Chalk Talk Friday represents conversations and brilliance I've discovered traversing my way through the Blogosphere. From professional to personal development, these are the posts and links have in some way touched my head or my heart!With less than two weeks to our Des Moines 21C Literacies Day, I thought we'd share the C's of the breakout sessions:
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Breakout Session Descriptions
CORE HABITS
: HabitudesCore habits – The Habitudes of the 21st century learner is really a core piece of this day, and every day going forward as learners. Without the right Habitudes, their future success will be limited. This session will explore tools and strategies to help identify and teach students the importance of Imagination, Curiosity, Perseverance, Self-Awareness, Courage, and Adaptability. COMMUNICATION: Read/Write
Images, sounds and animations — like words — become important building blocks whose meanings to help all voices be heard. Just as the same words and phrases can be arranged or manipulated to express different meanings depending on the author’s intent, so can sounds and images. In this session, tools to create various content and message types will be explored. COLLABORATION: PLN – Sharing/connecting
You know my motto: We are smarter together. Time, space, and geography are no longer limits to collaborative possibilities. We will explore tools and projects that will help you create a personal learning network so you can take charge of your own professional learning, make collaboration and connecting easier, and give you ideas for classroom implementation to meet Iowa Core Curriculum standards.
CONTRIBUTION: Publishing Web 2.0
Information and content have traditionally been relatively static things, created once and rarely if ever changed. People don’t just refer to information, or just copy it, they interact with it. They modify it, they create it – and this is to be encouraged. Tools such as podcasting, video-casting, and photo sharing will be examined in this session.
The amount of content available is growing at an exponential rate, and can become overwhelming to even the best of researcher. The ability to use rapidly changing and evolving technologies to safely filter and find content in order to achieve our personal or professional goals is a critical 21st century skill. This session will support teachers and students to be able to find information they need, determine its importance and authority, and how to use itor share it. CHANGE: Change Agents
For leaders and school administrators, this session will support you with resources and practices as you continue to move your schools forward in the process.
There are still a dozen seats remaining. Register Today.
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