Digital Learning
Teaching With Comics and Pop Culture
literacy, engagement, lesson plans, DEI, PLN
Educator
Wissahickon School District
Comics serve as powerful tools for student engagement and literacy for all. This session will showcase tested lesson plans that can be used in class the next day, with tips on resources, representation, online teacher communities, digital comics-making tools and more to help win over parents and administrators.
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Taking Digital Learning Into the Future!
DEI, engagement, authentic learning
Innovation Coordinator
Parkway School District
Educational Strategist & Public Speaker
HookerTech LLC
District Teacher Librarian
Van Meter Community School
Director of Professional Learning and Leadership
Future Ready Schools
Digital learning is an inextricable part of our classrooms and the way that we approach instruction, yet there are still barriers to creating authentic learning experiences for our students. Join us as we explore our current reality and discuss possibilities for the future of our schools.
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Chart a New Course: Teaching Essential Skills for Tomorrow's World
engagement, personalized learning, classroom culture
Spanish and STEAM Teacher, Consultant
Rivervew Junior Senior High School
The session will share ways to design more purposeful learning experiences to drive student engagement and motivation, promote creativity in learning, model risk-taking and build classroom culture. Walk away with resources to help students develop essential skills through authentic, real-world and personalized learning experiences.
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InterACTIVE and Engaging Ways to Use Technology for Assessment
assessment, tools, data
First Grade Teacher
The Merrills EDU, LLC
4th
The Merrills EDU, LLC
Assessing is more than multiple choice! Join Kristin and Joe Merrill, Fourth and First Grade teachers, as they share ways on how you can take your assessments to the next level using tools like Canva and Microsoft Flip to provide rich and meaningful data to better understand knowledge student knowledge.
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Creating Artifacts of Learning: How Digital Tools Can Amplify Thinking Routines
assessment, artifacts, DEI
School Based Technology Specialist
Fairfax County Public Schools
Project Zero’s Thinking Routines promotes students' thinking by taking what students have learned about and have them synthesize their thoughts to make their thinking visible. Discover when and how using technology tools can amplify these routines and promote equity in your classroom.
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The Student-Led Classroom Tool Kit
collaboration, creativity
Membership Engagement Manager
Computer Science Teachers Association
Learn about tangible tools to help students do work that matters to them now. Take your classroom from student-centered to student-led through classroom management that empowers student coaching and collaboration, and assessment that amplifies creativity. Get tips for building student tenacity and strategies to manage 100-plus unique projects without losing your mind.
Getting the READ On: Teenage Literacy Strategies
engagement, teens
English Department Head & Senior Teacher
Brescia House School
Head of Innovation & Staff Development
Brescia House School
We'll share how we leveraged a passion for reading through digital engagement! You'll hear student and educator testimony on inspiring a teenage culture of reading and literature engagement in a digitally distracted world. We'll share lessons and tasks we have used to mobilize a passion for literature in our school.
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Gamify the Learner-Centered Classroom
games, learner centered, assessment, authentic
Director of Learning Design
Learner Centered Collaborative
Games have often only been fun breaks or review. It’s time to rethink how games can be leveraged not only as dessert, but as the main course of a learner-centered environment. Gaming can personalize learning, make competency-based assessment clearer, increase authenticity and create an inclusive learning environment.
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Uncheatable: Using Digital Storytelling Projects as Authentic Assessment
assessment, engagement, storytelling
Teacher
Mira Costa High School
Artificial intelligence and chatbots have teachers wondering how they can prevent cheating and keep students engaged. This session provides examples and tips about how to use storytelling for students to show what they know and provide a learning experience where they don’t want to cheat in the first place.
Ways to Get Pupils to Experience Working in Cross-Cultural International Teams
collaboration, communication, future of work, cultural, DEI, global
Deputy Head
Brescia House School
Using the post-COVID universal adoption of collaboration and communication systems in schools, we'll explore different ways of creating collaborative learning opportunities that prepare learners for the future of the world of work, which will require the ability to navigate cross-cultural, international online teams.
