2013+Conference

Notes from Kevin Long, Instructional Technology Specialist at High School

Keynote - Chris Leamen (sp?)- Principal of Science Leadership Academy in Philadelphia
 * the "why" he went into this profession and why their school focuses on 21st Century Skills
 * "if you ever want to be humbled, start a school"
 * Students need to become 21st Century CITIZENS. We can't just prepare them for the workforce. We have to hope that our kids will do this better than we did.
 * Education=Democracy
 * If you put a good teacher in a bad system, the system wins
 * In the best case, schools can teach us HOW to learn
 * Create new things, measured old ways
 * We need to dream bigger
 * What are you unwilling to UNLEARN (it's bc you're good at it, but not good for the students)
 * we teach KIDS not SUBJECTS
 * STUDENT CENTERED- not about us
 * Teach real life. High school IS real life.
 * Certain technologies are not Additive, they're transformative
 * tech needs to be everywhere and then we need to stop talking about it
 * We hope that after high school, children are THOUGHTFUL, WISE, PASSIONATE, and KIND

paperless classroom:
 * Apps that are making the 1:1 environment successful:
 * Edmodo- interactive learning and communication among teachers, students, and parents
 * youtube, Ted Ed, and iBooks Author - enhanced Instruction
 * GoogeDrive- collaboration, differentiation, and workflow mgmt
 * Socrative, Google Forms- assessing
 * Bookry- iBooks Author Widget
 * explain everything, book creator, notes plus - students' performance of understandin

The Ups and Downs of Digital Portfolios:
 * How can we use technology to capture student learning?
 * portfolios: document, provide reflection, share work
 * Use Evernote to create student portfolios
 * Usage is per month not overall storage size, so portfolio can continue yr to yr