{"success":true,"data":[{"ID":223,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1351763132,"CreatorID":62,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"CoderDojo: World-wide Youth Coding Club Movement","Handle":"CoderDojo:World-wide_Youth_Coding_Club_Movement","ShortDescription":"What is CoderDojo? Is it important to the educational landscape? What resources are needed to support and encourage the creation of CoderDojos around the country?","Description":"CoderDojo is a movement oriented around running free not-for-profit coding clubs for young people. It was founded in Ireland in 2011 by James Whelton and Bill Liao. There are now over 125 CoderDojos in 22 countries around the world. Albemarle County Public Schools (ACPS) in Charlottesville, Virginia held its inaugural CoderDojo Summer Academy, August 6-9, 2012.  The initial goal for the Academy was to host 50 students. Those slots were taken up in the first few minutes of registration, so the program was expanded to 200 while over 700 applied! ACPS is now seeding CoderDojos around the district\u2019s feeder patterns.\r\n\r\nDuring this conversation we want to explore the phenomenon of CoderDojo. What is it and why the appeal? Is it important to the current educational landscape? What might CoderDojo look like in different communities and settings? We also want to build a list of resources, best practices, advocacy tools, etc. that would help encourage the creation of CoderDojos around the country.","Link":["http:\/\/coderdojo.wikispaces.com\/"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"We'll give a brief overview of CoderDojo and capture any additional questions about it. We\u2019ll then lead a facilitated discussion to address the questions we\u2019ve all posed about this movement as well as begin to collaboratively build a resource that can be used by those interested in starting a CoderDojo.","Presenter":["Kim Wilkens","Vincent Scheivert"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Teen Tech Girls (Wilkens)","Albemarle County Public Schools (Scheivert)"],"PresenterEmail":["techkim@kimxtom.com","vscheivert@k12albemarle.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":8,"ScheduleLocationID":4,"SubmitterID":62,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":2},{"ID":189,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1351454957,"CreatorID":62,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Curation: three ways","Handle":"Curation:three_ways","ShortDescription":"Curation strategies for searching, teaching, and learning.","Description":"Curation belongs in the curriculum.  It can be part of the student search toolkit, part of your plan to build curricular resources,  strategy, part of your professional development plan. Joyce will define curation as a learning strategy and lead a discussion of surrounding what might be curated, the best new tools for curating, students as curators, the role of student work in curation.","Link":["http:\/\/curation.wikispaces.com"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"Sharing best practices: participants will work in self-selected interest groups to identify and share curation solutions around practical scenarios.  Ideas will be captured and archived in a Google presentation.","Presenter":["Joyce Valenza"],"PresenterAffiliation":["School Library Journal \/ Springfield Township High School"],"PresenterEmail":["joycevalenza@gmail.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":8,"ScheduleLocationID":15,"SubmitterID":62,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":2},{"ID":206,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1351692471,"CreatorID":62,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Disruptive Innovation","Handle":"Disruptive_Innovation","ShortDescription":"This conversation will focus on disruptive and sustaining innovation and their effects on education.  What technology and educational innovations are revolutionary? Which are evolutionary?   How do these innovations affect education and, ultimately, the future of our students?","Description":"The main idea of this conversation is the impact of disruptive innovations on education.    What are the technologies impacting and changing education today?  What are the sustaining innovations that are improving the pedagogical process?   \r\n\r\nDisruptive technologies, or innovations, are innovations that create a new market.  They are disruptive because they are innovations the markets did not expect.  Sustaining innovations, on the other hand, are improvements to existing technologies. They cater to high end customers who demand better performance than previously existed.\r\n\r\nWe will be discussing the difference between disruptive and sustaining innovations.  First we will identify in which category innovations belong, then we will discuss which has more impact on education.","Link":["http:\/\/www.interaction-design.org\/encyclopedia\/disruptive_innovation.html"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"We will be using a text based seminar format for our conversation.","Presenter":["Danielle Hartman","Dr. Spike Cook","Dana Sirotiak"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Hartman-Tech\/Literacy Specialist: Burlington County Institute of Technology","Dr. Cook-Principal: Millville Public Schools; Sirotiak: Social Studies Teacher: Jersey City School District"],"PresenterEmail":["dhartman@bcit.cc"],"ScheduleSlotID":8,"ScheduleLocationID":14,"SubmitterID":62,"AdditionalComments":"I can get Spike and Dana's emails, but haven't yet due to power\/internet issues from hurricane. (also, for website, I added the reading for the conversation, no my website)","LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":2},{"ID":200,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1351628343,"CreatorID":62,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"How do Colleges of Education need to change?","Handle":"How_do_Colleges_of_Education_need_to_change","ShortDescription":"One of the axioms of education is that we \u201cteach the way we were taught.