{"success":true,"data":[{"ID":105,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1320780813,"CreatorID":8,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Learning Environments: Rethinking K-12 Communication and Collaboration","Handle":"Learning_Environments-Re-imaging_K-12_Communication_and_Collaboration","ShortDescription":"What is the future of our learning environments and what will be the necessary methods of communication and collaboration? This conversation will explore this question by uncovering some essential questions as well as using our collective expertise to identify some strategies that can be implement to improve communication and collaboration in our schools.","Description":"Where, when, and how we learn is being challenged. In response, we must critically examine the current status and potential of online and offline communication and collaboration in our schools.\r\n\r\nThe goal of the conversation is to define the different needs and challenges facing communication and collaboration in a variety of learning environments and identify solutions that can be implemented in our schools.\r\n\r\nConversation Structure:\r\n\r\nThe group will be briefly introduced to some fundamental design principles: empathy, define, brainstorm, and ideate. These design concepts will be used to assist participants determine possible solutions.\r\n\r\nFor the remainder of the session, participants will be broken into groups based upon their interest in a specific learning environment. \r\n\r\nGroups will: \r\n\r\n1. Define the core issues surrounding communication and collaboration\r\n2. Brainstorm possible solutions \r\n3. Test ideas and iterate\r\n4. Present final idea to all participants","Link":["http:\/\/bit.ly\/xWjSCl"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"Group work","Presenter":["David Bill","Ethan Bodnar"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Urban School of San Francisco","Hartford Art School"],"PresenterEmail":["dbill@urbanschool.org","ethanbodnar@gmail.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":6,"ScheduleLocationID":3,"SubmitterID":8,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":46281,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":1},{"ID":107,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1321915697,"CreatorID":62,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"The Role of Adventure Education in a Project Based Learning Environment","Handle":"The_Role_of_Adventure_Education_in_a_Project_Based_Learning_Environment","ShortDescription":"Some of the richest educational experiences can occur beyond the classroom walls.  This conversation will focus on ways to expose students to adventure education and the outdoors.  Discussion will cover place-based education, service learning, outdoor trips, and challenge courses.  Come to share stories and explore new ideas.","Description":"Some of the richest educational experiences can occur beyond the classroom walls.  This conversation will focus on ways to expose students to adventure education and the outdoors.  Discussion will cover place-based education, service learning, outdoor trips, and challenge courses.  Come to share stories and explore new ideas.","Link":[],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"This will be a sharing of ideas, including a gallery walk and best practices.","Presenter":["Caitlin Thompson","Jacob Lotkowski"],"PresenterAffiliation":["SLA Math Dept.","Masters Candidate at Prescott College with a focus in Adventure Education and SLA class of 2014 student"],"PresenterEmail":["cthompson@scienceleadership.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":8,"ScheduleLocationID":3,"SubmitterID":62,"AdditionalComments":"Saturday please!","LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":46284,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":1},{"ID":3,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1314050817,"CreatorID":62,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Cultivating an Authentic Voice in the Online Environment","Handle":"Cultivating_an_Authentic_Voice_in_the_Online_Environment","ShortDescription":"Writing is practice in self-discovery and self-expression, even as the writer engages in dialogue with external sources and peers. The context is an e-environment: infinite resources that overwhelm. The challenge:  guide students in establishing voice\/vision:  I\/the subjective eye. We will explore free writing as an essential stage of authentic writing,","Description":"Self is delineated in the writing process:  authentic writing evolves in critical discourse with audience, subject, and sources of information.  Discussion boards, blogs facilitate this development. This session considers writing as practice in the art of self-discovery and self-expression, even as the writer engages in dialogue with authoritative texts (external sources) and with peers.   The challenge is to guide students toward establishing voice and vision:  I\/the subjective eye. The context is an environment of infinite resources that overwhelm the voice of the student writer:  \u201ccutting and pasting\u201d is easier than thinking; regurgitation is easier than inquiry and discovery. We will explore free writing as an essential stage of  authentic writing: composition, research papers, blogs (leading) and discussion board postings (following). Original writing must involve a study of self:  innermost thoughts, belief systems, moral values and aesthetic values.  Authentic writing is  a journey through unfamiliar territories: the subject matter and the subjective eye. Exploration involves questioning, challenging, testing --  not merely absorbing and restating.  The desire to understand beckons us further. \"Research can engender dialogue across centuries, across oceans, through infinite cyberspace.  It represents a human desire to move forward, to discover new places and fathom the nature of self in the process.  It breaks through isolation to dispel ignorance, prejudice, fear of the unknown\" (DeSena 9).\r\n\r\nWork Cited\r\nDeSena, Laura Hennessey.  Preventing Plagiarism: tips and techniques. Urbana,   \r\n       Il.: NCTE, 2007.","Link":[],"Audience":["High School"],"Practice":"Using a discussion board to concretize the chaos of collaboration:  the generation of assignment ideas of participants for all fields requiring research and composition that are embedded in a context of critical discourse in the online environment.","Presenter":["Laura DeSena"],"PresenterAffiliation":["NYU","West Milford High School","NJ","Innovations in Online Education","Inc."],"PresenterEmail":["judeobsc17@gmail.