{"success":true,"data":[{"ID":158,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1348887411,"CreatorID":337,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"A new vision for mathematics in high schools","Handle":"A_new_vision_for_mathematics_in_high_schools","ShortDescription":"We need new thinking about what mathematics in high schools actually means. Does the mathematics teacher's role need to change? Does the structure of the curriculum need to radically change? How can we re-engage more students in genuine mathematics? Come and talk about what mathematics could be!","Description":"Mathematics has been put on its own island for too long: disconnected from its neighboring fields in economics, the sciences, music, and the visual and technical arts, and detached from its historical roots in both its teaching and its meaning. We need new thinking about what mathematics in the schools can and should be. In addition, the role of the mathematics teacher is changing, so one of the questions we'll explore is: should we be just \"math teachers\", or should we act more as resources, providing help in improving quantitative literacy in all fields? Another question we'll consider is: what would happen if we compressed the four-year high school mathematics curriculum into one year, and then students learned topics of interest more deeply in their remaining years? Come and talk about what's possible, what's impossible, and what is right.","Link":["http:\/\/hyperbolicguitars.blogspot.com\/","http:\/\/hyperbolicguitars.wikispaces.com\/"],"Audience":["High School"],"Practice":"I would love to build wikis with this group; one on the 100-hour-one-year course (what would it look like?), one addressing the \"what happens after the first-year course?\" question, and one on potentially new roles for mathematics teachers. These will be the focus questions and will be used in a modified focus\/framing question exercise.","Presenter":["Mike Thayer"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Summit High School","Summit","NJ"],"PresenterEmail":["michael.r.thayer@gmail.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":6,"ScheduleLocationID":7,"SubmitterID":337,"AdditionalComments":"The genesis of this talk came from something I wrote months ago: http:\/\/hyperbolicguitars.blogspot.com\/2012\/01\/minor-proposal-for-coming-year.html and http:\/\/hyperbolicguitars.wikispaces.com\/100-hour+Introduction+to+Mathematics+course","LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":2},{"ID":180,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1351028644,"CreatorID":62,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Turning It From Sucks to Rocks","Handle":"Turning_It_From_Sucks_to_Rocks","ShortDescription":"Participants will generate a joint list of challenges that schools face today. After engaging in a discussion on the issues where they\u2019ll share their opinions, small groups will work together on ways to refocus the conversation on the issues to help bring about positive change in their own schools.","Description":"This conversation will have four main stages, moving from whole group sharing to whole group discussion to small group discussion and back to whole group sharing.\r\n1. Using Socrative, participants will generate a list of some of the biggest challenges they feel that schools are facing today. After the whole group generates the list, participants will then vote on which challenges to focus on for the following discussion. (~10 minutes)\r\n2. Taking the topics from the previously created list, the discussion will move into a Things That Suck format. One of the topics will be thrown out to the group, and participants will move to one side of the room or the other based on whether they think it sucks or rocks. There will be a short period of discussion for each topic. (~30 minutes)\r\n3. Based on their own interests, participants will choose a small group that focuses on one of the issues just discussed. That small group will focus their discussion around the perceived challenges that are presented by the issue, and work on formulating strategies that can be used to overcome those challenges and bring about positive change. Documents created and relevant links will go onto a shared wiki. (~30 minutes)\r\n4. Small groups will summarize their discussion for the whole group, with a particular focus on the strategies they developed. (~20 minutes)","Link":["http:\/\/suckstorocks.wikispaces.com"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"Protocols - What, So What, Now What; Things That Suck; Wiki\/shared documents","Presenter":["Dan Callahan","Michelle Baldwin"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Burlington Public Schools","Anastasis Academy"],"PresenterEmail":["danielcallahan@gmail.com","michellek107@gmail.