Microlearning With Creative Storytelling
tools
Team Lead & Student Coordinator
SDG Warriors
Educator Innovation Lead
Flip
Microlearning puts the learner in charge of what and when they learn while delivering knowledge in brief, focused spurts. Frequently, it takes the shape of short video stories. In this presentation, we'll focus on how educators can use Flip to produce these creative, fun and engaging stories/lessons.
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Dyslexia: Digital Tools to Unleash the Superpower
UDL, assistive, tools,
Contributing Faculty, Ed. Tech.
Walden University
Speech Pathologist & Child Development
Clearview Speech & Consulting Services,
One in five students have a superpower called dyslexia! Reading should not be their kryptonite. Leverage some of the assistive technology tools presented in this session to enhance face-to-face or virtual reading instruction. Tools are organized into three main categories: Reading, writing and just cool.
Project-Based Learning and Makerspaces Across the Curriculum
PBL. DEI, content creation, assessment
Teacher
University Liggett School
The maker movement has started to spread across the country, but many educators think makerspaces are for STEM only. We'll share firsthand experience of integrating project-based learning to help all content areas use makerspaces to support student learning.
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Abraham Lincoln Was a Woman and Other Fake News
digital literacy, bias, DEI, facts
Chief Academic Innovation Officer
Elite Academic Academy
Coordinator, Teacher Effectiveness
San Diego County Office of Education
To prepare our students to be critical thinkers and responsible citizens, we need to help them recognize real information. After we understand the biases that get in the way of a common view of facts, we'll practice strategies to locate and analyze information before using those skills to develop classroom lessons.
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Portfolio Approach to Assessment
assessment, artifacts, tools
Teacher
University Liggett School
Filling in bubbles is not the best way to assess student learning. Taking the portfolio approach allows students to demonstrate their understanding by presenting artifacts they feel showcase their skills. There are tools that make implementing portfolios much easier than ever before. Check out how to get started today!
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The Changing Face of Literacy in the Digital Age
DEI, assessment
Innovation Coordinator
Parkway School District
District Teacher Librarian
Van Meter Community School
Teacher Librarian
Tampa Preparatory School
School Librarian
Hutto ISD
Librarian/ELA Teacher
Denver Public Library
As society changes, so does the definition of literacy and what it means to be literate in the digital age. Join ISTE library authors as we explore the ways that technology is pushing us to examine our assumptions and approaches to the changing face of literacy.
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Learning LIVE: Designing Meaningful Virtual Experiences to Enhance Curriculum
virtual learning, DEI, collaboration
Distance Learning Specialist
CiTi BOCES
Videoconference Scheduler
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Director of Partnerships & Engagement
Center for Interactive Learning and Collaboration
Director of Member Relations
CILC
Educational Tech Integration Specialist
Tucson Unified School District
Get ready to Learn in Virtual Environments (LIVE) to identify appropriate and relevant interactive virtual experiences that embrace diversity, build community connections and provide equitable access for all. Hear from a variety of experts who outline the entire planning process for you to expand access for learners.
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A Simple Plan: Kids Read More When We Turn on the Subtitles
tools, DEI
International Partnerships
ISTE
CEO
Kids Read Now
Co-Founder
Turn on the Subtitles
Launched in April 2020, Turn on the Subtitles is now the world’s biggest literacy project, having helped over 300 million children to learn to read. Laurie Forcier, ISTE's international partnerships lead, will interview TOTS founder Henry Warren to learn more about the research behind the campaign, the action he wants media outlets to take, and how teachers can take action in their own schools and communities.
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Making Your Formative Assessments Digital and Equitable
data
Chief Learning Officer
The Infused Classroom
As we move more purposefully from analog to digital learning environments, we need to rethink what our assessments can and should look like, and unpack the information they provide. Explore five ways you can gather rich information about student learning and growth. All ideas are backed by research.