The members of SIG DE,SITE DE and Social Justice, Colorado Educational Groups, Leading Educators
and people interested in transformational change in schools want to
provide a learning experience that you will enjoy .
It is a pre-conference event.
A one-day workshop, Denver, 27 June 2010
The workshop is free of charge and we are providing lunch.
We are looking for people from Colorado whether or not they are
attending the ISTE conference this year.
We are looking for educational leaders who would enjoy informed networking.
We want to serve the under served. Rural, minorities, and
those who feel left out of the conversation . Add your voice.
We celebrate teachers, that’s why it is free. This has been a hard economic year for teachers
It is a special event to unites several types of groups .
Parents and community members are also welcome to learn along with us.
Bring friends. Share this with friends, parents, minority groups and or
others who would might be interested.
The institute provides training for technology integration and 21st century skills for K-12 teachers and
administrators and awareness for parents and advocacy groups.
The Digital Equity SIGs began as Minority Leadership Symposiums. We want to unite and share STEM and Emerging technologies in a Symposium. We want to broaden engagement and bring the underserved,
to new ways of working, but also unite those of you who are working and
learning in these areas and who give support.
We celebrate those who teach, who help teachers and who want to make
great learning communities.
http://wininstem.eventbrite.com/
Please circulate. Lets gather and broaden engagement in many ways.
Confirmed Location:
Denver School of Science and Technology
http://www.scienceandtech.org/index.php
How to Get in the STEM Game and Win it!
A Transformational Workshop
Goals:
1. Who are the under served in STEM nationally, locally and how can we broaden engagement in STEM?( what is broadening engagement)
2. What professional development activities / supports transformational change for teachers?
3. How can we inform the learning community about successful projects in meaningful ways?
4. What national projects show great promise and are scalable in the various areas of STEM?
5. What cyber tools, and online resources are available for teachers that make a difference?
6. Who are people involved in STEM who can be mentors, or peer resources for schools and
communities?
Outcomes
At the end of the event, participants will gain an understanding of the problem of Workforce Readiness and a working definition of STEM and will:
1. have exposure to 5 STEM programs they didn’t know existed.
2. be able to identify 5 resources that would enhance their own STEM efforts
3. be more articulate on where their STEM efforts fit within the national and their own state efforts
4. Be able to clearly articulate the need for increased attention to STEM education in our schools and in
particular in their immediate situation
5. Identify at least 3 technology tools that would be useful to enhance their STEM education program
6. become aware of national professional development opportunities
7. Understand ideas in computational thinking and projects.
Agenda
The agenda is set up to provide information in the morning and to
gather and use information in the afternoon. The afternoon interactive
sessions will begin with brief presentations by the session moderators,
followed by an interactive discussion relying heavily on ideas and
comments form the participants. At the conclusion of each interactive
session the moderator will ask the group to identify the top 2-3 ideas
from that session. These best ideas from all three interactive sessions
on each topic will be presented to the whole group during the wrap-up
session. Interactive whiteboards and student response systems from
Promethean will be used as productivity tools for information gathering
and prioritizing items.
8:30 – 9:00 a.m. Registration & Materials Pick up
Coffee and Juice
During this time we will project a series of student profile video’s
from the Edutopia website http://www.edutopia.org/digital-generation
Digital Generation http://www.edutopia.org/digital-generation
Today’s kids are born digital — born into a media-rich, networked
world of infinite possibilities. But their digital lifestyle is about
more than just cool gadgets; it’s about engagement, self-directed
learning, creativity, and empowerment.
9:00 – 9:15 a.m. STEM explorations in ITEST
Welcome by Joyce Maylin-Smith from the Education Development Center
(EDC) www.edc.org sponsored by the ITEST program. The EDC designs,
delivers and evaluates innovative programs to address some of the
world’s most urgent challenges in education, health, and economic
opportunity.and Manorama Talaiver from the Institute for Teaching
through Technology & Innovative Practices, Longwood University.
http://www.ittip.us/
Here’s the stuff
Making Sense out of STEM – min followed by a discussion ) . It would
cover three “levels” – STEM for living/learning and working – the STEM
enabled citizen that I have seen mentioned in some emails back and
forth; STEM for all careers – the concept that a bit more sophisticated
level of STEM conceptual understanding and skill is needed as science,
technology, engineering and mathematics are used at work in various
industries; and the STEM professional – technicians, technologists,
scientists, engineers, mathematicians who form that part of the
workforce many people think about as STEM workers .
She has workforce development templates to share.
Learn about The Innovative Technology Experiences for Students and
Teachers (ITEST) program established in 2003 by the National Science
Foundation. The ITEST Program funds a variety of innovative projects to
increase STEM learning and career exploration. Projects design,
implement, and evaluate models that engage youth and educators in
STEM-rich, contextual learning experiences; scale-up successful
practices or conduct research enriching our understanding of how to
enlarge the country’s STEM workforce.
