Looking for an #edtech Workshop? Come Learn With Me!

As most Radical readers know, I'm one of the authors of Teaching the iGeneration -- a title designed to introduce teachers to ways that technology can be used to design lessons that give students opportunities to experiment with essential skills like collaboration, information management and persuasion. 

It's probably the title that I'm most proud of because it is incredibly practical. 

I've shared everything that I know about good teaching in the 21st Century.  Readers -- especially those teaching middle and high schoolers -- should be able to pick up Teaching the iGeneration and begin changing their work immediately. 

That's why YOU -- or the teachers in YOUR school -- might be interested in a series of two-day workshops that I'm delivering in the Spring of 2013.  

Sponsored by Solution Tree, I'll be in San Diego in late March and Saint Paul, Minnesota in early April.  

Each workshop is designed to help teachers find logical first steps towards integrating technology into their instruction.  We'll look at the changing nature of today's learners and discuss the disconnect between the learning spaces that we've created and the learning spaces that our kids crave. 

We'll talk about the strategies that efficient learners take to manage the crush of information in today's hyper-connected world.  We'll examine the differences between students who use social spaces for networking and social spaces for learning. 

We'll explore the changing nature of persuasion in a visual world and talk about how students can generate their own audiences for the issues they care about.

Most importantly, we'll look for overlaps between the work we are CURRENTLY doing and the work that we SHOULD be doing in schools.  We'll innovate at the edges of the box and build bridges between what we know about efficient learning and what our students know about new tools. 

Interested in learning more?

Then download this PDF overview of the workshop:

Download Overview_iGenerationWorkshopREVISED

Or check out the session slides for two Teaching the iGeneration Workshops I delivered back in October and check out the session wiki where most of the resources for my iGeneration workshops are housed.

You can also explore the kind of content that I bring to workshops by exploring the resource pages for the three most recent technology workshops that I delivered:

Using Technology to Create a Highly Engaged Classroom

Building a Bridge to Better Learning for Today's Students

Literacy, Blogging and the Digital Native

What I hope you'll find is that my status as a full time, real live, bona fide practicing classroom teacher brings credibility to conversations about teaching and learning with technology. Everything that I share with audiences are lessons learned through experience -- and that matters. 

Hope you'll consider coming to a workshop this Spring -- and bringing friends! 

There's nothing that I like more than a room full of passionate practitioners who are interested in reimagining the work that we do with kids.

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Related Radical Reads:

What are YOU Using Technology For?

Making Good Technology Choices

Innovation and Intellectual Collisions

Comments

[Hannah Dickerson]

Mr. Ferriter, I am very interested in your knowledge of introducing technology in the classroom. I am a student at the University of South Alabama studying Secondary Education concentrating in math. I think it is a very good idea to use technology in the classroom to enhance learning. I am a hands on learner, so I think it would be very effective. Your workshops sound very interesting. I enjoyed reading your blog.
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[Bill Ferriter]

Hannah wrote:

I am a student at the University of South Alabama studying Secondary
Education concentrating in math. I think it is a very good idea to use
technology in the classroom to enhance learning.

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So heres an interesting question, Hannah: What are the best applications youve seen of technology in the math classroom?

I know thats the area where I struggle to find direct connections between new digital tools and changing learning spaces.

Looking forward to your response,
Bill

[ChandlerStu]

Great images and quotes through your link to "great teaching in the 21st century."

[ChandlerStu]

Definitely want to use these to frame teacher recruitment to our district project on "concept-based inquiry learning in social studies." using the model of science note booking and transferring the same ideas over to social studies. Really enjoying your insights and look forward to sharing them in Jeffco Schools (Colorado).

[Bill Ferriter]

Thanks for the kind words, Stu.

Glad that my content looks useful to you. Thats always rewarding to me!

Rock right on,
Bill