Educon2.1

January 23-24, 2009

**SLA Core Values**

 * Inquiry
 * Research
 * Collaboration
 * Presentation
 * Reflection

Why Is It So Hard to Get Schools to Integrate Technology?...and 10 Things You Can Do About It!

 * 1) Focus efforts on people, not the system
 * 2) Collaborate - build a personal learning network (PLN)
 * 3) Focus attention of using technology to construct knowledge, rather than "doing work" (create)
 * 4) Create ways to insulate (isolate) tech innovators from mainstream school culture (Is this a good idea?) "let them swim" - Tim Stahmer
 * 5) Customize, resist efforts to standardize ("personalization will give you satisfaction")
 * 6) Be entreprenueurial, look beyond what seem to be the givens
 * 7) Document success every way you can; don't be shy about spreading the word
 * 8) Find and enjoy things in addition to your work that engage your enthusiasm
 * 9) Relax - schools are incompatible with fundamental nature of learning (in this technological age)
 * 10) Consider yourself a "rebel" in the sense of being "slightly subversive" and "creatively insubordinate"

Writing 1.0: How the Web Changes Nothing. And Everything. Is All.
Facilitator: Bud Hunt Session page: http://educon21.wikispaces.com/308-2

All teachers are teachers of writing "We're writing more and more and thinking less and less about it"

Gary: Writing is a personal thing and should be taught that way. Writers need to be able to take a punch.

Bud: Lather. Rinse. Repeat

Developing Digital Learning Spaces: From Vision to Reality
Ryan Bretag & David Jakes


 * What does it mean to be well educated in the 21st century?**
 * Ability to learn, unlearn and relearn
 * Generate good questions
 * Know where to find the answers to those questions
 * Knowing how and courage to question answers found
 * No one person has all knowledge about one subject
 * Responsive to situations
 * Knowing when to ask for help
 * Identifying what you don't know in addition to what you do know

Using one blog for each student to become a e-portfolio
 * tagging posts for teachers to aggregate
 * tagging a post that applies to two content areas for both teachers

Session IV
Student Panel

Core Values
 * Presentation** - Jasmine Thomas
 * technology allowed me to take the presentation further, made it more professional, able to "mess up" and keep working
 * "rich process" values flow into each other... students/educators reflect on presentations, not over and done with, "nothing is ever final"
 * "really found who I was as a student"
 * "not only having a voice, but being listened to"
 * "Cannot be a student without being a teacher and you can't be a teacher without being a student"
 * Balance of school work is not always balanced. Some projects more attention than others. So true with life.
 * What do you want to do? "I want to be a teacher" I want to help kids get to deeper thinking.


 * Collaboration** - Hannah Feldman & Ussef
 * Collaboration is integrated throughout each of the other values
 * accomodate each other, identify with strengths, bounce things off of each other, "parts are not mutually exclusive"
 * what's important about collaborating is "knowing what you are good at and what you are not good at"
 * teachers role? To keep on track, on task and meet checkpoints


 * Inquiry** - Sam
 * Everything starts with a question
 * deconstruct-construct-deconstruct, it's cyclical
 * "as children, we constantly question everything. As adults we are taught not to question. Funny that we have to relearn how to question."
 * "taught a schedule and to accept it. You are no longer curious."


 * Reflection** - Cody
 * reflection is an expression and a process, improvement of what we did, what we can do better
 * inquiry feeds reflection
 * Travis: being honest with yourself
 * using feedback


 * Research** - Bree
 * consider all sides of an argument
 * state desired outcomes (understanding that they may change) - how do students become comfortable with changing outcomes? Learned it from science
 * "normal class day, we're always going to want to have more discussion"
 * Wants to go to Princeton, adolescent psychology

Edcuators are key in the process.

Wasn't a process of accepting them, but how we use them. Open-endedness


 * Core values allow the communication not the laptops**

Assessment and Evaluation in the 21st-Century Classroom
Facilitator: Konrad Glogowski

Quality of feedback is crucial to learning Formative feedback associates with positive attitudes to learning

"Assessment is the tail that wags the curriculum dog. If we want to see real curriculum reform, we must simultaneously achieve reform of assessment practices." (Bredekamp & Rosegrant, 1992, p.29)

There is a close and necessary relationship between what we

What do I value most? As a teacher? as a human being? As an educator in 2009?

What impact does a blogging community have on a teacher?

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