{"success":true,"data":[{"ID":714,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1481080603,"CreatorID":4735,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"An Insider View of Inquiry and Project-Based Learning","Handle":"an_insider_view_of_inquiry_and_project-based_learning-5","ShortDescription":"SLA students and teachers will lead an interactive workshop on inquiry and project based learning. Examples from SLA will be used to spark larger discussions about pedagogical strategies and challenges.","Description":"SLA students and teachers will lead an interactive workshop on inquiry and project based learning. Examples from SLA will be used to spark larger discussions about pedagogical strategies and challenges.","Link":[],"Audience":["High School","Middle School"],"Practice":"Small group discussions, whole group discussions, student panel Q\/A.","Presenter":["Tim Best and Amal Giknis"],"PresenterAffiliation":["SLA"],"PresenterEmail":["tbest@scienceleadership.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":76,"ScheduleLocationID":9,"SubmitterID":4735,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":6},{"ID":709,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1479775899,"CreatorID":4735,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Education and the Commercial Mindset","Handle":"education_and_the_commercial_mindset","ShortDescription":"Drawing on his book \"Education and the Commercial Mindset\" (Harvard University Press, 2016), Samuel E. Abrams will discuss the growing role of commercial firms and concepts in public education.","Description":"Drawing on his book \"Education and the Commercial Mindset\" (Harvard University Press, 2016), Samuel E. Abrams will discuss the growing role of commercial firms and concepts in public education. He will speak, in particular, about the evolution of for-profit school management companies in the United States and Sweden, the adoption of business language and tools by nonprofit charter management organizations, and the implications for public education of Donald Trump in the White House.\r\n\r\nAbrams is the director of the National Center for the Study of Privatization in Education at Teachers College, Columbia University. He was previously a high school teacher of economics and history for eighteen years, the last nine of which at Beacon, a progressive public school on Manhattan's West Side.","Link":["http:\/\/www.hup.harvard.edu\/catalog.php?isbn=9780674049178"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"This will be an interactive session, with questions going both ways throughout.","Presenter":["Samuel E. 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In this session, Audrey Watters and Bill Fitzgerald will share tips on how to make informed decisions about how we can use technology safely, and about how the definition of \"safe\" use varies by context. This session doesn't approach privacy or security as an absolute \"thing\" to be achieved. Rather, we see choices around privacy and security as options we should all be able to access. In the coming months and years, we will all want privacy in different ways, for different reasons. This session will provide resources to help people get started, and resources for people who have already begun to protect their online privacy who want to take their practice up a notch.","Link":["https:\/\/hackeducation.com","https:\/\/commonsense.org\/education\/privacy"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"The tools and resources collected for this session will all be shared via blog posts and GitHub pages. Whenever possible, we will highlight open source and freely available components. The goal here isn't to rattle off a series of technical tools; rather, we want to highlight the personal choices that can affect our private information.","Presenter":["Audrey Watters","Bill Fitzgerald"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Hack Education","Common Sense Media"],"PresenterEmail":["bill@funnymonkey.com","audrey.watters@gmail.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":83,"ScheduleLocationID":9,"SubmitterID":4735,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":6},{"ID":629,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1475241639,"CreatorID":4735,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"The Future of Learning is Open","Handle":"the_future_of_learning_is_open","ShortDescription":"This presentation will share how shifting to openly licensed educational resources is imperative for PK-12 school districts across the country. This address will focus on what openly licensed educational resources are, how school districts across the country are making this transition, and why it is important students and educators.","Description":"Innovation does not have to simply be associated with the latest application to burgeon out of Silicon Valley or the savvy keynote speaker, but rather, it can be seen in our classrooms across the country. By nature, educators are researchers and designers within their classrooms and have always thrived on the ability to share and repurpose. As educational leaders, we must find ways to reinvest in the profession of teaching and amplify the innovative work that educators design on a yearly basis. Fostering a shared culture of learning and instructional design within an academic institution can support teacher leadership and greatly impact student growth. Openly licensed educational resources can help spark this culture and promote innovative teaching and learning by openly sharing and amplifying what educators create daily. It\u2019s time we recognize the innovative capacity of all educators.","Link":["https:\/\/medium.com\/@andycinek"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"What is needed in any classroom\/school\/district to make the shift to OER?\r\n---Professional learning\r\n---Curation and discovery tools and strategies\r\n---Infrastructure and technology\r\n---Implementation, modification, and sharing\r\n\r\nParticipant self-evaluation and processing activity\r\n1. Participants choose one of the topics from IV for a deep dive based on the needs in their school.\r\n\r\n2. Form small groups where participants:\r\n----read and analyze brief district case studies (from USDOE Story Engine) for their topic.\r\n----use guided questions to apply what they learn to their school\u2019s unique situation.\r\n----share out how they might move forward once they return to their school.\r\n\r\n3. Concluding discussion\r\n----Return to large groups to share takeaways from each group.\r\n----Presenters share contact information and full resource list for all participants.","Presenter":["Andrew Marcinek"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Worcester Academy","Eastern Lancaster County SD"],"PresenterEmail":["andymarcinek@gmail.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":84,"ScheduleLocationID":9,"SubmitterID":4735,"AdditionalComments":"Saturday morning session preferred due to travel schedule if possible. Thank you.","LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":6},{"ID":647,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1477768194,"CreatorID":4735,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"The Language of Learning Space Design","Handle":"the_language_of_learning_space_design","ShortDescription":"Words matter.  And how we combine words together in a language that supports the development of next generation learning spaces is essential for the design of spaces that make a difference for kids.  Join us to begin developing an understanding of the vocabulary of design, and how you can use a new language to inform the creation of learning spaces that matter.","Description":"How we perceive, describe, and imagine the spaces in which learning occurs is influenced by our personal and shared experiences, by the roles we assume, and by even by our profession.  These factors contribute to the development of a lens that shapes how each individual sees space, and its role as a contributory factor in learning.  \r\n\r\nDesigning effective learning spaces begins by understanding the individual perceptions and beliefs associated with space that people have, and unifying that understanding into a composite language that supports the design of spaces that matter.\r\n\r\nIn this conversation, we\u2019ll explore the intersection of learning, space, design thinking, and how a shared language creates an organizational capacity for design.  We\u2019ll challenge you to begin developing the language of a educator-designer-linguist to support the creation of a more expansive design lens.  And, through a variety of ethnographic techniques, we\u2019ll help you build a vocabulary that can form the foundation of an emergent language capable of supporting the creation of next-generation spaces for learning.","Link":["http:\/\/davidjakesdesigns.com","http:\/\/www.dowa-ibigroup.com\/"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"This conversation focuses on challenging participants perceptions about the spaces in which students learn, and how those perceptions potentially influence the design of spaces.  As such, participants will engage in a variety of ethnographic techniques that are designed to create conversation, encourage interpretation of visual imagery, define and clarify perspectives, patterns and directions, and contribute those to a shared understanding of meaning associated with the language of design.","Presenter":["David Jakes","Karina Ruiz"],"PresenterAffiliation":["David Jakes Designs LLC Karina"],"PresenterEmail":["david@davidjakesdesigns.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":86,"ScheduleLocationID":9,"SubmitterID":4735,"AdditionalComments":"We would prefer a Saturday conversation time if possible.  Thanks!","LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":6}],"conditions":{"Status":"Accepted","ConferenceID":6,"ScheduleLocationID":9},"total":5,"limit":false,"offset":false}