Constructing Modern Knowledge 2015

Sylvia Martinez provided an amazing opening keynote presentation and an evening PreConference Workshop at the 2014 Christa McAuliffe Technology Conference.  NHSTE is excited to announce Sylvia and Gary Stager's summer institute offered in Manchester!

About Constructing Modern Knowledge 2015 . . .

When:  July 7-10, 2015

Where: Radisson Hotel, Manchester, NH USA

Constructing Modern Knowledge is a minds-on institute for educators committed to creativity, collaboration and computing. Participants will have the opportunity to engage in intensive computer-rich project development with peers and a world-class faculty. 

Inspirational guest speakers and social events round out the fantastic event. Leah Buechley, Deborah Meier, Sherry Lassiter, Edith Ackermann and other exceptional thought leaders to be announced shortly are among this year’s guest speakers.

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.

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/video camera and imagination!

Click here or paste the link below into your browser for more information and to register: http://constructingmodernknowledge.com

Please feel free to contact:
Sylvia Martinez
sylvia@inventtolearn.com