Keynote:

Dr. Tim Tyson

It's Time to Upgrade: Making the Case for Change
This keynote explores some of the unprecedented changes that have taken place in the last 100 years, including the role of children and the nature of childhood, the transition from an agricultural society to an industrial society to the information age, and the impact of globalization on our lives. With the ever-increasing pace of change, how do we prepare our students not to just be competitive in the job market they will face, but to lead and shape the future? Dr. Tyson makes the case for creating a educational framework that strives to make learning irresistible within the context of contributing our personal best. Can today's children make our world a better place?

Dr. Tyson’s conference sessions:
• Putting Your Classroom "On the Grid" (Your Blog Presence)
This session is designed to provide teachers who are considering using a blog with insight into extending the classroom into the home and even around the world. This session is not a step by step guide through setting up a blog, but such resources will be presented. Examples of the different ways teachers are using blogs will be shown, and issues surrounding the initial setup and use of blogging in the school setting will be explored.

• Internet Safety
According to recent survey data, 9% of online 5th grade boys have met a stranger from online. Cyber-bullying is on the rise. Online identity theft is among the most rapid growing crimes in the US. What are the real versus the imagined issues surrounding online safety? How do we teach students appropriate online behavior? What practical resources are available to parents and schools? This session will explore these issues and more.

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Flagstaff, AZ at Northern Arizona University

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Dr. Tim Tyson

From Classroom Knowledge to Global Contribution
Too often in today’s discussions about educational technology we focus on the technology. This keynote emphasizes leveraging meaningfulness, significance, and the gift of contribution with the tools we now have available to us. Peppered with a generous number of powerful student-made examples, this presentation reframes our conversation. These students have designed their digital media to be deeply moving and to convey a substantive message in a compelling way that calls for thought and action from everyone who experiences their work. They beg us all to rethink a mindset that underestimates the capacity in our children to have an international voice that can make our world a better place!

Dr. Tyson's conference sessions:
• Is It Time to Upgrade: Making the Case for Change
This session explores some of the unprecedented changes that have taken place in the last 100 years, including the role of children and the nature of childhood, the transition from an agricultural society to an industrial society to the information age, and the impact of globalization on our lives. With the ever increasing pace of change, how do we prepare our students not to just be competitive in the job market they will face, but to lead and shape the future? Dr. Tyson makes the case for creating a educational framework that strives to make learning irresistible within this context. Can today's children make our world a better place? This is a repeat of Dr. Tyson's keynote address at the Peak Performance Conference.

• The Film Festival as a Springboard to Systemic Instructional Change
Producing digital media content is not only well within the financial grasp of most schools, students have the capacity to create compelling and deeply moving content of the same quality you can find at your local video store. While in many ways this medium is the language of their generation, producing student work of exceptional quality does not just happen by "turning students loose" with a video camera and a computer. This session will provide ideas and insight into ways you can leverage the unprecedented excitement of a film festival in your own school community, making learning irresistible while building support for deeper use of technology tools. Few things excite students and parents more than a large audience's critical acclaim of student work. Dr. Tyson will explore ways to make the educational experience of your students more rigorous and demanding by bringing their meaningful contributions to life on the big screen.

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Pueblo High School
3500 S 12th Ave, Tucson, AZ

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Dr. Tim Tyson

The Hyper-Connected Student in the Accountability-Driven Classroom
Digital natives are living with podcasting, YouTube, TeacherTube, Flickr, Zoomr, RSS, the Social Web, mp3 players, FaceBook, My Space, Blogger, Twitter, Tweet, Skypecasting, Slideshare, photocasting, Second Life, online gaming, (the list could go on and on), and every other "new" and exciting Web 2.0 technology that was "just announced today." But the reality of school is that we work, teach, and learn in the Age of Accountability. This presentation will reflect on the continuous partial attention of the students in what is now becoming a hyper connected classroom. What is the teacher to do?! Dr. Tyson will explore learning beyond minimum standards but within the grasp of limited resources.

Dr. Tyson's Conference Sessions:
• Is It Time to Upgrade: Making the Case for Change
This session explores some of the unprecedented changes that have taken place in the last 100 years, including the role of children and the nature of childhood, the transition from an agricultural society to an industrial society to the information age, and the impact of globalization on our lives. With the ever increasing pace of change, how do we prepare our students not to just be competitive in the job market they will face, but to lead and shape the future? Dr. Tyson makes the case for creating a educational framework that strives to make learning irresistible within this context. Can today's children make our world a better place? This is a repeat of Dr. Tyson's keynote address at the Peak Performance Conference.

• Teaching in the Hyper-Connected Classroom
OK, you know how to create a podcast. You know how to blog. You know what an RSS feed is and have your own Bloglines and del.icio.us accounts. You can even make movies. So, now what? In this session Dr. Tyson deconstructs the hyper-connected classroom in a quest for practical practice. This presentation reverse engineers the "classroom on the grid" from an educator's perspective with a focus on understanding by design, essential questions, and curriculum performance standards. In an effort to "put it all together" this presentation takes apart several high performing classrooms.

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Glendale, AZ at Arizona State University at the West Campus

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Keynote:

Hall Davidson
http://discoveryeducatornetwork.com

Thinking Bigger While the World Gets Smaller
Technology has created a cocoon. It surrounds today’s students with their phones, their websites, in their email and in their pockets. It effects fundamental behaviors and creates new kinds of teachable moments. New media environments tap the cocoon for education. Like global corporations, K-12 can use these technologies to become more effective. Wikis, blogs, community spaces, iPods, phones, and search engines are not threats but friends--and fun! Watch examples from these powerful tools for learning. Digital media can even be the 21st century candy for school fundraising!

Coconino Community College (Lone Tree Campus)
2800 S. Lonetree Rd., Flagstaff, AZ

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Alan November
http://www.novemberlearning.com

Alan November’s participation is sponsored by Learning.com

Pueblo High School
3500 S 12th Ave, Tucson, AZ - Directions

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