What is true innovation? The corporate world has co-opted this powerful term, turning it into a prosaic reason to buy the next, new and improved technological gadget. But when we go back to the true, social roots of innovation, we find a much more fulfilling place, where innovation catalyzes freedom and opportunity. Freedom only arrives when we all strive to bestow it upon everyone around us, and that openness to unexplored futures allows us all to imagine a new tomorrow, to learn from the best practices around us, and then to combine the best wisdom with our personal know-how -- that magical mix that combines the right risk-taking with our intimate knowledge about local culture and local context. The CREATE Lab has always been focused on hyper-local engagement, because to have meaningful, sustained impact, we must be the most participatory, most culturally sensitive organization possible. As our programs have succeeded and demands for scaling have risen, we have developed satellite relationships because, that way, true innovation can be born of our technical creations coupled with the context and ecology supported by our satellite partners in each of their respective locations in West Virginia and Pennsylvania. At this, the first CONTEXT conference, we celebrate the importance of relationships by concentrating not on technology for technology's sake, but on the teacher, the administrator, the parent, and the student: all critical ingredients that together form the essential context for innovative learning. We are proud to have two keynote speakers with us who have embraced and crystallized the significance of context in education: Indira Nair and Shree Nayar; they are our role models, and we hope they also inspire you. But we are also inspired by the teachers and administrators willing to privilege relationships over technology, willing to create spaces in which every student and every teacher is an extraordinary communicator, able to dream, design and create within nurturing and stimulating communities. On behalf of the CREATE Lab Satellite Network, and our partners in bringing you this event, The Sprout Fund and the Remake Learning Network: WELCOME TO CONTEXT 2015 We hope you make new friends, discover inspiring processes and continue your journey as an innovator.
Suzie Ament Rebecca Beres Tarabeth Brumfield Keely Camden Jeffrey Carver Stephanie Conrad Patrick Coulson Matt Curci
Carrie Beth Dean Teresa DeFlitch Beatrice Dias Cheryl Griffith Karl Harris Rae Ann Hirsh Lou Karas DeAnna Kwiecinski
Melissa Luna Ian Magness Lori R. Maxfield Stan Maynard John Meighan Jessica Meyers Illah Nourbakhsh Michelle A. Peduto
Jamie Piraino Roberta L. Schomburg Cynthia Pulkowski James Rye Colleen Smith Kevin Snider Shannon Wagner Dror Yaron
Technology Fluency for Teaching & Learning April 21 - 23, 2015 Google Pittsburgh Carnegie Museum of Art Carnegie Mellon University WQED Studios @context2015 #TechFluency
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Sessions
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Tracks
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Schedule Overview
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Wednesday Keynote
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Wednesday Morning
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Wednesday Afternoon
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Thursday Keynote
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Thursday Morning
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Thursday Afternoon
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Finding Your Way
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Wireless Network
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Speaker bios:
CONTEXTconference.org/speakers
Session resources:
CONTEXTconference.org/resources
About Us
CONTEXTconference.org/about-us
Thanks
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Credits
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Sessions
We are excited to offer sessions featuring dynamic speakers, educators, and technologists from Pittsburgh and beyond. You have the opportunity to select from a set of talks, panels, or workshops. Talks and panels are scheduled for one hour while workshops are scheduled for two. Most sessions take place in Gates Hillman Complex (GHC) but some take place nearby in Newell Simon Hall (NSH). Sessions are organized into two tracks to help you determine the best way to spend your time.
TRACKS
PRACTICE
Educators sharing ideas and stories around their methods and experiences with integrating technology creatively into their classrooms or programs
ECOSYSTEM
Discussions about the networks and conditions that support and empower meaningful technology practice in education
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Wednesday | April 22, 2015 8:00am9:00am
Schedule Overview
REGISTRATION @ Carnegie Museum of Art Teaching Technology, Relating to the World Keynote: Indira Nair
9:00am10:00am
Carnegie Museum of Art
10:00am10:15am 10:15am11:15am
Walk to CMU for Conference Sessions Panel: Prototype Creative Learning
Panel: Systems for Teaching Innovation
GHC 6501
GHC 2109
11:15am 11:30am
11:30am 12:30pm
Break Panel: What is Tech Fluency?
