{"success":true,"data":[{"ID":274,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1358873685,"CreatorID":62,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Educon 101: What are all these people talking about?","Handle":"Educon_101:What_are_all_these_people_talking_about","ShortDescription":"We want you to get as much as possible out of this weekend. If you're new to EduCon or the progressive\/ed tech scene, join us for a crash course in EduCon, SLA, and all the latest ed tech tools.","Description":"We want you to get as much as possible out of this weekend. If you're new to EduCon or the progressive\/ed tech scene, join us for a crash course in EduCon, SLA, and all the latest ed tech tools.","Link":[],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"","Presenter":["Marcie Hull","Zac Chase","Tim Best"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Science Leadership Academy"],"PresenterEmail":["tbest@scienceladership.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":6,"ScheduleLocationID":2,"SubmitterID":62,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":2},{"ID":264,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1352218479,"CreatorID":88,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Standards Based Reporting and Grading at SLA","Handle":"Standards_Based_Grading_at_SLA","ShortDescription":"In this panel conversation, SLA teachers from each discipline will discuss how they created standards language for their specific subject area, how they track student progress throughout the school year, and how they integrate the skills and reflection into their own classroom.","Description":"In the face of Common Core and increasing pressure from administrations, many schools are looking to produce more data about student learning. At SLA, teachers have responded to this shift by creating their own system of Standards Based Reporting. In this panel conversation, teachers from each discipline will discuss how they created standards language for their specific subject area, how they track student progress throughout the school year, and how they integrate the skills and reflection into their own classroom.  The staff will also share the online system SLA uses to collect and report standards data with students.","Link":[],"Audience":["High School"],"Practice":"Teachers will briefly discuss their individual practice, leaving most of the time for discussion with attendees and each other.","Presenter":["Mark Bey","Roz Echols","Pearl Jonas","Brad Latimer","Larissa Pahomov"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Science Leadership Academy"],"PresenterEmail":["blatimer@scienceleadership.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":8,"ScheduleLocationID":2,"SubmitterID":88,"AdditionalComments":"HELLO","LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":2},{"ID":163,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1349368821,"CreatorID":62,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"A look at how Google Earth can foster empathy and broaden students' world view","Handle":"How_Google_Earth_fosters_empathy_and_broadens_students-world_view","ShortDescription":"You've seen Google Earth, and maybe even used it yourself; but have your students used it to develop empathy with world events they study? Together, we will learn how to make Google Earth place marks that students (and teachers) can use to make multi-disciplinary connections about the world.","Description":"This presentation will make the case that everyone should be using Google Earth as a sort of digital journal. You can easily make place marks that record (and reflect upon) the people and places we learn about in the world.\r\n\r\nI started making Google Earth place marks four years ago. When I read a news article or have an interesting conversation with a person from a place I'm not familiar with, I make a place mark.\r\n\r\nI now have more than 1,200 place marks. This practice has made me more empathetic and more globally aware. \r\n\r\nFor example, I had an \"aha\" moment when I looked up where Paul Ryan was from in Wisconsin (Janesville) and learned that his home town is located less than 60 miles from the Sikh temple shooting just outside Milwaukee in August 2012.\r\n\r\nImagine having middle school students make place marks for 10 stories a week.  Multiple that by 30+ weeks per year for three years, and students would enter high school with a journal of more than 1,000 place marks.  More importantly, the practice of reading the news on a daily basis would provide them with a global context that will serve them extremely well in high school and beyond. For more details, see http:\/\/wiltoday.wordpress.com\/2012\/07\/10\/typical-morning-at-tlc\/","Link":["http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=LAx7vcOF9jM","https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1U7JdOI8XZ7GNqHiH108D7t9dwPd_Z8NU0vNK2QV-8PY\/edit"],"Audience":["High School","Middle School","Elementary School"],"Practice":"After a brief demonstration of how to make Google Earth place marks, each participant will create at least two Google Earth place marks, each of which could be used to tell your students a story when you get back from EduCon.\r\n\r\n\r\n(see the website below for a 6-minute video showing Google Earth in action)\r\n\r\n\r\nGoogle Earth is a great storytelling tool, and after we each learn to make a few place marks, we will each share one of our place marks -- and the story that goes with the place mark -- in small groups.\r\n\r\n\r\nWe will spend the remainder of our time together thinking about applications for Google Earth at *your* school. The expectation is that the conversation will continue as we find and share new applications in our various schools throughout 2013. We will record the start of the conversation in a shared Google Doc, and we can share further insights about how to learn with Google Earth using the #GElearn hashtag.\r\n\r\n\r\n(the second website link below will take you to the shared Google Doc)","Presenter":["Steve Goldberg"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Triangle Learning Community middle school in Durham","NC"],"PresenterEmail":["Steve@Trianglearning.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":9,"ScheduleLocationID":2,"SubmitterID":62,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":2},{"ID":181,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1351089458,"CreatorID":62,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Make. Hack. Play: The Tools of Webmaking","Handle":"Make-Hack-Play:The_Tools_of_Webmaking","ShortDescription":"Playing with the X-Ray Goggles, Thimble and Popcorn, participants  will explore concepts of interest-based learning through  tinkering with Mozilla Webmaking tools and learning projects. \r\nThis workshop will build understanding around how embedding webmaking in project based curriculum will lead to innovative problem  solving, creative thinking and a desire for  tinkering.","Description":"The web is becoming the world\u2019s second language, and a vital 21st century skill.  