explores the historical relationship between the First Nations of Canada and the Canadian government. For a variety of reasons, up until now, few teachers, the presenter included, have successfully integrated this area of study into their programs. Over the past school year, with the help of a U of R research team, Claire Kreuger looked at how to use digital storytelling as a way of engaging students with learning about the treaties. She approached this project as a learner herself and aimed to learn and create alongside her students. The central question was “What does it mean to be a treaty person?”
Additional Information:
Blog: http://treatypeople.edublogs.org/
Twitter:
https://twitter.com/ClaireKreuger
LinkedIn:
http://ca.linkedin.com/pub/claire-kreuger/74/145/7a4
Deeper Learning Online
Presenter: Laura McBain, Ryan Gallagher
Location: San Diego, CA, USA
@sdmcb, @dlmooc
Presentation Title: Deeper Learning Online
Presentation Description: This video shows what deeper learning looks like from the perspective of a superintendent, teacher and student. It also shows why we need deeper learning and defines the various aspects of it.
Link to presentation’s supporting documents:
www.hightechhigh.org
Deeper Learning MOOC
STEAM: Creating A Maker Mindset
Presenter: Vinnie Vrotny and Sheryl Peterson
Location: Palatine, IL US
@vvrotny and @speterson224
Presentation Title: STEAM: Creating A Maker Mindset
Presentation Description: Look around a lower grade or early childhood classroom. You will see a flurry of activity, students building, constructing, and experimenting with materials. This dynamic changes in middle and high school, as these once confident students begin with questions such as, “Why are we doing this?”, “Am I doing this right?”, and “Is this on the test?” which changes to the statement, “I am not good at this.”
A new movement which is emerging, the Maker Movement, which now challenges students to become the learner they once were, willing to try and confident in their ability to learn. It is:
School Projects + Technology = Maker 2.0
During this session, you will learn how one school has transformed its space and created a STEAM curriculum designed to allow students to rediscover their inner kindergartner. The focus of this session will be on the curriculum is being built to allow middle school students to either explore and discover their passions or dive deep into a self-identified areas of passion so that they can become someone who is willing to try, confident in their ability to learn new things, often with the help of others, and a willing to prototype, fail, reflect, and rebuild.
This session will share the environment and classroom tools which will supplement this. You will find out how you can start small, for less than 0 and scale upwards from there.
Link to presentation’s supporting documents:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZpjMxZwq-5sWqqgE-9vAPO1iMCocxauESVo3RhStZc0/edit?usp=sharing
Additional Information:
Vinnie Vrotny
vvrotny.org
keepingupwithit.edublogs.org
Sheryl Peterson
http://petersonartblog.blogspot.com/
Digital Portfolios
Presenter: Candice Clark
Location: WV
@ClarkCandice3
Presentation Title: Digital Portfolios
Presentation Description: I show a cool app by PEGeeks called Easy Portfolio. I demonstrate the basics of how to use Easy Portfolio on the iPad to create student portfolios electronically. It is a simple and neat app that is easy to use and very useful for assessment.
Link to presentation’s supporting documents:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/6h1ywo5tsy9dajr/Directions%20for%20Easy%20Portfolio%20on%20the%20iPad.docx
Additional Information:
I used Reflector and a mic to record this app from my iPad to my PC. There are parts that look glitchy. This is simple the video as I switch between screens on the iPad. The audio sounds great. If you have any questions, feel free to email me. I had a difficult time figuring out how to record my iPad screen without simply using a camera while maneuvering through the app.
Making Space to Make
Presenter: Stephen Ransom, Ph.D.
Location: Rochester, NY USA
@ransomtech
Presentation Title: Making Space to Make
Presentation Description: The idea of making things is nothing new. It’s timeless. However, as culture and technology have shifted, we’ve moved, as Dale Dougherty points out, from making things out of necessity and just “being smart” to being much more consumers of things and of information. The culture of schooling has shifted right along with this as we watch standards and accountability take much more of a front seat, often resulting in kids’ making of interesting things and immersing themselves in interesting projects wane. In this presentation, I share from a father’s perspective how making at home keeps my kids’ interest and passion for learning sharp. The tools of the trade are very much of the traditional kind, yet new tools have opened up new doors and new possibilities for them as they are able to pursue their passions and discover new passions like never before possible. I suggest here that the same learning opportunity can and should happen at school and not be limited to a club or home experience. Our new technologies and new interest-based/passion-based learning spaces make this more possible than ever before.
