April 4, 5, and 7
Sessions at 4:30 PM and 7:00 PM each day
All sessions are included with your registration.
Instructions for joining sessions will be emailed after you register.
SCHEDULE OF SESSIONS
April 4 - 4:30 PM
EdTech Essentials: Technology Strategies for All Learning Environments
In a world awash in technology, what EdTech skills and strategies should educators focus on to ensure they are making the best use of online spaces for classroom learning? This session will include an overview of technology strategies for all learning environments. Join Dr. Monica Burns to examine ways to help students navigate online spaces, share their learning and connect their work to revenant audiences, develop transferable skills, and create digital learning produces. During this interactive session, you'll explore ways to curate the best digital learning resources for students, how to introduce opportunities for students to explore the world, as well as the importance of developing collaboration structures and assessing students with intention.
April 4 - 7:00 PM
10 Ways to Curate Resources to Support all Students
Selecting "just right" resources for students is an essential practice for educators to help make sure the needs of all students are addressed. In this session, we'll explore how to pull together resources that connect to curriculum goals while supporting the needs of all students. Learn tech-friendly strategies for thoughtfully curating content throughout the school year, and how to differentiate the resources shared with students to meet every child's needs. In this session, we will examine strategies to help you select, organize, and distribute online resources with students.
April 5 - 4:30 PM
Create Opportunities for Students to Explore the World
In this session, we will look at exploration and the role it plays in building empathy, piquing student curiosity, and helping students think critically and deeply about the world around them. We'll examine how online experiences can strengthen connections and help students learn about the lives of others whom they may never encounter in the town or city where they live. This interactive session will include an introduction to free virtual reality resources and a connection to social-emotional learning.
April 5 - 7:00 PM
How to Use Technology to Assess Students and Pivot Instruction
This session will cover strategies for collecting and analyzing data so educators can take action through instructional pivots and interventions. We will focus on formative assessment and how to check for understanding before, during, and after instruction. Participants will explore how digital tools provide a special benefit for students as they increase student opportunities (frequency) and options (choice) to share their learning.
April 7 - 4:30 PM
Ways to Capture Student Learning with Ebooks
Multimedia creations help students share their learning with a variety of options. In this session explore the power of ebooks for capturing student learning across subject areas and grade levels. Attendees will view student work samples, identify which type of project is a best fit for their students, and have a hands-on opportunity to create an ebook.
April 7 - 7:00 PM
Strategies to Support Students as they Create Products of Learning
Students create in both big and small ways throughout the school year. In this session, we will examine how to support students as creators of content. We will look at how to develop the supporting resources necessary for everyday artifacts of student learning as well as for larger independent an collaborative projects. This session will provide an overview and hands-on opportunities for exploring open-ended creation tools.