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":8,"ScheduleLocationID":7,"SubmitterID":62,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":2},{"ID":241,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1351821362,"CreatorID":62,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Video Production and Social Media: A Powerful Combination","Handle":"Video_Production_and_Social_Media:A_Powerful_Combination","ShortDescription":"This conversation will focus on the benefits of integrating social media into school film production programs.  Examples of new media projects as well as simple tips for creating and sharing student films online will be included. We\u2019ll also discuss how publishing student work online helps build essential media literacy skills.","Description":"Digital film and media production can be highly engaging classes for students across all grade levels. However, simply creating digital multi-media projects is only half of the equation. Students need the opportunity to share their projects with an authentic audience using the web. Sharing student created media and film projects online should be an essential element of any film program. If we expect students to be critical consumers of digital mass media, they must have the opportunity to create and share their own media online. Sharing is just as important as creating. Publishing media for an authentic audience provides students with vital motivation and purpose. The use of social media also helps students become more efficient in the collaborative work they do crafting their multi-media messages and projects.\r\n\r\nAs we all know, many kids today are creating and sharing all sorts of media online outside of school. However, we are not teaching students how to go about responsibly sharing media online. Students need to understand the basic rules that apply to the media they are creating and sharing both in and out of the classroom. In this conversation we will share our own experiences both creating and sharing digital media in our middle school and high school classrooms. Part of our session will also be a film production workshop that will allow participants to film and upload short clips of video about ideas and issues relevant to our discussion. Bring your own device or use one of ours.","Link":["http:\/\/capfilm.blogspot.com\/","http:\/\/gunstontv.blogspot.com\/"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"Our session will be both a conversation and a mini film production workshop. Participants will have the opportunity to film and upload short video clips during the session about topics relevant to our discussion. This will be a short but compelling video project that showcases how fun and powerful video can be, especially when combined with social media.","Presenter":["George Mayo","Harry Costner"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Montgomery County Public Schools (Silver Spring","MD.)","Arlington Public Schools (Arlington","VA.)"],"PresenterEmail":["George_Mayo@mcpsmd.org","harry.costner@apsva.us"],"ScheduleSlotID":9,"ScheduleLocationID":7,"SubmitterID":62,"AdditionalComments":"Thanks!","LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":2},{"ID":258,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1351915420,"CreatorID":62,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Ownership On Lock: Technology & Its Impact on Student Ownership of the[ir] Academic Experience","Handle":"Ownership_On_Lock:Technology-It-s_Impact_on_Student_Ownership_of_the-ir-Academic_Experience","ShortDescription":"As educational technology continues to evolve, so to do student attitudes regarding  the desire and necessity for students to take a larger role in the ownership of their academic experience.  The purpose for this \u201cconversation\u201d is to discuss this growing trend, and resources that aid teachers in capitalizing  on it.","Description":"The primary focus of this conversation is centered around educational technology and online resources that aid teachers in raising the level of student ownership and engagement, both inside and outside of the classroom.","Link":[],"Audience":["High School"],"Practice":"We intend on furthering this conversation by walking participants through a Success Analysis Protocol of various examples of best practices that worked in increasing substantially levels of student ownership through the use of technology.","Presenter":["Pia Kaufman","Daniel Williams"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Philadelphia School District"],"PresenterEmail":["pkaufman@philasd.org","dcwilliams@philasd.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":14,"ScheduleLocationID":7,"SubmitterID":62,"AdditionalComments":"We apologize for this late submission.  We were stuck in NYC due to Hurricane Sandy, and were just able to make it back this evening.  Please consider this submission.  