CRSTE CyberConference 2010 Sessions

This session discusses the educational impacts of the Berkshire Wireless Learning Initiative (BWLI), a pilot program that provided 1:1 technology access to all students and teachers across five public and private middle schools in western Massachusetts.

Learn how 10th grade students are taking an inquiry stance on information literacy in a participatory library culture to cultivate themselves as connected learners.

This presentation explored the relationship between instructional technology skills and student achievement. Participants explored the technology integration continuum for the future in education and the responsive need for change. It concluded with practical strategies and resources for using and integrating 21st Century Skills into teaching and learning.

This session presented 4 models of student leadership focused on improving technology integration in real schools around the world. Having tech savvy students help solve the authentic problems of 21st century education builds future leaders, learners, and citizens.

Look closely at school policies, identify tools that may veer from these policies but have a positive impact in the classroom. Learn strategies for updating your AUP to address Emerging Technologies and strategies to get everyone on board from colleagues to administration.

In partnering the creative process with the learning of content, the Comic Labs Extreme website provides students with opportunities to expand their imagination and express their knowledge in unique ways. This joint project between the VDOE and the Garfield Foundation provides a new approach to literacy through graphic novel creation.

Using Gizmos from ExploreLearning, the largest collection of online simulations, participants explore concepts in both mathematics and science.

These two sessions were jointly recorded on the Elluminate platform. Sutton's session is text-based.

Technologies are only as effective as in the ways they approximate human thinking and experience! Come explore Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences and explore applications that help students connect, comprehend, create and problem solve!

Using materials from the Creative Commons makes it easy to produce multimedia for web-based publishing. This new type of copyright promotes sharing of creative works across the web and is perfect for students and teachers.