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“The role of the teacher is to create the conditions for invention rather than provide ready made knowledge."
~Seymour Papert
Our BIG Question:
How do we amplify learning when engaging in remote or hybrid schooling?
Progressive ideals do not have to take a backseat in remote or blended learning situations.
In fact, the opportunities to explore interdisciplinary projects, hands-on minds-on learning, and rich student-centered experiences may never have been greater.
This four-hour, deep dive workshop over two days will explore the landscape of what’s possible, what's working, how to enhance remote or hybrid student projects, and teaching for the future, even if we have no idea what tomorrow brings.
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Join us in this unique experience and you'll learn how to:
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- Move beyond online curriculum delivery
- Create and bring value to online projects with students
- Get resources for remote projects that encourage student-centered learning and inquiry
- Communicate these ideals to parents, administrators, and colleagues
- Inspire, support, and sustain educationally nutritious projects
- Make learning visible
- Turn values into educational practice and consider how teaching migh evolve
These sessions will be organized around four themes:
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DAY 1
- Surveying the Horizon
- The challenges and opportunities
- Successes and fumbles
- What Was Good, Is Good
- Principles of progressive education
- Constructionism and learning-by-doing
DAY 2
- Less Us, More Them
- Genuine apprenticeship experiences and knowledge construction, not information retrieval
- Big projects, interdisciplinary units, and other affordances of remote learning
- Teaching and Leading for the Other End of the Tunnel
- Teaching for tomorrow; time for optimism
- Powerful ideas and standing on the side of children
Join internationally recognized authors and speakers Sylvia Martinez and Gary Stager for this 4-hour deep dive over 2-days as they explore these topics in greater depth and show participants how to apply the ideas to their particular grade levels and subject areas.
(For discount pricing for teams of 5 or more, please email info@bigquestions.institute)
In this 2-day deep dive workshop, we'll focus on
BIG Questions such as:
What are the challenges and opportunities of remote schooling?
How can we do constructionist teaching and learning effectively online?
What do great projects look like for students in hybrid and remote learning environments?
How do we "teach for tomorrow?"
Where can I find resources, learning invitations, and expertise?
What matters? What should we preserve? What can go?
How do I create evidence of success?
About Our Presenters:
About Sylvia Martinez
Sylvia Martinez was an aerospace engineer before becoming an educational software producer and vice president of a video game company. She spent a decade as the President of Generation YES, the groundbreaking non-profit that provides educators with the tools necessary to place students in leadership roles in their schools and communities. In addition to leading workshops, Sylvia delights and challenges audiences as a keynote speaker at major conferences around the world. She brings her real-world experience in highly innovative work environments to learning organizations that wish to change STEM education to be more inclusive, effective, and engaging.
About Gary Stager
Gary Stager is one of the world’s leading experts and advocates for computer programming, robotics and learning-by-doing in classrooms. In 1990, Dr. Stager led professional development in the world’s first laptop schools and played a major role in the early days of online education. In addition to being a popular keynote speaker at some of the world’s most prestigious education conferences, Gary is a journalist, teacher educator, consultant, professor, software developer, and school STEM. Director. An elementary teacher by training, he has taught students from preschool through doctoral studies. Gary is the founder of the Constructing Modern Knowledge summer institute for educators.
WORKSHOP REGISTRATION
This 2-day workshop will help you amplify real student learning in a difficult moment .
October 19 & 20, 2020 at either 11 am or 8 pm US ET both days.
(For discount pricing for teams of 5 or more, please email info@bigquestions.institute)
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BQI Events Calendar
Here are the latest events from the Big Questions Institute:
Upcoming:
January 6, 2021 - 90-Minute Workshop: "Futures Thinking for Educational Leaders" (Register here)
January 13, 2021 - Building Racial Literacy to Confront the Empathy Gap: It Goes Deeper Than Diversity (with NYSAIS) (Details here)
February 2 and 4, 2021 - WORKSHOP "Navigating an Unending Mess of Challenges: 5 Powerful Questions That Get Us Unstuck for Impactful STEM to SEL to Staff Meetings" (Register here)
February 16-18 - Independent School Board / Trustee Retreat (Co-sponsored by BQI and Enrollment Management Association) (Register here)
Past
September 22, 2020 - Live Podcast Keynote, Enrollment Management Association
September 24, 2020 - "Sounds Like Hate: The Challenges of Building Equity and Justice Inside a School" Free 60-minute webinar.
September 26, 2020 - "Futures Thinking for Educational Leaders" 90-Minute Workshop
October 5, 2020 - "Teach Like the Future Depends on It" Free 45-minute Webinar Featuring Sylvia Martinez and Gary Stager of Invent to Learn (Launching Soon)
October 12, 2020 - Featured Workshops, Leander (TX) Continuous Improvement Conference (Will)
October 19 &20 - "Teach Like the Future Depends on It" 2-Day Workshop (Register here)
October 22, 2020 - NESA Online Leadership Conference Keynote (Homa)
October 29, 2020 - Free Webinar: "Navigating the Infodemic: Education in a 'Post Truth' World"
Novermber 9, 202 - "We're Not Disrupted Enough Yet: Why Real Change in Schools Will Take More Than a Pandemic" [RE]LEARN 2020 - The Learning Innovation Festival (Will)
November 13 & 14, 2020 - "Deeper Than Diversity" Two-Day Workshop on Racial Justice
November 16, 2020 - FREE Webinar: "Navigating an Unending Mess of Challenges: 5 Powerful Questions That Get Us Unstuck And Make Things Better – Especially During the Pandemic"
December 9, 2020 - "Exhaustion and RRAGE" A Free Webinar Conversation to Reflect and Prepare
Please contact us about bringing a BQI online (for now) event to your school or organization. Let us help you design your future through powerful inquiry.
Contact Us
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