{"success":true,"data":[{"ID":6,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1315363061,"CreatorID":62,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Free-Range Media = Free-Range Learning Innovation","Handle":"Free-Range_Media-Free-Range_Learning_Innovation","ShortDescription":"What happens to learning in a free-range media environment where students are empowered to use the technology they own and access the internet available in the real world? How does it impact the way students and teachers think, create, communicate, and collaborate? Does it foster curiosity? How would we know? Conversation facilitators will encourage participants to exchange ideas on integrating mainstream social media and student-owned devices into teaching and learning as a strategy to promote 21st century teaching and learning.","Description":"Around the nation there are schools that are making the choice to do what is most convenient rather than what is right for kids.  Rather than thinking outside the ban and empowering children to use the devices they own and access the internet they encounter outside of school, students are being banned and blocked.  In an effort to start a national conversation about filtering as a censorship issue in schools, the American Association of School Librarians (AASL) designated last September 28th, 2011 as Banned Websites Awareness Day. In May of 2011, the Consortium of School Networking (CoSN) released its guidelines for developing 21st century-friendly Acceptably Use Policies. Lisa Nielsen collaborated with Tom Whitby on The Words Simplest Online Safety Policy in April 2011. In spite of this growing conversation about unblocking, there is legislation in states like Missouri prohibiting educators from frieinding students on Facebook.\r\n\r\nWhat is the difference between students in schools that filter aggressively and ban and schools that dont? What evidence do we have to demonstrate that there is a difference at all? If there is, is  that difference relevant? Meaningful? Important? What do students have to say about it? Do they care? This sessions objective is to sort through the WHY questions, not the should or shouldn't questions.\r\n\r\nParticipants will collaborate to build an inventory of rationales for unblocking social media, and compile a list of strategies for implementation that will demonstrate positive impact on teaching and learning, particularly in the realm of 21st century learning.","Link":[],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"Jigsaw-ish facilitate conversation. Google Docs to record session responses - all added to http:\/\/bannedsites.info website by end of conference.","Presenter":["Joyce Valenza","Lisa Nielsen","Shannon Miller (Skype)","Michelle Luhtala","Michael DeMattia"],"PresenterAffiliation":["NYC DOE","Author - The Innovative Blog and Teaching Generation Text","Van Meter Community School","AASL","ALA","ISTE","SIGMS","New Canaan Public Schools","AASL","CoSN","edWeb","net"],"PresenterEmail":["me@bibliotech.me","lnielsen.professional@gmail.com","shannon.miller@vmbulldogs.com","dimatiata@gmail.com","joycevalenza@gmail.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":6,"ScheduleLocationID":5,"SubmitterID":62,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":46278,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":1},{"ID":117,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1322078970,"CreatorID":62,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Power to the People: (Rough Cut Media) Discussion on the role media literacy and production tools should have in schools","Handle":"Power_to_the_People-Developing_a_National_Minimum_Standard_for_Media_Literacy_and_Media_Creation_on_the_Secondary_Level","ShortDescription":"Discussion about the role media literacy and media creation tools should have in ALL high schools. Current and former students from SLA's Rough Cut Media program will participate.","Description":"Discuss the role(s) media literacy and production tools currently play on the secondary level. Incorporate current and former media students from SLA's Rough Cut Media program into small group discussions centered on identifying commonalities and differences in need(s). The workshop will also serve to develop language and objectives for a minimum standard for media literacy and creation across learning environments on the secondary level.","Link":[],"Audience":["High School"],"Practice":"Students will be included in a panel along with staff members. After a brief \"show and tell\" of what we have achieved in the past 3 years at SLA, the session will be broken down into small group discussions about the current role(s) media plays in a myriad of educational environments, obstacles that exist to implementation, and strategies to follow in starting\/building programs into self-sustaining entities with revenue streams within five years. Small groups will be asked to document their discussions on g-docs to continue the conversation past the live session.","Presenter":["Douglas Herman","Josh Weisgrau","Marcie Hull"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Douglas Herman\/Marcie Hull (SLA); Josh Weisgrau (Friends Central)","Douglas Herman\/Josh Weisgrau (Rough Cut Media)"],"PresenterEmail":["dherman@scienceleadership.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":8,"ScheduleLocationID":5,"SubmitterID":62,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":46282,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":1},{"ID":91,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1320201347,"CreatorID":62,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Beyond Klout and PLNs: Towards an Understanding and Application of Network Theory to Education","Handle":"Beyond_Klout_and_PLNs-Towards_an_Understanding_and_Application_of_Network_Theory_to_Education","ShortDescription":"Come learn about how network theory and social network analysis (SNA) allow us to move beyond bogus metrics of influence to generate more robust understandings of relationships between individuals. This is a hands-on, minds-on workshop about SNA and its applications for individual and organizational learning.","Description":"The foundation of social network theory is the primacy of the relationship and that the ties one has in a network determine the resources to which one has access. These ties represent a complex system of opportunities and constraints. (Daly, 259)\r\n\r\nWhen educators concern themselves with bogus metrics of influence on Twitter and use made-up acronyms like PLN to refer simply to their followers on Twitter, they do a great disservice to the power and wonderful complexity of networks, both face-to-face and online.  Modern applications of social network theory, and especially social network analysis, allow us to describe and examine networks in great detail and in ways that are meaningful for individual and organizational learning.\r\n\r\nWith social network analysis, we can generate metrics or indicators such as density, closeness, centrality and betweenness that describe the shape of a network and the positions and roles individuals play within a network. Thus, rather than crude measures of influence, SNA generates real measures of positionality and importance while also painting useful pictures of networks. \r\n\r\nSocial network analysis has tremendous potential for examining important education policy-related questions including, but not nearly limited to:\r\n\r\nTo whom do educators turn for vital work-related information?\r\nWith whom do educators collaborate regarding instructional issues?\r\nHow do educators understand the roles of various individuals within a learning organization?\r\nHow is leadership distributed within a schooing organization?\r\n\r\n\r\nCome to this session to see the power of social network analsyis for educational improvement.","Link":["http:\/\/bit.ly\/educonsna"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"This session is a hands-on and minds-on workshop. Participants will be asked to bring their laptops loaded with social network analysis software: NodeXL and\/or UCINet along with the graphing software Gephi. After a quick introduction to key concepts and metrics associated with social network theory, participants will have an opportunity to play and tinker with data and SNA software to learn how they can make social network analysis work towards improvement in their own learning organizations.","Presenter":["Jonathan D. Becker"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Virginia Commonwealth University"],"PresenterEmail":["jbecker@vcu.edu"],"ScheduleSlotID":14,"ScheduleLocationID":5,"SubmitterID":62,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":46283,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":1}],"conditions":{"Status":"Accepted","ConferenceID":1,"ScheduleLocationID":5},"total":3,"limit":false,"offset":false}