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Celebrating Students’ Successes in Design & Tech |
Participate and share : Poster
Elizabeth LaPage Dave Zimmerman KIRSTAN OSBORNE
We'll show how we overhauled the technology and design program at our all-girls independent school, with the goal of having students believe they could succeed in male-dominated fields. Learn how the girls showcased and celebrated their skills through our first challenge-based technology symposium.
| Audience: | Principals/head teachers, Teachers, Technology coordinators/facilitators |
| Skill level: | Beginner |
| Attendee devices: | Devices not needed |
| Participant accounts, software and other materials: | None necessary |
| Topic: | Project-, problem- & challenge-based learning |
| Grade level: | PK-12 |
| Subject area: | STEM/STEAM, Computer science |
| ISTE Standards: | For Educators: Facilitator
Innovative Designer
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| Related exhibitors: | Sphero, TechTerra Education |
The overall goal is to leave with a plan of how you might showcase and celebrate your students’ tech and design skills through a technology symposium.
We will share how to:
*Work with your space to create an engaging flow & atmosphere
*Enlist student volunteers to help with scheduling and movement
*Select the tools to use within various challenges
*Set up challenges
*Prepare students for the challenges
*Use pre-prepared video to show process
*Curate an invitation list!
Footage from our event will be used to demonstrate.
Our programming draws a lot of inspiration from the work of Michael Cohen, the Tech Rabbi. The skills we are highlighting all revolve around the empathic design cycle.
https://www.thetechrabbi.com/
This will be Elizabeth's 11th year teaching and she has spent that time helping students realize that scrawling code in the margins of their page is their own form of doodling. She loves having the ability to show off the different areas of technology and computer science to her students, from cybersecurity and robotics competitions to eSports tournaments. Currently, Elizabeth's greatest joy is seeing the young people she teaches at Balmoral Hall exclaim in excitement when they have finally gotten their program to do exactly what it is they want it to do.
Dave has been involved in education for the last 38 years starting in zoo education and now as a design coach\teacher incorporating the curriculum into fun projects that follow the design cycle for students from Kindergarten to grade 10. Through his time as an educator, Dave feels that students learn best when they are able to be involved in hands-on learning.
Kirstan is Middle School Technology & Design teacher, Junior School Technology Integration Coach, and Grade 9 Venture Development Coach at Balmoral Hall School in Winnipeg, Manitoba. She enjoys teaching in the all-girls environment at the school, and watching the students have fun while learning with technology. She LOVES learning new things and trying them out with the students in the classroom.
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