\u201d How do we change how teachers are developed? What needs to change in Higher Education?","Description":"One of the axioms of education is that we \u201cteach the way we were taught.\u201d Students go through higher education and are perpetuating the same antiquated model of education. How do Higher Education institutions need to change to produce 21st Century teachers? Discuss your higher ed experience, your experience with first-year teachers, or even better what you dream Colleges of Education could look like.","Link":[],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"We will start with setting the context of the discussion, breaking out into small groups for discussion that is captured on Google Docs and then back to the large group where we will Mind Map the intersections of ideas","Presenter":["Bethany Smith"],"PresenterAffiliation":["NC State University College of Education"],"PresenterEmail":["bvsmith2@ncsu.edu"],"ScheduleSlotID":8,"ScheduleLocationID":3,"SubmitterID":62,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":2},{"ID":210,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1351707212,"CreatorID":62,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Invent to Learn: Making, Tinkering, and Engineering in the Classroom","Handle":"Invent_to_Learn:Making-Tinkering-and_Engineering_in_the_Classroom","ShortDescription":"Bring the power of inventing to the classroom with new materials, digital fabrication, and computing by incorporating these new technologies across the curriculum. The making\/tinkering\/fabrication revolution is exploding outside of school. Now you can create a classroom makerspace regardless of budget or experience.","Description":"Necessity may be the mother of invention, but invention is the mother of learning!\r\n\r\nImagine a place where hard fun and problem solving combine with computing and tinkering. This could be your classroom and your students the masters of their own learning. \r\n\u2022\tDiscuss how digital fabrication is changing the world and its potential effect on schooling.\r\n\u2022\tLearn what kinds of materials and resources are needed and where to find them.\r\n\u2022\tExplore how to bring learning through tinkering and invention to the classroom no matter your budget.\r\n\u2022\tLearn to justify this 21st century project-based learning.\r\n\u2022\tDifferences for elementary, middle years, and secondary schools will be explored.\r\n\u2022\tDiscover changes in design methodology that impact the traditional scientific method.\r\n\u2022\tExplore making across the curriculum.\r\n\u2022\tAppreciate the promise of S.T.E.M. when rooted in the maker ethos and constructionism.\r\n\u2022\tReinvent approaches to teacher professional development.\r\n\u2022\tSituate tinkering, hacking, inventing and making in a sound theoretical context for learning.","Link":[],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"This will be a conversation about the particular contexts that people bring to the session. A bit of a \"do-it-yourself\" clinic. As we find out who is coming to Educon, we hope to include other teachers with makerspaces in their classrooms to come and share their experiences. If that is possible, we could break into smaller groups, perhaps by interest (programming vs. fabrication) or elementary, middle, HS. It sort of depends on who is coming to Educon. Would love to include some SLA teachers in this too, since they are obviously doing some of this at SLA.","Presenter":["Sylvia Martinez","Gary Stager"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Generation YES","Constructivist Consortium"],"PresenterEmail":["sylvia@genyes.org","gary@stager.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":8,"ScheduleLocationID":13,"SubmitterID":62,"AdditionalComments":"if selected, please schedule on Saturday, thanks!","LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":2},{"ID":178,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1350966333,"CreatorID":62,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Leading When the King has no Clothes","Handle":"Leading_When_the_King_has_no_Clothes","ShortDescription":"What do teachers and leaders do while we wait for policy makers to discover that the test culture they have created is a mistake?","Description":"Many sources tell us that the test culture propagated by NCLB legislation and the Race to the Top initiative is likely to have negative unintended consequences. Students are likely to find test prep boring and irrelevant. Teachers are likely to suffer moral problems as they compete with each other for good scores rather than collaborate. With a train wreck on the way, how do teachers and leaders avoid the worst and do what\u2019s best for the students? The policy makers have created a new game. How do we successfully play this game so the students can prosper?","Link":["http:\/\/DrDougGreen.Com"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"Key questions should get the conversation going. Something like: \"So the tests are crap, What do we do to make sure the students don't suffer?\"","Presenter":["Douglas W. Green EdD"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Binghamton University"],"PresenterEmail":["dgreen@stny.rr.