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All presentations are customizable to meet the needs of participating educators and can be redesigned as workshops, or extended with on-going coaching, monitoring, and/or consulting.

 

Digital Textbooks: Myths and Realitites

What do we know about how districts, schools, and teachers are making the transition?  What are the benefits and challenges of converting to digital textbooks? Learn how schools around the country and around SC are answering these tough quesions and implementing digital textbooks into their classrooms.

Learners First Technology Second

We have become as Seymour Papert says “technocentric” Instruction focused more on the technologies being used than on the students who are trying to use them to learn. The design of the learning experience is more focused on the technologies than what is appropriate for students to learn. How do we integrate technology based on content, pedagogy, and planning? In this presentation, educators learn how to choose the best technology tool based on the learning activiity.

Teaching Digital Learners: Creating Cognitive Shift
It is not enough to experience new learning, we must also process that new learning using reflection if we are to change teaching behavior.  This presentation engages the audience in learning why it is important to transform the way we teach and learn for today's students using reflection strategies. 
Teaching Digital Learners Creating Cognitive Shift
Ipads in Education
The iPad supports teaching skills and new kinds of literacies to prepare our students for their future and gives us instant access to information and media to support and supplement teaching in the classroom. Learn how The iPad supports differentiated learning and takes advantage of the personalization opportunities for individual students to enable their unique learning needs.
Learn how students become curators of information, their own radio show hosts, documentary creators, tutorial designers, storytellers, and creators of their own books.

Digital Storytelling
Storytelling- An ancient form of teaching and learning. Digital storytelling combines audio, image and video tools that harness students’ and teachers’ voices to tell,  present and distribute their stories in a whole new way. Teachers will learn how to integrate digital storytelling into instruction by using tools such as Voice Thread, MovieMaker, Wordle, Animoto, Google Maps and Photostory. Digital Storytelling combines technology with communication, language arts, and media literacy skills by encouraging students to create new ways of communicating a story, different from the traditional paper and pencil linear narrative.

Effective Lesson Plan Design
How can teachers design lesson plans based on effective research on how students learn? This presentation is an overview of how knowing the the scienctific basis of teaching and learning and implementing specific strategies on a consistent basis can improve learning in the classroom.

Checking for Understanding: Strategies for Improved Student Learning & Motivation
Checking for understanding is a fundamental formative assessment strategy that can greatly improve student learning. Educators will learn about research on why checking for understanding during every lesson is important and specific strategies to use daily in their teaching to improve student engagement, motivation, and learning.

Building a Personal Learning Network (PLN)The concept of a PLN  has been around for many years. What has changed in recent years though is the reach, the size and the availability of that network.
 From colleagues in the building you work in, a cherished personal mentor, professional development opportunities offered sporadically throughout the year, conferences and college credit classes taken for re-certification to blogs, RSS feeds, Twitter, Nings, and Skype among others.  Learn how to be in charge of your own Professional Development, connect to learning opportunities around the world, and about  tools that enable you make this 21st century Learning Network possible.

Using Probeware in the Elementary Classroom

This presentation features an introduction to probeware, research, and hands on activities using Vernier temperature, light, and motion probes.
Using Probeware in the Elementary Classroom 

Introduction to Web 2.0 for Teachers

Educators will learn about various technology tools that enable students to collaborate, create, and produce evidence of learning.
Introduction to Web 2.0 for Teachers