{"success":true,"data":[{"ID":185,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1351187658,"CreatorID":62,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Developing the Design Mind:  An Introduction to the Process of Design Thinking","Handle":"Developing_the_Design_Mind:An_Introduction_to_the_Process_of_Design_Thinking","ShortDescription":"This conversation immerses participants in the process of design thinking and what it means to approach problems with a design mind.  Come prepared to form design teams with your Educon colleagues and take a deep dive into the process of design thinking.","Description":"This conversation engages participants in a holistic treatment of the design thinking process, and helps them to begin developing a design mind, one that sees problems and issues always as a design problem.  Participants will form design teams, and use the process of design thinking to address a contemporary issue surrounding education (design provocation).  Embedded in this conversation will be strategies to help participants vision design thinking as a 21st Century pedagogy, and one that deeply engages students in developing solutions to human needs. Additionally, other components that support the process, such as developing the types of learning spaces that support such design thinking, will be addressed.  After developing a prototype solution, participants will have an opportunity to share and receive feedback on their designs.","Link":["http:\/\/jakes.editme.com\/educon25"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"The design thinking process begins by deeply immersing people in a human need  Once that need is understood, the process then focuses on ideation to develop and extend ideas that contribute to a potential solution set.  From this set of ideas, one is selected to explore and develop a prototype that can address the problem that needs to be solved.  Through an iterative process, the prototype is tested and improved, and a solution emerges that successfully addresses the initial issue.\r\n\r\nThis session immediately engages participants by immersing them in the process of design thinking.  The very nature of the word design is to promote an action, and participants will form design teams to address a design provocation.  Participants will be given a design challenge to explore in their teams, ultimately using the design thinking process to arrive at a potential solution to the original problem.\r\n\r\nThe role of the three facilitators is to introduce each part of the process as the process naturally unfolds and guide the teams through each phase as they address the provocation.\r\n\r\nAfter engaging in the process, their designs will be shared and all with offer a critique.  The goal is to capture their ideas to the design provocation and make them available through a variety of social media.\r\n\r\nThe design thinking process can also be thought of as a true 21st-Century pedagogy.   It is our hope that participants will extend their developing understanding of design thinking to consider pedagogical applications.  Our discussion through the experience will encourage that.  We also plan on challenging participants to consider the role that classroom space plays in supporting and illuminating this process within the context of student learning. \r\n\r\nThe Educon experience itself is about ideation.  People attend to be challenged and to leave with potentially transformative ideas.  This conversation contributes to that by providing a framework for the continued exploration of those ideas, and for the development of new ideas, designed to provide solutions to the issues and challenges we face in education.","Presenter":["Christian Long","Laura Deisley","David Jakes"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Cannon Design","Chicago IL","(Christian)","The Lovett School","Atlanta GA (Laura Deisley) and Glenbrook South High School","Glenview","IL (David)"],"PresenterEmail":["clong@cannondesign.com","lwdeisley@gmail.com","dsjakes@gmail.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":6,"ScheduleLocationID":6,"SubmitterID":62,"AdditionalComments":"Thank you for your consideration.","LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":2},{"ID":196,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1351618382,"CreatorID":62,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Making the Impossible, Possible: A conversation for visionary educators, parents, students and policy-makers.","Handle":"Making_the_Impossible-Possible:A_conversation_for_visionary_educators-parents-students_and_policy-makers","ShortDescription":"If YOU could change education, what would YOU do?  Join this conversation about our collective commitment to revolutionize learning and what it looks like in our individual spaces. Tell us what you have done, are doing, or will do to transform education in your own sphere(s) of influence.","Description":"\u201cSo let me explain how revolutions work. Revolutions destroy the perfect and then they enable the impossible. They never go from everything-is-bad to everything-is-good. There\u2019s a lot of noise in the middle.\u201d ~Seth Godin,  http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/ericssonvideo\r\n\r\nLike many of you, we are frustrated by the ineffectiveness of our educational system. It feels overwhelming and hopeless waiting for schools to shed outdated practices in favor of creating new learning models that fit today\u2019s students.  \r\n\r\nThe daunting question is, How do we make it happen? \r\n\r\nPerhaps we already are. Our \u201cperfect\u201d system of education is crumbling. We are firmly embedded in the \u201cnoise\u201d of change. Perhaps a more crucial question is, \u201cHow do we intensify \u201cthe noise\u201d and make the \u201cimpossible\u201d possible?\u201d  \r\n\r\nWe do it together \u2013 collectively, but ALSO each in our own sphere, one by one.\r\n\r\nEducational transformation is so complex that no single visionary educator, policymaker, or parent can make it happen singlehandedly. Rather, the wisdom of multiple perspectives, talents, and approaches will be key to authentic systemic change. It will require commitment, thoughtful action and purposeful deconstruction of the existing model in ways that make sense in each of our contexts. It will take vision & individual acts of bravery to make the impossible possible.\r\n\r\nWatch http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/ericssonvideo \r\nJoin this conversation about a movement to make education work for students. It is going to take all of us doing our own guerrilla-style acts to grow the transformation of learning.","Link":["http:\/\/knowclue.wikispaces.com\/Red+Bandanas","http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=quYDkuD4dMU"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"\u201cThink, Pair, and Share \u201c what\u2019s working for you that others could replicate. Consider our collective commitment and what it looks like in our individual spaces. Tell us what you have done, are doing or will do to transform education in your own sphere(s) of influence. Think, Pair, Share during this session and then beyond. Again and again... \u201cout there.\u201d Think, Pair, Share, and Act.","Presenter":["Anne Collier","Peggy Sheehy","Marianne Malmstrom"],"PresenterAffiliation":["NetFamilyNews.org and ConnectSafely.org","Ramapo Central School District","G.A.M.E.","WoW in School","The Elisabeth Morrow School"],"PresenterEmail":["anne@netfamilynews.org","peggysheehy@mac.com","Knowclue@mac.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":8,"ScheduleLocationID":6,"SubmitterID":62,"AdditionalComments":"Please note Anne Collier's bio as you may not be familiar with her work.  http:\/\/www.netfamilynews.org\/bio.html","LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":2},{"ID":272,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1354890411,"CreatorID":62,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Leadership & School Cultures that Effectively Support 21st Century Learning","Handle":"Leadership-School_Cultures_that_Effectively_Support_21st_Century_Learning","ShortDescription":"While policies are an essential tool for managing technologies, effective leaders nurture school cultures that promote and exercise a vision for conscientious innovation with new learning technologies.  Come discuss how to develop school cultures where stakeholders share a vision of meaningful technology integration to support 21st Century learning and examine U.S and Singaporean systems where school administrators provide structured support to develop institutional capacity for systemic reform.","Description":"","Link":[],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"","Presenter":["Tom Daccord","Patrick Larkin"],"PresenterAffiliation":["."],"PresenterEmail":["tom@edtechteacher.org","larkin@bpsk12.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":9,"ScheduleLocationID":6,"SubmitterID":62,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":2},{"ID":248,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1351824388,"CreatorID":62,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Using Spoken Word to Inspire","Handle":"Using_Spoken_Word_to_Inspire","ShortDescription":"In a conversation facilitated by the Philly Youth Poetry Movement, educators will discuss how they might use the performance arts, specifically spoken word poetry, to engage and inspire their students. Techniques from many different writing programs will be shared, and a dynamic writing workshop will be modeled and analyzed.","Description":"We will have a quick conversation about the merits of the performance arts in the classroom across disciplines. Then we will have a model workshop that pushes comfort levels, which we will then reflect on afterwards. After that, the participants will make their own performance activity with a case study student and field of study that we create. We will discuss these if there is not much time left \u2013 role play if there is more time left. I'll leave them with a packet of our activities and a sample curriculum to take home.","Link":["http:\/\/www.pypm215.org"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"We are going to have a legitimate writer\/performer workshop that has the best of our practice and our best activities. We'll have another section where they plan there own activities and we'll act them out and do some good thought work with them. It will look nothing like a traditional presentation.","Presenter":["Matthew Kay","Cait Miner","Greg Corbin"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Philly Youth Poetry Movement"],"PresenterEmail":["matt@pypm215.org","greg@pypm215.org","cait@pypm215.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":14,"ScheduleLocationID":6,"SubmitterID":62,"AdditionalComments":"n\/a","LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":2}],"conditions":{"Status":"Accepted","ConferenceID":2,"ScheduleLocationID":6},"total":4,"limit":false,"offset":false}