{"success":true,"data":[{"ID":463,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1414885705,"CreatorID":79,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Fostering Creativity and Innovation Across a K-12 Continuum","Handle":"fostering_creativity_and_innovation_across_a_k-12_continuum","ShortDescription":"Many schools have creative pockets, a class here or there where some truly innovative things happen. But what does this look like school-wide? In this conversation, we'll examine what happens when student-centered problem solving, injury, and creativity are at the heart of every grade from preK to 12.","Description":"If folks like Sir Ken Robinson are right that education goes downhill after Kindergarten, how do we make sure that our schools are places where our students never lose sight of the power of asking why, of taking risks, and thinking up crazy ideas? And for K-12 schools, how do we make sure that innovative practice runs throughout the divisions that might serve to separate methods teaching and learning instead of providing a true continuum in which every year builds on what came before it?\r\n\r\nIn this conversation, participants will hear how one school uses its preschool-12 continuum to weave inquiry, creativity, and innovation throughout four divisions with students aged 3 through 18. If possible, participants will also hear from students of various age groups discuss what learning looks like on a day-to-day basis. Finally, participants will talk through practices at their own schools and create best practice that helps students of all ages learn in ways that challenge and engage them while building a school culture that makes inquiry and creativity a self-sustaining guiding principle.","Link":["http:\/\/anotherthinkcoming.org"],"Audience":["High School","Middle School","Elementary School","All School Levels"],"Practice":"We will model some visible thinking exercises where participants actively discuss their thinking, and, if possible, we will use a Google Hangout to bring students into the conversation. Best practice examples will be documented on a wiki that will be shared with the Educon community.","Presenter":["Basil Kolani"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Dwight School"],"PresenterEmail":["basilkolani@gmail.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":43,"ScheduleLocationID":5,"SubmitterID":79,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":4},{"ID":414,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1412769306,"CreatorID":79,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Anatomy of the wired history classroom","Handle":"anatomy_of_the_wired_history_classroom","ShortDescription":"Sharing examples and looking at case studies of how technology enhances teaching and learning, this workshop will focus on a history\/social studies approach to teaching with technology, but will present tools that can be used in any classroom environment. Participants will experiment tech tools that have worked well in our daily teaching and have been practical and efficient for students' learning, especially in a project-based learning environment.","Description":"What does it mean to be a wired history classroom? Now into our sixth year of practicing hardwired innovation in a 1:1 environment, we have learned a few things and are excited to share our insights. Our goal is to dissect the wired history classroom experience and lay on display the \u201ctextbook-less\u201d approach to using multiple perspectives, collaborative projects, and assessment.  In doing so, we will be highlighting practical tools that allow teachers and students to work in an inquiry-based environment, tips for classroom teachers wherever they may land on the technological spectrum, and concrete examples of how to make technology work for you, for the students, and for the history classroom.","Link":[],"Audience":["High School","Middle School"],"Practice":"We will share ideas and ask participants to look at case studies, using tech tools to have an interactive discussion on teaching and learning with technology.\r\nSome of the tools we will use are Mentimeter and Padlet.","Presenter":["Yolanda Wilcox-Gonzalez","Melissa Alkire","Geeta Jain","Rodney Yeoh","Kader Adjout"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Beaver Country Day School"],"PresenterEmail":["kadjout@bcdschool.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":46,"ScheduleLocationID":5,"SubmitterID":79,"AdditionalComments":"We look forward to sharing with and learning from participants.","LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":4},{"ID":467,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1414896870,"CreatorID":142,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Tech Still Matters: Youth Voices","Handle":"tech_still_matters","ShortDescription":"Tools come and go, but what remains? Teachers whose students use http:\/\/youthvoices.net will talk about what we have learned about the technologies that seem essential to our pedagogy after twelve years of working together to build a social network that promotes youth voices and connected inquiry.","Description":"We will focus a conversation on the technologies that we are using in our classrooms to raise student voices and to connect students across schools. We are all teachers involved in the Youth Voices Inquiry Project, a cross-generational project focused on using reading, writing, and digital media in support of learners' own passions and interests. Starting as a summer pilot program in 2013, the project has expanded into a full-year inquiry, engaging youth and teachers as co-learners with the ultimate goal of supporting a peer-supported and making\/writing-centered orientation in their classrooms. Connected to the larger YouthVoices.net community and funded in part by the New York Community Trust\/New York City HIVE Learning Network, this project serves as a laboratory for the exploration of the relationship between interest-based and disciplinary learning with social media at the center. This session will show rich examples of how the principles and practices of Connected Learning are enacted, and will support participants in thinking about this work in their own communities and contexts. Specifically we want to show how important it is to keep both technology and pedagogy at the center of our work with students.","Link":["http:\/\/youthvoices.net"],"Audience":["High School","Middle School","Elementary School","All School Levels"],"Practice":"We will provide participants a wide range of work to choose from, then ask them to engage in responding to one discussion post on http:\/\/youthvoices.net. After sharing their experiences of working on the site for a short time, we will focus the conversation by talking about both the technologies we are using to sponsor such digital, multimedia conversations across schools on http:\/\/youthvoices.net and we will talk about how our pedagogical approaches depend on these technologies.","Presenter":["Paul Allison and Marina Lombardo"],"PresenterAffiliation":["New York City Writing Project"],"PresenterEmail":["allisonpr@gmail.com","MarinaPLombardo@gmail.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":51,"ScheduleLocationID":5,"SubmitterID":142,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":4}],"conditions":{"Status":"Accepted","ConferenceID":4,"ScheduleLocationID":5},"total":3,"limit":false,"offset":false}