Eye Opening Keynotes

FETC 2010 Eye Opening Keynotes

A great way to start your day! Eye Opening Keynotes are a great way to start your day! You won’t want to miss this opportunity to enhance your professional development by choosing from a slate of nationally-recognized speakers addressing current topics in educational technology. There will be two sessions each day from which to choose starting at 7:45 am. Coffee will be available on the fourth floor each day.

Thursday, January 14, 2010, 7:45 - 9:00 a.m.

Hall Davidson
Director
Discovery Educator Network

Deep, Deep, Dive Inside Digital: It's Wild in There
Moving classroom practice more deeply into digital resources provides major benefits for differentiation, extended learning, assessment, remediation, and data gathering for effectiveness of classroom tools. Far beyond text-bound PDFs, digital resources offer links, translations, expansions, and incorporate the wild energy of Web 2.0 tools. The different needs of learners are more easily met and digital resources foster networking, innovation, and curriculum support. Watch the building of digital assignments and assessments that move from white boards to mobile student pockets. A look at what exists now both in state-supported digital tools and in products that already earned deep penetration. A snapshop of what can be done right now, and a preview of where digital is heading.
Room: West 414AB

Tammy Worcester
Instructional Technology Specialist
ESSDACK

Technology TimeSavers for Teachers
As a teacher, it is easy to become overwhelmed by the workload and it is tough to stay on top of everything. Technology can help you save time, get organized, and stay sane! In this information-packed session, you will learn shortcuts, tools, and organization strategies that can save you tons of time both in school and out!
Room: West 414CD

Friday, January 15, 2010, 7:45 - 9:00 a.m.

Cheryl Lemke
Chief Executive Officer
Metiri Group

The Ripple Effect: 21st-Century Innovations in Education
Design tomorrow's learning using the latest social, learning, and neuroscience research on critical thinking, multi-tasking, multimodal learning, collaboration, and engagement. High tech tools serve as an extension to the student’s thinking -- a place to explore ideas, research questions, test hypotheses, compose thoughts, and come to conclusions – in other words, to learn. Along the way, these tools serve as vehicles for collaboration and authenticity, two highly effective accelerators to learning, enabling interactivity that can sharpen and extend thinking and pique intellectual curiosity. Authenticity enables students to explore rigorous academic concepts in the context of the world around them. The resultant sense of power and confidence unleashed in students and educators is to schools what globalization is to our economy – its future.
Room: West 414CD

Adora Svitak
Special Guest Speaker

A Kid's Eye View of an Innovative Classroom
Using examples, anecdotes, and engaging activities, the presenter humorously and honestly shares strategies educators can use in their classrooms to get kids excited and passionate about learning. She encourages the use of interactive writing activities and demonstrates use of innovative strategies in learning and teaching. Her goal is to encourage other students to become passionate and serious about learning, and in this session she works with teachers to reach that goal.
Room: West 414AB