We are pleased to announce the MassCUE and M.A.S.S. 2014 Annual Technology Conference, co-sponsored by the Massachusetts Computer Using Educators (MassCUE) and the Massachusetts Association of School Superintendents (M.A.S.S.). Both organizations recognize the benefits of a collaborative partnership that focuses on the collective interests of our school districts. We will be providing educators from across the Commonwealth with exciting ways to enhance teaching and learning with technology. To view recent changes in Sched.org it may be necessary to clear your cache.
What are the critical skills and dispositions needed to thrive in an ever changing world? How do we truly engage students in learning? What can students learn for themselves and from each other, and what could they really need to learn from us (their teachers)? How might we move from traditional teacher-centric classrooms to learning-centered, student-driven, collaborative spaces, where meaningful, rigorous and process-centered learning is the order of every opportunity?
Learn to create research projects, resources, systems, and tools to prepare students for the next level of research. Proven and engaging methods of research will be demonstrated.
In this session you will build your professional network (i.e. other participants) while building a professionally networked resource (i.e. a crowd-sourced book). Leaders give and take from a range of networks, helping them to infuse their organizations with new ideas. Though your best solution may come from inside your school, why wouldn’t you want to increase your odds of solving that problem by having access to a group of educators and non-educators spanning the globe? This session will require you to think and reflect and to create and contribute. Participants will leave having contributed to the creation of a short book about the very conversations that happen in the session.
What happens when students, not just teachers, are engaged in the process of creating multimedia representations of their understanding? This session shares research on iPads, screencasting, and formative assessment. Then, it suggests and explores creative ways to use screencasting in a variety of classroom settings and disciplines. Many parts of this session will be ‘hands on.’ Technology is not required but may come in handy for some participants. Participants will leave with practical ideas for using screencasting in a variety of teaching and learning settings.
Six simple ideas to bring more life into any library space. Learn how self-checkout stations, the Dewey Decimal System, and LibGuides can make or break a library. Do you have the confidence to create a revival in your library?
Take a journey with college student, Travis Allen, and learn what it means to be a lifelong learner. Discover how schools, teachers, and the students themselves unintentionally obstruct their own path for the best possible education. And, most importantly, learn how to cultivate the right environment to break past these barriers.
Learn how design thinking's user-centered approach to problem solving provides the perfect framework for addressing authentic challenges in our classrooms, schools and communities. Also, technological awesome sauce to help facilitate classrooms of design.Alt+MAlt+N
This session will focus on how we can re-imagine Librarians' work and redesign our school library spaces. For many Librarians, this process also allows us to rethink the mission and function of libraries in the digital age as centers for Creativity, Communication, Collaboration and Critical Thinking.
By applying three pillars of improv comedy, educators can tackle most any challenge we face in schools today, push the boundaries of possibilities -- and laugh our faces off while doing it. This interactive improv workshop intends to build the creative confidence necessary to transforming learning for the more awesome.
The biggest insult you can give a young person is to tell them that they are the leaders of tomorrow. By doing so, you imply they lack the power or ability to lead today! In this session, iSchool Initiative founder Travis Allen will facilitate presentations lead by high school students from Foxborough Public Schools as they share with the audience how they are leading their districts technology initiative!
This session will explore ways to develop a differentiated technology integration PD model, a model that recognizes the importance of accommodating your staff’s wide range of learning styles and of supporting their varying skills and experiences with technology integration. Participants will explore numerous practical examples of blended and differentiated PD models.
This session will provide educational leaders with an open-sourced, specific, research framework to measure the impact of technology on learning, complete with case studies and examples.
Over 100 billion dollars is spent on educational technology each year in the United States. However we rarely explore how this investment impacts student learning.This session will provide educational leaders with an open-sourced, specific, research framework to measure the impact of technology on learning, complete with case studies and examples.
