Engaging Dialog at #redcamp14...

The conversations are beginning to heat up for #redcamp14! Our faithful and engaged registrants have already provided a proposed line up of sessions that would blow our socks off even if this was to be the end of the list (but we know it won't:) 

So far this May 31 in Red Deer, AB, participants will be choosing between these proposed sessions at #redcamp 2014... the "put it up on the board" process the morning of our event will tell us where the the highest levels of interest are, and that's where the conversations will go!

• Resilient teaching and learning
• Creative teaching and learning
• Inquiry learning
• Integrated curriculum/project-based learning in the middle school cohort
• Inclusion
• Learning workflow 
• Mobile devices
• Competency based learning vs. content based learning
• Flipped classrooms
• Google EDU teaching and learning environments
• Curriculum redesign
• Video tutorial creation
•  ipad e-book creation 
• Blogging in teaching and learning
• The power of social networking in education
• Teaching skateboarding in school
• Empathetic teaching and learning 
• Technology in the elementary classroom
• The teenage brain
• Mindfulness
• Student leadership
• Developmental Assets
• Cognitive Behavioral Theory
• Innovation Day/Genius Hour
• Inspiring Ed
• New AB Education Act/Regulations, Capital Planning, Infrastructure
• The learner is the center in the 21st Century classroom
• Digital leadership or how our school is using social media to gather data
• The entrepreneurial student... and you!
• Little Green Thumbs Program - www.littlegreenthumbs.org
• What can school gardens teach us?... Bring your shovel and smile and we'll show you!
• I would be interested in sharing my journey of transforming my classroom into a 1:1 device classroom
• Humane education - teaching that inspires compassion for animals, people and the environment
• Learning Centers in secondary ELA classroom
• The Great School Assembly
• The Return of the "Redcamp Jam"
• Response to Intervention
• Improving School Literacy

If you are unfamiliar with how edcamps work, please go ahead and reference some of the stories from last year... Ron Eberts wrote about it here. Diane Roberts wrote about it here. Sean Grainger wrote about it here, and Kirby Fecho, a third year preservice teacher wrote about it here. We even had a #redcamp13 song last year! Hey Tim, Ev... what about an encore performance? See you all on May 31!

@redcamp13 Thanks for the great day. Instead of blogging, we sang about it. Here is "Big Brains" youtube.com/watch?v=c2kZ2j… #redcamp13
— Tim Bowman (@BowmanTwits) May 12, 2013

Redcamp is a little different...

  by  stevendepolo 

Maybe I shouldn't say because I don't know for sure, but I think RedCamp is a little different from most edcamps. At our edcamp event we intend to solicit an array of diverse perspectives on how to do education better, faster and maybe even cheaper, (but that one is for another post.) At our first annual event last year we received many comments from participants about how great it was to hear the voices of folks who didn't necessarily work in a school, but that had every reason to be invested in an effective and vibrant education system. The fact that we had undergraduate preservice teachers, active teachers, administrators (senior and school based,) school board members and other civic politicians, education specialists, parents, education assistants and others in the same rooms talking collaboratively with each other all day long was a unique and productive situation. Differing perspectives looking at the same issues led to very engaging dialog.

  by  jurvetson 

Of course there is a lot to be debated about how group conversations evolve, but the spirit of edcamps dictates that the answer is "in the room." We want the "answers" at RedCamp to come from rooms that represent a broad spectrum of interests, expertise, experience and opinion. At #redcamp14 we have an opportunity to represent possiblity in teaching and learning. We promote the concept that our education system has the potential to be the mirror for society instead of the reflection. We believe (like the vast majority of edcampers) that what we do in schools, while responsive to the needs of society, can also shape and form what we do in society. To that end we need to broaden the scope and make education everyone's business.

  by  JonoTakesPhotos 

If you are perosnally invested in better teaching and learning, we need you to be at #redcamp14! Register at the EventBrite button in the sidebar... see you on May 31!