{"data":[{"ID":"14","Class":"EduconConversation","ContextClass":null,"ContextID":null,"Created":1263666185,"CreatorID":"1","RevisionID":null,"Title":"Falling Down the \"Alice Project\" Rabbit Hole: Inverting Traditional HS English Research and Writing","Handle":"Falling_Down_the_Alice_Project_Rabbit_Hole_Inverting_Traditional_HS_English_Research_and_Writing","ShortDescription":"For 6+ weeks this academic year, 3 sections of 10th grade English students (at a college prep, independent school in Texas) publicly analyzed Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (via The Annotated Alice: The Definitive Edition).   Instead of the traditional approach to analyzing a text (with a teacher-lead conversations around pre-determined themes), students were challenged to \"fall down the rabbit hole\" (like Alice) throughout the duration of the project, therefore trusting their own instincts as they made their way through Wonderland's themes.","Description":"For 6+ weeks this academic year, 3 sections of 10th grade English students (at a college prep, independent school in Texas) publicly analyzed Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (via The Annotated Alice: The Definitive Edition).   Instead of the traditional approach to analyzing a text (with a teacher-lead conversations around pre-determined themes), students were challenged to \"fall down the rabbit hole\" (like Alice) throughout the duration of the project, therefore trusting their own instincts as they made their way through Wonderland's themes.  The teacher shifted from running the class (and a single class blog) to being an as-needed literary resource and blog entry editor before posts\/comments went public.","Link":["http:\/\/aliceproject.wordpress.com\/"],"Audience":["High School"],"Practice":"* I will be opening up a session wiki and creating multiple Survey Monkey questionaire's (for each of the 13 student blogs and 1 for the project as a whole) to allow visitors to offer suggestions\/evaluate what they discovered.\r\n* I plan on additionally using CoverItLive and\/or Elluminate to provide a 'live-blogging' (and possible additional video stream) experience during the Educon session.","Presenter":["Christian Long","Jason Kern","Benedikt Kroll and Michael Nathman"],"PresenterAffiliation":["The Oakridge School","Arlington","TX"],"PresenterEmail":["longchristian@gmail.com"],"ScheduleSlot":"Session Two","Room":"204"},{"ID":"66","Class":"EduconConversation","ContextClass":null,"ContextID":null,"Created":1263666185,"CreatorID":"1","RevisionID":null,"Title":"Leveraging the Wisdom of the Crowd: Collaborative Action Plans","Handle":"Leveraging_the_Wisdom_of_the_Crowd_Collaborative_Action_Plans","ShortDescription":"","Description":"If using Web 2.0 tools is so easy, why is implementation so difficult? Preparing students for the 21st Century calls for collective action of all stakeholders and this session looks at the steps needed to build momentum and garner buy-in from the entire school community. Participants will discuss ways to plan collectively and strategically for the future, develop a collective professional development plan for 21st Century skill building, and make sure all students have equitable access to a 21st century education.","Link":["http:\/\/21stcenturylearning.wikispaces.com\/educon10"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"This will be a fast paced, facilitated session that will result in a collaborative action plan that truly leverages the wisdom of those in attendance. The goal of the session is two-fold: 1) to develop and capture a synthesis of thinking around- barriers to the shift, proactive solutions for overcoming the barriers, and development of specific, measurable action statements that can be implemented in your local context. 2) to model a protocol that can be used to garner buy-in at your school or district for managing change.","Presenter":["Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach"],"PresenterAffiliation":["21st Century Collaborative"],"PresenterEmail":["snbeach@cox.net"],"ScheduleSlot":"Session Six","Room":"204"},{"ID":"40","Class":"EduconConversation","ContextClass":null,"ContextID":null,"Created":1263666185,"CreatorID":"1","RevisionID":null,"Title":"Papert Matters: Thinking About Children, Computers and Powerful Ideas","Handle":"Papert_Matters_Thinking_About_Children_Computers_and_Powerful_Ideas","ShortDescription":"Seymour Papert's work has defined the frontiers of education for 40+ years. Gary will share what Papert's ideas mean for the future of learning through personal anecdotes, Papert's words and video clips.","Description":"Seymour Papert, often referred to as the \"father of educational technology,\" is arguably one of the most important thinkers of the past half-century. However, too few educators are aware of his ideas and contributions to the field. Papert's work is too often dismissed for having the audacity to ask educators to do better.    Papert's creation, Logo, was the catalyst for a vibrant community of educators committed to giving voice to powerful ideas in their classrooms. Yet his influence has been much greater.    Through an exposition of Papert's lesser-known writing and speeches, this session demonstrates Papert's tangible impact on the creation of classroom robotics, laptops, HyperCard, Squeak, Scratch, 1:1 computing and creation of the MIT Media Lab. I will also discuss Papert's enormous influence on the fields of artificial intelligence, computer science, mathematics, educational computing, epistemology, learning and the politics of school reform. His prescience regarding the dominance of the information metaphor predicted the fallacies promoted by today's Web 2.0 community.    This session explores just a few of Papert's most powerful ideas about children, computers and learning through his own words and rarely seen video. The presenter worked closely with Dr. Papert for years. Educators new to Papert's theories will be challenged to think deeper about learning. Others may be inspired to reinvigorate their practice and challenge the status quo.","Link":["http:\/\/stager.tv\/blog"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"Conversation with the folks in the room and remotely during and after the session will be part of the session. Resources will be shared for further reading.","Presenter":["Gary S. Stager","Ph.D."],"PresenterAffiliation":["Pepperdine University & The Constructivist Consortium"],"PresenterEmail":["gary@stager.org"],"ScheduleSlot":"Session Four","Room":"204"},{"ID":"1","Class":"EduconConversation","ContextClass":null,"ContextID":null,"Created":1263666185,"CreatorID":"1","RevisionID":null,"Title":"Stager Certified Educators Executive Program","Handle":"Stager_Certified_Educators_Executive_Program","ShortDescription":"Play your cards right and you can leave this intensive, immersive, engaging and transformative session a Stager Certified Educator, complete with I.D. card, certificate of awesomeness (suitable for framing) and web badge for use on your blog or web site. Some educators don't achieve this much over a lifetime, but you may in less than 90 minutes!    