Teachers, students, museum educators, librarians, artists, learning experts: Share your expertise at the Pittsburgh Learning Pathways Summit!
The event convenes experts in education and learning for an entertaining, fun, and free town hall-style gathering to help design learning pathways for Pittsburgh.
With the introduction of digital badges, Pittsburgh is building an ecosystem where educators can share resources more effectively and help youth connect in-school and out-of-school learning experiences to create new pathways of opportunity.
Summit participants will dive deep into key concepts and ideas behind learning pathways including:
- Digital Badges: Online representations of knowledge, skills, and dispositions exhibited by a learner. For example, a student could earn a digital badge for demonstrating their knowledge of the Declaration of Independence or their mastery of digital photography skills.
- Learning Pathways: Routes taken by learners to discover new ideas and pursue their interests (includes learning experiences in school, out-of-school & online). For example, a student might earn a badge through a digital literacy program at the library that connects to a lesson on www.codeacademy.com that can be exchanged for credit at their middle school.
- Connected Learning Ecosystem: An interconnected community of learning organizations that form a self-supporting system. For example, a city where a student can find and access a variety of learning pathways.
Current Summit Agenda
Friday, November 21, 2014
David L. Lawrence Convention Center, Spirit of Pittsburgh Ballroom
- 8:00am: Arrival, Registration & Coffee
- 9:00am: Welcome Remarks from The Sprout Fund
- 9:15am: Ignite Talks by Badges for Learning Working Group leaders
- 10:00am: Considering Competencies and Evidence
- 11:00pm: Advocating for Connected Learning Pathways Talk by Patrick Dowd of Allies for Children
- 12:00pm: Lunch
- 12:30pm: Designing Connected Learning Pathways
- 1:30pm: Closing Remarks
Schools and organizations are encouraged to send a small delegation. Consider bringing a group that includes teachers that represent different grade levels, subjects or programs, high school students, and administrators. Please keep in mind that each member of a delegation must register separately.
http://remakelearning.org/opportunity/2014/11/21/pittsburgh-learning-pathways-summit/
Pittsburgh Learning Pathways Summit was last modified: October 30th, 2014 by Jeremy Zerbe