{"data":{"ID":469,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1414898457,"CreatorID":3801,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Beyond the Hype: Designing Environments That Best Support Student Learning","Handle":"beyond_the_hype--designing_environments_that_best_support_student_learning","ShortDescription":"Learning environments are not shaped by wheels on tables, 1:1 programs, or 3D printers (although they help), they are defined by the learning experiences you design. We will explore how to create environments that empower students to own their own learning.","Description":"For all the tech gizmos you can buy and tables you can put on wheels, learning environments, and in turn the experiences they create, are only as powerful as the culture and curricula that determine how you use them.\r\n\r\nThis conversation will offer attendees the opportunity to identify what is beneath the hype and glitz of educational technology and classroom makeovers. Combining theory and practice, attendees will be exposed to and build upon strategies that will ensure they are able to take advantage of available spatial and technological opportunities while utilizing those resources to best support students owning their own learning*. \r\n\r\n*As defined by the likes of Dylan Wiliam, John Hattie, and TONS of other great minds.","Link":["http:\/\/notosh.com","http:\/\/davidsbill.com"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"Through a series of provocations and activities, attendees will explore each layer of a learning experience and how digital and physical environments can ensure that those experiences best support students so they can define, explore, and build solutions to the problems they seek to answer. \r\n\r\nAttendees will walk away from the session with a series of ideas or considerations that will help them shape their learning environments to best support their students' learning explorations.","Presenter":["David Bill"],"PresenterAffiliation":["NoTosh"],"PresenterEmail":["david@notosh.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":45,"ScheduleLocationID":3,"SubmitterID":3801,"AdditionalComments":"Hi, y'all! Hope you're doing well. Hopefully I'll see ya in Philly! \r\n\r\nThanks for all your hard work in making Educon THE edu conference. \r\n\r\ndb","LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":4}}