{"success":true,"data":[{"ID":13,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1316450189,"CreatorID":62,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"How to host a TEDx Youthday Event","Handle":"How_to_host_a_TEDx_Youthday_Event","ShortDescription":"Hosting a TEDxYouthday event is a terrific way to bring an experiential, connected, and authentic learning project to your students.  In this conversation we will share ideas with colleagues from other schools who either have hosted a TEDx event or wish to learn more about how to host one.","Description":"Last year I helped coordinate a TEDxYouthday event that brought together students from several schools to share ideas with each other.  The day was truly magical.  By the time EduCon 2.4 takes place I will have hosted and co-lead an event that will take place at 5 locations with students from 15-20 schools.  \r\n\r\nHosting a TEDx Youthday event has the following benefits (this is not an inclusive list).\r\n\r\n- It provides students with an opportunity to share ideas that they are passionate about with people around the world.\r\n- While it is a competitive process to make it to the event the event itself is non-competitive.\r\n- The event can be as student run as your school's culture can make it.\r\n- It makes a contribution to each student's digital footprint.\r\n- It's authentic.  Student TEDx talks end up on the TEDx youtube channel. Their talk is watched by people at TED.  If it is deemed worthy it could end up on the actual TED site.\r\n- Students learn how to give  a talk, not a presentation.\r\n- In addition to giving a talk  I recommend that school's have their student presenters blog about the experience to increase metacognitive learning and build a sense of community.\r\n- I will talk about leveraging tools such as facebook groups to facilitate student networking focused on the sharing of powerful ideas.","Link":[],"Audience":["High School","Middle School"],"Practice":"I will leverage contacts at TED to see if someone can join us via Skype.  I will share the google doc that I use to coordinate this event.","Presenter":["Larry Kahn"],"PresenterAffiliation":["The Kinkaid School","Powerful Learning Practice","ISTE SIGIS"],"PresenterEmail":["larry.kahn@kinkaid.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":6,"ScheduleLocationID":4,"SubmitterID":62,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":46272,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":1},{"ID":121,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1322080580,"CreatorID":62,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Amplifying Student Voice","Handle":"Amplifying_Student_Voice","ShortDescription":"Students are already expressing themselves to \"the outside world\" via a variety of networks and venues. What does this mean for schools? This session will explore how schools can engage with and amplify student voice in a way that is empowering for students and enriching for the learning community.","Description":"Larissa Pahomov is an English teacher at Science Leadership Academy, where she also teaches the Journalism elective and manages SLAMedia.org.\r\n\r\nKatie Robbins is the Director for Educational Programming for Figment.com, an online community for writing and reading young adult literature.\r\n\r\nThey first encountered each other when Larissa's English classes signed up for accounts on Figment to share their short stories with the world.\r\n\r\nSince then they have been talking about how to encourage this kind of \"amplification\" of student voice, and what kind of support and structures are needed to help make that happen.\r\n\r\nThey would like to share their experiences and observations with you, but mostly they want to hear your own ideas and perspectives on this topic -- current practices, successes and struggles, and thoughts about how to amplify student voice in any kind of school setting.\r\n\r\nSLA students will also be on hand to share their thoughts (which are really the most important here.)\r\n\r\nParticipants are encouraged (though not at all required) to sign up for accounts at Figment.com prior to the conversation, as confirmation is not instantaneous.","Link":["http:\/\/www.figment.com","http:\/\/www.SLAMedia.org"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"Here are some of the questions we hope to play with during the session: \r\n\r\n- What do students want to write about? How are already they doing that online?\r\n\r\n- What is authentic audience? How does it affect what you write? \r\n\r\n- How do we (as educators) help students grow as writers? How does an authentic audience help them grow?\r\n\r\n-How do students connect to each other and the larger world through student writing? what concerns are there? \r\n\r\nThe goal is that by sharing all of our experiences and thoughts on the matter, everybody attending the session will be able to walk out with an (improved) framework for amplifying student voice in their own learning community.","Presenter":["Larissa Pahomov","Katie Robbins","SLA Students"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Science Leadership Academy","Figment.com"],"PresenterEmail":["lpahomov@scienceleadership.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":8,"ScheduleLocationID":4,"SubmitterID":62,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":46274,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":1},{"ID":124,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1322606179,"CreatorID":62,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Will This Be On The Test?: The Challenge of Assessing Cognitive Skills","Handle":"Will_This_Be_On_The_Test-The_Challenge_of_Assessing_Cognitive_Skills","ShortDescription":"Creativity -- we know it when we see it, but how do we assess learning and improvements in cognitive skills including self awareness, rationality, and open-minded thinking? This conversation will explore possible measures and work toward framing a valuable rubric for assessment.","Description":"Creativity  we know it when we see it. But how do we assess learning and improvements in a variety of cognitive skills including self awareness, rationality, and open-minded thinking? What are the measures and how can we develop a valuable rubric for assessing evidence of process in projects, portfolios, and more traditional artifacts of learning?\r\n\r\nYou can find the documents we created at:\r\nThe Notes: bit.ly\/wSFzAP\r\nThe Spreadsheet: bit.ly\/yDk9d5\r\nThe Slides: bit.ly\/wEAO9R \r\n(The Original Survey: bit.ly\/think4achange)","Link":[],"Audience":["High School","Middle School"],"Practice":"This conversation with begin with the group identifying a common list of critical cognitive skills. Based on the identified skills, small groups will discuss how they are or could assess learning in these areas. Each group will also be asked to discuss the question: do these measures inevitably have to focus more on failure in these areas than success? In a large group forum, groups will share experiences, learnings, and ideas for trial and improvement.","Presenter":["Dave Lenowitz","Cinnie Slack"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Decision Education Foundation"],"PresenterEmail":["dave@defonline.org","cinnie@defonline.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":14,"ScheduleLocationID":4,"SubmitterID":62,"AdditionalComments":"Links to documents from the session:\r\nThe Notes: bit.ly\/wSFzAP\r\nThe Spreadsheet: bit.ly\/yDk9d5\r\nThe Slides: bit.ly\/wEAO9R \r\n(The Original Survey: bit.ly\/think4achange)","LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":46276,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":1}],"conditions":{"Status":"Accepted","ConferenceID":1,"ScheduleLocationID":4},"total":3,"limit":false,"offset":false}