Camp Plug and Play 7.0: Let TIM Guide You
| Date: | June 11-15, 2012 |
| Registration: | June 11: 12:15-1:00pm |
| Event Time: | June 11: 1:00-5:15pm, June 12: 8:30-4:00pm, June 13: 8:30-4:45pm, June 14: 8:30-5:30pm, June 15: 8:30-12:00pm |
| Location: |
Westward Look 245 East Ina Rd Tucson, AZ 85704 |
| Cost: | $400.00 |
| Deadline: | May 23rd, 2012 |
Camp Plug & Play 7.0 offers a world-class professional development experience where participants dive into one of six topics for the week. Each strand is taught by knowledgeable and patient trainers who have a strong passion for empowering teachers and students with technology.
Registration includes your own room Monday until Friday and delicious breakfasts and lunches. Most importantly, you receive practical instruction and lots of hands-on time so that you leave with new knowledge, skills, and confidence to use what you’ve learned in your classroom.
The week kicks off with an inspirational keynote presentation by Wesley Fryer, author of Playing with Media. After the keynote, participants meet in their learning strands where they will spend the rest of the week learning and creating. In addition to direct instruction and work time, Camp Plug & Play offers evening breakout sessions about popular topics.
Another evening session is Ignite Night. Campers are invited to make five-minute presentations consisting of exactly 20 slides which are shown on the screen for exactly 15 seconds each.
To make sure the technology works smoothly, the Arizona K12 Center provides a MacBook for each participant to use during the day. Although you might not be a Macintosh user, what you learn at camp will certainly be applicable to computers running Windows.
Please watch for an email from the Arizona K12 Center in the weeks leading up to Camp Plug & Play for information about the camp's online social network, your learning strand, Ignite Night, and breakout sessions.
Camp Plug & Play is a great way to spend some of your summer! This is your opportunity to join a group of Arizona educators who, like you, are passionate about engaging today's students in their learning.
Let TIM Guide You
TIM is here to help you take a step forward from a teacher directed classroom to one where the students have some choice with the available technology they use. The Arizona K12 Center created the Arizona Technology Integration Matrix at azk12.org/tim with the belief that “encouraging the seamless use of technology in all curriculum areas and promoting technology is essential in today's 21st Century Classroom. The Arizona Technology Integration Matrix can help support the full integration of technology in Arizona’s schools.”
Using the structure of the TIM’s five interdependent characteristics of meaningful learning environments: active, collaborative, constructive, authentic, and goal directed, spend the week engaged in activities to move your practice from the adoption level of technology integration (“The teacher directs students in the conventional use of tool-based software.”) to the adaptation level (“The teacher encourages adaptation of tool-based software by allowing students to select a tool and modify its use to accomplish the task at hand.”) of technology integration. Explore the sample lessons on the TIM, as well as other examples of active, collaborative, constructive, and authentic lessons. Learn about some of the best online technology tools to support a more student-centric classroom. Leave with a developed lesson matched to your content area.
The atmosphere for this strand will encourage questioning, sharing of knowledge, collaborating and contributing ideas.
In Let TIM Guide You, you will:
* Explore free Web tools to support communication and collaboration
* Examine the characteristics of learning environments
* Discover how a problem/project-based learning model supports the Adapted classroom
* Learn how to manage a student-centered classroom
* Craft at least one lesson that integrates technology at the Adaptation level
* Become familiar with the best online resources for teaching and learning with technology
