Kathy Schrock

She has been involved with technology to support teaching and learning since the early 1990's, and is an Adobe Education Leader Emeritus, a Google Certified Teacher, an Amazon Teacher Innovator, an Alpha Squirrel, a ThingLink Certified Educator, and a Discovery Education Guru. In 1995, Kathy created the award-winning site, Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators, to help teachers easily wade through the many resources on the Web. In 1999, she partnered with Discovery Education and maintained the site until late 2012 when the site was retired. Kathy's current online resources may be found on Kathy Schrock's Guide to Everything!

In addition to teaching online, Kathy writes, speaks, blogs, tweets, and conducts professional development workshops, presentations, and keynotes both nationally and internationally. She is known for her practical presentations dealing with pedagogically-sound practices for the embedding of technology seamlessly into teaching and learning. Kathy's passions are online tools to support classroom instruction, the role of emerging technologies in the classroom, infographics, tablets in the classroom, assessment and rubrics, copyright and intellectual property, and gadgets of any type! You can find her on Twitter (@kathyschrock), Skype (kathyschrock), Google+, and on many other social networks!

Kathy has written hundreds of articles dealing with technology and education and has also authored several books about educational technology topics. In addition, she has received numerous awards for her work, including a People's Choice Webby, both the ISTE and MassCUE Making IT Happen Award, the NCTIES Service Learning Award, has served on the ISTE Board of Directors for two terms, and has worked with the US Department of Education on several educational technology initiatives.

Sunday Speed Geeking at 3:30

Virtual Reality

Come practice taking and viewing VR images and learn more about how to use them in the classroom.

Monday at 10:30 in Celebrity E

Promoting Inventiveness in the Classroom

The ability to brainstorm, to think in different ways, to learn to elaborate, and to produce something original, can be used in all walks of life. Inventiveness provides the bridge between invention and innovation. This session will provide a background to the theory of inventiveness and design thinking and showcase apps and tools that can be used to support this practice. The participants will also participate in some “reverse engineering” brainstorming and model the inventiveness skill set.