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Welcome to BLC17! We hope you have an amazing experience! Mark the dates: BLC18 will be here in Boston July 22, 2018 through July 27, 2018!
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Thursday
, July 27
Arlington
10:20am •
Malan - Birds of a Feather Who'd Like to Share Software Together: Teaching Tools that Improve Efficiency and Outcomes
11:45am •
LaPaglia - Continuing the Conversation
1:10pm •
Keynote Followup with Eric Williams
2:35pm •
Richards - Blended Meeting Design: Saving Time and Serving Talents
4:00pm •
Cooper - Problem Based Learning: Scaleable Inquiry!
Beacon Hill
10:20am •
McCurdy - Fostering Curiosity in Student Learning
11:45am •
Marotta - History Comes Alive through Podcasts
1:10pm •
Rodriguez - UDL: Universally Designed Leadership
2:35pm •
Vidler - Ensuring prosperity through education
4:00pm •
Rogers - The ABCs of Designing Rigorous Assignments that Students Love
Berkeley
10:20am •
Brennan - Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You Need?: Design Thinking and PK-5 ELA
11:45am •
Leighton/Picillo - Gamifying Education
1:10pm •
Smith - When You Have Powerful Data on Your Side, Change is No Longer a Dirty Word
2:35pm •
Richardson - Twitter for Beginners -The Surprisingly Easy Way to Connect Your Students with the World
4:00pm •
Shade - Rebranding Schools through Social Media
Boylston
10:20am •
Harju - Breakout EDU - It's Time for Something Different
11:45am •
Harju - Breakout EDU - It's Time for Something Different
1:30pm •
Harju - Breakout EDU - It's Time for Something Different
2:45pm •
Harju - Breakout EDU - It's Time for Something Different
4:00pm •
Harju - Breakout EDU - It's Time for Something Different
Cambridge
10:20am •
Gutierrez - Technology and Special Education: A Shared Vision
11:45am •
Doe/Liston - Collaboration through Genius Hour and Personalized Professional Development
1:10pm •
Quick - Standards Based Grading Using Digital Resources
2:35pm •
Doe/Liston - Around the World in 20 Classrooms
4:00pm •
Thompson - FUN with Augmented Reality
Clarendon
10:20am •
Cummings - Science Buddies: How 5th grade students became inquiry experts and spread the joy of being a scientist to lower elementary students in Pelham, NH.
11:45am •
Salva - Refugees? Under-Schooled Learners? Boost Everyone's Achievement
1:10pm •
Clark - The Professional Passion Project
2:35pm •
Walmsley - Anything TV
4:00pm •
Valentine - Superconnect Your Education World: Leveraging the power of relationships, networks, and a learning mindset to effectively re-design the classroom to bring schools into the 21st century.
Georgian
10:20am •
Gorman - Powerful and Effective Technology Integration: The importance of Going Beyond SAMR
11:45am •
Kuropatwa - Things That Suck About Digital Citizenship
1:10pm •
Rothstein - Better Questions, Better Decisions: Building Consensus with the Right Question Strategy
2:35pm •
Kuropatwa - Providing “Permission To Wonder”: Inquiry as thinking and learning tools
4:00pm •
November - Critical Thinking on the Web
7:30pm •
Global Networking - An informal gathering - come prepared to engage in a topic!
9:00pm •
Annual BLC Bash
Georgian Coat Room
7:00am •
BLC Information Center
Grand Ballroom A
8:30am •
Thursday Keynotes
10:20am •
Van Ledtje - Introducing…Livbit: Igniting Student Voice and Engaging Audience through Video Sharing
Grand Ballroom B
7:30am •
Continental Breakfast
11:45am •
Stubbs - Collaborative Classrooms: Surface to deep in 50 minutes
LearnLaunch
6:00pm •
LearnLaunch Summer Edtech Showcase
Mezzanine
11:45am •
Joy Kirr - Book Signing
Newbury
11:45am •
Taylor - Top Tips for Professional Learning Communities
1:10pm •
Starling - Promoting School Culture with Digital Literacy
2:35pm •
Norris/Soloway - Supporting Synchronous Collaboration with the Collabrify Construction Tools
St. James
10:20am •
Kirr - Shift the Culture of Your Classroom
1:10pm •
Gould - Design Thinking as an Essential Leadership Tool to Nurture Creativity and Inquiry In Schools
4:00pm •
Leighton - Authentic Assessment
Statler
10:30am •
Starling - Our Littlest Innovators
11:30am •
Jones-Pisano - How Do You Activate Their Bird Brains? Teaching Metacognitive Learning Strategies that Promote Literacy
12:30pm •
Stearns - Number Stories: Another Genre to Study
1:00pm •
Pierides - Creating a Gender Inclusive School Climate
1:30pm •
Jones-Pisano - 10 Lifesavers in 20 Minutes! Classroom Management Strategies that Work!
2:00pm •
T.A.Edison Students - Ship in a Box
Stuart
10:20am •
Silk - Mini Machina
11:45am •
Venables - Content Curation - the new wave of text dependent analysis, media literacy, and social media responsibility
1:10pm •
Rogers - Teachers’ Perspectives on PEER Professional Development and How it Has Changed Teaching and Learning
2:35pm •
Polansky - Authentricity: Beyond the Curriculum
4:00pm •
Dunbar - Global Communication and Collaboration in the Classroom with Skype
Terrace
10:20am •
Clavello - Practical Things You Can Do to Lead by Example
11:45am •
Wilkie - Digging In to the 1st 5 Days…and Beyond!
1:10pm •
Asavavatana/Van Ledtje - Talking “Technology”: Teaching Fluent Communicators in the 21st Century
4:00pm •
Asavavatana - Yes They CAN! Code, Create, and Make in Early Childhood!
White Hill
10:20am •
Rowell - Making Thinking Visible: Engaging ALL Learners and Tailoring Instruction
11:45am •
Rodriguez - Universally Designed Professional Development
2:35pm •
Teuber - Design Sprint Part 1
4:00pm •
Teuber - Design Sprint Part 2
Whittier
10:20am •
Richards - Entrepreneurship as an Antidote to Grades and Knowledge Silos
11:45am •
Winstone/Worsnup - Get Going with Apps
1:10pm •
Cassidy - Digital Daily Five
2:35pm •
Lirenman - Innovate with iPad
4:00pm •
Wilkie - #Q2Learn: Students driving their thinking & learning through “Q”uestioning; the essence of an innovative learning environment
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