Learn more about an exciting event this Saturday that will be held all day here at Teachers College (in Cowin)! Mabel, our newest team member plans to attend and blog about the event! If you want to join her please add your +1 for this free conference below… the panelists alone make this a stellar opportunity!
Apps that Close the Gap. Using Technology to Accelerate Achievement in Black and Latino Students while incorporating Common Core Standards into Classroom Instruction.
Featured presenters include: Jaime Casap (Global Education Evangelist, Google); Jessie Woolley-Wilson (President and CEO of Dreambox Learning); Dr. Ryan Baker (Founding President of the International Educational Data Mining Society and Associate Editor of the Journal of Educational Data Mining); Rebecca Garcia and Carl Sednaoui (co- founders of Coderdojo); Dr. Carolyn Rose (Professor at the Language Technologies Institute at Carnegie Mellon University); Serita and Reid Cox (co-founders of iFoster), and many more. Tentative Schedule 8:30am-9:00am Registration and breakfast
9:00am-9:30am Welcoming remarks and conference charge
9:45am-11:00am Virtual Villages: If it takes a village to raise a child, can that village be virtual? This panel will explore technologies and platforms that enable people to create virtual villages for intervention, collaboration, learning, and sharing resources for and with youth. #DigitalVillages #SocialMedia Panelist 1 Dr. Carolyn P. Rose (leading expert in computer mediated collaboration and artificial intelligence) Associate Professor & Associate Editor of the International Journal of Computer Supported Collaborative Learning, Carnegie Mellon University Panelist 2 Serita and Reid Cox Co-founders iFoster (Online resources and community for foster families) Panelist 3 Global Kids (global peer to peer youth mentoring and community) Representative TBD
11:15am-12:30pm Digital Citizenship How do we prepare urban youth to become engaged, ethical, and productive participants in a 21st century, technology driven, hyper connected world. This panel will highlight methods and practices to help youth develop the professional skills and critical awareness needed to be Digital Citizens. #digitalcitizenship #CriticalMedia Panelist 1 Rebecca Garcia Founder, Coder Dojo (Teaching youth how to write computer code)
Panelist 2 iCivics.org(Teaching civics through games) Representative TBD Panelist 3 BrainPop Representative TBD
12:45pm-1:45pm Lunch and Keynote Jaime Casap, Global Education Evangelist, Google
2:00pm-3:15pm Future Technologies, Today – The future has arrived. This panel will highlight breakthrough technologies and practices that enable students to be active agents in their own learning while offering individualized support to students, teachers, and parents. Come and hear how you can put these future technologies to use in your classroom, today. #Pedagogy #21stCenturyLearning #BorneDigital Panelist 1 Dr. Ryan Baker (Leading expert in educational data mining) Associate Professor & Sachs Distinguished Lecturer Teachers College, Columbia University
Panelist 2 Jessie Woolley-Wilson President & CEO DreamBox Learning (Adaptive Math Instruction)