Earn CPE Hours from Anywhere: K-12 Online Conference

The K-12 Online Conference kicked off this week and the keynote is online! I'm excited about it because it's going to do the following for me:

1. Allow me to see what classroom teachers are doing with the Read/Write Web

2. Share implementation ideas about using technology with children or adults that I just haven't had time to consider, much less put into practice

3. Stimulate conversation and Generate a dialogue in the edublogosphere that will undoubtedly yield, I hope, as many ideas as are shared.

4. Give me access to presentations I can use again and again when introducing folks to using the Read/Write Web in my school district.

Did you know that SAISD teachers, if they participate, can earn CPE hours? Find out more at http://k12onlinecredit.wikispaces.com/

More about the keynote:

For decades, education has been an easy institution to define. It consisted of a set of accepted literacy skills, a definable body of knowledge, and the pedagogies for teaching those skills to willing students who were arranged in straight rows. Today, for the first time in decades (in generations of teachers), we are facing the challenge of changing our notions about teaching and learning to adapt to a rapidly changing world. We are struggling to rethink what it is to be educated, to reinvent the classroom, and redefine what it is to be a teacher and a student. There is much that has changed, and for much of it, we have responded to by attempting to ignore, filter, or to block it out. This presentation, by 30+ year educator, author, and technologist, David Warlick, will explore some of these changes and challenges and arrange them as a set of converging conditions that might just help us to redefine and retool the 21st century classroom.

Presentation

Video
http://k12online.wm.edu/davidw.mp4

Audio
http://k12online.wm.edu/davidw.mp3

Supporting Links

2¢ Worth Blog Post: ‚ÄúExtending K12 Online Conference‚Äù

http://davidwarlick.com/2cents/2007/10/06/extending-k12-online-conference/