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Building Learning Communities 2012

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7:00am

Continental Breakfast Mezzanine - 2nd Floor Check-in & BLC Information Center Open BLC Information Center - 2nd Floor

7:15am

BLC Orientation Session (sponsored by ePals) Georgian - 2nd Floor

8:30am

BLC Welcome and Keynote with Chris Anderson Imperial Ballroom - 2nd Floor

10:20am

A Practical Map for School Change: Strategies, Considerations, and Applications for Authentic Innovation Arlington - 2nd Floor Assessment 2.0 White Hill - 4th Floor (C wing) Chris Anderson's Keynote Follow up Imperial Ballroom - 2nd Floor Deploying Effective Collaborative Social Learning Platforms Designed for K12 Beacon Hill - 4th Floor (A wing) Flat Stanley Goes Digital Stuart - 4th Floor (C wing) Go Above and Beyond Using the 4 C's ~ Communication, Collaboration, Critical Thinking, & Creativity Statler - 2nd Floor iMovie & Final Cut Pro X Tips Clarendon - 2nd Floor Kids Teaching Kids: Empowering Students through Screencasting Terrace - Lower Lobby Mapping the Road to Innovation: Lessons Learned Visiting Over 20 Schools and Districts Georgian - 2nd Floor Situated Learning - Making the Real-World Clickable with QR Codes Cambridge - 4th Floor (A wing) TeachUNICEF: Fostering Global Citizenship through Online Resources Berkeley - 2nd Floor

11:45am

Where will you take your reading? Whittier - 4th Floor (C wing) BLC in the Classroom: Ideas From Previous Conferences Put Into Action Terrace - Lower Lobby Curation for Learning Cambridge - 4th Floor (A wing) Gaming to Create and Learn Clarendon - 2nd Floor Habitudes for Leading and Learning in the 21st Century Statler - 2nd Floor High School Journalism Can Change the World Beacon Hill - 4th Floor (A wing) Scaling Up: System Wide Transformation Georgian - 2nd Floor Small Shifts, Big Impact: Closing the Gap to Empowered Learning Arlington - 2nd Floor The Values Exchange Community: Enhancing critical thinking, persuasive reasoning and social awareness across the curriculum White Hill - 4th Floor (C wing) What Happens When Second Graders Own Their Timetable Berkeley - 2nd Floor

1:10pm

Developing 21st Century Learners with 19th Century Content Clarendon - 2nd Floor Faculty Research Project: A Year Long Study of Best Practices Across the Curriculum Georgian - 2nd Floor Formative assessment rules, OK? - 101 Wrong Metaphors About The Only Assessment that Matters Statler - 2nd Floor High School Journalism Can Change the World Beacon Hill - 4th Floor (A wing) Learning by Inquiring Terrace - Lower Lobby Reimagining Schools - How to sustain Professional development White Hill - 4th Floor (C wing) Small Shifts, Big Impact: Closing the Gap to Empowered Learning Arlington - 2nd Floor The State of Play: How Gaming Can Enhance Learning Cambridge - 4th Floor (A wing) Reading and Writing Aware Whittier - 4th Floor (C wing)

2:35pm

An Easy Way to Globalize Classroom Activities: Intercultural Virtual Exchange for 21st Century Global Citizenship Berkeley - 2nd Floor Connected from the Start - Global Learning in the Primary Grades Statler - 2nd Floor Global Virtual STEM Classroom and Global Team-Work as 21st century skills Cambridge - 4th Floor (A wing) Leadership: Managing the Transition Georgian - 2nd Floor Leaving Positive Digital Footprints: What’s Your Legacy? Arlington - 2nd Floor Photo Storytelling: Images Tell Amazing Stories Whittier - 4th Floor (C wing) Podcasting for Beginners Stuart - 4th Floor (C wing) Stepping it Up: Learning to Blog FOR your Students White Hill - 4th Floor (C wing) Students as Tech Support Beacon Hill - 4th Floor (A wing) The Future of the Flipped Classroom Terrace - Lower Lobby The Power of Video Clarendon - 2nd Floor

4:00pm

21st Century Learning in Singapore: Lessons Learned from One of the World's Exemplary School Systems Beacon Hill - 4th Floor (A wing) Becoming a Mobile Learner Clarendon - 2nd Floor Building the ∞:1 Program, or why your 1:1 program is short-sighted Cambridge - 4th Floor (A wing) Creating Student Feedback and Authentic Assessments with Screencasts White Hill - 4th Floor (C wing) Flipping the Classroom? … Definitions, Resources, and Tools to Keep You on Your Feet Terrace - Lower Lobby Give Your Students a Global VOICE! Arlington - 2nd Floor iPads for Learning? It's Elementary! Statler - 2nd Floor Learning is ... Georgian - 2nd Floor Models and Probes, Oh My! Stuart - 4th Floor (C wing) Music production for NON Musicians! Whittier - 4th Floor (C wing) Thinking About Flipping? What Does the Research Say? Berkeley - 2nd Floor

6:00pm

Duck Boat (Purchased Tickets Only) Downtown Boston Reception at FableVision FableVision

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