Sentences with phrase «educator unconferences»

There are countless examples, but two stand out: the Edcamp movement of educator unconferences; and the ScratchED online community for teachers who use Scratch in their classrooms.

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Edcamps are educator - led unconferences — conferences that have no set agenda.

Edcamp founder Dan Callahan talks about how and why the Edcamp unconference movement has grown so quickly and challenges educators to share great ideas with their communities and the world.

The event attracted the attention of educators from around the world — not only for the excellent content and collaborative spirit, but also for the unconference model itself — one that costs next to nothing to produce by facilitating ad - hoc community participation.

As if it were a surprise that educators feel more supported and prepared when they choose their own learning experiences, approximately 79 percent indicated that unconference PL opportunities are effective in general (Howard, 2016).

Just three months earlier, myself and a team of fellow educators organized the first Edcamp unconference at Drexel University in Philadelphia.

By now, many educators are familiar with Edcamps, also known as unconferences.

Edcamps are a type of teacher - organized unconference that allows educators to get together, often for only a day, to engage in discussion - based professional learning.

This past January, Google Hangouts even served as the platform for the first entirely online Edcamp, Edcamp Home, which allowed ambitious educators from all around the world to experience the unconference from the comfort of their couches.

Kristen Swanson discusses how these educator - driven «unconferences» present invaluable opportunities for learning, growing, connecting, and sharing.

Edcamps are exciting, engaging unconferences that put the learning back into the hands of educators, and in this book Kristen Swanson provides step - by - step directions so educators can create their own in their building, district, county or state.

«Unconference» Originator Early ASCD conferences started out with a «Presentation of Problems» session in which experienced educators would describe discussion group topics so that attendees could select which topic most appealed to them before beginning a three - day exploration of their chosen topic.

More of an unconference — in which the educators would get together with no other plan than to talk about the issues in education that concern them most.

Administrators and teacher - leaders in her region are organizing an unconference event in November called TechShare (#techshare14), which will bring together 600 - 700 educators from five districts to explore tech topics from game - based learning to Google hangouts.

While the independent school community is still figuring out how best to use the Edcamp model to broadly serve the needs of independent school educators, Gow says that the core idea of Edcamp — as an unconference where educators get together to decide what to talk about — has caught on in other venues.

Edcamp unconferences: Educators» perspectives on an untraditional professional learning experience.