{"success":true,"data":[{"ID":435,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1414451852,"CreatorID":79,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Busting Silos in School Strategy","Handle":"busting_silos_in_school_strategy","ShortDescription":"School strategic planning is often an exercise in figuring out what needs to be done in order to continue doing what always has been done. How might we change our approach in order to better achieve our goals?","Description":"An important part of the job of anyone in charge of some aspect of a school is making sure the school can continue to function and exist. An absolute necessity to be sure, but this is often such a large task that it has the very real danger of making it all we ever do.\r\n\r\nOur students, on the other hand, are spending their lives learning to live and thrive in a world of rapid changes and inevitable disruption that requires them to plan new paths and adjust their vision on the fly. Our continuing challenge is to provide students with schools that are as good at innovative strategy as they themselves will have to be.\r\n\r\nEducators from The Miami Valley School in Dayton, OH, will start this session off by sharing how they\u2019ve embarked this year on a new strategy for innovative school redesign that brings faculty, admins, students, and parents together in design thinking \u201cWindow Teams\u201d to observe, understand, and find places ripe for innovative thinking. After that, the session opens for everyone to share successes and not-yet-successes for their schools. We\u2019re better together!","Link":["http:\/\/www.bryanlakatos.com"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"Participants will live create a Google document together recording what resonates and works for them. Document will have sections with helpful prompts and we\u2019ll save time toward the end of the session to share out loud from the document. The document will stay accessible as folks return to their schools and use what they\u2019ve learned.","Presenter":["Bryan Lakatos"],"PresenterAffiliation":["www.mvschool.com","www.dtk12chat.com"],"PresenterEmail":["bryan.lakatos@gmail.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":43,"ScheduleLocationID":9,"SubmitterID":79,"AdditionalComments":"Thanks for the opportunity to grow along with our colleagues - Educon continues to be a highlight of my career!","LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":4},{"ID":480,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1415122367,"CreatorID":79,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"An Insider View of Inquiry and Project-Based Learning","Handle":"an_insider_view_of_inquiry_and_project-based_learning-3","ShortDescription":"SLA students and teachers will lead an interactive workshop on inquiry and project based learning. Examples from SLA will be used to spark larger discussions about pedagogical strategies and challenges.","Description":"SLA students and teachers will lead an interactive workshop on inquiry and project based learning. Examples from SLA will be used to spark larger discussions about pedagogical strategies and challenges.","Link":["http:\/\/mrjblock.com\/"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"Discussion","Presenter":["Tim Best","Joshua Block"],"PresenterAffiliation":["SLA"],"PresenterEmail":["tbest@scienceleadership.org","jblock@scienceleadership.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":45,"ScheduleLocationID":9,"SubmitterID":79,"AdditionalComments":"Can we be on Saturday, please!","LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":4},{"ID":454,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1414804429,"CreatorID":79,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Project Stargazer: Student-Led Collaborative Design and Education","Handle":"project_stargazer--student-led_collaborative_design_and_education","ShortDescription":"This is a conversation led by the students of Project Stargazer. Learn about the process high-school students can take to develop their own collaborative projects, based on the experiences of a group of Science Leadership Academy students who created a student-led project in collaboration with The Franklin Institute and Boeing.","Description":"This conversation focuses on creating a space for students to create and lead their own projects, as well as helping teachers enter a mentorship role with the students involved. The students of Project Stargazer, a dedicated group of Science Leadership Academy students who built their own STEM project focusing on Virtual Reality in collaboration with The Franklin Institute and Boeing will be leading the conversation, and providing advice from their own experiences in making such a project a reality. During this session, the students will also share the process of building a multi-faceted team such as Stargazer has today. Out of this session, you\u2019ll learn to apply the processes and models needed to help students create and lead their own projects in a high school environment.","Link":["https:\/\/projectstargazer.github.io\/Project-Stargazer\/","https:\/\/twitter.com\/StargazerTFI"],"Audience":["High School"],"Practice":"This conversation will start with a brief overview of Project Stargazer which will lead into a whole group discussion of project design principles. The group discussion leads into a smaller design period with partners using poster stickies. Finally, the group will convene to discuss and comment on the ideas. The finalized ideas, as well as key points from the conversation will be sent as an email to all participants afterwards to serve as a guide, both to students looking to create their own projects and educators looking to serve as mentors.","Presenter":["Derrick Pitts","Alexander Wroblewski","Andrew Roberts","Michael Thayres","and Morgan Caswell"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Science Leadership Academy & The Franklin Institute"],"PresenterEmail":["dpitts@fi.edu","awroblewski@scienceleadership.org","aroberts@scienceleadership.org","mcaswell@scienceleadership.