Digital literacy today is as important as reading, writing and  arithmetic. Mozilla believes it\u2019s crucial that we give people the skills  they need to understand, shape and actively participate in that world,  instead of just passively consuming it.\r\nYou don\u2019t have to be a professional coder or programmer to be a webmaker.  In the same way that you don\u2019t have to be a professional baker to make bread, or a professional auto mechanic to change a tire, you shouldn\u2019t have to be a professional web developer to understand how the web works \u2014 or make your own stuff. We want to help you go \u201cbeyond upload\u201d to unlock new opportunities for creativity and innovation in your life and work.\r\nMozilla Webmaker wants to help you make something amazing with the web. We\u2019ve got new tools for you to use, projects to help you get started, and a global community of creators \u2014 educators, filmmakers, journalists, developers, youth \u2014 all making and learning together.\r\nThe goal: help millions of people move from using the web to making the web. As part of Mozilla\u2019s non-profit mission,  we want to help the world increase their understanding of the web, take  greater control of their online lives, and create a more web literate  planet.","Link":[],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"In this conversation,  participants will use laptops to explore Webmaker tools and learn about the basic building blocks of the Web.  Then, participants will create their own webpages and interactive films.","Presenter":["Laura Hilliger","Chris Lawrence"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Mozilla"],"PresenterEmail":["laura@mozillafoundation.org","clawrence@mozillafoundation.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":14,"ScheduleLocationID":2,"SubmitterID":62,"AdditionalComments":"Bring your own laptop or mobile device","LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":2},{"ID":266,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1352220777,"CreatorID":62,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Embracing Change: A Panorama of Incoming and Veteran Teachers at SLA","Handle":"Embracing_Change:A_Panorama_of_Incoming_and_Veteran_Teachers_at_SLA","ShortDescription":"This panel-led discussion will feature three SLA teachers at different phases in their teaching careers. They will discuss their experiences navigating a technology driven environment and working in a setting that esteems the ethic of care.","Description":"Mark Bey has been teaching for 15 years in a variety of school urban and suburban environments. He's been teaching students Spanish at SLA for 5 years. He graduated from Morehouse College in 1994 with a BA in Finance and Spanish and from Temple Graduate School in 1999 with an MA in Modern Foreign Language. Mark will share his personal and professional issues of transitioning from a more traditional school and curriculum to SLA, a progressive and project-based school, and the difficulties he had practicing an ethic of care in his classroom management.\r\n\r\nPearl Jonas is a first year SLA History teacher. She spent one year student teaching in Philadelphia and 17 months in a bilingual school in Ecuador. She graduated with a BA in History in 2005 and an MS in Social Studies Education in 2010 from the University of Pennsylvania. Pearl will speak to her recent transition into SLA coming from a test-based school culture. and the role of common language and collaborative culture at SLA in that transition.\r\n\r\nKevin Beckford is a student teacher and a graduate student at the University of Pennsylvania\u2019s Graduate School of Education. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Yale University in 2011 where he majored in African American Studies and Political Science. As an undergraduate, Kevin participated in a variety of tutoring and mentoring programs with organizations such as the Yale Black Men\u2019s Union, the NAACP, and New Haven Reads. He\u00a0 just earned a Masters of Philosophy degree from the University of Cambridge in African Studies. He is interested in bridging classroom theory with practice and reconciling personal and professional interests within an inquiry-based setting.\u00a0","Link":[],"Audience":["High School"],"Practice":"Panel Discussion and Q&A","Presenter":["Mark Bey","Kevin Beckford","Pearl Jonas"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Science Leadership Academy","University of Pennsylvania"],"PresenterEmail":["mbey@scienceleadership.org","kbeckford@scienceleadership.org","pjonas@scienceleadership.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":16,"ScheduleLocationID":2,"SubmitterID":62,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":2},{"ID":267,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1352222684,"CreatorID":1,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Teacher evaluations: Towards a more democratic process","Handle":"Inquiry_and_teacher_performance_assessments:Getting_teachers-voices_into_the_conversation","ShortDescription":"How do we incorporate teacher voices into the debate over assessing teacher performance? I want to start the conversation by asking various education professionals their opinions, then pose my ideas about using inquiry to help teachers create a more formative and democratic approach.","Description":"Assessment of teacher performance has become theme in recent political discussions that is not going away. A recent flare-up was the strike in Chicago, which was not about money; it was about how teachers were assessed. Now that begs the question - if we don't want to be assessed by our students' performance on standardized tests, then how do we want to be assessed? How do we incorporate the democratic process into this discussion? Can we make these evaluations formative? I want to start that conversation and hear from teachers, administrators, people involved in unions, charter schools, and anywhere else who feels as if they want to listen and give input on the matter.","Link":[],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"The whole session will be conducted in the form of a discussion. I have two over-arching questions that I want to pose to the people in the session to help direct the conversation, but much of this is me gathering data for myself. To that end, a web forum would help center the discussion, with maybe three short opportunities to write and respond to each other.","Presenter":["Juan Gabriel Sanchez"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Science Leadership Academy"],"PresenterEmail":["jsanchez@scienceleadership.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":17,"ScheduleLocationID":2,"SubmitterID":1,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":2}],"conditions":{"Status":"Accepted","ConferenceID":2,"ScheduleLocationID":2},"total":6,"limit":false,"offset":false}