DLL Moonshot Day | MaRS - Joseph Romano, OCT & Brandon Zoras, OCT by Joseph Romano https://padlet.com/JosephRomano/MaRS Joseph Romano is pleased to present on MaRS Discovery District during our DLL Moonshot Day. At MaRS, Joseph works as a Volunteer Educational Technology Advisor in support of Education-related startup companies, innovators and programs. During this session, DLL Members will learn how Joseph supports these stakeholders by consulting on relevant Educational practices and how their connected Teacher network supports classroom innovation, impacting Teaching and Learning. Further, Joseph & Brandon will share information on their upcoming October 2014 #EdAppHack event. In partnership with MaRS, Students will be partnered with Teachers and App Developers to create an App that supports identified learning needs. en-us 2014-05-21 19:17:03 UTC 2023-02-27 18:36:45 UTC hello@padlet.com JosephRomano https://padlet.com/JosephRomano/MaRS/wish/28539151 2014-05-21 23:07:49 UTC https://padlet.com/JosephRomano/MaRS/wish/28539151 1. What is MaRS Discovery District? JosephRomano https://padlet.com/JosephRomano/MaRS/wish/28540370 Since opening in 2005, MaRS has built on a rich legacy to create one of world’s largest innovation hubs, a 1.5-million-square-foot complex located in the heart of Canada’s largest research cluster in downtown Toronto. MaRS works with an extensive network of private and public sector partners to help entrepreneurs launch and grow the innovative companies that are building our future — startup ventures with broad economic and societal impact.

As an independent registered charity, MaRS is situated at the intersection of the corporate, small business, government, academic and research sectors. As such, MaRS is able to convene partners from each of these sectors, and foster the collaboration and convergence of ideas that truly drive innovation. MaRS concentrates on the areas of work & learning, health and energy because they feel that our future will be defined by where we work, how our children learn, our ability to access quality healthcare, and how we power our homes and cities. 


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]]> 2014-05-21 23:41:49 UTC https://padlet.com/JosephRomano/MaRS/wish/28540675 2. What was the purpose or goal? What were you hoping to do or achieve? & 3. What did you do specifically with staff or students? JosephRomano https://padlet.com/JosephRomano/MaRS/wish/28540876 In connecting with MaRS Discovery District's Education Cluster, my goal was to infuse the learning spaces I facilitate in the TDSB the vision focused on our future and its dependence on innovation. My goal in this was to look towards external stakeholders who could provide transformative approaches (products and services offered by those StartUp companies I advise) to Teaching and Learning and utilize what I could on a day-to-day basis to service the Students and Teachers I work with.

Specifically impacting Students and Staff, I worked with the following StartUps in an advisory role and utilized their product/service in our school setting:

  1. Planboard (https://www.planboardapp.com)
  2. Crowdmark (https://crowdmark.com)
  3. Prodigy Math Game (https://www.prodigygame.com/Canada/)
  4. WorldVuze (https://www.worldvuze.com)
  5. Sesame (https://sesamehq.com/welcome)

Learn more by reading my Blog Post on implementing Crowdmark at my school:
http://classpace.wordpress.com/2013/06/04/crowdmark-completes-successful-eqao-demonstration/
]]> 2014-05-21 23:45:24 UTC https://padlet.com/JosephRomano/MaRS/wish/28540876 #EdAppHack JosephRomano https://padlet.com/JosephRomano/MaRS/wish/28541867 The #EdAppHack is a 2-day (October 25 and 26, 2014) experiential and inquiry-based learning opportunity that unites Students, Teachers and App Developers through the theme of STEM. Based on the Hackathon Model, the goal of the weekend event is to empower Student Voice in the creation of apps that support learning needs identified by Student participants. Teachers and App Developers will support each other and collaborate in teams with Students as they imagine, prototype and pitch their app ideas!

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