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":8,"ScheduleLocationID":8,"SubmitterID":62,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":2},{"ID":159,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1349037163,"CreatorID":62,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Making Connections Between Space, Time, and Learning","Handle":"Making_Connections_Between_Space-Time-and_Learning","ShortDescription":"It\u2019s time educators to break down classroom walls, promote mindful disorder, leverage ALL of the environment for learning, and guarantee our young people access to contemporary materials.  This conversation will cause you to question all that you have come to believe schooling is as we collectively imagine what learning can become.","Description":"For so long, teachers have attempted to teach students within four walls, in rows of desks designed to maintain order, with all eyes on the teaching wall or out-of-date textbooks, for 45 to 90 minutes at a time.  It\u2019s time educators break down the walls, promote mindful disorder, leverage ALL of the environment for learning, and guarantee our young people access to contemporary materials for learning and creating new knowledge.  This session will cause you to question all that you have come to believe schooling is as we collectively imagine what learning can become.","Link":["http:\/\/www.k12albemarle.org"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"This is basically a \"what? so what?  what next?\" plan.  We will begin with a reflective activity that is grounded in Bill Glasser's work with Choice Theory.  The purpose of this is to set the stage for participants to recognize and own the choices they do make with respect to space, time, and learning.  We will use Today's Meet for this activity to ensure everyone is \"heard\" and has a voice in the conversation.  \r\n\r\nWe will then share some of the stories and images that have emerged through our work on designing and implementing \"contemporary learning spaces\" - from new construction projects to School Board priorities to teacher-driven \"HGTV\"-like changes in individual classrooms.  \r\n\r\nFinally, we will revisit the text generated in the initial activity and use a Google form to make a personal commitment to make a change in the service of student learning.  The form entries will be used to construct a GoogleDoc that will be shared openly so that others can see what happens when a teacher commits \"I will let more natural light in to my classroom by opening the blinds,\" or, \"I will downsize the 'teacher corner' to make sure kids have more space to spread out in the classroom.\"","Presenter":["Pam Moran","Paula White","Becky Fisher"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Albemarle County Public Schools"],"PresenterEmail":["bfisher@k12albemarle.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":8,"ScheduleLocationID":10,"SubmitterID":62,"AdditionalComments":null,"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":179,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1351013872,"CreatorID":62,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Project SPACE: A Case Study","Handle":"Project_SPACE:A_Case_Study","ShortDescription":"Want to get some ideas on how to get your students involved in the community and excited about it? Come join 5 students talk about their experiences in the Project SPACE Program and what got them started on it.","Description":"In this student-led presentation, follow them on their voyage to solve the mystery of capturing live images of the sun. In this session, see how the students used inquiry, research, collaboration, presentation, and reflection to tackle a novel student-driven science project. During this session, the students will go through the questions they asked to more fully understand the scope of the project, the research required to get the project started and the process that went into building a multi-talented team of students to execute the project. Then they presented the final product in the form of solar images, and continue a constant evaluation and improvement process. Working in collaboration with Philadelphia\u2019s Franklin Institute Science Museum, the students use their observatory telescope twice a week to collect images of the sun. Out of this session, you will learn how you can apply this process in the development of student projects and to give students a structure around which they can build their own projects in school. The images are uploaded and linked through the Franklin Institute\u2019s Observatory page (http:\/\/www2.fi.edu\/exhibits\/permanent\/bloomobservatory.php).","Link":["http:\/\/www2.fi.edu\/exhibits\/permanent\/bloomobservatory.php"],"Audience":["Middle School","All School Levels"],"Practice":"We will pose questions to the audience and have them create their own ideas for students projects and then have each person comment on each others' ideas.","Presenter":["Tyler Morales","Derrick Pitts","Matthew Ginnetti","Allen Yang","Winston Wright","Alex Johnson"],"PresenterAffiliation":["The Franklin Institute","Science Leadership Academy"],"PresenterEmail":["moralest51@gmail.com","wjohnson@scienceleadership.org","dpitts@fi.edu","wwright@scienceleadership.org","ayang@scienceleadership.org","mginnetti@scienceleadership.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":8,"ScheduleLocationID":16,"SubmitterID":62,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":2},{"ID":211,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1351709221,"CreatorID":62,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Sequence and Consequence: Why Storytelling is Essential for Learning","Handle":"Sequence_and_Consequence:Why_Storytelling_is_Essential_for_Learming","ShortDescription":"The human brain is built for stories. After a brief discussion of the science and theory, we will explore several aspects of story and digital storytelling and how they intersect with schools, curriculum, and learning. Small groups will collaboratively build a Learnist board to capture and share the ideas we generate.","Description":"The focus for this conversation is how and why storytelling should be embedded in the design of all learning experiences.