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ISTE and Metiri Group bring you direct personalized professional learning to support the ISTE student standards and digital age learning. When ISTE launched the 2016 ISTE Standards for Students they made a strategic shift from technology standards to learning standards. These new standards are organic, from the field, expert informed, human focused, and aspirational. Serving as a foundational resources for learning and teaching in a digital age the standards promote student agency, choice, and deep learning. To achieve any impact these standards necessitate a foundational knowledge base, research-backed instructional and digital learning strategies, and assessment tools that can inform teacher practice. We strategically partnered to provide you with relevant, just in time, professional learning where at least 80% of the course content can't be found anywhere else. These rich materials, real-life examples of digital learning, and practical approaches will help any teacher in any school move the needle for their students as they shift from traditional to transformative practices that empower and engage today's digital learners. Get started...

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Digital Learning Pathways - brought to you by ISTE and the Metiri Group

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ISTE and Metiri Group bring you direct personalized professional learning to support the ISTE student standards and digital age learning. When ISTE launched the 2016 ISTE Standards for Students they made a strategic shift from technology standards to learning standards. These new standards are organic, from the field, expert informed, human focused, and aspirational.

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Amazing opportunity for elementary and middle school teachers!

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Location

This event will be held at:

Natick High School
5 West St, Natick, MA 01760

Registration opens at 8:30 am!

Trainers

Sandy Lemon

Sandy is a grade 6 ELA Teacher at Kennedy Middle School, Natick Public Schools. Master Teacher.

Lorraine Magee

Lorraine is an elementary teacher at the Johnson Elementary School, Natick Public Schools.

Karin Knapik-Cloutier

Karin is an Instructional Technology Teacher at the J.F. Kennedy Middle School, Natick Public Schools.

Sarah Dahlheimer

Sarah is a grade 3 teacher at the Bennett Hemenway Elementary School, Natick Public Schools. She is a Certified BrainPOP Educator, a Google Certified Educator, and a Plickers Ambassador.

Jed Stefanowicz

Jed is a grade 3 teacher at Brown Elementary, Natick Public Schools. He is a Master Teacher, Certified Educator/Ambassador: Google-level1, BrainPOP Educator, Prodigy, Plickers Ambassador, and Makey-Makey

Laura Gardner

Laura is a National Board Certified Teacher in Library Media and is a Teacher Librarian at Dartmouth Middle School in Dartmouth, Massachusetts. Laura was awarded the School Library Journal (SLJ) School Librarian of the Year Co-finalist Award in 2016 and is a 2017 Star Touchcast Ambassador.

Kerry Gallagher

Kerry is a Digital Learning Specialist at St. John's Prep in Danvers, MA. She is also the Director of K-12 Education for ConnectSafely, an internet safety non-profit in Silicon Valley, and an EdSurge Columnist.

Robin Tucceri

Robin is a Technology Integration Specialist for the Norfolk Public Schools.

Laura Beals D'Elia

Laura Beals D'Elia is the school librarian at the Armstrong and Fales Elementary Schools in Westborough, MA. She is a co-organizer of Edcamp Boston, Edcamp MSLA, and the Massachusetts School Library Association's Professional Learning Committee Co-Chair.

Details

Sessions

Trainer: Sandy Lemon

Trainer: Lorraine Magee

Trainer: Karin Knapik-Cloutier

Trainer: Sarah Dahlheimer

Blended Learning in the Content Areas K-5 Classroom

Explore what Blended Teaching and Learning can look like in your environment, and how it can enhance the Deeper Learning Framework. Begin the shift in your classroom from content consumption to content creation!

We will explore products, software, and implementation strategies to enhance instruction, evaluate methods to shift the flow of content, thinking, and classroom roles in your instruction, design methods to innovate your learning space, and create a twitter social media presence.Participants will have time to dive into the following topics for hands-on exploration, discussion and evaluation: Kahoot/Plickers formative assessment models QR codes Intro Coding- code.org Robots for Elementary-Robot mouse, ozobot, sphero Twitter-social media Greenscreen- DoinkScreencasting -Explain Everything Prodigy math game, data analysis. Stop-motion video Instant Replays- student video creation, iMovie Makey-Makey, Makerspaces, Brainpop, anchor slides/presentation. Google Apps for Educators features SAMR model for tech. Integration.

