Rebecca Ekstrom - Algonquin Middle School

Nearpod is a free tool to help take your PowerPoints or Google Slides to the next level and make them interactive. Students can take polls, draw, answer questions, view videos, take quizzes, (and get instant grades), and much more! This session will introduce participants to nearpod, its main features and how to make a nearpod presentation. Your students will enjoy interacting with your nearpod, can learn asynchronously and will be able to have your content right in front of them.

Conference Strand: How to/Integration

Target Audience: Grades K-12

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Carol LaRow - Carol LaRow - Educational Technology Consulting and SUNY Albany, School of Education

Publishing student projects gives them an authentic audience to showcase their work. Instead of just submitting projects or essays to their teachers, student work can be published for a global audience. As students demonstrate what they have learned with culminating activities or written reports, teachers can publish their work for others to see. It encourages students to submit better projects - research, revise, fact check, edit, collaborate. It also allows for addressing a different skill - writing for different audiences. If students are engaged in project-based learning, they most likely are already creating digital projects that can easily be uploaded to the WEB. Having a class website is a great place to start. Projects can be videos, slide presentations, Docs, Google Maps, Google Earth, digital books, etc. All these examples can be uploaded on the WEB or a teacher's class website. In addition, teachers can also publish lessons they have created for their students to access digitally. Lessons, including lesson materials, can be posted for other educators to replicate. This presentation will focus on real students' projects that have been published on teachers' websites. The presenter will also share free resources for publishing student work, websites for hosting web pages, software for creating websites/projects, and how-to's for writing citations. A number of examples will showcase Google tools and Google Sites.

Conference Strand: How to/Integration

Target Audience: Grades K-12, Post-Secondary, pre-service teachers, tech integrators, homeschoolers

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Liz Gallo - WhyMaker

Students are struggling when they get into the real world because they are leaving school without skills they will need in their professional lives. In this presentation, we will discuss the benefits of incorporating design thinking into every curriculum and subject, giving kids the skills they need to find creative solutions to complex problems and take on real-world challenges.

Conference Strand: Instructional Design

Target Audience: Grades K-12, Post-Secondary

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Tim Schmidt - Google/Fitbit

With the recent decline in physical education classes throughout the US, and the enhanced screen time of being at home, activity of children has dropped. There is a far greater consequence than solely poor physical health. Movement is needed to enhance creativity and memory, and to regulate emotions as well. Growing evidence exists for a strong connection.

Conference Strand: Open Educational Resources (OER)

Target Audience: Grades K-12

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Sarah Olbrantz  - Wells College

Technology has changed the way young citizens can participate in larger dialogues about issues that concern them. What does it mean to advocate for a cause? How do youth use technology to organize for change? How can we help to prepare students to take action? We will brainstorm topics your students might want to explore with the theme of "Using Technology to Implement Change" and workshop an exemplar podcast as an example of advocating for change with technology. We will also review the requirements for the New York Times Annual Student Podcast Contest as an optional final project for your students next year.

Conference Strand: Leadership and Advocacy

Target Audience: Grades K-12, Post-Secondary

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