We'd love to present at Educon!","LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":2},{"ID":255,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1351864190,"CreatorID":62,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Design Thinking in Schools","Handle":"Design_Thinking_in_Schools","ShortDescription":"Teaching design thinking in schools trains students, teachers, and administrators to think outside the box and intertwine their knowledge to conceive innovative solutions towards the future of education. We'd like to share some examples of how our community collaborated to define, research, ideate, prototype, and implement their ideas.","Description":"Is design thinking worth it?\r\nHow can schools innovate?\r\nHow can education be agile?\r\n\r\nAt The School at Columbia University, we collaborated with designers who trained us how to embrace design thinking. They've outlined the following nine steps: \r\n\r\n1. Define the problem\r\n2. Research the problem \r\n3. Analyze and redefine the problem\r\n4. Ideate many solutions\r\n5. Prototype the solutions\r\n6. Refine the solutions\r\n7. Repeat as needed\r\n8. Choose the solution\r\n9. Implement the solution\r\n\r\nOver the years, our community of students, teachers, and administrators have each had experience working on a few long-term projects. Students redesigned a desk, a chair, and a locker. Faculty and administrators examined our school culture and sought to innovate how we integrate homework, recess, lunch, discipline, and grading. By working together and following the same principles, our population embraced a common language as they worked towards a common goal: define, research, ideate, prototype, implement.","Link":[],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"We plan to bring materials that will help attendees define their own institutional problems and seek possible solutions.","Presenter":["Don Buckley","Karen Blumberg"],"PresenterAffiliation":["The School at Columbia University"],"PresenterEmail":["dbuckley@theschool.columbia.edu","kblumberg@theschool.columbia.edu"],"ScheduleSlotID":16,"ScheduleLocationID":7,"SubmitterID":62,"AdditionalComments":"Thank you!","LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":2},{"ID":232,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1351804928,"CreatorID":62,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Visualizing Data with Fusion Tables","Handle":"Visualizing_Data_with_Fusion_Tables","ShortDescription":"Google's Fusion Tables enable the connection of data to locations on Google Maps.  Come and see maps showing how student performance and poverty compare geographically.  Add teacher pay onto the map to see how that factors in.  Have some data you want mapped?  Come and share.","Description":"The conversation will focus on Fusion Tables\r\n\r\nhttp:\/\/www.google.com\/fusiontables\/Home\/\r\n\r\nThis free Google Drive based application permits spreadsheets with geographic information (addresses, zip codes, latitude & longitude, etc.) to be combined with Google Maps to create interesting visualizations of data.  As an example, here is school building rating data from an Ohio Department of Education Excel spreadsheet imported into Fusion Tables.\r\n\r\nhttp:\/\/bit.ly\/FT-EDUCON\r\n\r\nThe application will import Excel spreadsheets, CSV and KML files.  As long as the data has geographic information, it can be \"mapped\" on a Google Map.  Additional data within the set can be used to set markers or color of objects.  Thousands of data sets are available within Google Drive and can be merged with imported data sets.  Hundreds of Geographic shapes (countries, states, counties, school districts, etc.) of data have been created in the system.  Here is an example showing Ohio school districts color coded by poverty rates.\r\n\r\nhttp:\/\/bit.ly\/FT2-EDUCON\r\n\r\nDuring the session many examples will be shared and new data visualization maps will be created.","Link":["http:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/"],"Audience":["High School","Middle School"],"Practice":"Fusion Tables are part of Google Drive and can be shared in the same way as other Google Docs.  During the conversation some pre-created Fusion Tables will be shown.  The process involved in creating the Fusion Tables will be demonstrated so that all involved in the conversation will be able to create new Fusion Tables.  All Fusion Tables will be shared in Google Drive and a Google Doc with links to all projects created in the conversation will be shared with the public.  Anyone with access to Google Drive will be able to access all the projects.","Presenter":["Alvin Trusty"],"PresenterAffiliation":["The University of Findlay"],"PresenterEmail":["alvin.trusty@gmail.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":17,"ScheduleLocationID":7,"SubmitterID":62,"AdditionalComments":"Darren Kuropatwa and John Schinker have agreed to supply the Mead for the session, provided that sort of thing is permitted in SLA.","LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":2}],"conditions":{"Status":"Accepted","ConferenceID":2,"ScheduleLocationID":7},"total":6,"limit":false,"offset":false}