Panel: Authentic Youth Voice in Practice
GHC 6501
GHC 2109
12:30pm1:30pm
1:30pm2:30pm
2:30pm3:30pm
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Workshop: Entire Community Partnerships
GHC 6115
NSH 1507
Lunch | GHC 6121
CONTEXT Clinic - for specific questions, small or large Our tech fluency specialists will see you now GHC: Collaborative Commons, 6115, 6501 Talk: GigaPan and littleBits: Engage, Explore and Extend
Talk: Libraries as Engines of Out-of-School Learning
GHC 6501
GHC 2109
3:30pm3:45pm
3:45pm4:45pm
Workshop: Observational Drawing Children's Innovation Project
Break Talk: What is Digital?
Talk: Supporting Student Talents
GHC 6501
GHC 2109
Workshop: Learning Experience Design Challenge
Workshop: Refining Projects for Grant Funding
GHC 6115
NSH 1507
Thursday | April 23, 2015 8:00am9:00am
9:00am10:00am
Schedule Overview REGISTRATION @ Carnegie Museum of Art
From Computational Imaging to Experiential Learning Camera Keynote: Shree Nayar Carnegie Museum of Art
10:00am10:15am 10:15am11:15am
Walk to CMU for Conference Sessions Talk: Designing Educational Robots
Talk: Outdoors through Technology
GHC 6501
GHC 2109
11:15am 11:30am
11:30am 12:30pm
12:30pm2:00pm
Break Talk: Teaching Children to Be Innovators
Talk: Mobilizing Art & Technology
GHC 6501
GHC 2109
Workshop: Learning Experience Design Challenge
Workshop: Game-Based Learning Institute of Play
GHC 6115
NSH 1507
Remake Learning Lunch, Sessions Lunch GHC 6121 | Sessions NSH 1507, GHC 6501, GHC 6115
2:00pm5:00pm
Remake Learning Network Rally (Open to the public) WQED Studios
Thursday | April 23, 2015
Schedule Overview
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Wednesday | April 22, 2015
Morning
8:00am9:00am
Registration
9:00am 10:00am
Teaching Technology, Relating to the World Indira Nair
Carnegie Museum of Art
Carnegie Museum of Art
Indira Nair is the former Provost of Education at Carnegie Mellon University. Most of her work at Carnegie Mellon was in research on science and engineering education, women in engineering, and the biological effects of low-frequency magnetic ďŹ elds. She was active in developing and teaching innovative undergraduate courses in curriculum design in the local schools and in enabling and encouraging students of all ages to participate responsibly in technology. The Carnegie Mellon Chapter of Student Pugwash was founded by Professor Nair to give students a forum for discussion.
10:00am10:15am
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Walk to CMU for Conference Sessions
Enter CMU
NSH
Newell Simon Hall
GHC
Gates Hillman Center
Map from Carnegie Museum of Art to Carnegie Mellon University
Map from Carnegie Museum of Art to Carnegie Mellon University
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Wednesday | April 22, 2015
10:15am 11:15am
Morning
Panel: Using Technology to Prototype Creative Learning GHC 6501 Roberta Brandão, Ellis School Rick Malmstrom, Ellis School Regan Drew, Riverpoint Academy John Marshall, Riverpoint Academy In this panel discussion, educators will explore student-centered approaches to promote critical making and creative learning in an ecosystem that values design thinking, entrepreneurship, and STEAM+. Regan Drew and John Marshall will be modeling storytelling techniques to demonstrate how they use “technology” organically as a tool for thought and expression at Riverpoint Academy. They will present how students use real tools, to solve real problems, for real people in a multi-disciplinary public high school. Rick Malmstrom and Roberta Brandão will present examples of how teachers use technologies and active learning to promote STEAM+ at Ellis (an all-girls private school in Pittsburgh), and Escola Parque (a co-ed private school in Brazil) – including their cross-cultural exchange. They will discuss creative and collaborative strategies to help K-12 teachers integrate technologies in the classroom.
10:15am 11:15am
Panel: The Role and Impact of School Leaders: Creating Systems for Teaching Innovation GHC 2109 Lynne Schrum, Remake Learning Council Kenneth Lockette, Avonworth High School Scott Gutowski, Pittsburgh Public Schools Karen Collins, Mountainview Elementary How do we support innovative, authentic, and creative use of technologies to support and enhance teaching and learning? What does it take to encourage and develop an educational environment that allows for exploration and implementation? This panel brings together experienced school leaders who have successfully accomplished these goals; they provide insights, lessons learned, and strategies.
