Regis | deep-learning

Regis College MA, July 22-23

Digital-age Math Strand

3 Act Math

The Paperless Math Class

An entire strand dedicated to innovative mathematic teaching led by a leading expert direct from the classroom. Learn tools, techniques, skills and insights to bring your practice to new levels.

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Technology in the classroom

Mathematics or any class. Impart digital-age skills and improve learning across the curriculum. A variety of sessions on offer. See below for more detail.

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Differentiated Instruction

We pride ourselves on bringing the best of many worlds together. We are confident you have never attended a professional development event where such emphasis has been placed on giving you the ability to craft your own personal experience. We make it our business to ensure the greatest possible value through differentiation for each participant.

Mathematics & Technology in the Digital-age

Normally $399 full price

Early Bird $199

until June 30th

Regular Price $249

Includes meals and refreshments.

Recent Testimonials from DEEP Learning Workshop Participants

I really liked many topics in this conference. It's inspired me to improve my teaching process.

Ms. Rommanee Panomwan Na Ayudhaya

So many interesting topics that you cannot make up your mind where to go next!

Joseph S. Beloria

The Discovery and DEEP Dive format is powerful.

Sara Schneeberg

Takeaway Projects are put in place to ensure optimal learning. Ideally, you should have something to take back to your school, ready to implement, come Monday.

Twenty minute Discovery Sessions in the morning allow you to learn someting new and enable you to make informed choices about which afternoon sessions best suit your unique environment.

Fifty minute DEEP Dives in the afternoon allow you to gain deeper insight and take your learning to a deeper level.

Wesley Przybylski

Video Creation for Higher Learning

With the availability of video creation on virtually any device, teachers can create engaging activities that stretch imagination, creativity, and metacognition. This session will give you the understandings and skills to further inspire your students and take their learning to a deeper level.

Sean Thompson

Visual Literacy Boot Camp

"When technology shifts, it bends the culture."

Visual communication is a fundamental part of the digital-age. Teachers need to create more effective pieces of visual communication from posters and charts to infographics and enable their students to do likewise.

Web designers and bloggers neglect developing these skills at their own peril. This session aims to raise awareness of basic design principles to this end.

Wesley Przybylski

Social Media in Education

Social media has become an integral part of our lives since the outbreak of Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Pinterest and the myriad of others. As educators the question remains, "How do we leverage these globally connected programs to transform learning?" Embracing the concept of social media and integrating it into curricula has proven beneficial and increased student participation in learning. Together we can unlock the power of local and global networks for teaching and innovative learning experiences for our students.

Sean Thompson

Digital Story Telling

Tied to visual viteracy, digital story telling is a fundamental skill in the digital-age. Why do we teach exository writing? How do your students present?

By incorporating digital story telling into your curriculum your students move forward exponentially, Demonstrating understanding. Deepening learning. Presenting with authority. We will look at how to incorporate leterary elements into digital story telling as the foundation. We will look at oral presentations, animated science presentations, interactive sharing with slideshow software and simple animation for traditional story telling. If this can benefit your your students. Come.

Danieta Morgan

Building Creative Confidence In an Innovative World

Teachers will be introduced to the process by competing in a challenge to make a marshmallow fly the furthest across the room with accuracy. After diving DEEP in this work, teachers will have the opportunity to put the process in action for themselves. Participants will work collaboratively to go through the process beginning with empathy and creating an action plan that they will implement. This can be based on something they always wanted to try or a problem that they have been trying to solve. Participants will receive feedback and support.

Jeff Moore

Inspiring Students Through Dynamic Communication

Inspiration leads to inquiry. How are we inspiring our students? How does our communication as teachers impact our students’ desire to learn and question the world around them? This workshop will focus on enhancing learning by inspiring students to engage, inquire and explore.

Mike Pelletier & Egmond Boon

The Goople Effect

As a Google Apps and Apple iPad school, hence the name Goople, we have tested and set up a working model for a successful mix of Chromebooks and Apple iPads with Google Apps as the work flow hub. I will demonstrate how to improve your digital workflow, along with approaches to teaching and learning using these mixed tools in a multidisciplinary environment.

Technology focused sessions

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Chrystal Hoe

How can these Chrome Tricks & Extensions make your life easier?

A hands-on, fully participatory tutorial session of how to find and leverage the most effective extensions to increase educational productivity. We will also go over bookmarking and tabs controls in order to support teachers and students increase productivity in their lives.

Chrystal Hoe

FREE apps to improve workflow in Google Drive

Discover Apps that connect with Google Drive such as Wevideo, PDF Mergy and Lucidpress. We will go over some favorites and share what you find helpful in your classes/daily routine. By the end of this session educators walk away with better strategies, tools and options to impart lasting skills at their schools.

Mike Pelletier & Egmond Boon

Using Coding in the Math curriculum

Using many online resources and the Code Avengers curriculum we will demonstrate how coding can be integrated into the math classroom from starting out as a specialized lesson to a broad multi-grade implementation.

We will discuss the why, the challenges and benefits as well as gather feedback from participants as to how they are approaching the global coding phenomenon.

Mike Pelletier

Common Sense Media: Digital Citizenship & Literacy

Explore the great resources offered by CSM and how many schools are using this developed curriculum to benefit the entire school community. Informing parents, students and teachers with daily news about the challenges faced by the use of digital tools in schools and at home and how to offer solutions when issues arise.

We will deep dive into the lessons offered at all grade levels, how to communicate this to staff and parents, and look at how to become a Common Sense Media School. Discover the other tools offered by CSM that benefit all members of the community.

Maureen Devlin

Coding to Learn Math

Code math concepts to learn math. We will examine SCRATCH animations created to illustrate the concept bringing it back to the classroomfurther by examining student creations. The rationale for this learning process will be offered along with a review of strengths and challenges the process presents.

Attendees will have the chance to critique my work, and create their own programs to code math concepts using SCRATCH or other programming languages they are familiar with. The individual challenge will be to take a math concept that is difficult for children to understand and to code that concept using a program language.

Dr. Natalia Kucirkova

Innovative Teaching with Digital Personalised Stories

Personalised learning has become an important aspect of many Western classrooms, yet little is known about its actual implementation. Drawing on a well-recognized instructional methodology and the learning principles of personalisation, I will introduce you to a free tablet/smartphone app developed at The Open University (UK) which facilitates the creation of personalised multimedia stories and templates. I will outline how personalised learning content can engage children in traditional learning experiences in any subject area, support their creative expression and engender innovative classroom practice.

Workshop Objectives

To discover innovative teaching and learning strategies that lead to higher levels of student achievement through collaborative, inquiry based best practice.
To engage in a collaborative, participant centered experiences rooted in constructivist practice.
To experience current digital tools and innovative ideas through hands on challenges and collaboration.
To participate actively with 21st century tools and cutting edge pedagogy to share with colleagues upon returning to school.
To create a professional atmosphere in which participants can collaboratively develop skills and understandings to inform more effective teaching.
To facilitate sustainable professional learning communities and engender attitudes of fearlessness in teaching practice.

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