2019 Illinois Education and Technology Conference: Full Schedule

Welcome to #IETC19!
For full conference details, please visit il-edtech.org.

9:45am CST

Digital Citizenship and Media Literacy in a World of Memes and Fake News

Presenters

Shawn McCusker

Senior Instructor, EdTechTeacher

Shawn McCusker has 25 years of experience as a middle and high school teacher in public, private and alternative schools. In 2006, he was recognized as a finalist for the Golden Apple Award for Excellence in Teaching. An innovator in the creation and organization of online learning... Read More →

Thursday November 14, 2019 9:45am - 10:45am CST
Plaza B

Spotlight Presentation, Digital Learning and Innovative Practices

9:45am CST

That’s The SHEET

Presenters

Jennifer Leban

Creative Technology Teacher, Elmhurst CUSD 205

Jennifer Leban is a 2020 IL State Teacher of the Year Finalist and 2019-20 Teach Plus Illinois Teaching Policy Fellow. A National Board Certified Teacher, Jennifer teaches creative technology and visual arts classes at Sandburg Middle School in Elmhurst, IL. In 2018, Jennifer was... Read More →

Terence White

Technology Learning Coach, Mannheim School District 83

Terence is a Technology Learning Coach at Scott School in Melrose Park, Illinois. In his 9th year of education, Terence is extremely passionate about equity, technology and instilling the love of learning in his students and teachers. As a Certified Google Educator and Innovator... Read More →

That's the Sheet pdf

Thursday November 14, 2019 9:45am - 10:45am CST
Plaza F

Spotlight Presentation, Digital Learning and Innovative Practices

11:15am CST

GeoCraft: Google Geo Tools

This session explores Google Tour Creator, Tour Builder, and My Maps as instructional, building tools for K-12 classrooms that can be integrated into Google Earth. Tour Builder & My Maps also allow users to share places visited and relate course-specific content. Participants will also learn geeky steps in bringing Geo Tools together for powerful classroom applications.

Presenters

Micah Shippee, PhD

Samsung

Dr. Micah Shippee, is the Director of Education Technology Consulting and Solutions at Samsung. Micah and his team design, develop, and deliver learning solutions to inspire and empower educators and learners. The team strives to amplify the meaningful work in education by supporting... Read More →

Thursday November 14, 2019 11:15am - 12:15pm CST
Plaza F

Spotlight Presentation, Digital Learning and Innovative Practices

11:15am CST

Learning by Doing: The Power of Immersive Learning Experiences

There are some lessons that a lecture and a slide deck just cannot teach. What do these lessons have in common? Many educational trends such as AR/VR technology, Action Civics and PBL have and their core one key idea: SITUATED COGNITION. How can we work to create more meaningful experiences for our students and tap into the great power Immersive Learning.

Presenters

Shawn McCusker

Senior Instructor, EdTechTeacher

Thursday November 14, 2019 11:15am - 12:15pm CST
Plaza B

Spotlight Presentation, Digital Learning and Innovative Practices

12:25pm CST

Key Levers for Maximizing School Change

The best schools are using some of the same tactics to move forward in their efforts to redesign learning and schools. These tactics, based in research, allow schools to shift their work to areas that make a powerful difference for the lives of all students. This session synthesizes the work of many schools around their country and their success in supporting the whole child.

Presenters

Robert Dillon

School Designer, Innovative School Designs

Dr. Robert Dillon has served as a thought leader in education over the last twenty years as a teacher, principal, and director of innovation. Dr. Dillon has a passion to change the educational landscape by building excellent engaging schools for all students. Dr. Dillon serves on... Read More →

Thursday November 14, 2019 12:25pm - 1:25pm CST
Plaza B

Spotlight Presentation, Leadership/Professional Development

12:25pm CST

Manage Your Time or Time Will Manage You

We all have the same 24 hours in a day - so why are some people killing it and others struggling to get by? This engaging session looks to neuroscience to help provide strategies to cure the nemesis that is time management.

