Conferences and Institutes

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Progressive Pedagogy and 21st Century Tools – NECC

Chris Lehmann (Principal of the Science Leadership Academy – small public school in PA and it’s a 1:1 school) presents Progressive Pedagogy and 21st Century Tools.

Premise: Pedagogy Matters! Schools should be…
Caring Place – we teach kids not subjects
Inquiry Driven – what are the questions we can ask together?
Student Centered – it’s not about us
Passionate – [...]

Flat Classrooms – Live Blogging for NECC ’08

Julie Lindsay and Vicki Davis discuss Flat Classrooms

Jousting for the New Generation by David Loader is an excellent read over the summer. “Knowledge sharing among students can be a major source of content and pedagogy.”

You know you have a flat classroom when…

You expect to have daily conversations, ongoing, regular interactions with students and classes around [...]

PowerPoint Presentation Facelift – Live Blogging at NECC ’08

PowerPoints Again??

I suppose we go into each of these sessions with our own point of view. We read a description of a workshop or session, perhaps do a little research on the presenter and then go in hoping to get our needs met. This time I head to David Jakes and Dean Shareski’s One [...]

My First Take on NECC 08

Leading up to NECC, all I heard about was Edubloggercon, Edubloggercon… people were excited about it, but everytime I went online to investigate, it just seemed huge to me. I felt like Edubloggercon was going to be about the philosophy of technology rather than talk about tools. For this reason, I decided to give [...]