Crossing the Tracks: creating new resources through interdisciplinary projects

Session 2

Larissa Pahomov, Matt Baird, Douglas Herman — SLA

Room 1069

In this year-long project students identify a contemporary issue for independent study in an effort to create comprehensive resources for future research. This project is in response to standing needs of teaching traditional research paper writing skills, providing students with creative freedom to write on topics they feel passionate about and integrating new media techniques and platforms for distribution.

Components of this research project serve as the basis for writing in English 3, historical research in US History and the incorporation of new media in Intermediate Media Studies. Student work is then gathered into a comprehensive web-based resource in the fall and a formal research paper in the spring.

Conversational Practice

Teachers and students involved in the project will lead this conversation about the experiences, both positive and negative, of this interdisciplinary approach to project based learning. Sample artifacts of student work and professional models will be shared and dissected. Participants in the conversation who have experience with similar projects are encouraged to join the discussion.

Conversation Links

http://tinyurl.com/EduconInterdisciplinary

Presenter Profiles

Matthew Baird

Science Leadership Academy

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Schedule

Friday, Jan 23

Visual Narrative for Teachers 9am–12pm
- Visual Narrative for Teachers
  
  In this three-hour intensive workshop, you will work with the students and faculty of SLA’s Rough Cut Productions to learn the technical and artistic techniques of communicating through video.
  
  Registration required
Welcome 10am–3pm
- Spend the day at Science Leadership Academy. EduCon attendees have free admission to the Franklin Institute and other local Philadelphia institutions on Friday.
Friday Night Panel 6–8pm
- Connections
  
  Join us as visionaries from across a wide spectrum of our world come together to explore how making connections has been a fundamental aspect of their innovations.
Reception 8–10pm

Saturday, Jan 24

Registration & Coffee 8:30–9:15am
Keynote 9:15–9:45am
- Keynote
  
  Lori Shorr - Chief Education Officer, City of Philadelphia.
Conversation Session 1 10–11:30am
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Cross-Pollination Lunch 11:30am–1pm
- Encienda Educon
  
  Join us for a session of “lightning presentations” delivered by EduCon participants. Each presenter will have five minutes to share an idea, broken down into twenty slides, which automatically advance every fifteen seconds.
Conversation Session 2 1–2:30pm
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Conversation Session 3 3–4:30pm
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Making Connections 5–7pm
- “Philly Classic” Dinner
Networking Social 7:30–11pm

Sunday, Jan 25

Coffee & Conversations 8:30–9am
Panel Discussion 9–10:30am
- Connections in Education
  
  Join a panel of world-class educators discuss how the idea of connections informs and transforms their practice.
Conversation Session 4 10:30am–12pm
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Cross-Pollination Lunch 12–12:30pm
Conversation Session 5 12:30–2pm
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Conversation Session 6 2:30–4pm
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