Summer Institute

garystager on October 20th, 2008

Rather than spend days listening to a series of speakers, Constructing Modern Knowledge is about action. Attendees will work and interact with educational experts concerned with maximizing the potential of every learner.

While our outstanding faculty is comprised of educational pioneers, bestselling authors and inventors of educational technologies we depend on, the real power of Constructing Modern Knowledge emerges from the collaborative project development of participants.

Each day’s program consists of a discussion of powerful ideas, mini tutorials on-demand, immersive learning adventures designed to challenge one’s thinking, substantial time for project work and a reflection period.

Deborah Meier, the first public school teacher to be declared Macarthur Foundation Genius is one of this year’s exciting guest speakers. Ms. Meier was one of the pioneers in the urban small school movement and has written some of the iconic education reform books of our time.

Popular author and speaker, Lesa Snider King, a leading expert on digital photography and the effective use of images is another guest speaker. Lesa has an uncanny ability to make the techical and artistic aspects of digital imagery accessible to all of us.

This year’s stellar faculty includes veteran educator Herbert Kohl. Herb has written dozens of books about teaching and learning over a distinguished forty-year career as a progressive educator. Constructing Modern Knowledge 2009 is the only place where you will have the opportunity to tinker and think with one of the great educators of the modern era. He will be in-residence for the entire institute!

The agenda will be shaped by the community, but the following is a list of potential themes for exploration:

Creativity and learning Constructivism and constructionism Project-based learning 1:1 Computing Problem solving across the curriculum Student leadership and empowerment Reinventing mathematics education Computer science as a basic skill Storytelling School reform Tinkering Effective professional development Sustaining innovation

21st Century educators need to develop their own technological fluency and understand learning in order to meet the changing needs and expectations of their students.

Constructing Modern Knowledge will help participants enhance their tech skills, expand their vision of how computers may enhance the learning environment and leave with practical ideas to use in the classroom.

Bring your laptop, digital camera and imagination!

Your registration fee includes the entire conference program, free creativity software, gala institute dinner and a night on the town in Boston.

Constructing Modern Knowledge is organized by Gary S. Stager and sponsored by The Constructivist Consortium & the Anytime Anywhere Learning Foundation.

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