{"data":{"ID":15,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1316878655,"CreatorID":62,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"You Can't Buy Change","Handle":"You_Can-t_Buy_Change","ShortDescription":"1-to-1 initiatives, mobile devices, and IWBs are all the rage, but arent these just digital solutions for an analog classroom? In this conversation, we will discuss how  teachers can transform learning experiences which increase achievement, creativity, and empathy. We will explore \"flipped\" classrooms, writing for authentic audience replacing completion with creation,and promoting peer reliance among others.","Description":"Do 1-1 initiatives, iPads, IWBs, or using Web 2.0 improve student achievement? ISTE draws up  Essential Conditions that discuss Necessary conditions to effectively leverage technology for learning.What ISTE points out, is that too often so-called innovators are merely espousing A digital fix for an analog classroom. In other words, throwing new tools into the same old classroom structures will yield very little change. True, there are some visionaries who see classrooms without walls, independent learning, global communities, as well as other seemingly futuristic scenarios. This in itself can be daunting to the classroom teacher of today who wants to make changes right now. Clearly, a chasm exists between the traditional classroom of today, and learning of the future. However changing today does not lie in an explosion of tools, it lies in the changing of classroom structures. By this, I mean that teachers have the ability right now to change how their students learn for the better within the existing system. Some of these changes include:\r\n \r\nFlipped classroom\r\nWriting for authentic audience\r\nReplacing completion with creation\r\nPromoting peer reliance\r\n\r\n \r\nIn this conversation, we will pose the following questions:\r\nWhat are other ways we can change classroom structures?\r\nInstead of covering content, how do we uncover passions?  \r\nHow do we develop more balanced, appropriate methods of assessments?\r\nHow can we teach Digital Collaboration \t\r\nHow do we enact systemic change? (Do we need to enact systemic change?)\r\nWhat conditions need to exist to encourage such changes?\r\n\r\n\r\nPlease bring your own questions!","Link":[],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"Small and large group discussion, Completion of a collaborative document.","Presenter":["Sylvia Martinez","Jon Orech"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Sylvia:"],"PresenterEmail":["jonrech@csd99.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":9,"ScheduleLocationID":10,"SubmitterID":62,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":46758,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":1}}