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Wednesday | April 22, 2015
Panel: What is Tech Fluency? GHC 6501 Dustin Stiver, The Sprout Fund Illah Nourbakhsh, CREATE Lab Todd Hoffman, Environmental Charter School Jeffrey Carver, West Virginia University Cynthia Pulkowski, ASSET STEM Education Roberta Schomburg, Carlow University Lou Karas, West Liberty University Tanner Huffman, International Technology and Engineering Educators Association
Wednesday - April 22, 2015
11:30am 12:30pm
Morning
Does technology and its practice empower educators and learners in your community? Does it expand teachers’ horizons and possibilities, and create diverse learning paths for students? Or, does it narrow the ways in which a teacher can teach, and a student can learn? Can technology span disciplines and contexts, and support pursuits of collective and individual goals? Or, is it only useful in limited, prescribed ways? Does it deepen conversation and personal interaction, or replace them? Join panelists in considering what is tech fluency and why it matters to educators and learners.
11:30am 12:30pm
Panel: Authentic Youth Voice in Practice GHC 2109 Jessica Kaminsky, CREATE Lab; Hear Me Project Devin Browne, Brashear High School Greg Dietz, Shaler Youth Advocacy League Brandon Tomasic, Steel Valley High School How do we cultivate youth voice in schools to convert it into meaningful student leadership that drives action and engagement? This panel brings together experts on incorporating authentic youth voice in schools, and in school policies and practices. Panelists will discuss topics like laying the foundation for this work within a school, and the role of adult allies in creating a climate for youth voice. The panel includes two public school teachers and a high school student, all of whom have practice in authentically supporting youth voice in their schools.
Wednesday | April 22, 2015
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Wednesday | April 22, 2015 10:15am 12:30pm
Morning
Workshop: Entire Community Partnerships NSH 1507
Michael Robbins, Span Learning The digital learning revolution is more than trading textbooks for tablets ― it is an inflection point in education - a critical opportunity to transform how schools, parents, and community-based organizations collaborate on education. It should spur us to rethink how we connect all the assets in a student's life to advance engagement in learning and academic success. There is unprecedented investment in education technology and digital learning initiatives. Unfortunately, we lack the corresponding investments to evolve education culture and build family and community supports to make these transformations successful. Participants in this workshop will discuss bridging this gap through digital learning partnerships, and will explore how education technology can advance, in their community, collective impact in education.
10:15am 12:30pm
Workshop: Observational Drawing of the Children's Innovation Project GHC 6115
Melissa Butler, Pittsburgh Allegheny K-5; Children’s Innovation Project Jeremy Boyle, Children’s Innovation Project Do you want your students to learn how to notice carefully? Develop a deep concept of perspective? Learn to trust that there is always more to see? Embrace a sensibility for slow, careful thinking? These are some of the core learning outcomes for children working with the Children's Innovation Project. Observational drawing is an essential method of practice that enables children to embrace these habits as innovators. During this workshop, participants will be able to practice observational drawing of parts, wholes and systems, engage in reflective conversations about this process and learn more about how observational drawing can support children of all ages to slow down and find more depth and layers to their learning.
12:30pm 1:30pm
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Lunch GHC 6121
Attendees are invited to sit and relax in the Collaborative Commons or GHC 6115 and enjoy their lunch. Following lunch attendees may visit the CONTEXT Clinic.
