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Participants will explore game-on-get-after-it strategies designed to grow and expand creative capacity by moving through multiple creative stations, stage and poster sessions, where they can learn, share, and create to jumpstart their teaching and learning.
Any and all of these activities can be used in no-tech or low-tech environments, using devices or paper. Session leaders will discuss ways to adapt activities for specific learning environments and situations.
STEVIE FRANK
Pass the Mic: Student-driven podcasts
Get ready to learn how to take your classroom to the next level with student-driven podcasts! In my session, I'll explain how you can implement this students driven project into your classroom with a comprehensive, systematic approach following the writer's workshop model. I'll give you tips and tricks on how you can start podcasting in your classroom when you return to school. I'll also share websites, graphic organizers, and platforms that can be used in the classroom, all while aligning with state and ISTE standards. You'll leave with resources, empowerment, and a relationship with me to provide ongoing encouragement. Let's revolutionize the classroom together!
MANUEL HERRERA
This Talk is a Little Sketchy
Pen. Pencil. Stick. Finger. Chalk. All drawing tools. Everyone has access to these.
They are incredibly powerful tools. You can draw a business plan on the back of napkin. Maybe capture a story or someone’s epic journey on a note card. You can even sketch an idea that you're wanting to share with a student or colleague.
Yet many of us likely have this fear of judgement because you don’t believe you can draw or because you think you are not an artist.
But Why is that?
Join me and let’s tap into your childhood joy & vulnerability and build some confidence in sketching then explore how it can be applied to your work.
MATT WINTERS
Photography Across the Content Areas
Photography is an amazing gateway for students to express their ideas on a variety of topics both in the photo and in the process. In this playground session, come learn how to make a cinemagraph and gifs using Adobe Creative Cloud. We will also explore content area possibilities for using photography, particularly cinemagraphs and gifs, as choice-based projects.
JED STEFANOWICZ
Take AIM at Digital Learning: Activate, Innovate, Motivate
Now more than ever, it’s time to focus forward and Take AIM at Digital Learning. Discover classroom-tested strategies to ACTIVATE content, INNOVATE instruction, and MOTIVATE learners. Find reflective prompts and next-day takeaways to push thinking around the integration and application of edtech to inspire moments that are meaningful, memorable, and measurable. Remix content, reshape spaces, and create computational thinking and coding challenges to engage all learners. Rethink the way things have always been done in order to redesign what kids are doing and reimagine how learning looks in your classroom.
DAN RYDER AND JACQUIE GARDY
Critical Creativity in Action
Participants will try out a new Open Education Resource material: Critical Creativity in Action card deck. Critical Creativity in Action features 49+ literacy activities that combine creative expression with critical thinking skills to deep student learning and understanding. Participants at this station will engage with the gamification aspect of Critical Creativity in Action and then practice one or more of the activities from their curated playlists.
ERIKA SANDSTORM
The Joy is REEL
Join me for a guaranteed good time learning not only some easy media ideas for your students, but also some FUN classroom (Green Screen projects)! In this session we will explore how to incorporate creative REELS into ANY curriculum as well as creating interactive GRIDS for innovative deep learning about important subjects including SEL and Climate Change! Most importantly, we will have a ton of FUN creating some together!
TANIA GONZALEZ
Creativity as a Superpower
Make learning magical in your classroom, and have fun creating yourself, with these creative challenges that you can take and do with your students. In this hands on session, we will share how you can implement Adobe Express and their quick easy to use pre created templates as a way to enhance learning, increase engagement and foster creativity with the learners in your classroom.
TORI CAMERON
STEAMing up Literacy
STEAMing Up Literacy will focus on ways to increase student engagement by connecting hands-on project-based and inquiry-based STEAM learning experiences (high tech & low tech) with a unique collection of picture books that promote Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI) & Social Emotional Learning (SEL). Participants will have the opportunity to engage in learning materials/activities and will explore a large library of picture books. Participants will also be provided activity ideas and information to bring home to their classrooms.
JED STEFANOWICZ
Beyond the Bulletin Board: Reimagine Student Publishing
It's time to power-up publishing past printing and share student-creativity beyond the bulletin board! Capture student creativity and curate visible thinking through slides, sites, podcasts, video content, and digital storytelling. Redesign instructional objectives and outcomes to promote every student’s voice. Build beyond the bulletin board to capture and model process, showcase and archive products, share and spotlight performance, explain and demonstrate practices. Reframe student-publishing from project-completion to a showcase of student-learning, centered in equity and opportunity where every student’s voice matters and is heard through interactive print, video, podcast, and intentional edtech content-creation tools.
TARYN LANG
Reigniting Teaching Practices
Are you looking to reimagine your classroom where students are engaged and excited about their learning? Stop by to refresh and/or learn more on how design thinking strategies can be implemented to your curriculum. Learn innovative techniques using project examples that can be applicable to your classroom upon your return to your district. There will be mini design challenges where you can think on your feet and have something to add to your teacher toolbox for “Monday”. Let’s reimagine how we can approach education in 2023 onward!
KATE BAKER
SCAMPERing into Human-Centered Design
Let’s explore human-centered design and design-thinking methodologies, like empathy mapping, user-journeys, and SCAMPER, to revolutionize teaching and learning. We'll examine the value of how an iterative process that prioritizes understanding students, challenging assumptions, and redefining problems can lead to joyful outcomes in the classroom and beyond. We will discuss how to craft both high and low tech educational experiences that rekindle the joy in teaching and learning, fostering an environment where students and teachers thrive.
