FETC 2018

Session Code: C517

Thursday, January 25, 2018

3:20 PM - 4:00 PM 

Room: North 230A 

Venue: Orange County Convention Center

Come and experience a student-centered classroom using a seamless plug-and-play digital learning ecosystem. We will explore vignettes of a teacher, student, and administrator as they go about their daily tasks in a digital environment optimized for authentic learning. You will hear from a panel of educational leaders who are implementing tools and techniques that are improving learning experiences for students while reducing costs and implementation time. You will have an opportunity to share your own work in this area. And you will walk away with strategies for remodeling your learning system to empower all stakeholders. In this session, we will learn from one another about the technologies and standards that any district, regardless of size, can start using today.
Panelists: Tom Ingram, Director Information Technology, Escambia County Schools, FL; Mike Cicchetti, Volusia Country Schools, Coordinator Learning Technologies; Jill Hobson, K-12 Institutional Program Manager, 1EdTech Consortium

Session Code: C76

Friday, January 26, 2018

10:00 AM - 11:00 AM 

Room: South 330H 

Venue: Orange County Convention Center

 

Student-centered learning is achievable when information technology works together seamlessly. As K-12 districts build rich technology ecosystems that allow greater flexibility and choice, school IT leaders are increasingly selecting digital tools and learning resources based, in part, on interoperability. Achieving this vision of a pervasive ecosystem requires leadership, collaboration, and a strategy for how to apply technology at scale to improve instruction and personalize learning. In this session, you will learn how leaders in the K-12 community are establishing a “plug-and-play” EdTech ecosystem that delivers demonstrably better experiences for students, teachers, and administrators. In this session, 1EdTech CEO Rob Abel and Maurice Draggon will outline the key characteristics of emerging digital education ecosystems as well as new opportunities for collaboration and innovation.
Panelists: Maurice Draggon, Director of the Instructional Management System, Orange County Public Schools; Rob Abel, Ed.D. , Chief Executive Officer, 1EdTech Consortium; Tina Barrios, Assistant Superintendent, School Board of Polk County

 

Session Code: W155

Wednesday, January 24, 2018

8:00 AM - 10:00 AM

Room: South 330H 

Venue: Orange County Convention Center

 

How do school IT leaders build a back-office solution that supports cutting-edge curriculum and pedagogy to embrace personalized learning, modern communication styles and learner-centric techniques? You can integrate technology that creates meaning and purpose for learners, teachers and other stakeholders that are unique to your specific community. Discover how to use the Integrated Learning Ecosystem as a canvas, as you learn a thoughtful design process for accelerating personalized learning that gives you incredible insight on how to integrate IT systems seamlessly to deliver the right combination of digital content, collaborative tools and online learning environments. Join the conversation, discover meaningful technology strategies for leveraging industry standards, and walk away with a roadmap for building an ecosystem that meets the unique needs of your schools to empower teachers and learners on the path to personalization.

 

It seems EVERYONE is building an LOR — Learning Object Repository. And we mean everyone: states, districts, virtual schools, and vendors. LORs are critical to delivering personalized Open Education Resources effectively to each student when and where they need it. But without LOR interoperability, schools, in effect, put open resources in closed repositories. Join us in this BYOD workshop to learn about 1EdTech's initiative to establish the LOR interoperability standard and how this initiative will help your district in establishing an "open" LOR. You'll get hands-on with the back end of the OpenEd platform to test drive a standards-based LOR engine. You'll also discover critical design specifications and techniques you will need to build or select a repository that is right for your district.

Session Code: W168

Wednesday, January 24, 2018

10:30 AM - 12:30 PM

Room: South 331A

Venue: Orange County Convention Center

 

Whether you're just getting started with your student data privacy program or are looking for guidance on how to improve your practices, this BYOD workshop will guide you through some fundamental requirements and processes for managing personally identifiable information and help you begin to bridge the trust gap with parents and other community stakeholders. You'll come away with an understanding of key legislation, areas to focus on when developing or improving your compliance program, and how to communicate your privacy work within the community to reassure parents about how you are protecting the privacy of student data. You'll also hear from recipients of CoSN's Trusted Learning Environment Seal about how the program helped them reframe the privacy conversation within their communities to one of trust and transparency, and gain guidance on how you can do the same.

LUNCH & LEARN: Impacting Teaching and Learning via Open Standards, Google Solutions and Microsoft 365

K12 Federation: Moving School IT Ahead Through Shared Services

Session Code: SM2

Room: South 230A

Friday, January 26, 2018

10:00 AM - 11:00 AM

Venue: Orange County Convention Center

 

A Learning Object Repository (LOR) is an essential cornerstone for an interoperable K-12 digital learning environment. A well-designed LOR houses all digital resources involved in the learning process, from licensed content and digital courseware to OERs and student-, teacher- and district-created content. Join leaders from innovative Florida districts to learn how they are using their LOR to simplify digital instruction and eliminate the need for multiple logins and time spent searching the internet for resources. Discover how a LOR provides easy access to SMART learning objects, vetted for quality and correlated to learning standards, for use in Google Classroom and LMSs.

Session Code: C725

Friday, January 26, 2018

10:00 AM - 11:00 AM

Room: North 330A

Venue: Orange County Convention Center

 

How do we advance current curriculum and pedagogy to embrace modern learning, communication styles and techniques? How do we make technology in our schools meaningful to learners, teachers and the community at large? The Integrated Learning Ecosystem is the blank canvas that when used in our classrooms could provide better insight into the type of material, activities, and environments our learners respond and engage, hence actually personalizing learning. Join the conversation on how using meaningful technology strategies and standards within our schools will not only empower our teachers and learners but the learning community as a whole. We will cover the merging of next generation pedagogy, open education resources, common assessments and project based learning can not only reach learners in new ways but push the limits of the learning.