I spent today at the 2010 UTeach Conference here in Austin. UTeach is an acclaimed teacher prep program at the University of Texas. Attendees were mostly K-12 teachers and university professors from across the U.S. I heard about UTeach’s STEM focus (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math), New Technology High Schools in Napa and Manor, project-based learning, Knowing and Learning in Math and Science, etc. I was primarily interested in the possibility of collaborative projects and learning involving multiple classrooms and disciplines, mediated by social technology. I was live tweeting the event. There were multiple sessions per time slot, so I only got a slice of it. (I also missed the events on Tuesday, and probably can’t make it tomorrow – so much more to learn about learning.)
Tag: Sessions
SXSW energy
The energy at SXSW is powerful and chaotic, make that chaordic (chaotically orderly). As ever, I have too much going on, missing a lot of talks I want to see but picking up random bits via Twitter, blogs, etc. Discussed with Paul Miller aka DJ Spooky this morning the impact of drive-by information giving/taking – the advantages are not available to everybody, you have to be something of a mutant to handle the massive random information streaming enabled by evolving hyperconversational technologies. (For some, fracknologies… how the frack do I manage this deluge?)
From the sessions I’ve managed to attend so far, I have a pile of ambitious notes and ideas that I want to weave into some kind of coherent account this week, but that will take some time. Meanwhile taking it all in, and spending much of today setting up for the massive Plutopia 2010 extravaganza tonight (join us!)