Breakout Session Descriptions

There are so many different tools and apps for students to express and showcase their learning. In this rapid-fire session, we’ll look at 21 different strategies that teachers can use to expand the student voice and choice in the classroom.

Theme:

• Innovation
• Tech Integration
• AR/VR

Audience:

• All Educators

Presenter:

• Carl Hooker

Agency is more than just a buzzword. Everybody on this planet deserves voice, choice, and ownership in their lives; our students are no different. As institutions move away from instructionist and compliance cultures, it drives our learners towards empowerment and self-efficacy in their learning.

In this workshop, participants will be provided with provocations, theoretical knowledge and examples of how to inspire their most important stakeholders to be in the driver’s seat of their learning. In addition, participants will leave with plenty of examples of how to promote cultures of thinking, doing, failing, risk-taking and more as takeaways for their context.

Themes:

• Learner agency
• Learner empowerment
• Self-regulated learning
• Futuristic thinking
• Risk-taking
• Innovation
• Metacognition

Audience:

• Leadership
• All Primary Educators

Presenters:

• Cindy Kaardal
• Justin Ouellette

Engage your students in storytelling, media literacy and visual arts through an animation project that will rock your world! You and your students will be wowed at how easy it is to turn simple materials into a feature animation with dialogue, set and all!

This session will require an iPad and the Stop Motion App.

Audience:

• All Educators

Presenter:

• Sandra Chow

Learn all about how simple sketches and icons can transform notes and conceptual thinking. You don’t need to be able to draw well, but what you do need are courage and enthusiasm!

Try out some apps and put dual coding theory into practice to transform learning and improve memory back in your classroom. By doing so, you will learn how learners can connect, visualise and recall their learning for greater long term memory using visual note-taking methods. Moving from paper to iPad, dual coding allows the brain to learn more efficiently through both visual and written methods, vital for longterm memory and recall.

Participants will learn the basics of visual note-taking (sketchnotes) and its application for retrieval and revision of classroom concepts and understandings.

Please bring an iPad with your favourite drawing or note-taking app (eg. Notability, Concepts, Paper 53, Adobe Draw, Procreate, Noteshelf or Tayasui Sketches).

Theme:

• The Arts
• Creativity
• Everyone Can Create
• Technology

Audience:

• Upper Primary
• All Secondary Educators

Presenter:

• Nicki Hambleton

If you are interested in becoming an Apple Distinguished Educator (ADE), come to this session where you can learn what it means to be a trusted advisor, an authentic author, a passionate advocate, and a global ambassador. Hear stories from ADEs in regards to what it means to them by being part of this group of global innovators, and why they truly believe that #everyonecancreate.

Bring your questions. Bring your stories. Bring your passion for teaching and learning.

Theme:

• Futuristic Thinking
• Failure
• Fear
• Risk-taking

Audience:

• All Educators

Presenters:

• Ed Chang
• Dr. Kelly Grogan

Creative Clips - Ignite Inquiry and Visualize Learning

Attendees will learn how inquiry can be stimulated and learning improved by challenging students to present their understanding through annotated and narrated animations.

In this workshop, attendees will utilize the power of Stop Motion and Clips Apps to create and annotate animations as a demonstration of learning. Exemplar work will illustrate the power of these in inquiry, comprehension and assessment. Attendees will leave with will inspiration to implement immediately with their own students in their own subjects.

Theme:

• Futuristic Thinking
• Failure
• Creativity
• Student Agency
• Risk-taking

Audience:

• All Educators

Presenter:

• Stephanie Castle

Given the skyrocketing popularity of learning devices in primary classrooms, language teachers seek to redevelop the lessons with a perfect balance between linguistic knowledge and fun of learning. In this workshop, you will explore ways for teachers and students to begin to integrate target language items with technology and, more significantly, creativity in everyday classroom using Everyone Can Create project tools.

