Sentences with phrase «organized unconference»

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.

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.

I'm organizing an unconference called BIL to go along with TED in March.

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Drawing Democratic online political staff from around the country and «organized» on the fly in classic unconference style, it'll no doubt focus on this year's elections — a perfect opportunity to spread the word about a certain recent e.politics e-book (hint: look to the right).

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

In this four - part series, Ms. Hertz explores the edcamp model, and shares some tips on how to organize and host an edcamp unconference.

And the free, participatory unconferences of Ed Camps — organized by teachers for teachers — have focuses as varied as how to teach quantum physics with dance or how to engage in public / private school partnerships (Swanson, 2014).

A social studies teacher may participate in a moderated #sschat on historical thinking, use the #FergusonSyllabus hashtag to research how to talk with students about systemic race issues, exchange ideas with digital colleagues, challenge local or federal policy by contacting legislators or informing the public, or organize a face - to - face Edcamp unconference in the community (see Swanson, et al., 2014, and Carpenter, 2015b, for more).