Innovation Summit Boston 2016

LINK TO PRESENTATION: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1oyulJq_2QfQ2Swqeni1xpGltqd7IUhvQMfSN0geXtb4/edit?usp=sharing  

How might we redesign tasks to catapult students from problem solvers to problem seekers, question askers, and knowledge creators? Come learn how to transform curriculum and instruction through Project Based Learning EdTech Redesign. In this session, we will reimagine student learning to boost engagement, relevance, and critical thinking. Participants will explore components of PBL, create driving questions, collaborate with colleagues, and curate resources and examples to support their own EdTech Redesign. 

TABLES ARE FOR THE FIRST 50 PEOPLE WHO SIGNED UP. NAMES ARE LISTED OUTSIDE THE ROOM. OTHERS MAY SIT IN THE CHAIRS IN THE BACK.   

Are you ready to experience a hands-on session to see how you can truly use iPads in your classroom? Join me to not only talk about strategies that work, but actually experience activities from a student’s point of view. My goal is to help you navigate between using iPads as tools for consumption and tools for creation in your science classroom. Featured content topics will be “hAPPy Friday” challenges, cellular biology, genetics, forensic science, anatomy/physiology, dissection, and more. Whether you have a 1:1 program, shared carts, or class sets of iPads, my presentation applies to you. This is a great session for anyone starting out with iPads or for those of us who have experience and are looking for more ideas! 

Please download Explain Everything, iMovie, and Tellagami prior to arrival to session.

Link to Session Resources (Google Slides)
 
TABLES ARE FOR THE FIRST 50 PEOPLE WHO SIGNED UP. NAMES ARE LISTED OUTSIDE THE ROOM. OTHERS MAY SIT IN THE CHAIRS IN THE BACK.   

How can we as educators nurture the creativity of our children by providing real and meaningful contexts and materials that provoke inquisitiveness and encourage tinkering and a willingness to explore? What does a teacher’s role look like as we research the world alongside our children? Why is teacher collaboration a powerful tool for Project Based Learning? In this workshop, participants will gain insight into the how and where to begin inquiry-based learning projects with their students. Teachers will experience firsthand the Project-Based Learning process as they engage in their own inquiry within different contexts and mediums and gain strategies for how to inspire their students to be curious and look closely. Attendees will also explore ways to make thinking and learning visible on the iPad and set-up Digital portfolios to document, organize, and share their students’ processes of learning.

Please download Explain Everything, Seesaw, Paper 53and Book Creator (free veresion is fine) before attending this session. 

TABLES ARE FOR THE FIRST 50 PEOPLE WHO SIGNED UP. NAMES ARE LISTED OUTSIDE THE ROOM. OTHERS MAY SIT IN THE CHAIRS IN THE BACK.   

Here is the link to the presentation - http://steam.lesley.edu/edtech-teacher-innovation-summit-sparking-the-maker-mindset/

This is the story of a spark that started with a parent talking about robotics; then skipped to a principal reaching out to his faculty inspiring conversations about new ways of knowing; then jumped to a teacher sharing her excitement about bringing STEAM activities to life for her students; and from there, the spark ignited as students burst into their newly formed Makerspace and did what children do best - engaging in play, tinkering, and exploring the boundaries of learning.

This interactive workshop is structured for participants to experience a constellation of different maker activities from using BeeBots to TinkerCAD to Stop Motion Animation and Green Screen. Each of these activities was designed through a partnership between Lesley University and the Kennedy School to recruit engagement, build capacity, and begin the process of scaling the maker mindset in an urban K - 8 public school setting.

So, come and be part of our story! Join the team from Lesley University and the Kennedy School for this hands-on exploration of the maker activities that united students, educators, and community members in the creation of the school’s first Makerspace, and the district’s first experience with the maker mindset.

TABLES ARE FOR THE FIRST 50 PEOPLE WHO SIGNED UP. NAMES ARE LISTED OUTSIDE THE ROOM. OTHERS MAY SIT IN THE CHAIRS IN THE BACK.   

The We Are Makers workshop will lead participants in hands-on activities that utilize the design process to engage the next generation of Makers. We will explore different ways to make thinking visible, whether for ideation or iteration and solution in any level classroom.          Participants will work together on challenges and document their process. Each will walk away with a toolbox of Maker and design education techniques and examples for inspiring their students and themselves as they work through the steps of innovation while tapping creativity.
     The session will begin with an introduction to Maker Education with examples shared. Participants will engage in collaborative Making with a group and will document their steps along the way. They will then share their results and thoughts about the process and the session work.
     A resource list will be provided, including various Maker Spaces publications, my Sketchnotes from my own experiences in the "Thinking and Learning in the Maker Centered Classroom" and "Making Thinking Visible" courses (Harvard Graduate School of Education), and "Creating Innovators Design Thinking & Maker Spaces" workshop (EdTechTeacher), as well as my own experiences teaching in a Maker centered classroom.

TABLES ARE FOR THE FIRST 50 PEOPLE WHO SIGNED UP. NAMES ARE LISTED OUTSIDE THE ROOM. OTHERS MAY SIT IN THE CHAIRS IN THE BACK.  

Participants will use collaborative sites like Padlet, Poll Everywhere, Google docs, Google keep, etc to share and collaborate. If you don't already have these apps, please download prior to the session.