Theme:

• Creativity
• Student Agency
• Risk-taking

Audience:

• All Language Teachers

Presenter:

• Keric Lee

Traditionally, students transfer Chinese writing from one paper draft to another. To really engage and connect with our writers, I found that interactive writing more effective in raising student interest and seeing themselves as Chinese authors. Come see and experience the fun in learning Chinese!

Please have Keynote, Clips, and Pages on your iPad. This can be adapted to any age group.

Theme:

• Chinese
• Risk-taking

Audience:

• Early Years Educators
• Primary Chinese Teachers
• Secondary Chinese Teachers

Presenter:

• Pan Pan Kuo

Students often write stories and publish those stories by rewriting or typing without adding in the creativity while creating these stories.

In this workshop, you will see how I tried to use different features of Keynote with my students to tell a choose your adventure story.

Please have Keynote installed on your iPad. Apple Pencil is optional.

Theme:

• Risk-taking
• Student Agency
• Creativity

Audience:

• All Educators

Presenter:

• Jennifer Hsieh

Every school has a digital story. Go beyond the tra-digital of using apps, gadgets, digital tools and design spaces and dive deeply into your practice to transform pedagogical practices in the digital age. Use the ISTE framework to move technology integration from niche innovation to mainstream practice. Explore the ISTE Educator and Student Standards and the adopted ISTE instructional frameworks to learn how to leverage and demystify the ISTE framework. This session supports practitioners in moving instructional technology systems from vision to practice. In this session, participants will dive into the ISTE Standards to:

• Grow your practice as an empowered professional and learning catalyst
• Develop a lens from which to promote reflective practice
• Inform the pathway forward through the intersection of pedagogy, curriculum and technology

Audience:

• All educators

Presenter:

• Dr. Kelly Grogan

In this workshop, you will gain a creative problem-solving toolkit called design thinking (DT) that equips you with the skills, strategies and mindsets to develop innovative solutions to complex problems in your school. Experience and apply this methodology in a design challenge that will require you to discover insights through empathy work, generate and explore radical ideas for possible prototypes.

Additionally, learn how to equip your own students with a toolkit helping them navigate through real world learning experiences and develop creative solutions to authentic, meaningful projects. Design thinking is an iterative, human-centered design method that is the ideal tool for students who learn in project-based learning, STEM, and inquiry-based learning projects. Last, learn how to design units of inquiry where students use the design thinking method to answer meaningful questions and solve complex problems.

Equip yourself and your students with the tools to become agents of change who have the courage and confidence to take action and bring positive change to people’s lives.

Theme:

• Creativity

Audience:

• All Educators

Presenter:

• David Lee

In this workshop you will learn about various digital media tools you can share with your students to empower them to become digital storytellers. Activities will include how to use Clips, iMovie, and Keynote to add engaging visual effects to your productions, such as SUPER POWERS, interesting text effects and others. This workshop will have multiple activities to choose from to suit various skill levels. Please bring an iPad with the latest versions of Keynote, Clips and iMovie installed to make the most of this workshop.

Theme:

• Futuristic Thinking
• Failure
• Creativity
• Student Agency
• Risk-taking

Audience:

• All Educators

Presenter:

• Levent Edrogan

This highly entertaining and interactive session puts attendees on the spot as they quickly create ideas for integrating technology into randomly selected subject areas and grade levels. The goals for this session is to open up thinking and finding creative ways to use common technology tools and apps to help students demonstrate their learning. In the ultimate form of risk vs. reward, random audience members will be selected to present their ideas. The one with the “least best” will be chosen to lip sync a random song for all to enjoy. Come prepared to learn, laugh and lip sync!

Theme:

• Collaboration
• Creativity
• Mobile Learning

Audience:

• All Educators

Presenter:

• Carl Hooker

eduPermaculture is an education design approach that centers around simulating experiences and directly utilizing the behaviors, strategies, practices, and systems found in successful, real world learning environments and integrating them into school learning experiences.

