Learning+and+the+Brain+2013

**Conference Twitter Feed:** #LB36

 * New Basics and New Balance for a New World **

**Marc Prensky, MBA, MAT **
Although we may, in the immediate, be focused on engaging today’s digital and active learners in the classroom to improve learning and meet 21st century skills and standards, Mr. Prensky will offer a larger view of what education is, and should be, about for future generations. Mr. Prensky believes we need to refocus our education away from just adding - on more creativity, engagement or other “21st century skills” to our math, language arts, science and social studies-based curriculum and instead, establish a new set of basic subjects that unites the best of the old skills of “thinking, doing, relating” with the best of the new skills, such as “critical thinking” and “entrepreneurship.” Mr. Prensky will describe where we currently are, what is still missing and how we can get to where we need to go.

Kevin Huitt Blog: "New Basics and New Balance for a New World"

Brain Gain (by Mark Prensky): Book Review [Video]

Digital Wisdom: //Combining what our brains do well with what technology does better.//

**Will Richardson, MA**
The main premise upon which schools were founded, that content and knowledge and teachers are scarce, has literally been turned on its head by the Web. Today, we carry the sum of human knowledge and access to millions of potential teachers in the phones in our pockets. In a host of other ways, the idea of a “traditional” school is fading in its relevance to the new ways we, as well as our students, can learn. Given that reality, what changes should be made? How do we rethink our roles as schools, classrooms and educators at a moment when our students have a growing number of options to cobble together an “education?” Mr. Richardson will explore the answers to these questions.

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Will Richardson Blog: Why School?

Kevin Huitt Blog: "Why School? Rethinking Teaching and Classrooms for Modern Learners"

**Flip the Classroom: Reach Every Student in Every Class Every Day**

 * Jonathan Bergmann, MAEd **

Learn from “Flipped Classroom” pioneer Jon Bergmann as he walks through his transformation from a twenty- year lecturer to a “Flipped Classroom” pioneer. He will take you on his journey and show how the flipped class can transform today’s educational climate. The “Flipped Classroom” allows teachers to have more face-to-face time with students, allows for real differentiation, causes students to take responsibility for their learning and allows students to master material. Be ready for a lively discussion about best practices and the underlying reasons why the “Flipped Classroom” is transforming teachers and students across the globe. During this keynote presentation, the audience will be key contributors in discussion, both verbally and via their devices.

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Kevin Huitt Blog: "Flip the Classroom: Reach Every Student in Every Class Every Day"

//"I never teach my students, I simply create the environment under which they learn."// - Einstein

P2PU: A university for the web. Built by an open community.

//"Professional Development is OUR responsibility as educators. If you want to learn Twitter, go learn it. There's not gonna be a Twitter workshop."// - Jon Bergmann


 * Flipped Classroom Whitepaper:**

Knewton: Flipped Classroom (Infographic)

EduPunks' Atlas of Lifelong Learning

Does Homework Improve Learning? (Chapter 2 of The Homework Myth by Alfie Kohn)

Flip Hurdles: What hurdles do you anticipate if you were to implement Flipped Learning? (Responses)


 * Empowering Student-Centered Learning with Web and Mobile Media **
 * Mark Barnes, MEd **

Presenter: Mark Barnes

Learn how to actively engage all learners with powerful free web tools, social media, online publishing and mobile applications for deeper, student- centered learning.

Kevin Huitt Blog: "Empowering Student-Centered Learning with Web and Mobile Media"

Learn it in 5: a powerful library of how-to videos, produced by technology teachers, for the purpose of helping teachers and students create classroom strategies for today's 21st century's digital classroom.


 * Disrupting Classrooms: The Future of K-12 Blended Learning **
 * Heather Staker, MBA **

Heather Clayton Staker, a national expert on blended classrooms, will discuss how online learning is emerging as a disruptive innovation that is “blending” into schools and forever transforming the way students learn. Using multi- media and case studies, you will explore the various models of blended learning that typify the K-12 landscape, discuss how blended learning impacts student engagement and hypothesize about the future of American schools.

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Disruptive Innovation: Key Concepts (Clayton Christensen)

edX: a [|massive open online course] (MOOC) platform founded by the [|Massachusetts Institute of Technology] and [|Harvard University] to host online university-level courses in a wide range of disciplines to a worldwide audience at no charge and to conduct research into learning.

Khan Academy: "a free world-class education for anyone, anywhere."

//“Blended Learning is NOT just a technology-rich classroom.”// - Heather Staker

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Station Rotation Model:** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 1.5;">Students are moving at fixed times or at the teacher’s discretion between different learning models. For example: Online Instruction; Teacher-Led Instruction; Collaborative Small Group Work.


 * Essential Questions: Doorways to Deeper Understanding **
 * Jay McTighe, MA **

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">A good essential question serves as a doorway for engaging student inquiry in “uncovering” the curriculum, leading to deeper understanding. In this session, we will examine key ideas from the new ASCD book, Essential Questions: Doorways to Student Understanding (McTighe and Wiggins, 2013).


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Notes from Katie: **


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Jay McTighe - Understanding by Design and Essential Questions (Katie Vernon has this and will check it out to those interested)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Curriculum should be designed BACKWARDS using essential (driving) questions


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Essential vs Non-Essential Questions:
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Open-ended questions
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Lead to more questions
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Not looking for regurgitation of facts
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">No concrete answer to questions
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Need to use previous knowledge to start answering
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Should promote discussion, not just question and answer


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Open the door through questions:
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Use EQs to organize programs, courses, and units of study
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">“LESS IS MORE”
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Edit to make them “student friendly”


 * Resources:**
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|www.essentialquestions.org]
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|www.notosh.com]
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[]

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