Wednesday | April 22, 2015 1:30pm2:30pm
Afternoon
Context Clinic Our tech fluency specialists will see you now. Get help with specific questions, small or large - pedagogy, partnerships, tech support, even parenting! You are free to visit as few or as many of the following stations: Indira Nair Keynote Chat, GHC 6501 Join Indira Nair for an informal chat about the topics she explored in her keynote address. Take this opportunity to ask her questions that we did not have time to address Wednesday morning. Parenting for Tech Fluency, GHC 6115 Join Illah Nourbakhsh for an informal discussion on topics covered in his book “Parenting for Technology Futures.” Remake Learning with The Sprout Fund, Collaborative Commons Stop by to learn more about support services offered by The Sprout Fund, including networking opportunities, grant programs, and other ways to get involved in the Remake Learning Network. Ask a Geek, Collaborative Commons Have a question about different technologies or tools? CREATE Lab technologists, Paul Dille and Chris Bartley, are ready to help you troubleshoot. Engaging with the Whole Community, Collaborative Commons Considering ways to bring your entire school or organizational community into your conversations about tech fluency. Michael Robbins from Span Learning is ready to strategize with you. Choosing the Right Technology for Your Learning Outcomes, Collaborative Commons Talk with educators and technologists Roberta Brandão and Tom Lauwers about different types of technologies and what you might consider based on what you hope students will learn. Partnership Building, Collaborative Commons Tanner Huffman and Lou Karas can help you strategize ways to form and maintain partnerships within and outside of your organization, and suggest specific individuals or groups you may want to connect with. Strategizing Tech Fluency for Administrators, Collaborative Commons Kenneth Lockette and Lynne Schrum are available to explore different methods for integrating tech fluency in your school or district. Digital Portfolio Clinic, Collaborative Commons Discuss the promises and challenges of digital portfolios with Marti Louw and Daragh Byrne or take a brief survey to help them better learn what pre K to 12 educators are looking for in digital portfolios.
Wednesday | April 22, 2015
Afternoon
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Wednesday | April 22, 2015 2:30pm 3:30pm
Afternoon
Talk: Building Context: Libraries as Engines of Out-of-School Learning GHC 2109 Amy Eshleman, Digital Youth Network Toby Greenwalt, Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh Are your students engaged in relevant learning activities outside of the classroom? Do you seek out opportunities to acknowledge and build on those experiences? Public libraries are embracing a model of iterative change and experiential education, creating many new opportunities for out-of-school learning. In this interactive discussion, Toby Greenwalt, Director of Digital Strategy and Technology Integration, Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh & Amy Eshleman, Partnerships Lead, Digital Youth Network, will provide an overview of current trends in libraries, and examine ways they connect with schools and other places of formal and informal learning to support learning ecosystems in Pittsburgh and across the nation.
2:30pm 3:30pm
Talk: GigaPan and littleBits: Engage, Explore and Extend GHC 6501
Tim Hammil, Westmoreland Intermediate Unit Sherrard Bostwick, Shuman Juvenile Detention Center This session will take a detailed look at two specific tools that have proven to be very powerful in the effort to motivate and engage students. GigaPan and littleBits may be two completely different tools but both share a common strength: the ability to push students to go deeper, to seek answers, and to create more with what they have learned. Whether exploring detailed panoramic images taken by GigaPan’s robotic camera mount or constructing circuits and new creations from littleBit’s modules, these tools provide a seemingly endless stream of possibilities for exploration and adaptation. Join Sherrard Bostwick and Tim Hammill as they dive into the discussion of why these tools are so successful in the classroom.
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Wednesday | April 22, 2015 3:45pm 4:45pm
Afternoon
Talk: What is Digital? GHC 6501
Jeremy Boyle, Children’s Innovation Project The digital technology and culture that surrounds us influences ways we think, learn, communicate and understand in our contemporary world. We are inundated with digital devices and media. We feel pressure to integrate digital media and tools into our learning environments, though we rarely spend much time asking questions about fundamental concepts of digital. Why might these questions matter as we work to develop educational opportunities for technology fluency? This presentation will address these questions, extending frameworks of the Children’s Innovation Project to consider why it might be important to think about digital as material.
3:45pm 4:45pm
Talk: Supporting Student Talents through Cross-Curricular Projects GHC 2109
Jennifer Cross, CREATE Lab Emily Hamner, CREATE Lab Sue Mellon, Allegheny Valley School District A cross-disciplinary approach to teaching can help uncover a diversity of student talents within a single classroom. During this talk presenters will describe the use of cross-curricular classroom projects to help identify and cultivate diverse student talents. Arts & Bots integrates robotics components and craft materials into classes ranging from poetry to anatomy. The CREATE Lab team and an experienced middle school teacher will share examples of how Arts & Bots helped highlight students’ Computational Thinking and Engineering Design talents. This will be followed by a broader discussion about the use of creative technologies and cross-curricular projects to help cultivate student Computational Thinking and Engineering Design talents and their benefit to student success in fields beyond computing and engineering.
