{"success":true,"data":[{"ID":907,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1541126696,"CreatorID":4735,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Tech Extension: Building a Future Model in the Out-of-School-Time Space","Handle":"tech_extension--building_a_future_model_in_the_out-of-school-time_space","ShortDescription":"Despite becoming an increasingly dominant aspect of modern society, the digital divide has persisted or even grown worse. Pathways into technology careers are too often only available to those already connected through positions of privilege. Come build a new model, one that is housed in rec centers, libraries, & community spaces!","Description":"Despite becoming an increasingly dominant aspect of modern society, the digital divide has persisted or even grown worse. Pathways into technology careers are too often only available to those already connected through positions of privilege.\r\n\r\nA proposed model, the Tech Extension, is based on the success of the Ag Extension, an established model that has created opportunities for millions to learn through programs such as 4-H, Master Gardening, and hundreds of topic-specific or courses. It recognizes, however, that as we have transitioned from a predominately agricultural-based to a technology-based workforce, however, it\u2019s time to build out a companion Tech Extension. \r\n\r\nWith a flagship example in the Digital Harbor Foundation Tech Center, and a current National Rec-to-Tech Design Challenge funded in part by former CEO of Google, Eric Schmidt, this work has the potential to expand. Talks are already in process with communities such as Baltimore, Pittsburgh, New Orleans, Atlanta, and the Standing Rock Indian Reservation. \r\n\r\nThis session will engage the audience in actively improving upon the model and building a coalition of individuals and organizations interested in creating efforts under this umbrella. Come help build a new model, one that is housed in rec centers, libraries, & community spaces!","Link":["https:\/\/www.digitalharbor.org"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"Live note-taking, collective brainstorming, geographic break-outs, and group ideation will all be used to ensure that the conversation is not just a presentation but is a call to action or time for community organization around this big idea for building an out-of-school-time Tech Extension in communities all across the country.","Presenter":["Andrew Coy"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Digital Harbor Foundation"],"PresenterEmail":["andrew@digitalharbor.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":110,"ScheduleLocationID":2,"SubmitterID":4735,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":8},{"ID":848,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1540384991,"CreatorID":4735,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Voice, Choice & Multiple Learning Pathways: Professional Learning for the Modern Educator","Handle":"voice-choice-multiple_learning_pathways--professional_learning_for_the_modern_educator","ShortDescription":"Looking to change the culture of professional learning? Presenters will highlight best practices in professional development to promote growth in every teacher. This session will showcase the overall professional learning plan, as well as delve into successful professional learning experiences. Attendees will develop a repository of innovative professional learning resources.","Description":"Invoking backwards design principles, the team promoted a professional learning plan that honored its stakeholders. Central to this plan is promoting educator voice, providing choice in content and delivery method and offering educators multiple learning pathways to hone their craft. Specifically, when designing this two year shift to creating modern professional learning experiences, the team examined relevant research, successful professional learning models and empowered educators to work in concert with administrators and coaches to craft the school\u2019s shared vision for professional learning. By weaving together educational technology and pedagogically focused topics, the presenters advocated for a pedagogy first approach to integrating technology into the classroom.","Link":[],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"In this session, attendees will have several opportunities where the presenters will encourage \"turn and talk\" with questions\/topics similar to the following:\r\n1. What are the desired characteristics of effective professional learning experiences?\r\n2. Understanding current research supporting innovative professional learning models. Attendees will be given the opportunity to share what they are doing well, and discuss ineffective practices   \r\n3. Learning about several strategies for embedding educational technology training within professional learning\r\n4. Attendees will share thoughts regarding to professional learning, and create a repository of successful professional learning experiences.\r\n5. Upcoming professional learning opportunities for use in the 2019-20 school year.","Presenter":["Michael Reichert","Amanda Matarese"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Salesianum School"],"PresenterEmail":["mreichert@salesianum.org","amatarese@salesianum.