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Sunday
, July 12
Georgian Coat Room
12:00pm •
BLC Information Center
White Hill Room
1:00pm •
Image is Everything: Exploring Critical Thinking with Visual Literacies
LIMITED
Monday
, July 13
Beacon Hill Room
8:00am •
RemixED: The Power of Remix, Mashup, and Re-contextualization for the Classroom
LIMITED
Cambridge Room
8:00am •
The Lead Learner
LIMITED
Georgian Coat Room
7:00am •
BLC Information Center
St. James Room
1:00pm •
Collaborative Learning Using Google Tools and Google Classroom
LIMITED
Stuart Room
1:00pm •
The First Five Days
LIMITED
Tuesday
, July 14
Beacon Hill Room
8:00am •
Make du Jour: Cultivating Creativity on a Daily Basis
LIMITED
Cambridge Room
8:00am •
Genius Hour: Reasons & resources for bringing passion-driven learning into your curriculum
LIMITED
1:00pm •
Leadership: Managing the Transition
LIMITED
Georgian Coat Room
7:00am •
BLC Information Center
Plaza Ballroom
5:00pm •
BLC Opening Reception
St. James Room
8:00am •
Google Apps for Education Implementation Schoolwide
LIMITED
1:00pm •
Google Classroom and Digital Portfolios
LIMITED
Statler Room
5:00pm •
BLC Registration
White Hill Room
8:00am •
Assessment: Engaging and Transformative
LIMITED
1:00pm •
iPads for Communication, Collaboration, Critical Thinking and Creativity? It’s Elementary!
LIMITED
Whittier Room
8:00am •
Making Student Thinking Visible
LIMITED
1:00pm •
Create, Learn and Share In Our BLC Makerspace
LIMITED
Wednesday
, July 15
Arlington Room
10:20am •
Finding Meaning in the Masses: Maximizing Your Professional Learning Community
11:45am •
Leadership, Technology, and Technology-Leadership
1:10pm •
Sharing the Student Voice and Personalize Learning
2:35pm •
Assessing students in the 21st century
4:00pm •
Live Curiously! Building Thinking Intensive Learners through Creation, Collaboration and Choice
Beacon Hill Room
10:20am •
Digital Tools that Transform the Teaching and Learning of Writing
2:35pm •
Making Thinking Visible
4:00pm •
Recording Student Learning
Berkeley Room
10:20am •
American Studies: A 21st Century Approach to teaching American History and Culture
11:45am •
Humor as an Assessment Tool
2:35pm •
Creating 'Choose Your Own' Authentic Multi-Modal Assessments
4:00pm •
Prism: Crowd Sourcing Interpretation to Build Close Reading Skills
Boston Park Plaza Main Lobby
6:00am •
BLC Boston Runners
Boylston Room
10:20am •
Breakout EDU
LIMITED
11:45am •
Breakout EDU
LIMITED
1:10pm •
Breakout EDU
LIMITED
2:35pm •
Breakout EDU
LIMITED
Cambridge Room
10:20am •
STEM Across State Lines: What are we learning?
11:45am •
Students as Lesson Designers
1:10pm •
Teaching Graph Literacy
2:35pm •
Teaching Environmental Sustainability
4:00pm •
Start With What You Love: Global Education through Passion-Based, Empathy-Rich Learning
Clarendon Room
10:20am •
Show, Play, Plan
11:45am •
Planning for Success
1:10pm •
Making the Most of Digital Resources: Research Skills for Student-Centered Projects
Commonwealth Room
10:30am •
Drop-in Center
FableVision Studios
6:00pm •
Reception at FableVision
Georgian Coat Room
7:00am •
BLC Information Center
Georgian Room
7:15am •
BLC15 Orientation
10:20am •
Calling All Creatives: Time to Make Your Mark
11:45am •
iPad Tips and Tricks - Getting the Most Learning Out of Your Device
1:10pm •
Transforming Learning: Beyond the $1,000 Pencil (Pencil part is optional)
2:35pm •
#NoPressure: Achieving Social Justice Through Challenge Based Learning in a CTE Environment
4:00pm •
Follow-up Q & A with TA Edison CTE Students
Imperial Ballroom
8:30am •
Welcome and Keynote with Dr. Dylan Wiliam
10:20am •
Keynote Followup
Mezzanine
11:15am •
Lunch Kiosk
11:30am •
Book Signing - Paul and Peter Reynolds
4:00pm •
Book Signing - Alan November
Plaza Ballroom
7:00am •
Continental Breakfast
10:30am •
Small things make a big difference....
