TIES 2013 CONFERENCE TRANSFORMING PEDAGOGY WITH TECHNOLOGY
Visit http://ties2013.ties.k12.mn.us to register for the Conference or Pre-Conference Workshops. Saturday and Sunday Pre-Conference Workshops require additional paid registration.
Take your math lessons to the next level with SMART Notebook features and tools. You'll learn to integrate research-based methods for increasing achievement into your lessons, explore ideas for using your SMART Board as an elementary or middle school mathematics and leave with sample files you can customize. Bring resources and a flash drive to save your work and sample files.
Math Intervention Teacher, Mahtomedi School District
For the past 18 years, I have worked as an educator in the Mahtomedi School District. I am passionate about integrating technology and best practices to engage students and provide them with immediate feedback on their understanding. I am a SMART Exemplary Educator and Ties Exceptional... Read More →
Saturday December 14, 2013 8:30am - 11:30am CST
Greenway C
Come and see how a SMART Board can truly transform your elementary classroom! We'll explore a variety of features, including page recording, SMART recorder, adding sound, creating tables and object animation. You will receive a sample file with pages you can customize. Bring any curriculum that may help you develop lessons and a flash drive to save your work.
Math Intervention Teacher, Mahtomedi School District
For the past 18 years, I have worked as an educator in the Mahtomedi School District. I am passionate about integrating technology and best practices to engage students and provide them with immediate feedback on their understanding. I am a SMART Exemplary Educator and Ties Exceptional... Read More →
Saturday December 14, 2013 12:30pm - 3:30pm CST
Greenway C
See how educators can use the Mac and iPad to create and deliver engaging STEM content. You’ll learn how digital content can personalize learning and help students of all learning styles grasp challenging concepts. You'll explore a range of engaging STEM apps, Multi-Touch textbooks and learning materials available for the iPad, as well as the iTunes U catalog. May contain commercial content.
Learn how one district transformed four second-grade classrooms into one Learning Studio where teachers and students work collaboratively in a unique space filled with technology, 21st-century skills and STEaM. Hear how it has changed our teaching and learning, and take away resources to begin transforming your classroom or school.
This is my 10th year teaching second grade. I have an undergraduate degree from University of Wisconsin- Madison in Elementary Education and a Master of Arts from Hamline University, with a certificate in EL for the Mainstream Teacher. I am currently working in a 21st century Learning... Read More →
Monday December 16, 2013 8:00am - 8:50am CST
Minnetonka
Learn how to develop fluency, support vocabulary and promote comprehension by combining the powerful, research-based strategies of teacher modeling, repeated reading and progress monitoring. Accelerate the reading achievement of Title I, special education, ELL and mainstream students using these research-proven strategies. May contain commercial content.
Find out how to use iPad apps to publish grade K-2 student work in new and exciting ways! Participants will create their own sample lessons so that they can use their new techniques as soon as they get back to the classroom.
Title I Teacher & Technology Integrationist, So. Washington County Schools
Hi there! My name is Jen Sterner and I am a Title I Teacher & Technology Integrationist at Newport Elementary. I am very passionate about early education and spent part of my career piloting a pre-k program in the elementary school setting. As an educator, I find great satisfaction... Read More →
See what personalized learning in primary and intermediate classrooms can look like. Join us in a sharing session where you can engage, question, learn and build capacity for the emerging models of learning, plus learn how to embrace generative learning by moving curriculum from teacher-centered to learner-driven.
It has been a pleasure to be teaching at the primary level for the past 15 years. I have witnessed and embraced the transformation of education and all the potential that it has for our young learners. Currently, I team teach in a K-1 classroom with a generative curriculum, placed... Read More →
Monday December 16, 2013 1:30pm - 2:20pm CST
Greenway D/E
Build on your repertoire of learning strategies with fifteen tried and true methods of how to integrate technology AND leverage learning at all levels of the SAMR model (Substitution, Augmentation, Modification, Redefinition). Strategies include: vocabulary development with Haiku Deck, formative assessments with Nearpod, class discussions with Backchannel Chat and Flipgrid, and many more.
Lynnea West (@lynneawest) is i-Learn Specialist for the Eden Prairie Schools in Eden Prairie, Minnesota. She is currently enrolled in the PhD program at the University of Minnesota in the College of Education and Human Development focusing in Learning Technologies. Lynnea is committed... Read More →
Tuesday December 17, 2013 8:00am - 8:50am CST
Greenway D/E
This hands-on, activity-filled session will focus on leveraging the web, differentiating learning and promoting creativity to enhance what you already do. The iPad has the ability to transform your classroom into something more dynamic, interconnected and personalized.
After a distinguished career as a professional camper and environmental educator, Ben was a digital content specialist and taught junior high science for ten years. Ben is an Apple Teacher, Google Certified Innovator, Google Certified Trainer and a Google Certified Educator - Level... Read More →
Learn how one district set out to personalize learning for all students. We'll cover the differences in implementation between a smaller school and a larger school within the same district, as well as offer a leadership perspective on the pieces needed to transform the way we teach.
We are engineers of tomorrow, crafting our ideas today. Watch us demonstrate with the “make to learn” fabricator software tool, Fab@School Designer, and Makey Makey kits. Observe us programming robots through Lego WeDo. We travel far in our minds, we dream big and we like to share!
A typical PC desktop costs around $800, and classroom amplification systems start at $600. Come see and try a fast, sub-$700 DIY PC with a $400 wireless mic system that lets teachers easily control all their audio sources and create and capture multitrack digital lectures.
