{"success":true,"data":[{"ID":177,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1350961683,"CreatorID":62,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Small Town School.......Global Education","Handle":"Leveraging_Technology_to_open-Possibilities-for_Rural-Low-Socio_Economic_Schools-Students","ShortDescription":"With increasing technology and innovative educators, the World is getting smaller and our small  isolated, school is \"getting bigger!\"\r\nLet us show you how an iPad & a caring, innovative teacher can make a student who doesn't have running water at home value their education and want to be \"more.\"  \r\nTechnology + Relationships= Success","Description":"The focus of the conversation will be how Innovative uses of technology are the \"GREAT EQUALIZER\" for students in poor, isolated, rural America.\r\n\r\nWe will examine successes we have had at our school including specific students who now have \"possibilities\" they've never had.  We will also discuss other  \"possibilities\" in education, technology, and innovating our youth!","Link":[],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"Live FUN presentation @ EduCon \r\nInteractive Group Discussion\/Q&A\r\nLive Twitter Feed\r\nGoal=  more ways to equalize the educational experience for poor, rural, isolated students.....without breaking the bank!","Presenter":["Daisy Dyer Duerr","Sabra Provence"],"PresenterAffiliation":["St. Paul Schools","Huntsville School District","Arkansas"],"PresenterEmail":["dduerr@1hsd.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":6,"ScheduleLocationID":5,"SubmitterID":62,"AdditionalComments":"We would love this opportunity!!!!  We promise a dynamic presentation- with involvement of the audience dictating some of the presentation.","LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":2},{"ID":212,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1351712482,"CreatorID":62,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"The Stuff Doesn't Matter: Technology and Design","Handle":"The_Stuff_Doesn-t_Matter:Technology_and_Design","ShortDescription":"The important thing about the technology isn't the things that plug in but what we create with them. We'll investigate, design, create, and evaluate products in this prototyping workshop and discussion.","Description":"Participants will learn about the Design Cycle of the IB's Middle Years Program, a process that asks students to create solutions to meaningful issues, inside a looser definition of technology that could include computer-based technology, design technology, cooking, or anything that asks students to work within a cycle of investigating, designing, planning, creating, and evaluating. Though the cycle is specific to a certain curriculum, the ideas behind them are relevant to any curriculum and any subject area.","Link":[],"Audience":["High School","Middle School"],"Practice":"Participants will divide into groups to design solutions to assigned problems, and will get a remote how-to from students well-versed in designing and iterating.","Presenter":["Basil Kolani"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Dwight School"],"PresenterEmail":["basil@dwight.edu"],"ScheduleSlotID":8,"ScheduleLocationID":5,"SubmitterID":62,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":2},{"ID":170,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1350586021,"CreatorID":62,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Qualitative formative assessment: Letting the ideal learning environment dictate the tools","Handle":"Qualitative_Formative_Assessment:letting_the_ideal_learning_environment_dictate_the_tools","ShortDescription":"Emerging technologies open new doors for teaching and learning. Too often, these tools are used to repackage traditional ways of doing things instead of transforming instructional approaches. This conversation focuses on emerging tools that leverage teachers' ability to meaningfully assess student understanding and help achieve learning goals.","Description":"The primary focus of this conversation is qualitative formative assessment of student understanding. In an ideal world, teachers would have the ability to facilitate 1-on-1 (or 1-on-few) conversations with each student on an ongoing basis in order to see where they are in the learning and to adapt and adjust instruction to best suit their needs. How can we leverage emerging technologies to facilitate this kind of relationship?\r\n\r\nBefore integrating any educational technology tools, it is important to anchor an exploration for the given learning environment. Learning goals, instruction and assessment, tools and resources: these are three major components of any classroom activity, lesson, project, or unit. But which is driving which in your teaching environment? In the current day and age it is easy to let the tools drive curriculum, instruction, and assessment while losing sight of the things that matter most \u2013 the learning goals.\r\n\r\nWe'll start with a quick 'checking for understanding' activity. Be prepared to think and to do. \r\n\r\nWe'll shift our focus towards solution-finding by connecting learning and assessment goals of interest to instructional practices supported by technology using a simple framework that can support qualitative formative assessment: create, curate, & publish.\r\n\r\nBy the end of the day (not necessarily by the end of the session), we will have constructed a curated resource of goals, approaches, and tools that can be referenced beyond the conference.","Link":["https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1aORlWtWLJaQ2HCOjEvJZtLmO4hPtf8W9xDZOji9dgtY\/edit","http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/Reshanrichards\/educon2013","http:\/\/www.constructivisttoolkit.com","http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/reshanrichards","http:\/\/www.explaineverything.com"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"Link to collaborative workspace is below. Organized chaos. Rapid Fire Conversations. Prepare to think and to share! Outline: Opening Activity; Brief Introduction & Overview; Breakout conversations (Goals, Approaches, Tech).","Presenter":["Reshan Richards"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Montclair Kimberley Academy | Teachers College","Columbia University | ExplainEverything"],"PresenterEmail":["rbr17@columbia.edu"],"ScheduleSlotID":9,"ScheduleLocationID":5,"SubmitterID":62,"AdditionalComments":"Reshan is the Director of Educational Technology at Montclair Kimberley Academy in NJ, a doctoral student in Instructional Technology & Media at Teachers College, Columbia University, and the creator of Explain Everything for iPad.","LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":2},{"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}],"conditions":{"Status":"Accepted","ConferenceID":2,"ScheduleLocationID":5},"total":4,"limit":false,"offset":false}