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":46,"ScheduleLocationID":9,"SubmitterID":79,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":4},{"ID":452,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1414780409,"CreatorID":79,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Freedom, Autodidacticism, and Learning","Handle":"freedom-autodidacticism-and_learning","ShortDescription":"Autodidacticism is the act of teaching oneself.  There has been much discussion in edtech circles around autodidactism and how it applies to learning with technology in schools.  Let\u2019s discuss how autodidacticism impacts the range of learning experiences and professional development we offer our students and teachers.","Description":"Articles and \u2018research\u2019 appear that say; \u2018not everyone is an autodidact\u2019, \u2018some people can\u2019t be autodidactics\u2019.  Is autodidacticism a learning style, a state of mind, a set of skills, are their levels to it?  Before the fall of the USSR, they said entrepreneurship would not work in Russia, is autodidacticism a kind of entrepreneurship about learning that may be difficult for some schools based on their culture of learning?   Is our current system of schooling simply unprepared for autodidacts because they are structured on instruction?  \r\n\r\nHow do we, can we, should we, grow autodidacticism in our own schools among own students?  Do the current constructs of differentiated instruction and personalized learning support or limit the ability of our students to operate as autodidacts?  \r\n\r\nHow does autodidacticism influence professional development choices?  Doesn\u2019t meaningful professional development change a teacher\u2019s practice; is that kind of change a matter of self-learning?  How can classrooms and curriculum facilitate autodidactism?  \r\n\r\nSince mobile devices, BYOD, and 1-to-1 offer the potential for learner empowerment, how do they offer new opportunities to explore autodidactism in traditional schools?  \r\n\r\nThis will be an exploration of inquiry into questions surrounding autodidactism in K-12.","Link":["http:\/\/www.edtechleadership.com","https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1eCKE_vhmDNz1z5_zYPxIOR46mMLb2dc8qGBawmuJw-c\/edit?usp=sharing","https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/0B_6JoKWfQCO5a1ltX1A4NVpCbTQ\/view?usp=sharing"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"Intro- Quick overview of the topic and introduction of the participants.  A Google Doc will be created to document the conversation and all participants will be encouraged to backchannel.\r\n\r\nThink\/Write- This conversation will begin with an invitation to write a few sentences about what autodidactism means to you?  \r\n\r\nShare your Writing  - each participant will share their writing with another participant with a focus on the how their writings are diverage about their definition of autodidactism.\r\n\r\nText-based Small Group Discussion - All the participants will be invited to read:\r\nhttp:\/\/hechingerreport.org\/content\/ed-tech-promoters-need-understand-us-learn_16821\/\r\nRather than merely discussing the article as a large group, the participants will be split into groups based on interest in the following sub-topics: autodidactism in professional development, autodidactism in our current classrooms, and autodidactism as mindset or skill to grow in learners.  \r\n\r\nLarge Group Sharing- Each group will report back on their small group discussions about the specific topics.\r\n\r\nNow what?\r\nParticipants will create a list of things that they can actually do in their schools and classrooms with their collegians and students around autodidactism based on what they learned.","Presenter":["Joe Bires"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Jamesburg School District"],"PresenterEmail":["joebires@gmail.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":51,"ScheduleLocationID":9,"SubmitterID":79,"AdditionalComments":"@joebires","LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":4},{"ID":488,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1415124071,"CreatorID":79,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Community and University Partnerships: How do we cultivate them?","Handle":"community_and_university_partnerships--how_do_we_cultivate_them","ShortDescription":"SLA works with many different partners. How do they benefit our students? How do we form those partnerships? How can you form similar partnerships? Join us for a conversation about the formation of these partnerships and many benefits to our students.","Description":"SLA has partnerships with The Franklin Institute, Drexel University, University of Pennsylvania, the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, the ExCITe Center, the Department of Making and Doing, USAID...\r\nHow did these partnerships start? Why did these partnerships start? Join us for a brief overview of the partnerships to help see some of the possibilities then workshop some possibilities at your schools.","Link":[],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"There will be an overview of many of our partnerships and the benefits our students have gotten from them (voiced by our students) with some data. Then some of our partners will speak on why they chose to partner with us, what motivates them to partner with schools. Then we will give a brief description of national resources for partnerships. Then there will be workshops around cold-calling, cold-emailing and other ways the participants can create their own partnerships.","Presenter":["Matthew N VanKouwenberg and others"],"PresenterAffiliation":[],"PresenterEmail":["mvankouwenberg@scienceleadership.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":53,"ScheduleLocationID":9,"SubmitterID":79,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":4}],"conditions":{"Status":"Accepted","ConferenceID":4,"ScheduleLocationID":9},"total":5,"limit":false,"offset":false}