You will also gain a greater sense of the issues, ideas and expertise a 21st Century educator needs in order to create more productive contexts for learning. Resources for post-certification learning will be shared.","Description":"Play your cards right and you can leave this intensive, immersive, engaging and transformative session a Stager Certified Educator, complete with I.D. card, certificate of awesomeness (suitable for framing) and web badge for use on your blog or web site. Some educators don't achieve this much over a lifetime, but you may in less than 90 minutes!    You will also gain a greater sense of the issues, ideas and expertise a 21st Century educator needs in order to create more productive contexts for learning. Resources for post-certification learning will be shared.","Link":["http:\/\/stager.tv\/blog"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"Conversation with the folks in the room and remotely during and after the session will be part of the session. Resources will be shared for further reading.","Presenter":["Gary S. Stager","Ph.D."],"PresenterAffiliation":["Pepperdine University & The Constructivist Consortium"],"PresenterEmail":["gary@stager.org"],"ScheduleSlot":"Session One","Room":"204"},{"ID":"53","Class":"EduconConversation","ContextClass":null,"ContextID":null,"Created":1263666185,"CreatorID":"1","RevisionID":null,"Title":"Taking Play Seriously","Handle":"Taking_Play_Seriously","ShortDescription":"","Description":"Diane Ackerman's quote, \"play is the brain's favorite way of learning\" is oft used to describe the learning that takes place in elementary schools.  Despite that belief, a simple visit to any school in the country will reveal a picture that flies in the face of Ackerman's statement.      We know why play is being squeezed out of schools, but bringing it back will take creative thinking, ideas and sharing.  Together we will discuss and construct ideas for bringing the aspects of play into more learning experiences.","Link":["http:\/\/playfullearning.wikispaces.com\/"],"Audience":["Elementary School"],"Practice":"An experience of playful learning (PicoCrickets) will be described leading to small group sharing of similar learning experiences as well as collaborative construction of an online resource.","Presenter":["Brian C. Smith"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Monroe #1 BOCES"],"PresenterEmail":["brian@briancsmith.org"],"ScheduleSlot":"Session Five","Room":"204"},{"ID":"27","Class":"EduconConversation","ContextClass":null,"ContextID":null,"Created":1264864134,"CreatorID":"606","RevisionID":null,"Title":"The \"Decoupling\" of Education and School: Where do We Begin?","Handle":"The_Decoupling_of_Education_and_School_Where_do_We_Begin","ShortDescription":"The next ten years promise to be hugely disruptive for the traditional idea of school as more and more alternative learning platforms are created and expanded. This conversation will focus not on technology but on the larger shifts that will have to occur for schools to evolve into a different role in our society. Driving the discussion will be quotes from Allan Collins and Richard Halverson's recent book Rethinking Education in the Age of Technology.","Description":"The next ten years promise to be hugely disruptive for the traditional idea of school as more and more alternative learning platforms are created and expanded. This conversation will focus not on technology but on the larger shifts that will have to occur for schools to evolve into a different role in our society. Driving the discussion will be these quotes from Allan Collins and Richard Halverson's recent book Rethinking Education in the Age of Technology:\r\n\r\n\"If educators cannot successfully integrate new technologies into what it means to be a school, then the long identification of schooling with education, developed over the past 150 years, will dissolve into a world where the students with the means and the ability will pursue their learning outside of public school.\"\r\n\r\n\"Schools were prevalent in the era of apprenticeship, and they will be prevalent in whatever new system of education comes into being. But the seeds of a new system are beginning to emerge, and they are already beginning to erode the identification of learning and schooling. As these new technologically driven seeds germinate, education will occur in many different, more adaptive venues, and schools will have a narrower role in learning.\"\r\n\r\n\"Our generation faces a...radically new, design challenge. We are dealing with a mature, stable system of education designed to adapt to gradual change, but ill-suited to embrace radical change. The pace of technological change has outstripped the ability or school systems to adapt essential practices. Schools have fiddled with learning technologies on the margins of the system, in boutique innovations that leave core practices untouched. The emergence of new forms of teaching and learning outside of school threaten the identification of learning with formal schooling forged in the 19th Century.\"\r\n\r\nWhat does this new design look like? What are the big questions regarding learning, teaching and schooling that we need to begin to address? How will the roles of elementary schools and high schools begin to evolve? How will we address the divide issues that these opportunities outside of school create? And how do we personally plan for these changes as learners, parents and teachers? If we agree, perhaps we can create a concrete list of starting points for these conversations to begin and continue in schools.\r\n\r\n[url=http:\/\/etherpad.com\/N54Y1kHIVK]Etherpad [\/url]for our conversation.","Link":["http:\/\/decouplingeducation.wikispaces.com\/"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"","Presenter":["Will Richardson"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Powerful Learning Practice"],"PresenterEmail":["weblogged@gmail.com"],"ScheduleSlot":"Session Three","Room":"204"}],"conditions":{"Room":"204"}}