Discovery Education Speakers Bureau
Supporting the most effective use of technology in classrooms and schools
Supporting the most effective use of technology in classrooms and schools
From the Pacific to the Atlantic, trailblazing states and districts have begun a serious conversion to digital—a move from trees to bits. Moving classroom practice more deeply into digital resources provides major benefits for differentiation, extended learning, remediation, and accountability. But how does it happen? What’s the immediate effect on test scores? Considering the threat of enrollment base erosion from propriety schools, adoption not an option but a necessity. Explore these issues with examples across the country. And bring your mobiles and machines for an interactive BYOT exercise.
Social networks, web-based communication and collaboration tools, and "powered-up" student challenges are not only engaging, they teach 21st century skills while delivering core curriculum. Bring all your machines and mobiles to participate as this session becomes a giant classroom with challenges and resources reaching across boundaries --and time. Virtual environments, Web 2.0, and a network of contacts will be available and tapped for the challenges—and replicable in a classroom. Learn why bricks and mortar districts must adopt these strategies quickly or risk the growing proprietary poaching of their enrollment base.
Personal Learning Networks (PLN's) provide leaders the opportunity to create a culture of professional development that extends far beyond the traditional 3 institute days per year. We will discuss how learning communities are empowering educators and producing a climate of perpetual innovation within the schools that embrace them.
As presented at ISTE/TIE Leadership Bootcamp, Denver 2010
From California and Texas to the Atlantic, trailblazing states, districts and classrooms have begun a serious conversion to digital--a move from trees to bits. Moving classroom practice more deeply into digital resources provides major benefits for differentiation, extended learning, assessment, remediation, and data gathering for effectiveness. Far beyond text-bound PDFs, digital resources offer links, translations, expansions, and incorporate the wild energy of Web 2.0 tools. The different needs of learners are more easily met and digital resources foster networking, innovation, and curriculum support. Digital assignments and assessments move from white boards to mobile student pockets. A snapshot of what can be done right now, and a preview of where digital is heading.
Educational leaders know that the inspired and invested teacher is the most valuable asset to a school system. This session will explore network-building applications that can be leveraged to connect teachers to each other and to the tools and resources for vibrant and ongoing professional collaboration.
Do you recall how challenging it was to research in the "Bee Gee Age" (the disco age Before Google)? Explore exciting ways online tools can augment traditional researching methods and connect students to the tools and habits of mind for 21st century anytime, anywhere learning. Examine the best online applications to empower students while developing information fluency and cultivating best practices for locating, organizing, sharing, managing, and evaluating information.
One of the unforeseen consequences into technology’s integration in the social fabric is the creation of new knowledge, including new content and new strategies for teaching and learning. The challenges of content creation especially match 21st Century learners and the digital classroom. Jobs, global problems, and communication will be intertwined with the creation of both knowledge and content, and the ability to look at and analyze what is newly created will become a 21st Century skill. Originally created as a strategy for teachers of the gifted, this approach applies to all learners and gives a new perspective on what to do with all those digital tools
The “stand alone” method of teaching is fading and being replace by a model that taps colleagues, content, experts, and communication from both around the world and across the hall. Collaborative projects with 'real time' elements take boldness and planning but building 21st Century Learners into 21st Century citizens makes it worthwhile . Watch some case study previews of coming classroom practice that tap Web 2.0, state curriculum standards, and student dedication .
The landscape of education is changing and teachers are being asked to do more with less, or so they think. Your students have been and will continue to be your best helpers when it comes to planning, teaching and assessing learning, and they are ready and willing to help you make your classroom more collaborative, engaging and efficient! Learn how you can use digital media, technology, your state standards and the authentic task to engage your students and move them from the best seat in the house to the director's chair.
Students today engage with content differently than any previous generation of learners. Yet even with the irrefutable evidence that our students have a clear preference in how they choose to interact with information, we largely ignore these facts when considering instructional content. Come examine the future of instructional materials including recent legislation which allows the use of traditional “textbook” funds for digital content, the instructional benefits and examples of current success.