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":111,"ScheduleLocationID":2,"SubmitterID":4735,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":8},{"ID":875,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1540989390,"CreatorID":4735,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Seeing The Big Picture Using the Little Device in Your Pocket","Handle":"seeing_the_big_picture_using_the_little_device_in_your_pocket","ShortDescription":"You and your students probably take thousands of photos every year. But, besides adding a filter and posting them to social media, what do you with them? Join us to explore ideas for enhancing your professional practice and student learning using photography. Bring your smartphone to fully participate in the learning.","Description":"This session will be mostly discussion mixed with hands-on exploration. We will start with a short presentation\/demonstration of suggestions for making better images using any camera, smartphones included.\r\n\r\nParticipants will then go for a short photowalk around SLA (and\/or out into the street, if weather permits) to practice these ideas by making some images around the theme of people and moods.\r\n\r\nFollowing the walk participants will have an opportunity to share their best shots using a smartphone gallery walk, demonstrating a good technique for use with students.\r\n\r\nNext, we\u2019ll generate and share ideas for using photography for instruction, projects, and other aspects of professional practice. Throughout the session, we\u2019ll also discuss and collect some practical suggestions for editing, organizing, managing, and sharing a collection of images.\r\n\r\nThe notes from the session, along with any photographs participants wish to share, will be made available to everyone through a shared Google Doc.","Link":["https:\/\/www.assortedstuff.com"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"Opening (5 minutes) - Introductions. Why are you interested in this topic? What is your experience with photography? Are you a \u201cphotographer\u201d? (trick question)\r\n\r\nPresentation\/Discussion (20 minutes) - what makes a \u201cgood\u201d photograph? how can you take better images? How can you use images in your work? How can you have students do the same? It\u2019s all about telling stories, so how can photographs help you do that?\r\n\r\nPhotowalk (30 minutes) - go out into the halls of SLA, duck into sessions, maybe wander outside the building, and take some images using the ideas we discussed. The theme for this walk is people and moods. Try taking some impromptu shots but also try staging some to get the story you want.\r\n\r\nGallery Walk (10 minutes) - bring up what you consider your best shot on your phone. Walk around the room showing it and looking at those of others. Don\u2019t judge which is \u201cbest\u201d; only look at whether the image affects you in some way.\r\n\r\nDiscussion (20 minutes) - return to the topic of using photographs for instruction and learning. What are some tools for sharing and displaying images? How can you make photos available for all to use?\r\n\r\nClosing (5 minutes) - thoughts and ideas for continued learning on this topic. How will you share what you\u2019ve learned\/discovered with students and colleagues?\r\n\r\nAt the end of the session, the facilitator will post links the shared Google Doc and to a webpage containing all the material discussed, plus suggestions for further study.\r\n\r\nAll original material used in this session (including my photographs) will be released under a Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license.","Presenter":["Tim Stahmer"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Freelance Educator"],"PresenterEmail":["tstahmer@gmail.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":112,"ScheduleLocationID":2,"SubmitterID":4735,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":8},{"ID":868,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1540922730,"CreatorID":4735,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Empress of Everything --> Empress of THIS","Handle":"play-acknowlegement_and_and_weekly_meeting_in_a_primary_classroom","ShortDescription":"Participants will view the documentary feature Empress of Everything:  Messages from a Master Teacher (film made by retired SLA school psychologist Wendy Galson, and Greg Windle, SLA alum) about the last year in a primary school in the home of Denise Dee Haines.  Empress of Everything provides the opportunity to watch a master teacher in a richly resourced setting, (as EduCon participants did on Friday!) very different from settings many of us work in. Although her power comes from \"the whole package\" of her school, watching her work can lead to very specific inspirations.","Description":"Participants will view the documentary feature Empress of Everything:  Messages from a Master Teacher (film made by retired SLA school psychologist Wendy Galson, and Greg Windle, SLA alum) about the last year in a primary school in the home of Denise Dee Haines.  Empress of Everything provides the opportunity to watch a master teacher in a richly resourced setting, (as EduCon participants did on Friday!) very different from settings many of us work in. Although her power comes from \"the whole package\" of her school, watching her work can lead to very specific inspirations.","Link":["https:\/\/messagesfromamasterteacher.com\/"],"Audience":["Elementary School","All School Levels"],"Practice":"The group task would be to apply EduCon inspirations (gleaned from the film and\/or other 'flashes of light' during EduCon)  to specific challenges faced by participants in their own settings, by talking about what was inspiring to them and how they might aim to change their own practice in light of that inspiration, with goal setting that is amenable to progress monitoring.  \r\n\r\nOn-line collaboration will take place in a Google Classroom https:\/\/preview.tinyurl.com\/empressofthis\r\n\r\nThree monthly follow-up online gatherings will be offered for interested participants to share their progress and refine their goals.","Presenter":["Wendy Galson withy a to be determined trainer from Responsive Classroom or a teacher who uses Responsive Classroom"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Wendy:  private practice of psychology; Sarah Lorraine"],"PresenterEmail":["wendy.galson@gmail.