{"success":true,"data":[{"ID":25,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1318206861,"CreatorID":62,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Motivating Students with Digital Magic","Handle":"Motivating_Students_with_Digital_Magic","ShortDescription":"Create strategies for motivating students to engage in learning using Web 2.0 tools.  Enhance the value of your classroom.  Explore curriculum pathways; utilize media devices; motivate students with  Digital Magic.","Description":"Motivation is a complex issue because what motivates any individual depends on a host of factors. This conversation will create strategies for motivating students to engage in learning.  Participants will design, create and explore practices designed to create conditions in the classroom and school that promote, support, and cultivate motivation and increased achievement.\r\n\r\nShare how the teachers use Web 2.0 tools and the role that intrinsic and extrinsic motivation play in motivation. How should we teach in a technology-rich learning environment; meet the demands and challenges of 21st Century learning. Implement Digital Tools & skills involving: Writing, Speaking, Visual, Technical, & Personal Development. Create a collaborate document on how to use Digital Tools that our students use every day. Prepare students for the world that is their future.\r\n\r\nWhat does it take to compel students to do things differently and how to engage with ideas, information, and each other? \r\n \r\nShare how to discover your students' potential in integrating and utilizing technology. Participants will include skills, a description of the particular tool; examples of its use in the K-12 curriculum and how to get started.  \r\n\r\nExplore the elements of professional development resources, creativity tools, problem solving resources, collaboration connections, to make learning even more fun for you and your students. \r\n\r\nDefine how teachers and school leaders locate and create ready-to-use Web applications, lessons, quizzes and rubrics, to learn new skills. \r\n\r\nEnhance the value of your classroom by successfully integrating media devices to motivate students with  Digital Magic.","Link":[],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"EduCon 2.4 \r\n\r\n*My goals are as follows:\r\n\r\n\r\n1.  Keep the conversation moving and to push participants thinking by using probing questions.\r\n\r\n2. The consensus of the group will decide the collaboration format.\r\n\r\n3.  Make links available before  EduCon 2.4 and request  participants  read it before the session. \r\n\r\n4.  If possible arrange the room for round tables or small rectangular tables so that participants can work in small groups of about 4 to 5 people each.\r\n\r\n5.  Provide interaction during the session. \r\n\r\n6.  Provide for exploring ideas and ensuring that everyone has a chance to have their voice heard.\r\n\r\n7.  Provide an open discussion to bring out some of the big ideas that were discussed in the smaller groups.\r\n\r\n8.  Allow opportunities to share Best Practices\r\n\r\n9.  Capture the conversation via Wiki, or Google Docs or Primary pad or Zoho Suite.\r\n\r\n10.  Allow opportunities for each group to share and displays their work at the end of the session. \r\n\r\n*Thanks and credit to Overview of Protocols for Conversations provided by Chris Lehmann","Presenter":["Howie DiBlasi"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Digital Journey"],"PresenterEmail":["howie@frontier.net"],"ScheduleSlotID":6,"ScheduleLocationID":2,"SubmitterID":62,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":46270,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":1},{"ID":51,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1319737974,"CreatorID":62,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Next Gen Professional Learning- Bringing Critical Skills into the 21st Century","Handle":"Next_Gen_Professional_Learning","ShortDescription":"How would you change a Progressive (yet traditionally delivered) PD model to make it work for you, your colleagues and your school?","Description":"AUNE's Critical Skills Program has a 25 year history of helping teachers become more progressive, more student-centered and more collaborative.  We're still doing it, but our model needs an upgrade!  Come help envision a new way of thinking about sustained, job-embedded professional learning.","Link":["http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/7fvurjj"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"We'll be using a Critical Skills Challenge- a problem-based, experiential exploration of materials.  