{"data":{"ID":175,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1350839063,"CreatorID":62,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"I was promised flying schools: storytelling the future of public education","Handle":"I_was_promised_flying_schools:storytelling_the_future_of_public_education","ShortDescription":"Participants in this two-session workshop will iterate, pitch, and develop digital stories capturing possible futures of public education. Participants will team up around compelling pitches and produce their works through forms like film, social media from the future, and time-travelling geocaches. We\u2019ll develop a web resource to share our work.","Description":"Where are we going with public education? Are we opening the doors to new annexes of inspired teaching and learning? Are we walking down dark hallways to musty rooms left in squalid disrepair? Are we headed for the exits as quickly as we can, or are we being pushed there? Participants in this two-session digital storytelling workshop will have the chance to ask their own questions about the future of public education in the United States, to formulate tentative answers about where we\u2019re going as a society that schools, and to pitch and compose digital stories that share out their questions and answers. One participant might compose a blog from the future while another goes into SLA\u2019s hallways to recruit attendees and students as improv actors in a parody of wholly standardized or democratic education. Another participant might leave pages torn from a future teacher\u2019s journal hidden around the school as a geocaching game for other EduCon attendees. Yet another might start the Twitter account of an stakeholder navigating entirely P2P-based schooling fifty years from now. The idea behind the session to confront and imagine responses to the dark aspects of schooling, while uncovering and holding up bright examples of what our public education system could become. Participants should bring their own technology and be prepared either to iterate, pitch, and develop an idea rapidly, or to join up and work with another participant whose pitch sounds fantastic. We\u2019ll develop a web resource to share our stories.","Link":["http:\/\/coopcatalyst.wordpress.com\/2012\/07\/14\/the-evaluation\/"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"Rapid storytelling incubation\/workshopping\r\nMulti-media digital story-telling\r\nBackchannel production discussions through participants\u2019 social media accounts\r\nWeb resource sharing participants\u2019 products shared through a CC-By license","Presenter":["Christina Cantrill","Kirsten Olsen","Chad Sansing"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Christina Cantrill - National Writing Project (NWP)","Kirsten Olsen - Institute for Democratic Education in America (IDEA)","Chad Sansing - Community Public Charter School (CPCS)"],"PresenterEmail":["ccantrill@nwp.org","oldsowconsulting@gmail.com","csansing@gmail.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":14,"ScheduleLocationID":5,"SubmitterID":62,"AdditionalComments":"While we realize that it\u2019s not the norm to have one conversation take up two sessions, we think this kind of workshop needs that amount of time (at the very least) and that the EduCon community would be perfect for this kind of conversation through a design-sprint and making. If we had the time to compose at least rough cuts onsite, we could also see participants facilitating a short social event to premiere the works sometime late on Saturday. We would rather facilitate a 1-hour conversation than no conversation at all, however, or else work on another format in or around the conference schedule with organizers.","LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":2}}