saturday Schedule saturday, March 31, 2007 10:30-12:00
Room
workshop session 8
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KIPPER BLAKELEY / AMM NISANAT CHIRDKIATISAK Title: Adopting a Village Program designed by Population & Community Development Association (PDA) to eradicate poverty.
Ballroom 2
KAREN BOYES Title: Creating An Effective Learning Environment Discover many simple ways to set up an effective learning environment including the importance of using music, temperature, setting and time of day. You’ll also explore the social and psychological environment and how these have long lasting impact on the learning ability of your students.
Ballroom 3
JUDY FREEMAN - Title: Books Kids Will Sit Still For (Part 1) In Judy Freeman’s fast-paced show-and-tell workshop, get a handle on some of the past year’s best new children’s books. Judy will share innovative and practical ways to use these titles for curricular connections, thematic tie-ins, literature-based learning, reading aloud, and just plain fun! It’s a quick literature blast for teachers and librarians who want: lively, concise, honest evaluations of new books every teacher and librarian should know, hands-on demonstrations of read-alouds, book talks, and a host of kid-tested literature-based activities, techniques, and ideas to use immediately with your teachers and children, a fast tour though the school curriculum of new and fabulous books that will get children reading, writing, and responding to literature, a comprehensive handout, including an annotated booklist.
Brunei 1, 2
SANDRA HAHN Title: Visible Thinking Enabling Understanding through Visible Thinking in schools and classrooms. To quote David Perkins (Harvard Graduate School):“Today we need to educate in ways that not only inform people but equip them with knowledge, attitudes, and thinking and learning skills that make them nimbly adaptable in the worlds of the future. We need to educate not just for the known but the unknown.”
Myanmar 3
CLAY HENSLEY Title: Tools for International Schools: How Can the College Board Better Connect Your Students to College Success? This interactive session will provide a forum for EARCOS educators to advise the College Board on how to better support the work of their schools. We will also update you on new educational initiatives of the College Board. Join us for an overview of PSAT/NMSQT and the wealth of valuable resources and reporting offered through the program, including College QuickStart, Score Report Plus, MyRoad, the Summary of Answers and Skills Report (S.O.A.S.), AP Potential, Student Search Service (S.S.S.), Destination College, and more. Discuss lessons learned from the recently revised SAT. We will look at how universities and schools have responded to the changes and also review research to examine the effects of the changes. Learn about expanding -- and free -- online services for both students and teachers. There will be ample opportunities for questions and discussion. The College Board is a non-for-profit membership association with a hundred-year heritage and a leader in connecting students worldwide to college success.
Boardroom
DOUG JOHNSON - Title: E-books, E-Learning, E-Gads! The practical e-book, already here in many forms, will have a significant impact on our schools, libraries, and our profession. Learn what a real e-book might contain, based on current products and trends along with strategies for staying relevant as a physical presence in our schools and students’ lives. For warned is for armed!
Philippines
IAN JUKES Title: From Gutenberg to Gates to Google and Beyond: .EDU meets .COM As Gutenberg’s printing press ignited the Renaissance, computers, the Internet, networking and now Google are igniting the Digital Renaissance. Emerging technologies will have a profound effect on the near and distant future of education. Fundamental change will happen whether schools, as learning institutions, embrace it or not because kids, teachers and parents will be using digital tools and accessing the Internet from home, at night, and outside of the purview of the school. They, rather than our traditions and traditional assumptions about learning and assessment will ultimately influence the direction of schools and learning. What happens when the people outside of education who are building information infrastructures start effectively leveraging the immense power of new technologies to deliver instructional opportunities to the YouTube and MySpace generation? What will education look like as we make a major shift in the who, what, when, where, why and how of teaching and learning which will be a direct result of the emergence of the Internet of a full-fledged commercial medium? And where is Google taking us?
Ballroom 1
BORIS KORSUNSKY Title: Physics for Math Teachers I will present several basic physics concepts (velocity, acceleration, Newton’s laws, relative motion, etc.) and methods (dimensional analysis, basics of measurement and data analysis) that are relevant to teaching mathematics. The discussion will focus on “real-life applications” of seemingly abstract mathematical concepts. No prior knowledge of physics is assumed!
Myanmar 1
RON LANCASTER Title: The Mathematical Lens We may not realize it, but we all encounter mathematics as we go about our lives. To see the mathematics it helps to put on a pair of mathematical glasses and to view the world through this new perspective. We will discuss how teachers and students can record these occurrences of math by taking photos and how these images can then be used as the basis of interesting and engaging mathematical questions.
Rattanakosin
EARCOS Teachers’ Conference 2007 Bangkok, Thailand
