Another great day at ISTE 2012. Yong Zhao started the day with an inspiring Keynote. We have to stop using testing to measure how we're doing! The things that matter like, Confidence, and Creativity, WE ARE THE BEST OR NEAR THE TOP! The "successful" countries don't view themselves as successful. They want to be more like us! Why won't anyone listen?
I really loved the session on "In School we tweet", what a great plan to connect students to the dynamic professionals on Twitter. Global Connections through twitter are VASTLY more important than the unreasonable fears of social media.
I have been visiting many sessions on the Flipped Classroom. I'm still not convinced it is the BEST platform for teaching kids. I have not heard any "drop dead" explanations why I HAVE to do do this. It really is the BUZZ word right now, but it doesn't seem to change instruction the way I am thinking we need to. All it does is change the timing, not the content. I will keep looking and have a couple more sessions to visit to explore this new way of educating our students.
Besides the fantastic keynote, I am getting more out of informal discussions with my colleagues and other attendees at the conference. i am really getting some great resources. Today I was opened to the world of publishing my own online NEWSPAPER with paper.li This resource has some great potential. I also have been exploring videos on SOPHIA. KAHN gets all the press but these FREE videos are as good if not better.
I also got started on MY BIG CAMPUS tonight and am learning about it and Google APPs. I think both of these have soem great potential for the upcoming school year.
LAST DAY TOMORROW. I am looking forward to getting home and I am looking forward to implementing some of the new ideas!
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