With eduPermaculture, every educator is a designer; a designer of learning experiences where students go on an engaging learning journey that lead them to do something that they thought was not possible of themselves. Ultimately they build the foundation for their growth mindset, giving them the confidence and courage to tackle new problems and challenges.

In this workshop, learn how to use eduPermaculture to consciously develop learning environments that simulate or directly use the behaviors, strategies, practices, and systems found in successful learning environments. Also learn how this future-thinking approach can be used to design, implement, sustain, and continuously improve innovative initiatives and programs that transform educational experiences.

Theme:

• Futuristic Thinking

Audience:

• All Educators

Presenter:

• David Lee

The workshop aims to provide participants with hands-on experiences in playing with iPads in an orchestral setting - e-Orch. Activities include how to establish e-Orch in school, how to engage students in creative performance and group composition.

Participants are required to bring their iPad with GarageBand

Theme:

• Creativity
• Mobile Learning
• Technology

Audience:

• Primary Teachers (general)
• Primary Innovation / Tech Coaches
• Secondary Arts Teachers
• Secondary Innovation / Tech Coaches
• Primary & Secondary Music Teachers

Presenter:

• Dr. Chi Hin Leung

Risk-taking and celebrating failure can be great ways to stimulate creativity in the classroom. During this very interactive session, we'll go through a series of improv activities designed to help students activate the creative side of their brain. Come prepared to move, think, and leave your inhibitions at the door.

Theme:

• Risk-taking
• Creativity
• Improv

Audience:

• All Educators

Presenter:

• Carl Hooker

Participants will learn how to conduct a flipped classroom in a mathematics lesson. Find out the advantages of using this method of teaching and learning. If you're not a math teacher, it's okay! Adapt it to your own class.

Theme:

• Create

Audience:

• Math Teachers
• Upper Primary
• All Secondary Educators
• Innovation and Tech Coaches

Presenter:

• Kwok-Ho Leung

Everyone Can Create! This workshop aims to demonstrate how to use Apple Tools for Literacy to foster creativity in language lessons. We will try to use the key questioning skill to arouse students' curiosity and encourage students to interpret the literature in a multimedia way. We want to explore how to design a lesson to achieve 'deep learning'.

1 session conducted in Mandarin and 1 session conducted in Cantonese

Theme:

• Failure
• Creativity
• Student Agency
• Risk-taking

Audience:

• All Educators

Presenter:

• Betty Cheng

Take your presentations from “meh” to “magnificent” by learning some graphic design secrets in Keynote. If you want to engage students with high quality presentations that will help information be understood more clearly and retained for longer, then this workshop is for you! Learn some tips and tricks for working with Keynote and creating presentations that stand out from the crowd.

Outcomes:

• Dig into the features of Keynote
• Learn some rules for making great presentations

Bring an iPad or Laptop with Keynote

Theme:

• Creativity
• Student Agency
• Technology

Audience:

• All Educators

Presenter:

• Keri-Lee Beasley

This workshop aims to focus on integrating Apple tools such as Keynote, Pages and Numbers to create meaningful learning journals. We aim to provide practical tools that can be applied to a wide variety of subjects and age groups. This session is for beginners, and please bring an iPad/MacBook to the presentation so that you can begin creating templates for your students.

Theme:

• Futuristic Thinking
• Creativity
• Student Agency

Audience:

• All Educators

Presenters:

• Aidan Quinn
• Kim Blackhurst

As educators, we’re trained to evaluate where students are at, and guide them along a developmental path of success. However, we’re not always good at self-reflection and setting personal goals for ourselves that stretch us to the next level. We often sell ourselves short, or over-extend ourselves in ways that leave us scarred and broken.

In this session, we will look at various tools that help us to self-evaluate as leaders, and introduce ideas to stretch our thinking, lead boldly, while being purposeful in maintaining a healthy mindset. Come prepared to share and reflect.