Link to presentation’s supporting documents:
http://ransomtech.edublogs.org/2013/10/29/making-space-to-make/
Creativity Rising
Presenter: Kelly Dumont
Location: Sandy, Utah
@kdumont
Presentation Title: Creativity Rising
Presentation Description: There sure are a lot of changes happening in education today, mandated this and have to do that. One of the most important things that may be getting lost in this era is the chance for teachers and students to exercise creativity. This presentation will suggest ways to keep creativity rising to the top of what happens in the classroom, despite everything else that is being imposed upon teachers and students.
Link to presentation’s supporting documents:
http://journeyofanedtech.weebly.com/trainings-presentations.html
Additional Information:
http://theeducationalmac.com
Building Knowledge of Web Search
Presenter: Ann Oro
Location: Roselle Park, NJ USA
@njtechteacher
Presentation Title: Building Knowledge of Web Search
Presentation Description: Students should not be expected to suddenly sit down and complete a research project when they are in grade school. Children need time to build and scaffold their experiences. This video shares projects I complete with students in first through eighth grade that take them from a children’s dictionary scavenger hunt to learning to edit Wikipedia. One of the aspects that overwhelms students is that in addition to building a useful search query, they then have to go to the webpage and read the content in a sea of distracting links and screen cluttering ads. They need to be able to vet the information. In first grade, I give the students clues to find words in Little Explorer’s Picture Dictionary online. We build the concept in second and third grade through a cloze activity in which they find missing words. The student research state information for teachers. In fourth and fifth grade, the students learn about Sweet Search 4 Me and Google. They use paper encyclopedias and fill in missing information online. They learn to bookmark and site sources. In middle school, the students dig into aspects website details to determine the authority, bias, content, and usability of the information. They take charge of their learning by researching and presenting on a topic for which they have written a proposal. We learn to use search databases to dig deeper into the information available on the Internet. The students learn to edit Wikipedia and build our school’s entry.
Link to presentation’s supporting documents:
http://smsteacher.wikispaces.com/InternetSkills
Additional Information:
I work at a small PreK to eighth grade Catholic school in suburban New Jersey. I teach students as well as teachers. Additionally, I teach workshops aimed at promoting student learning with an emphasis on technology as a tool to various local teacher organizations.
The Promise of Leadership
Presenter: Julia Osteen
Location: Nashville, TN, USA
@josteen
Presentation Title: The Promise of Leadership
Presentation Description: True leaders make change happen. If we define leadership as influence, then the effective leader has the ability to influence others to accomplish group objectives. For far too long in education, leadership was only expected from those in supervisory positions. But what about a teacher’s leadership in the classroom? What about students learning how to be positive leaders? This presentation will explore the Promise of Leadership in Educational Change.
Link to presentation’s supporting documents:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1V4QkaUa-0avsJ77isPtxaQ9lJI7jHSdyj2PxdGFEXSc/edit?usp=sharing
Energy 101: KidWind & the SHS Chevy Volt Project
Presenter: Dan Whisler
Location: Sterling, KS
@DanWhisler
Presentation Title: Energy 101: KidWind & the SHS Chevy Volt Project
Presentation Description: In this presentation I will use a presentation with videos imbedded to share how our energy-related projects combine STEM-related concepts in a PBL environment to help create a more student-centered learning experience. Real-life studies help make connections and create relevance for students. Through their study of these energy-related projects, students are exposed to environmental and economics lessons not possible simply by using a textbook. Videos will include me presenting background information (presentation) to help explain the projects along with videos of students working on various projects in the classroom to demonstrate the PBL approach being used.
Link to presentation’s supporting documents:
http://www.windpoweringamerica.gov/filter_detail.asp?itemid=3904
Additional Information:
http://www.windpoweringamerica.gov/filter_detail.asp?itemid=3904
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dan-whisler/how-a-car-taught-science-_b_2304173.html#slide=1886906