11:00am •
Smart Start Your School Culture for Maximum Academics
12:30pm •
Empowering Teachers to Change
1:00pm •
How to take a Selfie with a monkey!
1:30pm •
Sharing on a Grand Scale: A New Zealand-wide Teacher Resource Sharing Site.
2:00pm •
Using an LMS: Do This, Not That
Statler Room
7:00am •
BLC Registration
10:20am •
PBL and the Flipped Learning Connection
11:45am •
Activating student voice as a driver for deeper, personalized learning
1:10pm •
Model Makers: Getting to the Heavy Lifting of Professional Learning
2:35pm •
Flip your Classroom with Office Mix
4:00pm •
Rock Star Lesson Design for Common Core and 1:1
Stuart Room
10:20am •
Less (Teaching) Is More Learning: A Master Class Mini
1:10pm •
Role Models and Renegades: Filling the Wellspring of Good
2:35pm •
There's a Tool for That!
4:00pm •
There's a Tool for That!
White Hill Room
10:20am •
The Cloud is our Campfire: Crowdsourced and Combinatorial Creativity
11:45am •
We Learn Through Stories
2:35pm •
Let It Go
4:00pm •
Let It Go
Whittier Room
10:20am •
Students as Tech Support
11:45am •
Goal Control: The ultimate in academic ownership
1:10pm •
Automous Mastery Learning
2:35pm •
The AASL Best Websites.....25 That Rock Each Year!
4:00pm •
The First Few Weeks; Creating Legacy, Perspective and Leadership
Thursday
, July 16
Arlington Room
11:45am •
Developing Professional Learning Magazines using Flipboard
1:10pm •
Designing Brain-Friendly Spaces for Blended Learning
2:35pm •
Introduction to Google Classroom
4:00pm •
Explore Boston at BLC15: #XploreBosBLC
Beacon Hill Room
11:45am •
Coding with Elementary School Students
1:10pm •
Lesson Crashers
2:35pm •
Makers-Spaces for Learning
Berkeley Room
10:20am •
Got a Toolkit? Let's fill it!
11:45am •
Model Makers: Getting to the Heavy Lifting of Professional Learning
1:10pm •
Professional Learning - A Blended Approach
2:35pm •
When Pigs Fly: Student Lead Distance Learning
4:00pm •
BLC Learning Design Space
Boston Park Plaza Main Lobby
6:00am •
BLC Boston Runners
Boylston Room
10:20am •
Breakout EDU
LIMITED
11:45am •
Breakout EDU
LIMITED
1:10pm •
Breakout EDU
LIMITED
2:35pm •
Breakout EDU
LIMITED
4:00pm •
Breakout EDU
LIMITED
Cambridge Room
11:45am •
Sketchnoting- Visual Note Taking
2:35pm •
Your Professional Digital Footprint: Your Informal Resume
Cambridge Room
1:10pm •
Keynote Followup with Blake Copeland
Clarendon Room
10:20am •
The Global Lens: Tools to Promote Deep Thinking on Big Issues
11:45am •
Problem-Based Authentic Learning: Real, Meaningful Instruction Connected to Standards
1:10pm •
Global STEM Classroom ™ and how to start a global collaboration program in your school (STEM, STEAM and more)
2:35pm •
Making with Poetry
4:00pm •
Playing in the Sandbox with Quick Apple Animation
Commonwealth Room
10:30am •
Drop-in Center
Georgian Coat Room
7:00am •
BLC Information Center
Georgian Room
10:20am •
This is CS50
11:45am •
This is CS50 - Question & Answer with David Malan
1:10pm •
Blending Technology… An Exciting Way to get Formative
2:35pm •
The First Five Days
4:00pm •
Creating with the iPad Tech Share: What’s your favorite app?
