At #140conf we explore the effects of the emerging real-time internet on a business and life. Since the launch of #140conf in New York City in June, 2009 these events have taken place around the world and have evolved into vertical market events like #140edu and #Fashion140
Teachers driven by the passion and curiosity of their students (not predetermined curricula). Learning by Doing (not lectures, tests, and quizzes!). The importance of community in learning (students helping teachers improve, teachers supporting each other, peer-to-peer learning - anyone can be a teacher!) Bottom line, we've lost the Participants: Danya Cheskis-Gold (@danyacg) - Hustling, bringing the learning revolution, building community. Community Manager for Skillshare, AJWS Global Circle ...
I started an Innovation Day at my school based on the motivational principles of Daniel Pink's Participants: Josh Stumpenhorst (@stumpteacher) - father, husband, 6th grade SS/LA teacher, tech enthusiast, 2012 IL teacher of the year and aspiring Jedi.
Video games, more so than other forms of technology, is a perfect way to teach students. Games are designed with clear goals, leveling up (rising to the next level of a game when you fully master the current level), the ability to take risks without worry of failure, working in teams and getting rewards. Participants: Jennifer Wagner (@jenwag57) - blog about Teens, Pop Culture, Technology and Education. Author of The Gamer Generation
The implementation and benefits of programs at the college, high school, middle school, and elementary level so that educators and administrators can learn about a new phenomenon sweeping the country and how they can take advantage of it. Participants: Alex Benepe (@Benepe) - Commissioner at the International Quidditch Association
Barriers in the way of the home-school partnership are well documented over decades of research by Epstein, Henderson, Mapp and others. Depending on your school make-up, these barriers include fear, lack of transparency, culture, access, language challenges and mobility. When face to face communications make up the foundation of the home-school partnership, parents, teachers and leaders are able to build relationships while utilizing web 2.0 tools that compliment the teaching and learning happ...
A discussion on how harnessing kid’s love for social technologies and need for instant gratification can improve their performance in school. Participants: Gerard LaFond (@glafond) - Marketer, Gamer, Idea Guy, and occasional Water Polo Player.
Thanks in large part to social media, students' world IS the real world. Young people experience news on the real-time Web, but only sporadically. The key to youth empowerment is knowledge of current events: they can start solving the world's problems right now - but first they need to know what they are. Social media provides a huge opportunity for students to learn, share and connect - to start making a difference. Participants: Holly Epstein Ojalvo (@heoj) - Former @NYTimes & HS teacher. Fo...
The Living Remix Project (TLRP) Created By SpazeCraft One of Soh Nup Edu & its partnership with WorldUP The Living Remix Project is an interactive workshop in Hip-Hop & Electronic Music production & lyric writing. Participants: Aaron Lazansky-Oliva (@spazecraft) - HRSPrincess, DreamYard, NYU's HHE Center. Soh Nup Ink. Purelements. WorldUP. Founder of The Living Remix Project, Invisible Instructions & Hip-Hope4Healing
We are living in an increasingly diverse, complex, and information rich society. Quite possibly, the most diverse society we have ever witnessed. Unfortunately, however, much of our schools’ current curriculums do not reflect this diversity, and instead remain entrenched in certain unidimensional ways of teaching and learning. This talk will present a variety of ideas on how we can diversify our educational systems, with respect to the contents of what we teach, the processes we use to teach i...
Actively engaging, collaborating, brainstorming, creating, reflecting, and ultimately transforming learning together is a hallmark of emerging learning models, not only for our students, but for ourselves. Instructional coaches, principals, assistant principals, department chairs, and teachers all have the potential to create opportunities within our schools and within our on-line learning spaces both to coach and to be coached in order to improve the quality of learning for our students. Part...