\r\n\r\nWe will first share some of the science supporting the connections between storytelling and learning. Then, we will spend a few minutes processing this information, capturing several \u201cSo What?\u201d thoughts and questions from the participants. We will form small groups around some or all of the questions generated by the room. Each group will explore the questions more deeply, contributing to a shared Learnist board as a storytelling tool. After sharing out highlights of the learning in the small groups, we\u2019ll move into the \u201cNow What?\u201d phase, with new groups following a line of personal interest by generating a classroom activity around a digital storytelling tool, a curricular area, a project, or a problem applying ideas from the earlier discussions.\r\n\r\nIn the last few minutes of the session, pair up and share with each other how you will tell the story of this experience to your colleagues or administrator when you get back on Monday.","Link":[],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"Use of a modified \"What? So What? Now What?\" protocol as the overall framework, each segment of the session will focus primarily on small group conversations and collaboratively building a Learnist board.","Presenter":["Gerald Aungst","Amanda Dykes"],"PresenterAffiliation":["School District of Cheltenham Township","McAdory Middle School"],"PresenterEmail":["geraldaungst@gmail.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":8,"ScheduleLocationID":11,"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":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":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":253,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1351828313,"CreatorID":62,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Unraveling the Textbook","Handle":"Unraveling_the_Textbook","ShortDescription":"The nature of information access allows for a whole new way of working with content in our schools.  Join us for a conversation deconstructing the concept of textbook and visioning what comes next.","Description":"The nature of information access allows for a whole new way of working with content in our schools.  Join us for a conversation deconstructing the concept of textbook and visioning what comes next.","Link":[],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"Participants in the conversation will work through the concept of a 'unit of learning', issues of ownership and content, examples of successful OER, brainstorm ways to collect, curate and disseminate information differently than in a text format.","Presenter":["John Pederson","Diana Laufenberg"],"PresenterAffiliation":["WiscNet","Unveristy of Minnesota"],"PresenterEmail":["ijohnpederson@gmail.com","dlaufenberg@gmail.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":8,"ScheduleLocationID":9,"SubmitterID":62,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":2},{"ID":183,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1351089744,"CreatorID":62,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Web Literacies: Redefining the Continuum of \"Literacy\"","Handle":"Web_Literacies:Redefining_the_Continuum_of-Literacy","ShortDescription":"As we move further into the Digital Age, the populous is being segmented into varying degrees of digital competencies. Join Mozilla and the National Writing Project to discuss how a fluent understanding of the web and the nuances of web culture is necessary in today's world.","Description":"Critical thinking in combination with creative thinking leads to innovation, something that is only possible through usage of and contribution to the ecosystem of human knowledge and the collective distilling of that knowledge. In short, without a critical mass of contribution to the human knowledge network, we will be unable to distill the truth from the irrelevant and unable to solve key problems that plague the human race. All issues of the human experience are directly related to our ability to communicate and share ideas with one another. The World Wide Web has made both of these processes extremely easy.\r\nIn this conversation, we will do a collective thought experiment in which we create a tree of dependencies to envision and record the consequences of ignoring web literacies. \r\nMozilla, a non-profit organization best known as the makers of the Firefox browser, has committed itself to tackling the problem of web literacies, literacies that involve the ability to contribute knowledge to the global ecosystem.  The National Writing Project is faciliating and participating in the academic conversation surrounding the very definition of \"literacy\". Together, the National Writing Project and Mozilla aim to spread web literacies and create a culture of sharing and collaboration using the Web as the platform.","Link":["http:\/\/webmaker.org","http:\/\/explorecreateshare.org\/","http:\/\/nwp.org"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"In this conversation, we will do a collective thought experiment in which we create a tree of dependencies to envision and record the consequences of ignoring web literacies.","Presenter":["Laura Hilliger","Chris Lawrence","Paul Oh","Christina Cantrill"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Mozilla","National Writing Project"],"PresenterEmail":["laura@mozillafoundation.org","clawrence@mozillafoundation.org","poh@nwp.org","ccantrill@nwp.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":8,"ScheduleLocationID":12,"SubmitterID":62,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":2}],"conditions":{"Status":"Accepted","ConferenceID":2,"ScheduleSlotID":8},"total":15,"limit":false,"offset":false}