Presenter: Brenda Dyck

Date: December 1, 2008

Location: Notre Dame High School (5006 -49th Avenue Bonnyville AB)

Who should attend: All Grades: Any teachers who have not previously attended introductory sessions to the new Alberta Social Studies curriculum.  This series is designed to assist teachers to understand the basic elements of the new Alberta social studies program of studies. 

About the Workshop

In this extreme makeover session you will learn about easy to use web-supported tools and teaching practices that use technology as an intellectual partner or mindtool (Jonassen, 2000).  Web-based tools and practices that:

• Move students from learning with technology to learning through technology into the area of creativity, problem solving, analysis, or evaluation (Bates, 2000).
• Teach students to think, to use their rational powers, [and] to become better problem solvers” ” (Gagne, 1980)
• Implement idea technologies that solve open ended, real world problems, and foster idea development in students.
• Link technology to problem based learning, a practice that has potential benefits for teachers looking for ways to extend knowledge transfer within the new program of studies.
• Extend collaborative practices from face-to-face collaboration between classroom peers to highly engaging collaboration between students in other cities and countries.
• Use digital text, illustrations or sound to introduce learners to the complex conceptual interrelationships that are often missed when presented in a more linear manner.

About the Presenter:

Brenda Dyck is a teacher, university instructor and technology integration coach from Calgary, Alberta. Author of "The Rebooting of a Teacher's Mind, Brenda writes the "Hotlinks" column in Middle Ground magazine, a publication of the National Middle School Association and is a regular columnist for Education World and Classroom Connect. An international speaker on teaching and technology, her professional contributions earned her the winning place in the 2004 Global Junior Challenge in Rome, Italy for her telecollaborative project “We the Children...". Brenda has been a finalist in the Global SchoolNet's Shared Learning Awards in 2003, 2004 and 2005 and was recently was chosen by Surfaquarium as one of the Top Ten Online Educators for 2005.    

Registration fee: $20.00 (fee includes lunch /refreshments). This session is subsidized by a government grant.

Registration Deadline: November 17, 2008

Course Code: SS09/26

Session will run from 9:00 a.m.-3:30 p.m.

Fax Registration to:780-623-5642

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