You can preview the site here:  https:\/\/sites.google.com\/a\/antioch.edu\/the-critical-skills-program\/","Presenter":["Laura LR Thomas"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Antioch University New England"],"PresenterEmail":["lthomas@antioch.edu"],"ScheduleSlotID":8,"ScheduleLocationID":2,"SubmitterID":62,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":46271,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":1},{"ID":2,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1313753557,"CreatorID":62,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"If current reform is making things worse, is radical reform necessary?","Handle":"If_current_reform_is_making_things_worse-is_radical_reform_necessary","ShortDescription":"The current focus on testing may be turning off students to real learning as it narrows the curriculum. If we ditch standardized tests, how do we evaluate students, teachers, and schools and what radical changes do we make to our schools?","Description":"There is abundant research on motivation (Pink, 2009), learning (Gallagher 2009), standardized testing (Harris, Smith, & Harris, 2011), and the standards movement (Stedman, 2010) that shows how the current reform efforts that focus on using tests to evaluate schools and teachers lowers student motivation and teacher moral while it narrows the curriculum. Even China has started to realize that a standardized testing system that dates to 600 CE is bad (Zhao, 2010). There are ways to evaluate student learning that don't depend on standardized tests and don't use the extrinsic motivation of grades. In a time when anyone can learn anything, anywhere, at anytime, why do we still force everyone to learn the same thing in the same place at the same time? What are some of the non incremental changes we should consider? Here is the link to my summaries of the books sited above: http:\/\/bit.ly\/ogLq0n.","Link":[],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"I suggest a panel discussion featuring ideas of what we do to motivate students and encourage real learning. The panel will also take on how to evaluate students, teachers, and schools. This will build on the panel I was part of at #140edu in New York City on August 3rd. Here is the link: http:\/\/bit.ly\/mPp4Lb","Presenter":["Douglas W. Green"],"PresenterAffiliation":["http\/\/:DrDougGreen.Com","SUNY Cortland","Binghamton University","AAAS","PDK"],"PresenterEmail":["dgreen@stny.rr.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":9,"ScheduleLocationID":2,"SubmitterID":62,"AdditionalComments":"Chris Lehman saw me at #140edu and sent me notification of this conference via Twitter. Thanks Chris.","LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":46273,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":1},{"ID":122,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1322082846,"CreatorID":62,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"struct by_inspiration { how to teach computer science to anyone };","Handle":"struct_by_inspiration-how_to_teach_computer_science_to_anyone","ShortDescription":"When building a computer science program from the ground up, there will be missteps, breakthroughs and everything in between. We will share ideas for engaging students of all interest levels and abilities.","Description":"When building a computer science program from the ground up, there will be missteps, breakthroughs and everything in between. We will share ideas for engaging students of all interest levels and abilities.","Link":[],"Audience":["High School","Middle School"],"Practice":"We will be sharing our ideas and experiences. We will be working in small groups to explore new concepts\/ideas\/problems\/solutions\/activities.","Presenter":["Mark Miles","Eliot Kaplan","and Kristin Searle"],"PresenterAffiliation":[],"PresenterEmail":["mmiles@scienceleadership.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":14,"ScheduleLocationID":2,"SubmitterID":62,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":46275,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":1},{"ID":93,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1320204169,"CreatorID":62,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"What does it take to be a technologically savvy teacher in 2012","Handle":"What_does_it_take_to_be_a_technologically_savvy_teacher_in_2012","ShortDescription":"In 2007, a virtual colleague asked whether it was okay to be a technologically illiterate teacher? NETS-T provides one standardized, big-picture perspective. At the other end of the spectrum, the Edu-Twittersphere offers up a litany of tools on a nightly basis. Join this session to debate the competencies connecting the two.","Description":"Much as we feel compelled to do for the children in our charge, where is the list of what teachers might want to know and be able to do in 2012? In 2007, Karl Fisch publicly asked whether it was, okay to be a technologically illiterate teacher? Though few would answer affirmatively, far fewer would suggest a set of specific competencies. The NETS-T provides one standardized, big-picture view. At the other end of the spectrum, the Edu-Twittersphere offers up a litany of tools on a nightly basis. Will Richardson has articulated a solid set of shifts that have changed the playing field for educators in the 21st Century. I believe there is much room for rich discussion in between the 30,000-foot view and the all-too-grounded, list of tools.","Link":[],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"This session is a facilitated conversation from beginning to end. We will begin with a decidedly low-tech brainstorm in stages by engaging in a version of the \"Silent Chalk Talk.