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":113,"ScheduleLocationID":2,"SubmitterID":4735,"AdditionalComments":"I have put in an inquiry to EduConcierge about the wiki practice of EduCon.  I will educate myself on on-line collaboration tools do that I am clear well before EduCon about which tool I am using.  I am working on pinning down a collaborator who is a primary school teacher or a Responsive Classroom trainer to join me for this conversation.","LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":8},{"ID":881,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1541012196,"CreatorID":4735,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Online Robust Vulnerability: Developing Digital Empathy & Humanity Without Disconnecting","Handle":"online_robust_vulnerability--developing_digital_empathy-humanity_without_disconnecting","ShortDescription":"How might we help equip our students to navigate an increasingly polarized social media landscape and engage in conversations rooted in empathy and our shared humanity?","Description":"Students are increasingly embedded in online communities through games and social media. We have seen that unmoderated communities can lead to mob mentality, cruelty, unhealthy body image, racist attacks, threats of assault, hatred, antisemitism, homophobia, transphobia and misogyny. Rather than coming from a place of fear or simply urging that students unplug, we want to foster in students the skills to navigate these digital spaces from a place of empathy, humanity, and robust vulnerability.","Link":["https:\/\/www.sacredsf.org\/"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"We will engage in conversations and collect ideas, suggestions and responses through sticky notes and collaborative idea-generating processes.","Presenter":["Bill Jennings","Krista Inchausti"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Convent & Stuart Hall - Schools of the Sacred Heat","San Francisco"],"PresenterEmail":["bill.jennings@sacredsf.org","krista.inchausti@sacredsf.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":114,"ScheduleLocationID":2,"SubmitterID":4735,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":8},{"ID":882,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1541015339,"CreatorID":4735,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"The Role of Technology in Current and Emerging K-12 School Leadership Positions","Handle":"the_role_of_technology_in_current_and_emerging_k-12_school_leadership_positions","ShortDescription":"Are a school leader\u2019s technology knowledge and significant school improvement directly proportional? School leaders from urban, suburban, charter and public networks discuss the connection among technology, innovation, instructional leadership, student growth and school leaders familiarity with technology as the technology director and school leadership roles evolve as technology integration increases.","Description":"Part 1 (15 minutes): History - The discussion leaders will offer a brief history of the role of the technology director and address how formerly, the technology director was an \u201cIT\u201d leader who worked behind the scenes. The discussion leaders will share how with advances in technology and increases in technology integration, the role of the technology director is changing.\r\n\r\nPart 2 (15 minutes): Stories - The discussion leaders will share their stories and explain how five years ago neither had significant experience with technology integration in a K-12 setting, but gained experience at an Apple Distinguished 1:1 iPad school. They are now using that experience in their new roles - as Chief of Staff of a charter school network and Director of Technology Innovation and STEM in a public school district. They will share how their knowledge of and experience with technology, innovation, instructional leadership, and student growth supports school improvement. Participants will share with a partner how they or a colleague is using their technology knowledge to propel school improvement.\r\n\r\nPart 3: (40 minutes): Conversation - Participants will form groups. Each group will be given an outdated school leader job description. Groups will be asked to update the description to meet the present and future needs of schools, based on the what was previously shared in this session.\r\n\r\nPart 4: (20 minutes): Share out - Groups will share the revised job description and will have an opportunity to reflect on take-aways and what can be taken back to everyone\u2019s school communities.","Link":["https:\/\/twitter.com\/cicohen"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"Participants will have an opportunity to talk one on one in the beginning of the session (part 2). \r\nParticipants will have an opportunity to work through a challenge with a group (part 3).\r\nParticipants will have an opportunity to reflect as a group (part 4).","Presenter":["Dr. Casey Cohen","Dr. Margery Covello"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Rose Tree Media School District","American Paradigm Schools","Apple Distinguished Educator"],"PresenterEmail":["caseyilyssacohen@gmail.com","margeryacovello@gmail.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":115,"ScheduleLocationID":2,"SubmitterID":4735,"AdditionalComments":"Thank you for your consideration.","LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":8}],"conditions":{"Status":"Accepted","ConferenceID":8,"ScheduleLocationID":2},"total":6,"limit":false,"offset":false}