Wednesday | April 22, 2015
Afternoon
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Wednesday | April 22, 2015 2:30pm 4:45pm
Afternoon
Workshop: Idea Generation: Refining Projects for Grant Funding NSH 1507
Mac Howison, The Sprout Fund Gregg Behr, Grable Foundation Jim Denova, Benedum Foundation Megan Cicconi, Allegheny Intermediate Unit Zee Poerio, St. Louise de Marillac School Don Martin, Intermediate Unit 1 Join representatives from The Sprout Fund, Grable Foundation, Allegheny Intermediate Unit, and Benedum Foundation to brainstorm and refine ideas for grant proposals. Attendees will learn about funding opportunities and hear advice from educators who have been successfully awarded grants. A significant amount of time will be given to guided small group work, in which participants will brainstorm new ideas or refine previous ideas with panelists and other attendees. This is a great opportunity to interact with funders and leave with a workshopped project that may lead to a grant proposal. 2:30pm 4:45pm
Workshop: Learning Experience Design Challenge GHC 6115
Jessica Meyers, ASSET STEM Education Tarabeth Brumfield, Marshall University Carrie Beth Dean, Marshall University Renee Williams Graham, ASSET STEM Education Kevin Hengelbrok, ASSET STEM Education How many times have you gone to a meeting or a conference and said “Wow, that’s a great idea!” but your idea never makes it into action? Most great ideas remain dormant because people don’t have the time and/or resources to take action. In this workshop, participants will have the opportunity to reflect on great ideas they’ve heard, experienced or learned at the conference thus far, or ideas they have been considering for some time; explore different templates for bringing ideas into action; engage with experts and other innovators, creators, and collaborators to grow their idea(s); develop a document to give ideas life and flexibility for continued development; and share their learning experiences with others. For those who are looking for inspiration, facilitators will be available to help educators craft lessons using the Bigshot Camera, a specially designed camera for experiential learning, or the Speck Sensor, an air quality monitor designed by the CREATE Lab. This workshop welcomes all conference participants who are interested in converting a great idea into reality!
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Thursday | April 23, 2015
Morning
8:00am9:00am
Registration
9:00am 10:00am
Keynote: From Computational Imaging to Experiential Learning Camera Shree Nayar
Carnegie Museum of Art
Carnegie Museum of Art Shree K. Nayar is the T.C. Chang Professor of Computer Science at Columbia University. He co-directs the Columbia Vision and Graphics Center and heads the Computer Vision Laboratory (CAVE), which is dedicated to the development of advanced computer vision systems. His research is focused on three broad areas: the creation of novel vision sensors, the design of physics based models for vision, and the development of algorithms for scene interpretation. In 2009, he invented the Bigshot Camera, a kid-friendly digital camera designed for education and currently in use by the CREATE Lab Satellite Network.
10:00am10:15am
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Walk to CMU for Conference Sessions
Thursday | April 23, 2015 10:15am11:15am
Morning
Talk: From Idea to Product: Designing Educational Robots GHC 6501 Tom Lauwers, BirdBrain Technologies Tom will describe the design processes behind the Finch robot and the Hummingbird robotics kit, two projects that have evolved from NSF-backed research projects - to educational products. The Finch robot is the result of an investigation into the use of robotics to improve learning and motivation of students in introductory computer science courses. The Hummingbird robotics kit was designed to enable learning engineering design and computing, through student projects that marry arts & crafts materials with LEDs, motors, sensors, and microcontrollers. Both innovations were the result of an iterative design process centered on collaborations between hardware and software engineers, educators, and students. This process, although not dissimilar from standard engineering design, contains a number of complications due to the nature of designing hardware for education. In his presentation, Tom will discuss the inherently messy and complicated, yet vital, steps involved in going from an idea to a product.
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10:15am11:15am
Talk: Play, Learn and Explore Outdoors through Technology GHC 2109 Martin LeBlanc, IslandWood Can we leverage technology to inspire a new generation to engage in nature? The Nature Passport APP created by IslandWood, an Outdoor Education Center near Seattle and Nature Play Australia, is dedicated to empowering students and their families to play, learn and explore outdoors through the use of an educational technology tool. A generation is suffering from Nature-DeďŹ cit Disorder and the Nature Passport is dedicated to reversing the trend and connecting children, families and communities to the outdoors.
