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David Warlick
Tuesday, June 3
8:15 am to 9:30 am
Heritage Ballroom
Our Schools
For decades, education has been an easy institution to define. It consisted
of a set of accepted literacy skills, a definable body of knowledge, and the
pedagogies for teaching those skills to willing students who were
arranged in straight rows. Today, for the first time in decades (generations
of teachers), we are facing the challenge of changing our notions about
teaching and learning to adapt to a rapidly changing world. We are
struggling to rethink what it is to be educated, to reinvent the classroom,
and redefine what it is to be a teacher and a student.
There is much that has changed, and for much of it, we have responded by
attempting to hold it back - to block it. This presentation, by 30+ year
educator, author, and technologist, David Warlick, will explore some of
these changes and challenges and arrange them as a set of converging
conditions that might help us to redefine and retool the 21st century
classroom.
VIEW DAVID WARLICK'S WEB SITE
Chris O’Neal
Wednesday, June 4
3:30 pm to 4:30 pm
Heritage Ballroom
Leading the Digital Learners
How do we tap into the MySpace Mind in the context of standards, testing,
and accountability? What do current employers need from our graduating
students, and what real-world tools exist that are appropriate for
classroom use? This humorous presentation puts a practical spin on
teaching with the tools of the digital generation.
VIEW CHRIS O'NEAL'S WEB SITE
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