By: jenniferannwolfe on October 1st, 2012
Cast Your Vote For Education Elements SXSWedu Panels
Education Elements would love to participate in SXSWedu this year with one of its five panel ideas that include a number of engaging and exciting topics related to blended learning. SXSW invites its community to cast votes on which panels they’d like to see in March 2013, and input from the greater SXSWedu community accounts for 30% of the decision-making process for SXSWedu programming in March 2013.
Voting is open to the public until October 5, 2012. During this time period anyone with access to the Internet and an interest in SXSWedu can comment on a proposal and cast a vote for the sessions they wish to see at the event.
We encourage you to vote on one or a few of our panel ideas listed below:
Blended Classrooms are in their infancy, yet have been able to make a huge impact on teaching and learning relatively quickly. They also represent a sea change in instructional process and the use of technology to improve the classroom experience for both teachers and students on many levels. However, there are a number of successful models and practitioners, which begs the question of where it is all headed and what we can expect from the next generation of Blended Classrooms.
Speakers include:
Anthony Kim, Education Elements
Promising Practices for Blended Learning
How are we asking teachers and leaders to change their practice when transitioning to Blended Learning? When a school implements blended model, what professional development do teachers, administrators and other staff need to ensure a successful implementation? This panel discussion will explore promising practices for Blended Learning and discuss implications for training teachers and leaders based on evidence gathered from practitioners across the nation.
Speakers include:
Sarah Skinner, Education Elements
Jane Bryson, Education Elements
In It Together: Blended Classrooms and Communities
In a traditional classroom a teacher is expected to provide instruction that meets the needs of all students, a difficult task where the default option is teaching to the middle. In a Blended Classroom the paradigm shifts, and teachers use data to differentiate instruction and meet the needs of individual students, enabling students to go at their own pace.
We believe you can take blended learning further and develop blended communities. Students have access to learning anytime, anywhere, with anyone. Data is a driver of what resources a student receives. Each student has a team of adults that is focused on his learning and his goals. Each team member has student data, and personalized digital content.
Education Elements, Knowledgeworks and Reynoldsburg City Schools are working on a blueprint for a system of schools where this can take place. Our interactive discussion will focus on our goals, our design challenges, and our expectations of how this will unfold.
Speakers include:
Amy Jenkins, Education Elements
Vanessa Gonzalez, Education Elements
Lisa Duty, Knowledgeworks
The Node of Change-Scaling Ideas
We’ve all heard inspiring tales of individuals who took the initiative to innovate and improve the experience for each of their students. Similarly, sweeping statements, grand gestures and ambitious agendas are commonplace in speeches from school leaders in their efforts to rally communities behind an undoubtedly worthy cause. The reality is that many great ideas often are poorly implemented and thus join the wasteland of failed ideas. Failed ideas drain schools of valuable and limited resources. We will explore the principles needed to take an idea and create sustainable change in schools and districts. The panel will include leaders in service firms and schools.
Speakers include:
Shelli Taylor, Education Elements
Creating a Big Data Problem Worth Solving
Big Data problem sets in most industries are defined as those that can be solved by applying computational horsepower to oceans of normalized, high-fidelity data to provide insight. The notion that enough high-fidelity data exists in one place in a crunchable state to yield meaningful insight to guide classroom instruction is false. We need to earn our right to having a big data problem set one school at a time and ensure that high fidelity instructional data is captured, synthesized, and distributed into the right hands to yield insight.
Speakers include:
David Sanchez, Education Elements
For more, visit http://panelpicker.sxsw.com/.