Imperial Ballroom
8:30am •
Announcements and Keynote Panel with Lainie Rowell, Amy Burvall, Blake Copeland and Ozgur Akas
Mezzanine
11:15am •
Lunch Kiosk
Plaza Ballroom
7:00am •
Continental Breakfast
10:30am •
Teaching, Learning, and Other 21st Century Buzzwords
11:00am •
Data vs. Knowledge
1:00pm •
The Great Debate on Digital Note-taking and Digital Reading
1:30pm •
Geek Sox: Transforming School Culture
2:00pm •
Tech Tools for Formative Assessments
2:30pm •
Interactive Simulations in Physics Secondary Education and their Effects on Student Achievement
8:00pm •
Creating a Global Repository for Exemplars in Educational Technology
8:00pm •
Re-designing Learning Spaces
8:00pm •
Starting Google Classroom Without the Tears
8:00pm •
Global Speed Networking
9:00pm •
BLC Bash
Plaza Ballroom
4:00pm •
BLC Maker Sessions
St. James Room
11:45am •
Mindfulness: Beyond the Buzzword
1:10pm •
Making Connections with Visual Note Taking
2:35pm •
Individual Student Blogs in Early Childhood: Creating Digital Portfolios for Young Learners with a Focus on Digital Citizenship
Statler Room
10:20am •
10 NEW Digital Tools (and a few extra) and Projects for Your Library & Classroom
11:45am •
Build a Collaborative Classroom and Increase Productivity using OneNote
1:10pm •
Genius Hour: Reasons & resources for bringing passion-driven learning into your curriculum
2:35pm •
Adjust Your Global Vision Lens
4:00pm •
Ready, Set, Tweet!
Stuart Room
11:45am •
PBL Plus: Using Social Media to Turn 'Projects' Into Service
1:10pm •
To Move the Needle, You Have to Have a Needle
2:35pm •
Keynote Followup with Ozgur Akas
White Hill Room
10:20am •
Assessment: Engaging and Transformative
11:45am •
The Fourth Screen
1:10pm •
RemixED: the Power of remix, Mashup, and Re-contextualization in the Classroom
2:35pm •
Automous Mastery Learning
Whittier Room
10:20am •
Student Learning Networks: Building digital communities that ignite powerful learning
11:45am •
Tweet Me This, Tweet Me That
1:10pm •
Learn To Learn: Bring 21st Century PD to Your School
2:35pm •
PLGC: Professional Learning Google Community - Utilizing a Google Community to impact PLCs by increasing collaboration opportunities
Friday
, July 17
Arlington Room
10:20am •
Personalized Learning...Beyond Differentiation
11:45am •
Personalized Learning...Beyond Differentiation
Beacon Hill Room
10:20am •
Fostering Peer Instruction Opportunities (With and Without Technology)
11:45am •
'You Say You Want A Revolution' : Teacher Directed Professional Development
Berkeley Room
11:45am •
Making Connections with Visual Note Taking
1:10pm •
Students becoming leaders: Creating, teaching & inspiring students & teachers!
Boston Park Plaza Main Lobby
6:00am •
BLC Boston Runners
Cambridge Room
10:20am •
Bringing Authentic, Global Learning Experiences to Common Core: Projects that Make a Difference
11:45am •
Accessing and Visualizing School Data for All the Right Reasons
1:10pm •
Engaging on Global Issues: A Social Justice Case Study
Clarendon Room
10:20am •
Listening to Learn
11:45am •
Makers-Spaces for Learning
1:10pm •
Helping Students Creating Public Radio-Style Podcasts
Commonwealth Room
10:30am •
Drop-in Center
Georgian
2:35pm •
Reflection and Next Steps with Alan November
Georgian Coat Room
7:00am •
BLC Information Center
Georgian Room
10:20am •
Advanced Searching for Inquiry Meets the Common Core
1:10pm •
Leadership: Managing the Transition
Imperial Ballroom
8:30am •
Announcements and Keynote with Jennie Magiera
10:20am •
Keynote Followup with Jenny Magiera
Mezzanine
11:15am •
Lunch Kiosk
Plaza Ballroom
7:00am •
Continental Breakfast
11:00am •
Bringing Books to Life
11:30am •
The First Five Days in the Humanities
12:30pm •
Creating “show me what you know” styles of assessment
1:00pm •
Animation Creation
St. James Room
10:20am •
Twitter for Beginners - The Surprisingly Easy Way to Connect Your Students with the World
11:45am •
Kids as Creators: Copyright & Fair Use for Remix Generation
1:10pm •
Google to the Core
Statler Room
10:20am •
Activating student voice as a driver for deeper, personalized learning
11:45am •
Office Sway for Education: Engaging Students, Parents, and Teachers with Interactive Content
White Hill Room
10:20am •
Digital Ethics or The End of the Age of Legends
11:45am •
SYDNEY STEAM Room
1:10pm •
STEAM Wonder
Whittier Room
10:20am •
Coding with Elementary School Students
1:10pm •
Documentation For Learning
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