Convention Center 2011
Welcome to the convention center! This is where you’ll come to find the presentations for the Virtual Conference this July.
Please, participate in the conference. All you have to do is respond to the prompt on your own blog and shoot me an email at riley@larkolicio.us to let me know. Teachers, administrators, students, and parents are welcome to join in and present. If you don’t have a blog yet, consider starting one!
We’ve gotten things started here with four eight keynote speakers. You can take their posts as inspiration during a particular week… or not! You do not need to pre-register, although I do of course recommendsubscribing!
The Program
| WEEK 1: JULY 2 – JULY 8 | ||
| July 2 | Arne Duncan | ED.gov Blog |
| July 6 | Jose Vilson | The Jose Vilson |
| WEEK 2: JULY 9 – JULY 15 | ||
| July 9 | Shawn Cornally | ThinkThankThunk |
| July 13 | Deborah Meier | Bridging Differences |
| WEEK 3: JULY 16 – JULY 22 | ||
| July 16 | Scott McLeod | Dangerously Irrelevant |
| July 20 | Dina Strasser | The Line |
| WEEK 4: JULY 23 – JULY 29 | ||
| July 23 | Frank Noschese | Action-Reaction |
| July 27 | Holly Graff | Unschool Days |
The Prompt
What is at the center of your classroom? What ultimate goal or question motivates your work in education?
You’ll see articles with titles like…
- It’s about relationships.
- Challenges and successes leading a student-centered class.
- Is there a place for teacher-centered classrooms?
- Why I keep teaching even though it’s hard.
- Leading a flipped classroom
- How I made projects the keystone of my class
- Giving meaningful feedback
- Using computers to let students explore
- The Matrix: Seeing the constructs for what they are; learning the rules so you can break them.
Some of these first set are more specific than others. They all give glimpses of their authors’ basic pedagogy. That basic pedagogy is what this conference is about: the hearthstones of our classrooms. Specific advice and experience is always helpful, and there’s also room here for philosophy and general values.
This summer’s conference will focus on the bigger questions of “What do we hold most important for our classes?” and “How can we better focus on that?”