\" Participants will then record images of the wall with the mobile devices in their pockets for the remaining segments. The second segment of the session will include face-to-face reflections and informally moderated debate (aloud). The third and final segment will feature the creation of a sort of \"digital manifesto -- a set of competencies for today's technologically-savvy teacher as derived from a use of Google Moderator: http:\/\/goo.gl\/Uw0AT to create a culminating, group-moderated document.","Presenter":["Sean Nash"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Saint Joseph","Missouri Public School District"],"PresenterEmail":["nashworld@gmail.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":16,"ScheduleLocationID":2,"SubmitterID":62,"AdditionalComments":"I'm picturing a giant wall of white butcher paper in the hallway outside of the presentation room. Once the strategy is explained, the entire room of participants moves into the hallway in silence with a pile of markers on the floor in front of the wall. To me, another really valuable meta-conversation lies in the affordances of a low-tech approach for a specific learning event vs. a more technocentric approach. In my opinion, this naturally evokes a reflection on the TPACK framework. That framework seeks to synthesize content, pedagogy, and technology into the most powerful approach to learning for each scenario. I would love be part of a situation where that discussion caught on as one underlying conversation throughout the course of an entire conference.","LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":46277,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":1},{"ID":132,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1326901512,"CreatorID":62,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Telling Stories that \"Stick\" in an  Age of Ed. Reform: an Open Discussion with a TFA Alum.","Handle":"Telling_Stories_that-Stick-in_an_Age_of_Ed-Reform:an_Open_Discussion_with_a_TFA_Alum","ShortDescription":"How do we communicate our vision of teaching and learning with other people? As billions of dollars are invested in the standardization movement, how do we advance our own visions of a quality education? How do we tell stories that \"stick\"?","Description":"We live in an age of \"ed. reform.\" NCLB, RTTT, and other pieces of legislation are sold as cures to an education system in crisis. Teacher accountability, testing, and school choice are hotly contested political issues. \r\n\r\nBut what gets left out of these debates is what kind of education we are giving our students in this tumultuous time. \r\n\r\nAnd that makes me upset. \r\n\r\nBecause how our children are educated is perhaps the most fundamental issue we face. And we need to tell better stories about the things that matter most. \r\n\r\nThoreau wrote, \"Let every man make known what kind of government would command his respect, and that will be one step toward obtaining it.\" The same is true for our school system. Each of us must construct a vision of teaching and learning. And then we must be willing to proclaim and defend that vision when pressed by people of good will and not-so-good will.  \r\n\r\nThis is the goal of the conversation: That every participant will leave with a vision of education they are willing to communicate and defend. Our political discussions have been taken over by moguls and spin-doctors. We need grassroots conversations on teaching and learning, taking place all over the country. These conversations will take place in grocery store lines and dinner tables, not think tanks and Congress. \r\n\r\nI am tremendously excited to hear from you, and share my own experiences from Teach for America, the Philadelphia School District, and Science Leadership Academy.","Link":[],"Audience":["High School","All School Levels"],"Practice":"This presentation will be a series of conversations. I am excited to share my own humble vision, in light of my experiences, and I am excited to hear from other fellow travelers with have far more experience than I have. We will share our visions, and give each other feedback on how to \"Make it Stick.\" \r\n\r\nA wiki of our visions and our ways of communicating them may be the product of this session.","Presenter":["Eric Lundblade"],"PresenterAffiliation":[],"PresenterEmail":["mr.lundblade@gmail.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":17,"ScheduleLocationID":2,"SubmitterID":62,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":46279,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":1}],"conditions":{"Status":"Accepted","ConferenceID":1,"ScheduleLocationID":2},"total":6,"limit":false,"offset":false}