Theme:

• Futuristic Thinking
• Failure
• Creativity
• Student Agency
• Risk-taking

Audience:

• All Educators
• Leadership

Presenter:

• Sandra Chow

During this session we will look at creating Augmented Reality content using AR Makr, supported by Keynote. We will discuss meaningful ways to integrate this into your classroom and come up with some ideas you can look to get started with immediately on your return to your schools!

Theme:

• Futuristic Thinking
• Failure
• Creativity
• Student Agency
• Risk-taking

Audience:

• All Educators

Presenter:

• Tim Evans

Our students’ personal data is regularly being tracked by websites, organizations and schools - often without our knowledge. Join Keri-Lee in an attempt to reclaim this data!

Learn how collecting our personal data, visualizing, and sharing our findings can help raise awareness of trends, connect to others and make more informed life choices, both for our students and for ourselves.

Outcomes:

• Collect and visualize some of our personal data
• Explore a Case Study: Data in G5 at SAS
• Identify resources for data collection & visualization
• Plan for data collection & visualization (personally or for your class)

Please bring an iPad (ideally with Apple Pencil), but not essential.

Laptop optional

Keynote recommended

Procreate or other drawing app recommended, but not essential.

Theme:

• Student Agency
• Technology

Audience:

• Leadership
• Early Years Educators
• Primary Teachers (general)
• Primary Counselors
• Primary Innovation / Tech Coaches
• Primary Student Support
• Secondary Teachers (general) - Middle to early High School
• Secondary Innovation / Tech Coaches

Presenter:

• Keri-Lee Beasley

Strengthen your well-being practices by bringing mindfulness and technology together in Lower Primary. Participants will work through a project I did with my Year 2 students, in which students reflected on their mindfulness journey, evaluated "Mindfulness Apps for Kids" apps, and then ideated and created ideas for their own apps. Participants will need to be able to download a free app on their mobile device.

It is also helpful if they have their own iPad with Stylus, but it is not essential.

Theme:

• Creativity
• Technology

Audience:

• Early Years Educators
• Primary Teachers
• Primary Innovation / Tech Coaches

Presenter:

• Ryan Krakofsky

How do you assess student learning? Do you promote student voice and app autonomy in your classroom? Do you involve students in the assessment process?

During this hands-on workshop we will explore elements of student voice as well as student friendly assessment strategies to support future learning. There will be some practical time to cover elements of GarageBand and Clips to create a simple Podcast. Attendees will leave this workshop with the confidence and resources to more effectively assess student learning in their classrooms.

Please ensure you have the most updated version of GarageBand and Clips for this session.

Theme:

• Assessment
• Creativity
• Student Agency
• Risk-Taking

Audience:

• All Educators

Presenter:

• Coby Reynolds

Communication and collaboration beat at the heart of future-focused learning. Yet, the development of effective social and verbal communication skills don’t just happen by chance. They must be modelled, guided, and assessed. In this workshop, we look at tools to make thinking and classroom conversations visible. We will also explore how both learners and teachers might use data to help students make decisions to improve their communication skills.

Theme:

• Assessment
• Communication
• Creativity
• Student Agency

Audience:

• All Educators
• Primary Teachers
• Primary Innovation / Tech Coaches
• Secondary English Teachers
• Secondary Individual and Society Teachers
• Secondary Innovation / Tech Coaches

Presenter:

• Stephanie Thompson

The United Nations adopted the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), also known as the Global Goals, in 2015 to end poverty, to have peace, and to protect the planet by 2030. Why are these relevant to what we teach now, and how can you bring them into your content area? Learn what the SDGs are and how students can inquire about what matters to them in their lives and be motivated to contribute positively to achieving the Global Goals in the world using different technologies.

Come with an iPad, iPhone, or laptop with the latest versions of Photo, Clips, Keynote, and iMovie on it.

Theme:

• Futuristic Thinking
• Innovation
• STEM/STEAM
• The Arts
• Creativity
• Mobile Learning

Audience:

• All Educators

Presenter:

• Dr. Praise Ma