Workshop 3

Title: Web 2.0 Pedagogy

Workshop Description:

In this session, you will learn how to “rejig” the learning experiences you provide for your students, to take advantage of social media and free tools available on the Internet to build your students' literacy with ICT. Emphasizing pedagogy over tools, we’ll look at research based approaches to using flickr, wikis, Google Maps, and mashups of a great many more tools that will help your students think more critically, creatively, and ethically with ICT. Bring along your favorite lesson plan and we’ll try to give it a Web 2.0 face-lift in session.

Presenter: Darren Kuropatwa

Darren Kuropatwa’s unique skill set — an in-depth knowledge of pedagogy, leading edge technology skills and boundless creativity — make him a strong change agent in 21st century education. His relaxed confident manner puts participants at ease as he leads them through relevant discussions of how the appropriate application of technology in the day-to-day classroom setting can enhance student learning. Attendees leave eager to apply these ideas in their own classrooms. His leadership and vision in the field of educational technology are known world-wide through his work as one of the founding conveners of the "K12 Online Conference" and his professional blog "A Difference".