Trainer: Jed Stefanowicz

ABRA-CODE-ABRA! (Gr 3-5)

Unlock the magic of coding and computational thinking in the elementary classroom. Explore hands-on opportunities for integrating computer science capacity and early programming using apps and robots, as well as offline activities fostering problem-solving skills and engineering.

We will:

Review and highlight integration of coding in the elementary classroom.

Explore coding and programming strategies across the curriculum in general education classroom, not in isolation or "tech time."

Evaluate and Explore classroom coding tools and robots including Ozobot, Robot Mouse, OSMO, Makey-Makey.

Engage in offline/unplugged activities and lessons to demonstrate programming and computational thinking for any environment or classroom tech setup.

Evaluate learning environments and instructional practices for implementation of coding and computational thinking immediately.

Access and explore Code.org for device-based programming on provided iPads/Chromebooks.

Engage in cross-curricular dialogue: product/robot review, integration tips- strategies, troubleshooting.

Co-teacher: Sarah Dahlheimer

Make your Classroom a Maker Classroom! (Gr 3-5 )

Join the Maker Movement! Explore ways to incorporate STEM challenges and design-thinking in your learning space to provide practical skill-building and creativity for students. High-Tech or barely-tech, participants will consider designs for space and time to facilitate making, collaborating, learning and sharing. Participants will have time for hands-on exploration and lesson collaboration. Whether it's pipe cleaners or circuit boards, bring the 4C's to life and develop your students' critical thinking skills, self confidence and maker-mindsets.

Trainer: Laura Gardner

Get Interactive! Go Green! Promoting Active Learning with Touchcast

Touchcast is a project based learning tool that addresses Common Core standards, 21st century skills and helps students practice oral presentation skills.

In this session, educators will be introduced to the TouchCast video production app through various examples that were created by teachers and students at Dartmouth Middle School. Then they will follow a step-by-step walk through of the App, including using the teleprompter, vApp (video App) creation, titles, whiteboard, the green screen effect and editing tools.

Session outline:

1. Introduce TouchCast, show examples of teacher and student created TouchCasts (20 minutes)

2. Demonstrate the TouchCast Studio tools. Explain the Touch side and the Cast side, including creating a TouchCast with volunteers (50 minutes)

3. Q & A (10)

4. Discuss how to incorporate TouchCast into the lesson plan, provide some useful tips on how to plan your Touchcast (20 minutes)

5. Explore the TouchCast App together (20 minutes)

Trainer: Kerry Gallagher

Design Personalized Learning with OERs

Working professionals don't use textbooks or take tests daily, and are using and less and less paper to do their work. Why should our children learn in an entirely different environment when preparing for the professional world? Openly licensed educational resources have become more prevalent in school districts in the past year. Learn why and how one classroom teacher cut out textbooks, tests, and paper to transform her students' learning experiences every day.

Participants will:

See classroom examples from the middle and upper elementary levels.

Experience a lesson custom-built with OERs at their own pace.

Explore OERs that fit the content and skills they teach.

Design a lesson to bring to their students in the fall.

Trainer: Robin Tucceri

Trainer: Laura Beals D'Elia

Schedule

9:15-11:15 am Morning Session

Project Based Learning with iPads for the K-7 Classroom (Lemon)

TBA

Intro to Seesaw: Using Digital Portfolios to Transform your K-6 Classroom (Magee)

TBA

Teaching Students to create Infographics for Deeper Learning with Piktochart in the Grades 4-8 Classroom (Knapik-Cloutier)

TBA

Blended Learning in the Content Areas K-5 Classroom (Dalheimer)

TBA

Make your Classroom a Maker Classroom! (Stefanowicz)

TBA

11:30 am-1:00 pm Lunch and Tip Sharing

1:15-3:15 Afternoon Session

ABRA-CODE-ABRA! (Stefanowicz)

TBA

Get Interactive! Go Green! Promoting Active Learning with Touchcast (Gardner)

TBA

Design Personalized Learning with OERs (Gallagher)

TBA

Makerspace Playground (Tucceri)

TBA

Learning to Learn Through Inquiry-Based Research Projects (K-8) (Beals D'Elia)

TBA

Sponsorship Opportunities

We are looking for three (3) sponsors for this one-day event at $750 each. Sponsorships are available on a first come, first serve basis.
Sponsorship includes:

Banquet table for materials

Two complimentary registrations

Recognition before the morning session

Logo on Summer Camp webpage 3 months prior and up to event

2-minute time slot to address the participants during lunch and opportunity to set up device bar.

