10:00-11:00am - Tour the Tech - A Digital Tour through the Maker Fair Presentations (Sask Science Centre, Brooke Sali, Kassia Nameth, EYES)

Join us for a live tour through the Maker Fair Presentations on campus. You will have an opportunity to learn about various technologies, see different uses and lessons, and ask the makers questions.

11:00-12:00pm - Shared Presentation

Use of Technology in a Dance Class (Rose Linardic)

My presentation will be focused on my experiences this semester at Balfour Collegiate High School in the dance program. At the beginning of my time there, we learned about contemporary technique, the method of technique they were taught is a combination of multiple different methods which have been researched online and through my work experience. We worked on the different types of embodiment in dance and how those translate into movement. During these lessons, we filmed student's explorations to us later to give feedback for further exploration. 

eSports More Than Just a Game (Dean Vendramin)

This presentation will look at incorporating eSports into schools and classrooms. I will share my personal experience with starting up an eSports program and how one can also use game-based opportunities in the classroom.

12:00-1:00pm - Lunch Break

Visit our on-campus amentities for lunch or bring a bagged-lunch to enjoy in ED 189.

1:00-2:00pm - Tent Talk - The Slippery Slope Between Technology as Novelty & Technology as Critically Integrated Tools in Teaching & Learning

A conversation between Kathryn Ricketts, Ehsan Akbari and Kirsten Thompson on lawn chairs in a tent! This is broadcast live and can be joined on Zoom. 

This talk series hosts dynamic conversations with chosen themes/issues around teaching and learning, in a tent on lawn chairs. Controversial topics in teaching and learning are discussed between two people with a third person who keeps the ball rolling! Going inside a tent, just as we did when we were kids with homemade forts, becomes a catalyst for bold and thoughtful conversations. The tent provides an environment that is both private and cozy and yet public with the live broadcast to the conference community.

This particular conversation is between two people Ehsan Akbari and Kirsten Thompson who both work full time in the educative realm with Digital Literacies and Digital Citizenship. We will be exploring the slippery slope between technology as novelty and technology as critically integrated tools in teaching and learning. We will ask questions such as when does it become sloppy, hurtful and dangerous and when does it become a means to enhancing curiosity and rich healthy inquiry.

This series is funded by the Faculty of Education’s CERCD fund

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