HEATHER BRANTLEY
The Magic of AI in the Classroom
This session is designed to explore how Artificial Intelligence (AI) can be used to support the learning needs of all students. The session discusses how the integration of AI will enhance the learning experiences for students. Specifically, it covers how these technologies can be used to personalize learning, create interactive and immersive environments, and provide unique learning opportunities. Throughout the presentation, the audience will have the opportunity to try the tools such as CANVA, CURIPOD, and CLASSMAGIC to see how easily they can be incorporated into the classroom.
CLAUDIO ZAVALA
Telling Your Story with Adobe Express
Participants will learn how to quickly and easily make standout content from beautiful templates using Adobe Express. They will learn how to design stunning graphics and video stories that help tell their story in just a few taps. Using their devices, attendees will learn how to capture content (video, images, audio) and add them into a variety of premade templates in Adobe Express. This activity encourages creative expression, promotes media creation and introduces design principles.
KIM ZAJAC
Here We Grow: Empowering All Learners With Creativity
This playground session invites you to step in and reveal a variety of ways we can provide learners access and opportunity to discover, listen to and exercise their creative cores. We will unpack resources, structures and strategies ranging from analog to digital, practical to moonshot, that honor ideas and channels of expression reflective of students' authentic selves. Shared experiences of student choice and voice will demonstrate how space can be held for the birthing of creativity which gives way to empowered versions of future selves.
ELA BEN-UR
Unstick! 5 Questions to Unleash—Not Teach—Everyday Design Thinking
Innovators’ Compass (innovatorscompass.org, icompass.me) is 5 questions in many all-free printable, digital and online formats that make our best ways of getting unstuck (design thinking and other practices) accessible for every person and moment.
See it in action from preschools to public, private, and prison schools unleashing students to navigate their own STEM and ELA projects, personal and social problems. And, enabling educators to productively work with each other, students, and families to create better learning experiences.
Try it out on a problem you’re facing or project you’re planning.
Leave with a Pocket Compass Card and an Unstick-er!
DANIELLE MORSE
School Picture Day Reimagined
At Community Regional Charter School, our learners and facilitator's have transformed school pictures from a calendar item to an opportunity. Learn how to take exceptional school portraits, touch them up with professionalism in Adobe Photoshop, guide young photographers in the studio, and offer affordable school pictures for all families within your community.
FELY GARCIA LOPEZ & OMAR LOPEZ
Empowering English Learners Through Creativity
Join us for an interactive session focused on exploring the relationship between creative expression and language learning. Through engaging activities and exercises, participants will delve into various forms of creative expression, including sketchnoting, drawing, and storytelling. We will also discuss ways to leverage these activities to improve language skills for learners of all ages and proficiency levels. Through an exchange of thoughts, participants will leave with innovative ideas and practical strategies to enhance language learning through creative expression. Whether you're an educator, a language learner, or simply curious about the intersection of creativity and language, this session is for you.
SHERYL PLACE
From Boredom to Brilliance: Engaging Students, Reducing Stress, and Unlocking Classroom Potential
At this station, you’ll explore strategies for streamlining non-teaching tasks, like grading, to reduce educator stress while boosting student engagement. Come and discover creative approaches for simplifying feedback and creating captivating content, while allowing more time for self-care. Learn how to leverage technology to automate grading, freeing up time for in-class activities and increased student interaction. Learn how to create interactive games using practical time-optimizing strategies, enhancing students' learning experiences, and lowering stress levels. Leave with new insights and practical tips to elevate your teaching and enjoy the process!
DIANE HOVARTH
Empower Middle School Students with The Creative Power of Makerspaces
Middle school is made for making and offers a wide range of opportunities for students to build, remix, repurpose and reiterate their ideas. Our projects in the BlakerMakerspace begin by using everyday materials & crafts while integrating ways to take it to the next level 🔥with the micro:bit, basic circuits, and designing with the Cricut & GlowForge machines. Easy entry points will be shared in consideration of learning needs, comfort level of teachers and accessible resources to get started. You will be inspired with how students' agency and engagement develop their self- expression & creativity in a showcase of some of their projects.
ANDREW MARCINEK
Teaching Digital Kindness- Awareness & Accountability In An Online World
Digital tools have a clear educational purpose, but how do we help students with the darker corners of the web? This session will open doors to much-needed discussion & sharing of best practices for teaching students to handle the challenges that pervade social media including but not limited to issues such as navigating relationships; understanding digital ethics and norms; balancing screen time; reclaiming conversation; holding selves accountable; creating a new digital mindset; and more. Strategies and practical models such as Pause & Reflects, Teachable Moments, classroom activities and lesson plans will be shared for implementation of ideas across content and grade levels.
VICTORIA ALEXANDER and STACEY SCOTT
3D Printing and Mythology
Connecting a literacy mythology report and technological innovation. Using 3D printing, laser printing, and hyper-linking to create an innovative literacy and social studies project.
AMY DELAIR & JANICE WINTERMYER
From Consumers to Creators: Empowering Students to Embrace Creativity in the Classroom
Empower students by shifting the traditional student-teacher dynamic from one of consumption to one of creation. Using Canva for Education along with other edtech tools, students can take ownership of their learning and become active participants in the classroom. We will share the benefits of promoting creativity, student choice, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills, as well as the importance of fostering a growth mindset and a culture of collaboration.
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