Jul 5, 2018
Join the My Tech Toolbelt Podcast team as we delve into our overview of the ISTE 18 Conference in Chicago. We discuss the new initiatives coming from ISTE.
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@ISTE #ISTE18
ISTE - Internation Society for Technology in Education - is the EPICENTER OF EDTECH, the most comprehensive ed tech event in the world.
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
David Eagleman, Andy Weir, Katie Martin, Nadia Lopez, Michael Cohen @TheTechRabbi
We cover the following topics:
This year’s ISTE they announced new initiatives
- smaller more directed conferences throughout the US
- ISTE U - certifications for teachers with option for college credit
- TedED partnership?
- estimated 18540 / 24000+ w Expo people in attendance
- over 500 vendors
- over 5000 submissions for sessions
- over 1400 sessions and posters
- BIG announcement was that ISTE will be focusing on Digital Citizenship not just the basics but how students should use the technology to make the world a better place / fact vs fiction / not just the safety / etc.
How we spent our time:
Shannon:
- Networking
- Keynotes - The Tech Rabbi, Luis Perez TedEd speaker, Andy Weir (the Martian - online novel)
- sessions focused on Higher education
- What do principals think about tech
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- data was interesting showing that there is support among the administration but they are worried about screen time at home with 95% feeling that students have too much screen time at home and 64% feeling that they are spend just the right amount of screen time at school.
Brenda:
- Top 10 tech tools for teachers
- focused on networking meeting new vendors and old friends.
- Met one of our listeners from Chile !! Shout out to Christina Alvayay
Next year, ISTE will be in Philadelphia, June 23-26, 2019!
July 2, 2018 we attended Mammoth Ed Camp #EdCampMammoth hosted by CUE and Mono Co Dept of ed, at Mammoth Lakes Middle School.
Over 50 teachers registered from California & Nevada some teachers from Tahoe, Monterey, OC, LA, Bakersfield, Ridgecrest and local of Mono county & Mammoth Lakes.
- Est ⅔ had never experienced an edcamp before
- Edcamps are peer-led, participant-driven professional learning opportunities for educators that use an “unconference” model to build teacher networks and share best practices.
- Shared doc where there were collaborative notes
@quizizz #quizizz
Looking forward to more connections and collaborations with these amazing teachers
Coming Up: Better Together in CA July 27 Friday all over the state of California
- Sir Ken Robinson is an internationally acclaimed expert on creativity and innovation and author of, “Finding Your Element”, “The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything” and Out of Our Minds.” His TED talk on developing an education system that nurtures creativity holds the illustrious title of “most popular TED talk of all time.”
- The convening will take place concurrently at dozens of locations, including college and university campuses across the state. Over 30 sites across CA
- Register to attend one near you! (Nor Cal /SF Bay/ Central Cal/So Cal/)
- Shannon will be at LMU
Flip Grid Announcement - Microsoft added Flipgrid to the MS Suite resulting in all teachers having FREE access to the full FG
Teachers that had paid will be getting prorated refunds for the remaining amount of their subscription
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