Thursday | April 23, 2015
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Thursday | April 23, 2015
11:30pm 12:30pm
Morning
Talk: Teaching Children to Become Innovators GHC 6501 Melissa Butler, Pittsburgh Allegheny K-5 What does it mean for children to be innovators? How can teachers support students to grow confidence and competence to innovate? And how can school/district administration support teachers in practices that nurture children's habits as innovators, not just teach STEAM content or use new technology tools? This session will share learning from Children's Innovation Project work over the past 5 years, around theories and methods of practice to develop children's habits to notice, wonder and persist. This session will explore what sorts of materials and lesson design limits - allow for maximum opportunities for children to practice such habits, in order for the habits to become internalized by children, and carried into other content areas and learning contexts.
11:30pm 12:30pm
Talk: Mobilizing Art & Technology: Tools Towards Social Change GHC 2109 Tavia La Follette, Artist in Residence, CREATE Lab Heather Mallak, Digital Salad Connect with the creators of two social practice oriented projects that integrate the use of CREATE Lab technologies: GigaPan + CATTfish. These artists tackle complex subjects through the use of everyday actions and objects, coupled with the tech to engage youth, promote awareness, and incite change in communities. In her project, Digital Salad, Heather Mallak of Public Studio collaborates with local growers to mix art-making, technology, and farm education, to produce interactive and edible learning experiences. Tavia La Follette’s Lemonade Project enlightens and empowers youth through the use of science, art and activism. Participants should bring ideas, questions and concerns, so they can be workshopped. The artists will bring their activities, philosophy and problem-solving skills for a brainstorming session on how to use the tools of technology towards social change.
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Thursday | April 23, 2015 10:15am 12:30pm
Morning
Workshop: Game-based Learning & Collaboration Through Design with Institute of Play NSH 1507 Liza Stark, Institute of Play Andrea Henkel, Quest to Learn Emily Hickman, Avonworth Middle School Samantha Abate, Avonworth Middle School This workshop will explore the principles of game-based learning behind the success of the New York City public school Quest to Learn, where teachers collaborate with game designers to create games and curriculum units that situate learning in rich contexts that are relevant to students lives' today. Facilitated by a teacher from Quest to Learn, a game designer from Institute of Play, and teachers from the first cohort of TeacherQuest, a unique professional development program based on the Quest model – launched right here in Pittsburgh! – this workshop will provide an introduction to the basics of game design. Join us to learn how the game design process can create new opportunities for learning and collaboration, for students and teachers alike.
10:15am 12:30pm
Workshop: Learning Experience Design Challenge GHC 6115 Jessica Meyers, ASSET STEM Education Tarabeth Brumfield, Marshall University Carrie Beth Dean, Marshall University Renee Williams Graham, ASSET STEM Education Kevin Hengelbrok, ASSET STEM Education How many times have you gone to a meeting or a conference and said “Wow, that’s a great idea!” but your idea never makes it into action? Most great ideas remain dormant because people don’t have the time and/or resources to take action. In this workshop, participants will have the opportunity to reflect on great ideas they’ve heard, experienced or learned at the conference thus far, or ideas they have been considering for some time; explore different templates for bringing ideas into action; engage with experts and other innovators, creators, and collaborators to grow their idea(s); develop a document to give ideas life and flexibility for continued development; and share their learning experiences with others. For those who are looking for inspiration, facilitators will be available to help educators craft lessons using the Bigshot Camera, a specially designed camera for experiential learning, or the Speck Sensor, an air quality monitor designed by the CREATE Lab. This workshop welcomes all conference participants who are interested in converting a great idea into reality!
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Thursday | April 23, 2015
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Thursday | April 23, 2015 12:30pm 2:00pm
Afternoon
Remake Learning Lunch Sessions
Lunch at GHC 6121, Sessions at GHC 6115, 6501 and NSH 1507 Grab your lunch and join one of three sessions, to hear about interesting and relevant topics that might inspire your teaching. Pittsburgh: A City and a Campus NSH 1507 Peter Wardrip, Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh Through the Pittsburgh City of Learning campaign, young people can navigate new paths of discovery, explore our city’s rich resources, and gain recognition for their accomplishments by earning digital badges. Peter will provide an overview of digital badges and lead a discussion with participants about the goals of the campaign. Engaging Beyond the Classroom: Strategies for Reaching Caregivers GHC 6501 Erica Renfro, Pittsburgh Public Schools Learning does not stop when the bell rings, which is why it is critical that we engage with learners and their caregivers during out-of-school time. Speaking from experiences working both in and out of schools, Erica will present strategies that enable educators to convey important messages to parents and guardians, so as to create more cohesive learning experiences for students. Educational Games: Transformational or Befuddling? GHC 6115 Mike Christel, CMU Entertainment Technology Center (ETC) Gaming is everywhere: from board games to mobile phones. For many students, gaming is fun and exciting but not educational or transformational. Mike will discuss how educational games can be used to create remarkable learning experiences for students, and even be used to elicit positive change among players.
