Mohonk+Mountain+Technology+Conference

attended this 2 day event on top of a snowy mountain in the hinterlands of New Paltz.
 * Kris Felicello, Tim Roberson, Lisa Samborachase and Sue Tomko

Day 1: Oct 15 **** th **** (2:00PM-3:30PM) ** “Online Learning – Now is the Time” [|http://www.flvs.net] In 1997, President and CEO Julie Young pioneered the launch of Florida Virtual School with the goal of providing high-quality, online courses to students. It was interesting to learn how the FLVS began and where it is heading. Ms. Young discussed certifications of the teaching staff and the demographics of the students. The online environment allows flexibility for students and instructors to meet at varying times during the day and to commmunicate at almost any time via web conferencing, email, or phone. Perhaps teachers and students should be more prepared to teach and learn online.

“Teaching 2.0: Challenging the Interactive Generation” Dr. Christopher Moersch [|http://www.loticonnection.com] Dr. Moersch discussed turning up the H.E.A.T. in our classrooms....Higher-order thinking, Engaged learning, Authenticty, and Technology Use. He has set up a rubric (LOTI Scale - Levels of Teaching Innovation) for determining the 'heat' of a classroom lesson. **Togy** “Educating the Mobile Generation” Dr. Elliot Soloway and Dr. Cathie Norris [|http://www.goknow.com] For our students, the cell phone is an essential tool in their lives – outside of school. This presentation described how school districts all around the world are embracing cellphone technology and using it for curricular purposes all day, every day - for in school learning activities and for out of school learning opportunities. Right now, a large percentage of schools in the United States ban cell phones. But once schools see that kids are already bringing computers to school and schools don't have to pay for those computers, the light bulb within the schools will light up. Schools will begin to notice that one child brings a Motorola, another brings a Nokia, and yet another brings an iPhone. The solution? You just put a layer of software on top of the phone that makes all those non-homogeneous devices homogeneous with respect to the teacher and the learning activities. Just like a Dell and a Sony and a Gateway. They're different computers. You put a layer of software on top of them and now they're all the same. That's the same idea that will happen in the cell phone computer world. Goknow provides a management piece for the cell phone computer software.
 * Day 1: Oct 15 **** th **** (3:30PM-5:00PM) **
 * Day 2: Oct 16 **** th **** (9:00AM-12:00PM) **

This is one product behind the grant that will provide cell phone computers to 80 - 5th graders at Haverstraw Middle School.
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