Power Up! Connecting Technology to Today's Learners

Power Up! Connecting Technology to Today’s Learners For Grades K-8Oct 18−19, 2012—Rolling Meadows, IL

12 Habits of Top 21st Century Teachers - Keynote

These slides accompany the keynote I give about how to be a top 21st century educator, based on research and my current classroom experiences. This is the extended version with all slides and my notes.

Technology Driven Differentiated Instruction

You can differentiate by planning ahead and building a classroom framework that engages all learners. Select tools that will reach everyone and make it manageable for you. As teacherpreneurs, we must learn to customize and personalize the learning experience. Here's how.

7 Steps to Flatten Your Classroom

Learn how to incorporate global collaboration into any classroom one step at a time. Students are the greatest textbook ever written for one another. Based upon Flattening Classrooms, Engaging Minds coauthored by Vicki Davis and Julie Lindsay.

Wonderful world of wiki wiki teaching

Based upon Vicki's upcoming book, Collaborative Writing in the Cloud, understand the current research about collaborative writing and how to teach students to truly collaborate on wikis. With less than 2-3% of classroom wikis truly broaching a collaborative experience, learn how to do this with your students.

Blogging for a better classroom

Understand how to incorporate blogging into your classroom and improve writing along with some tricks from teacher and edublogger Vicki Davis @coolcatteacher.