Cal Educamp
An unconference for researchers, teachers, learners, and education technology developers, to improve the use of technology to increase student engagement and bring about deeper learning.
Organized by the School of Information’s Center for Next Generation of Teaching and Learning (NGTL), Educational Technology Services (ETS), and the Center for Teaching Excellence (CTE) at the Haas School of Business.
Goals of Cal Educamp:
- Develop connections among users of technology for learning.
- Share experiences, practice, and tools.
- Experiment, collaborate, try something new, and learn something from each other.
Background:
New media & technology for education is an emerging space that looks to capitalize on the social, participatory, and active nature of various Web 2.0 tools to facilitate social learning. A wide range of practices have developed around the use of these technologies because of the new capacities for construction of knowledge and student-centered learning environments. Novel and interesting methods & tools have arisen to take advantage of these capacities.
Why an unconference?
Cal Educamp is a barcamp-style unconference which will provide a space for folks to lead and participate in a range of hands-on and conceptual sessions in order to improve their understanding, methods and practices around new technology for teaching and learning. We have chosen to host an unconference because it is a facilitated, participant-driven conference centered around a theme or purpose. Participants will both learn from others as well as share their own skills and experience. We believe this is an ideal approach to the media that we are studying.
The question is: How can we deepen our own understanding, explore new methods and tools, and improve how we teach and facilitate learning?
Registration:
Cost: $25 (covers food & materials)
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