Here is more than you need to know
http://itestlrc.edc.org/
ITEST on Twitter http://twitter.com/ITEST_LRC
ITEST on Facebook http://tinyurl.com/ITEST-LRC-Facebook
Information on ITEST
“I Am a Scientist”
Young people in grades K-12 use sophisticated technology to explore
their environment, conduct research, build programmable machines, and
create media in community settings after school and during the summer.
Across all ITEST projects, youth are using the same technologies,
tools, and methods that scientists use on the job.
Authentic Learning
Teachers work together with students to pursue research questions and
deepen their scientific and technological expertise—and learn
strategies for integrating IT concepts, skills, and applications into
their classrooms. Teachers are learning the strengths of combining
formal and informal learning environments together to create authentic
learning experiences for their students.
Engage Businesses( a model)
9:15 – 9:35 Ken Robinson Video
9:35 – 10:00 . STEM Happenings in Colorado – Phil Lawson –
http://www.spherit.com/about.htm
Phil Lawson will describe the work his group is doing to grow community
support and effort to address issues of digital equity and STEM in
Colorado using Spherit’s unique set of connectivity tools/ Getting
community support
Here is a treat. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXmJZBWZewY
Businesses have launched a number of initiatives. We want to model what
you can do in your community, and how businesses can help you. The
National Lab Day is in reality an event that allows people to find the
businesses in their community who want to provide support.
Colorado has a great event to share.
10:00 – 10:25 Alexander Repenning http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~ralex/
Alex will describe the impact that the tools he has developed can be
used to grow student interest in computational thinking and computer
programming. This is an example of a successful ITEST program. A list
of other similar resources will be provided to participants.
Computational What?.. you will love it and him. Digital Generation Tools
10:25 – 10:40 . Break and networking
10:40 – 11:20 Carolyn Staudt – http://www.Concord.org
(The Concord Consortium is a nonprofit educational research and
development organization based in Concord, Massachusetts. Carolyn will
describe the resources available from her organization and the role
ITEST played in supporting the work..)
11:20 – 12:00 Allan Jones – www.emaginos.com and Eli Regalado
“If you don’t know where you are going, any road will take you there.”
Lewis Carroll.
Allan will lead the group through a process starting with a clean slate
to design an optimum school district that provides STEM, Digital
Equity, reduced dropouts, etc. He will then compare this ideal model
with a known pilot program called “Schools of Discovery and Innovation”
12:00 – 12:45 Lunch /Networking
Lunch provided
Welcome from Mark Heffron, High School Director, Denver School of
Science and Technology with a brief presentation of a videos from
students describing why they chose/like the school.
Afternoon sessions Unconference mode
There will be three interactive sessions that attendees will
participate in. If you’re here as a part of a team, we recommend you
split up and attend different sessions because the participants will be
sharing information so each session should be different from the next.
12:45 – 1:20 p.m. Repeated Session 1
1:25 – 2:00 p.m. Repeated Session 2
2:05 – 2:40 p.m. Repeated Session 3
Repeated Session topics
• ITEST(Joyce and Mano)
o What it is
o How to get support for your ideas
o How to access existing programs.
• Other Exemplary STEM programs
o Globaloria
o Shodor.
o My Wonderful World
o High Performance Computing
• Identifying additional outstanding STEM programs and projects
o What programs are available?
o How do you find them?
o How do you integrate them?
2:45 – 3:20 p.m. Parallel Sessions
Parallel Session Topics
The three parallel sessions will only occur once, so attendees will
need to select one of them to participate in.
o Gender Equity programs (Bonnie Bracey Sutton)
o ELL and early reading initiatives (John Carr – Award Reading)
o Networking – next steps (Allan Jones)
3:25 – 4:00 p.m. Wrap up Session
• Highlights from 3 Interactive sessions
• Next Steps summary and discussion
In addition to the handouts available at the session, everyone
attending (who provides an email address) will be sent a Workshop
Summary document that will provide highlights from the sessions ands
links to resources.
We have a composite document that is a repository of STEM and Emerging
technologies that will be given on a DVD.
Broadening Engagement. We have programs for ELL that are delightful and
after school gems.
You can register by writing to me
Subject/ Registration Colorado initiative.
Give your name, school , and email.
I will answer any questions you may have. None of this works if we
don’t do grass roots and work from the classroom up. This has been a
hard year for teachers, come be with teachers and friends in this
event. We have done lots of the work for you , we need YOU.. You are
special !!
Bonnie Bracey Sutton
Digital Equity SIG
ISTE
Digital Equity and Social Justice Chair
SITE
Circulate to your friends
