{"success":true,"data":[{"ID":619,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1449785034,"CreatorID":4735,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Philadelphia Education Moving Forward","Handle":"philadelphia_education_moving_forward","ShortDescription":"Talk with the new Chief Academic Officer of Philadelphia about the challenges and opportunities facing Philadelphia education. This session is both an opportunity to listen to Mr. Hackney's ideas and give critical feedback as Mr. Hackney begins his tenure as CAO of this city.","Description":"","Link":[],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"Q&A","Presenter":["Otis Hackney"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Mayor's Office","City of Philadelphia"],"PresenterEmail":["odhackney3@gmail.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":61,"ScheduleLocationID":10,"SubmitterID":4735,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":5},{"ID":573,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1446398258,"CreatorID":4735,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"School 2.0","Handle":"school_2.0","ShortDescription":"Join Chris Lehmann and Zac Chase in an examination of key theses from their book - Building School 2.0: Creating the Schools We Need. The discussion will center around how participants can return to their places of learning to begin the shift to a more modern education.","Description":"In their book, Building School 2.0: Creating the Schools We Need, Lehmann and Chase outline 95 theses arguing for the best paths forward to modern, humanist schools that effuse and ethic of care. In this conversation, we will examine key theses from the text and discuss what it might mean for participants to return to their places of learning to begin to build these modern schools and shift the course of existing skills. Come join us in a conversation focused on moving from our best theories to authentic practice.","Link":["http:\/\/www.practicaltheory.org","http:\/\/www.autodizactic.com"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"","Presenter":["Chris Lehmann","Zac Chase"],"PresenterAffiliation":["SLA"],"PresenterEmail":["chris@practicaltheory.org","zac.chase@gmail.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":63,"ScheduleLocationID":10,"SubmitterID":4735,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":5},{"ID":560,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1446285125,"CreatorID":4735,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Is the PLN Dead? The Reality of Networks in Education","Handle":"is_the_pln_dead-the_reality_of_networks_in_education","ShortDescription":"With many years of hype behind us around the value of personal networks\/networking, this conservations aims to uncover the realities of social networking in teaching, learning, and professional development. Is the PLN dead? Or, do we need to reimagine the role of networks in education?","Description":"For many years, the development of personal learning networks has been touted as an essential activity toward the improvement of teaching, learning, and professional development activities for educators and students. Subsequently, professional development events are abuzz with educators touting the value of Twitter often sharing rich anecdotes of connection and collaboration. Yet, the landscape around social networking services has changed dramatically. As more people come online and accumulate followers, there is often more noise than there is signal. Additionally, algorithms employed by major social networking services create filter bubbles and alter the nature of our activity streams. Network fatigue and emerging new services make it more difficult to \"ask of the network\" and there seems to be fewer success stories as compared to the golden years of the PLN. In this session, we aim to guide participants in interrogating their successes and failures with social networking tools and methodologies in their educational practice. Through this conversation, we hope to uncover the reality beyond the hype and work towards a new paradigm for the use of social networking by educators and students. If the PLN is truly dead, this session will allow us to move forward and reimagine the role that ubiquitous social technologies have in our professional and personal lives.","Link":[],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"This conversation will begin with a short historical overview of growth and hype cycle of personal learning networks. Then, through a focus on personal storytelling by the participants, we will collectively begin to develop a framework (or frameworks) for a renewed vision for networks in education. Such concept development will certainly rely on a number of recording, diagramming, and charting tools, but more so, on the creativity of the participants in co-developing and sharing their ideas.","Presenter":["Alec Couros","Dean Shareski"],"PresenterAffiliation":["University of Regina","Discovery Education"],"PresenterEmail":["couros@gmail.com","shareski@gmail.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":64,"ScheduleLocationID":10,"SubmitterID":4735,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":5},{"ID":583,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1446416079,"CreatorID":4735,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"The Privileged Voices in Education 3.0","Handle":"the_privileged_voices_in_education_3.0","ShortDescription":"Whose voices are heard in education (education reform, education technology) circles? While it might be easy to identify (and lambast) the \"corporate\" voices, are we truly offering and supporting diverse voices in response? Who gets to speak \"for\" students, for teachers, for change? How can we do better?","Description":"The people that are often praised as education leaders, no matter where they might sit on the \" politics of education reform\" spectrum  -- the right or the left, from the public or private sector, \"insiders\" or \"outsiders\" -- often share a lot in common: namely, their privilege. Their class privilege. Their gender privilege. Their racial privilege. Their age privilege. Their health privilege. Their credential privilege.