Presenters

PJ Caposey

Superintendent / Author, Meridian CUSD 223

Award winning educator, author x 7, keynote speaker. https://www.amazon.com/P.-J.-Caposey/e/B00DVY1BMI%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share

IETC Time Management pdf

Keynote BIO pdf

Thursday November 14, 2019 12:25pm - 1:25pm CST
Plaza F

Spotlight Presentation, Leadership/Professional Development

1:35pm CST

Hey! Ho! Let’s Go!: 360-degree virtual field trips

This session explores the exciting world of 360-degree images from all over the world. Bring a place, nearly any place, to your students! Participants will explore visual content curated through Google Street View and viewable as 360 pics and/or Google Cardboard. With hands-on experience, attendees will learn to access this information and create their own!

Presenters

Micah Shippee, PhD

Samsung

Thursday November 14, 2019 1:35pm - 2:35pm CST
Plaza F

Spotlight Presentation, Digital Learning and Innovative Practices

1:35pm CST

Starting the Learning Space Design Conversation

Key questions are emerging in the conversations happening in schools around learning space design. This session looks at nine key questions that when considered by all stakeholders can bring a new lens to how to design spaces that impact learning. These questions support all teachers, and they are designed to be used with all school buildings from the oldest to the new build.

Presenters

Robert Dillon

School Designer, Innovative School Designs

Thursday November 14, 2019 1:35pm - 2:35pm CST
Plaza B

Spotlight Presentation, Digital Learning and Innovative Practices

3:00pm CST

Leading Innovation in Civic Education: Preparing Citizens for a Modern World

Presenters

Shawn McCusker

Senior Instructor, EdTechTeacher

Thursday November 14, 2019 3:00pm - 4:00pm CST
Plaza B

Spotlight Presentation, Digital Learning and Innovative Practices

3:00pm CST

Tyranny of the Status Quo

Organizational and personal change are hard but necessary. This presentation calls on facts, figures, and trends to help provide strategies for personal, professional, and organizational growth.

Presenters

PJ Caposey

Superintendent / Author, Meridian CUSD 223

Award winning educator, author x 7, keynote speaker. https://www.amazon.com/P.-J.-Caposey/e/B00DVY1BMI%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share

IETC Student Engagement Status Quo pdf

Thursday November 14, 2019 3:00pm - 4:00pm CST
Plaza F

Spotlight Presentation, Leadership/Professional Development

8:00am CST

Healthy Grading

What is all this talk about “fair” grading? Teachers all around the world battle it out on Twitter, Facebook, blog posts, and even with parents - Let’s teach responsibility! I want to hold my students accountable! Let’s get rid of the five-paragraph essay! No more grades at all! But what is behind all of that discussion? And how can you apply solid ideas to your current situation? Key ideas about grading will be discussed by participants in this hands-on session. With the presenter as a guide, we’ll decide if certain “status quo” ideas are necessary in a classroom, nice to have, or if they should be taken out of the equation completely.

Presenters

Joy Kirr

7th grade ELA Teacher, Thomas Middle School, Arlington Heights, IL

Joy was first a special education teacher of deaf & hard-of-hearing students, and next became a reading specialist and National Board Certified. Now in her 25th year of teaching, she learns alongside 7th graders. Joy is passionate about students owning their own learning, doesn’t... Read More →

Healthy Grading Circles pdf

Friday November 15, 2019 8:00am - 8:50am CST
Plaza F

Spotlight Presentation, Digital Learning and Innovative Practices

8:00am CST

The Power of Gamification

Start revving up your classroom engagement by applying effective game mechanics to your course design. Begin to create playful, personalized, and powerful learning experiences for your students by thinking like a game designer by using effective game mechanics. No matter what age you teach, how much technology you have, or how much you play games this session will help you see your classroom through a new lens and begin to construct experiences that impact students forever.

