#Educon, Edu-Nerds, Chris Lehmann, and A Slice of Race in the 21st Century
Cocoa Puffs On The Ground
I had the pleasure of attending EduCon 2.3 last weekend, surrounded by people I mostly met digitally and students I only envisioned through the stories of the Science Leadership Academy’s Chris Lehmann and social studies super-pedagogue Diana Laufenburg. I was impressed by the warmth and camaraderie in a place full of edulebrities and edunerds (I’m either / or depending on the day) from across the nation convening not in a large convention hall but in a school. Appropriate, but rarely happens for conferences of this newly found magnitude.
As I arrived, my lady and I went to a conversation (the un-conference word for meeting) with elementary school