\r\n\r\nWe need to stop and ask: whose voices are we hearing? Whose voices are we ignoring? Whose voices are we amplifying? Whose voices are we squelching?\r\n\r\nEducator Jose Vilson and Audrey Watters will talk about the \"Top 10\" lists that get crafted, the awards and the recognition that get given, and how we can address questions of diversity (or the lack of diversity) therein. They'll chat race, class, gender and the future of education (which is almost the title of Vilson's new book!), how privilege plays out in the politics of education, and how it plays out in those we send into the public sphere to articulate our political (and pedagogical) positions. We\u2019ll also discuss #BlackLivesMatter, #AssaultAtSpringValleyHigh, and the pindrop silence from too many educators.","Link":["http:\/\/thejosevilson.com"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"We could start with a question that seems to be popular among ed(tech) bloggers: who are the most prominent voices in education? Let's reflect on who these are? Who's missing? This session will begin as a conversation between Vilson and someone soon-to-be-named, but the goal is to open some of our provocations up to the larger audience.","Presenter":["Jose Vilson","Audrey Watters"],"PresenterAffiliation":["EduColor"],"PresenterEmail":["jose.l.vilson@gmail.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":69,"ScheduleLocationID":10,"SubmitterID":4735,"AdditionalComments":"I need some commitments before I find out who my co-presenter will be.","LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":5},{"ID":543,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1445993400,"CreatorID":4735,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Social Justice Teaching and Learning: Empowering Students to Change the World","Handle":"social_justice_teaching_and_learning--empowering_students_to_change_the_world","ShortDescription":"What do you believe is the purpose of school? Your role as an educator? We believe a significant piece of both revolves around social justice teaching and learning. Preparing students to be active and engaged citizens requires having difficult conversations and exploring challenging topics. Together we\u2019ll explore the possibilities across K-12.","Description":"The goal of this session is to explore possibilities for social justice teaching and learning from kindergarten through high school. We will begin by discussing, as a group, what social justice teaching and learning look like and entail. We will form some definitions and explanations.\r\nThen we will briefly share what we have done in our classrooms (kindergarten, 3rd grade, and high school English).\r\nWe will spend some time discussing how our work in classrooms does or does not look like what we previously decided social justice teaching and learning is.\r\nWe will work in groups to develop ideas for social justice teaching and learning in our classrooms, schools, or districts.\r\nMuch of the work we are sharing builds from Vivian Vasquez and Sonia Nieto and we will share some resources.","Link":["http:\/\/jenorr.com","http:\/\/dahliaconstantine.com"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"Forming definitions and explanations as a group - we can record these on a google doc\r\ncomparing experiences, both of the three of us as well as other participants, with the definitions and explanations we created\r\nwe also intend to have time to brainstorm in small groups how this could or does look in our schools and how to continue growing with it","Presenter":["Jennifer Orr","Dahlia Constantine","Lauren Jensen"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Lynbrook Elementary","Teachers College","Glen Cove High School"],"PresenterEmail":["jenorr@gmail.com","dah127@tc.columbia.edu","lajensen@glencove.k12.ny.us"],"ScheduleSlotID":71,"ScheduleLocationID":10,"SubmitterID":4735,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":5},{"ID":616,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1449090450,"CreatorID":4735,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Creativity Isn't Just for the Gifted. Let's Change That!","Handle":"creativity_isn-t_just_for_the_gifted._let-s_change_that","ShortDescription":"We know that inquiry driven practices supported by technology can help close the student opportunity gap. In many schools, struggling students, especially those of poverty or color, experience such learning the least. How do our own practices, beliefs and decisions lead to deeper inequities? Join us as we create\/share thinking points meant to shift the access ratio, increasing opportunities for the kids that need it most.","Description":"","Link":[],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"","Presenter":["Rafranz Davis","Julian Miller"],"PresenterAffiliation":[],"PresenterEmail":["rafranz11@gmail.com","julian@learnmetrics.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":72,"ScheduleLocationID":10,"SubmitterID":4735,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":5}],"conditions":{"Status":"Accepted","ConferenceID":5,"ScheduleLocationID":10},"total":6,"limit":false,"offset":false}