Expected Demographics
We expect 110 educators (Integration Specialists, Classroom Teachers, Content Coordinators, etc.) for this event.

Please contact Shelley Chamberlain, Executive Director of MassCUE, for more information.

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MassCUE's Summer Camp provides a full day of learning in a relaxed and fun atmosphere. Participants will have a choice of two workshops (one in the morning and one in the afternoon) that are facilitated by expert educators who have successfully integrated technology to extend and enhance student learning.

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The Edith Winthrop Teacher Center of Westchester

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Center for Interactive Learning and Collaboration

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Video conferencing and web-based learning environments for teachers their classes

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interactive video distance learning programs

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Center for Interactive Learning - CILC Professional Development Opportunities

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Find experts for all your professional development needs and become a part of the CILC Professional Learning Community.

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Micro-credentials and badging

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Project Connect | Bringing Educators Together Nationwide

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Project Connect, Bringing Educators Together Nationwide

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Strategies for incorporating media literacy and current events into your classroom presented through webinars and in-person workshops and conferences

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Newsela is an Instructional Content Platform that supercharges reading engagement and learning in every subject.

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Advertises opportunities open throughout the region, although some are reserved for NYCDOE employees

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All Schools - Teachers - New York City Department of Education

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*courses have been approved for in-service hours*

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Students have the opportunity to earn graduate level professional development credit through Brandman University, part of the Chapman University System. Brandman University is a private, nonprofit institution accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC) Senior College and University Commission. www.brandman.edu/exed. Transcript not included. Assignments graded by official Brandman graders.

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The education world-and the edtech community-have plenty of conferences. At EdSurge, we love to attend them, write about them and share upcoming events on our site here.

Last year, we decided to pull together a list of the leading 40 or so convenings for educators and edtech entrepreneurs and executives, and share it with our readers. And this year, we're back to do it again!

A conference calendar for you!

Click here for a hi-res, one-page printout

By the way, here's a FAQ about our illustration. Enjoy!

Your illustration says 2016-2017: When do these events occur?

Most of these events typically take place annually, usually during the same season. On the alphabetical list of conferences, we've given you the relevant dates from now, summer 2016 through next year July 2017.

Green, red, orange, blue: What do these colors mean?

Of course, anyone can attend any conference. However, we've designated the primary audience for these events: Blue events are built around educators, but some of these events involve exhibitor halls. Red events emphasize the business of edtech more than pedagogy. Orange events are more tightly focused around a topic or specific audience, such as libraries or community colleges. And green events are our very own EdSurge Summits, which bring together dozens of companies and hundreds of educators in districts around the country! ( Check it out-they're free for teachers and administrators!)

Your link took me to a conference that already happened or doesn't exist yet. What gives?

Don't worry-we confirmed with conference organizers all dates for future events that weren't yet listed on their site.

Aw, you left out my favorite event!

Sorry about that! Feel free to add a comment on this piece with details about the event you like the best, or shoot us an email at feedback@edsurge.com.

This is all about K-12 conferences... What about higher education conferences?

We put out a calendar for higher education conferences a few months ago-check it out!

Will you update this presentation in the future?

If enough folks find this a handy chart, we'd be happy to do an update. Just let us know!
Do you have a higher-ed version?
Yes - you can find it here!

Click here for a hi-res, one-page printout!

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online courses and face-to-face workshops

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TC / NYSUT collaboration
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Join communities, view webinars, make connections
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edWeb: A professional online community for educators

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materials and webinars offered by Library of Congress
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course hosted and taught through Edmodo

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New York Partners For Technology Innovation

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Summits and Workshops - Future Ready Schools

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2018 NEH Summer Programs in the Humanities for School Teachers and College and University Faculty | National Endowment for the Humanities

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NYSCATE has drawn strength and support from its talented and diverse membership since 1965. With a current membership of over 25,000 members, all regions of the state are represented in our community teachers, administrators, school board members, parents, consultants and the business community.