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":9,"ScheduleLocationID":3,"SubmitterID":62,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":46285,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":1},{"ID":49,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1319546560,"CreatorID":62,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Hacking School: the EduCon 2.4 Hackjam","Handle":"Hacking_School-the_EduCon_2-4_Hackjam","ShortDescription":"Are you ready to hack school? Join us for a fully interactive session that explores the possibilities for transforming schools through renewed coperation and agency amongst educators and students.","Description":"Are you ready to hack school? \r\n\r\nHacking is a term full of tension - as is school. Through a mix of work and play, facilitators and participants in this session will work together to develop working, ethical ways to engage their classrooms, schools, and divisions in the messy work of making public education more relevant and meaningful for our kids.\r\n\r\nThe session is meant to invite and provoke conversation about amongst all attendees, including teachers, administrators, students, and parents.\r\n\r\nWell begin exploring our ideas about hacking school through the reinvention of Monopoly and then use a variety of visual and digital arts resources to create responses to provocations about hacking, youth, technology, organizing, resistance, media bias, school bias, and our attitudes towards kids.\r\n\r\nAttendees will leave with a feeling of communal agency and a shared notion of how to ethically hack school, as well as with several products that will be shared more widely on the National Writing Project Hackjam tumblr at http:\/\/nwphackjam.tumblr.com.\r\n\r\nThe session will also by Skypecast as a model for local hackjams in viewers schools and communities.\r\n\r\nAttendees should make a special effort to invite their children and\/or students to attend with them.\r\n\r\nSpace is limited to 24!","Link":[],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"We will contribute to a hackjam tumblr at http:\/\/nwphackjam.tumblr.com, Skypecast, and hang out on Google+.","Presenter":["Chad Sansing","Meenoo Rami"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Community Public Charter School (Chad)","Science Leadership Academy (Meenoo)"],"PresenterEmail":["csansing@gmail.com","meenoo.rami@gmail.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":14,"ScheduleLocationID":3,"SubmitterID":62,"AdditionalComments":"National Writing Project representatives may also join the conversation as facilitators.","LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":46287,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":1},{"ID":108,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1321983696,"CreatorID":62,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Visualizing Functions with Geometer's Sketchpad","Handle":"Visualizing_Functions_with_Geometer-s_Sketchpad","ShortDescription":"Students often find functions and related concepts confusing. Our\r\nusual examples, numeric functions, don't lend themselves to continuous\r\nmanipulation of variables or to graphical representations other than\r\nx-y graphs.  See how students use Sketchpad 5 to create their own\r\ngeometric functions, allowing them to vary the variables kinesthetically and generate pictures of function behavior.  Students will report on actual classroom use.  Ready-to-use activities will be provided.","Description":"Students often find functions and related concepts confusing. Our\r\nusual examples, numeric functions, don't lend themselves to continuous\r\nmanipulation of variables or to graphical representations other than\r\nx-y graphs.  See how students use Sketchpad 5 to create their own\r\ngeometric functions, allowing them to vary the variables kinesthetically and generate pictures of function behavior.  Students will report on actual classroom use.  Ready-to-use activities will be provided.","Link":[],"Audience":["High School","Middle School"],"Practice":"During this conversation, attendees will have the opportunity to\r\nexplore Sketchpad 5 activities.  Together, teachers and students will\r\ndiscuss the role that geometric functions should play in our\r\ncurriculum.","Presenter":["Erin Garvey","Scott Steketee"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Science Leadership Academy","Key Curriculum Press"],"PresenterEmail":["egarvey@scienceleadership.org","ssteketee@kcptech.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":16,"ScheduleLocationID":3,"SubmitterID":62,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":46289,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":1},{"ID":135,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1327173458,"CreatorID":62,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Getting Students to Do the Work: An Iterative Approach to Self-Guided Inquiry","Handle":"Getting_Students_to_Do_the_Work:An_Iterative_Approach_to_Self-Guided_Inquiry","ShortDescription":"Students at SLA wanted to make astronomy more accessible to everyone, including those who don't have telescopes. Working with Derrick Pitts, Chief Astronomer for the Franklin Institute, they are bringing streamed images of the sun to the world. Join them as they tell their tale of inquiry driven constructivism.","Description":"Students at SLA wanted to make astronomy more accessible to everyone, including those who don't have telescopes. Working with Derrick Pitts, Chief Astronomer for the Franklin Institute, they are bringing streamed images of the sun to the world. Join them as they tell their tale of inquiry driven constructivism. Then create your own project.","Link":[],"Audience":["High School","Middle School"],"Practice":"Presentation of a case-study, then workshop how you can do a similar project at your school","Presenter":["Derrick H. Pitts","Jesus Jimenez-Lara","Alex Johnson","Tyler Morales","Allen Yang","Matthew N VanKouwenberg"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Science Leadership Academy","The Franklin Institute"],"PresenterEmail":["tmorales@scienceleadership.org","ayang@scienceleadership.org","jjimenez@scienceleadership.org","wjohnson@scienceleadership.org","mvankouwenberg@scienceleadership.org","dpitts@fi.edu"],"ScheduleSlotID":17,"ScheduleLocationID":3,"SubmitterID":62,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":1}],"conditions":{"Status":"Accepted","ConferenceID":1,"ScheduleLocationID":3},"total":6,"limit":false,"offset":false}