Presenters

Michael Matera

Teacher, Author, EMC2 Learning

Michael Matera (@MrMatera) is a Milwaukee, Wisconsin-based sixth grade teacher and the author of eXPlore Like a Pirate: Gamification and Game-Inspired Course Design to Engage, Enrich and Elevate Your Learners. He is an engaging, fun, and inspiring nationwide speaker delivering keynotes, workshops, and small... Read More →

Friday November 15, 2019 8:00am - 8:50am CST
Plaza D

Spotlight Presentation, Digital Learning and Innovative Practices

9:00am CST

Click Here, Comrade: Navigating Online Information in the 21st Century

Come learn specific tips and tricks to verify the authenticity and origin of online information. Our democracy depends on it!

Presenters

Julie Smith

Author, Webster University

On Faculty at Webster University in St Louis for 22 yearsAuthor of "Master the Media: How Teaching Media Literacy Can Save our Plugged-In World"Author of "Wake 'Em Up! Supercharging Student Engagement in the College Classroom"Interviewed by the Los Angeles Times, Washington Post... Read More →

Friday November 15, 2019 9:00am - 9:50am CST
Plaza F

Spotlight Presentation, Digital Learning and Innovative Practices

11:00am CST

Visual Literacy and Fluency Skills in the Classroom

Presenters

Jennifer Leban

Creative Technology Teacher, Elmhurst CUSD 205

Terence White

Technology Learning Coach, Mannheim School District 83

Visual Literacy pdf

Friday November 15, 2019 11:00am - 11:50am CST
Plaza D

Spotlight Presentation, Digital Learning and Innovative Practices

1:00pm CST

Immersive Learning

Unlock your creativity and inspire the whole child as you discover how game inspired course design can transform the landscape of learning in your classroom and beyond. Learn how to create a classroom model where students dive deep into content, develop real world skills, and collaborate to tackle challenges and reach their full potential. This make-and-take ideas session provides a treasure trove of tools, examples, and takeaways you can implement immediately. Push play, level up, and your course will never be the same…

Presenters

Michael Matera

Teacher, Author, EMC2 Learning

Friday November 15, 2019 1:00pm - 1:50pm CST
Plaza D

Spotlight Presentation, Digital Learning and Innovative Practices

1:00pm CST

26 Things Every Educator Should Know About Social Media

Time for us to go WAY beyond “be nice online” and help our students understand terms of service, Googlebombing, deep fakes and textual poaching. Let’s help them realize the role they play in social media’s economic structure, how they use social media and how social media use THEM.

Presenters

Julie Smith

Author, Webster University

Friday November 15, 2019 1:00pm - 1:50pm CST
Plaza F

Spotlight Presentation, Digital Learning and Innovative Practices

2:00pm CST

Once Upon a Paper: Empower, Enhance and Support Learning with a Single Drawing

There’s a an incredible learner in each of us. An inner voice, an ultimate learner, an unwavering cheerleader, a fearless risk taker...it is our Learning Mascot! This hands-on, create and use session with connect you with a single, self created doodle that empowers us to draw, enhances our visual thinking, supports positive mindset and improves our learning.

Presenters

Carrie Baughcum (she/her/hers)

6/7/8 Extended Resource Teacher, South Middle School, Arlington Heights, IL

Carrie Baughcum is a mother, wife, mismatch sock wearer, a self described inspiration junkie, learning enthusiast and most of all a passionate believer that all children can learn, we just need to find out how. As a teacher of students who receive supports and services through their... Read More →

Friday November 15, 2019 2:00pm - 2:50pm CST
Plaza D

Spotlight Presentation, Digital Learning and Innovative Practices

2:00pm CST

What’s the Hoopla over Personalized Learning?

What's the big hoopla over Genius Hour and other forms of personalized learning? Why hand over precious class time to the students? This session focuses on the many reasons WHY you should be doing passion-based learning in your classroom. If you are armed with the reasons why you'll have no choice but to jump in yourself. Be ready for the journey ahead!

Presenters

Joy Kirr

7th grade ELA Teacher, Thomas Middle School, Arlington Heights, IL

What's the Big Hoopla... Handout pdf

Friday November 15, 2019 2:00pm - 2:50pm CST
Plaza F

Spotlight Presentation, Digital Learning and Innovative Practices