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Thursday | April 23, 2015
Remake Learning Network Rally WQED Studios The Remake Learning Network Rally is an annual showcase of educators and innovators working together to create innovative learning experiences in the greater Pittsburgh region. The Network Rally provides an opportunity for new and prospective network members to learn more about the network, meet current members, learn how to seek funding and support services, connect with potential collaborators and ongoing programs, and access other resources.
Thursday- April 23, 2015
2:00pm5:00pm
Afternoon
More than a dozen organizations will share resources and present support services at the Network Rally including the Allegheny Intermediate Unit & Intermediate Unit 1, APOST, Common Sense Media, the CREATE Lab Satellite Network, Fred Rogers Center, PAEYC, Pittsburgh Technology Council, The Sprout Fund, and WQED Education. The Rally, free and open to all, also serves as the closing public event of CONTEXT 2015. Rally attendees will hear a recap of some of the CONTEXT conversations and meet conference speakers.
Thursday | April 23, 2015
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Finding Your Way
Gates Hillman Complex GHC 6121 Registration and Help Desk; Lunch and Coffee Service As soon as you get off the elevator onto the 6th floor, turn left to find the registration desk. Room 6121 will be opposite the registration desk; it’s a small space with large glass doors
GHC Collaborative Commons CONTEXT Clinic; Lounge area Once you exit the elevator, make a left U turn and go down the hall Part way down the hall, you will see this open area on your right
GHC 6115
GHC 2109
Workshops; CONTEXT Clinic Left off the 6th floor elevator, past the registration desk, at the end of the hall
Panels; Talks Exit elevator on the 2nd floor and turn left, follow the corridor all the way to the end
GHC 6501
Newell Simon Hall
Panels; Talks; CONTEXT Clinic Walk straight off the 6th floor elevator, turn right when you see a sign for this room, walk to the end of the hallway
NSH 1507 Workshops When you enter NSH you will be greeted by the Roboceptionist. Past the Roboceptionist, take a right to find the elevator bank, go down to the 1st floor. Make a left U turn off the elevator, NSH 1507 (aka the ‘Multi Purpose Room’) will be on your right part way down the hall
Access Wireless Network Guest ID: your non-CMU email Password: V2TKT28Y 1. Connect your Wi-Fi enabled device to the CMU-GUEST wireless network. 2. Browse to any web page; you will be redirected to the guest wireless service page. 3. In the Guest Login section, click Log In. 4. Enter a valid (non-CMU) email address and your event access code.* 5. Accept the terms of use and click Log In. Sign upThank at bit.ly/context2016 to receive information about CONTEXT 2016. You!
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Thank You! The CREATE Lab Satellite Network and The Sprout Fund would like to thank the following event sponsors for their generous support:
We would also like to thank the following people for their guidance, assistance and participation: Our wonderful keynote speakers Indira Nair and Shree Nayar for taking the time to be here with us. All our amazing presenters for their hard work and support in making this conference a success. Michele Martin for helping us organize all the fun events at Google Pittsburgh. Catherine Copetas for guiding us through all the logistics involved with running a conference at CMU. Karen Widmaier for always supporting us and answering all our crazy questions. Lou Karas and Jessica Meyers for always offering to help, no matter how busy they are. Illah Nourbakhsh for generously donating copies of his book to conference attendees. Our fabulous conference attendees for their enthusiastic participation.
We are very grateful to the following foundations for their continued support, without which CONTEXT would not be possible:
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Credits
Conference Coordinator: Teresa DeFlitch CREATE Lab Conference Team: Dror Yaron, Beatrice Dias and Rachel Hite Sprout Conference Team: Dustin Stiver and Ryan Coon Pencil Drawings: Courtesy of Children's Innovation Project Program Design: Jacqueline Myra Yeung Web Design: Marissa Morgan Boxed Lunch: Bluebird Kitchen Podcast Coordinator: Alex Woodring Media Volunteers: Satvika Neti, Maya Lassiter, Jacob Klingensmith and Lucy Havens
Thank You!
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