The 2015 FNO Paris Mini Conference

This seminar has been postponed until later in 2015.

Making Laptop Writing and Thinking Powerful and Persuasive

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Résidence Richemont

17, rue Jean Colly - 75013 Paris

How can schools make sure laptops actually contribute to student performance?

Join Jamie McKenzie for two days of nitty-gritty,
practical strategies to optimize your school's return
on investment in terms of student learning.


Jamie McKenzie is an international speaker and writer who has devoted his career to understanding how to nurture the questioning, thinking and writing skills of students. He is the author of several books that explore that challenge in depth. In recent years, he has taken a close look at the promise of iPads and laptops to improve student performance.

Jamie McKenzie's resume

All participants should bring their Wifi equipped iPads, tablets or laptops to the seminar, as the workshop stresses hands-on activities. There will be wireless access to the Internet.

 

Schedule of Events

Monday

8:45 AM - Registration

9:00 AM - 12:00 PM (with a mid morning break)

Managing the Laptop or Tablet Classroom to Get Results:
Effective Pedagogy

Many schools have underfunded professional development to support teachers as they consider the best ways to use new technologies with students. The PD they do offer is usually about driving the software and equipment rather than effective instruction.  In this session, Jamie outlines many of the moves, tactics, tricks and strategies required to win attention and student success in iPad classrooms.  He argues that pedagogy does matter and that PD should focus on how to manage such learning environments.

A successful lesson results from mindful devotion to the following elements, each of which will be in this presentation:

1. Lesson objectives, content and design
2. Classroom landscape
3. Classroom culture
4. Teaching moves, strategies, tactics and procedures
5. Equipment
6. Assessment procedures

An effective teacher knows how to orchestrate these elements to match the characteristics of the students, adapting to each group as the lesson proceeds.

12:00 PM - 1:30 PM Lunch on your own in the neighborhood

1:00 AM - 3:30 PM

Power Reading with eBooks

Thanks to digital text and readers, the electronic book is finally coming of age. After many false starts, reading a book on a laptop, a Kindle, an iPad type device, or a smart phone offers some great advantages.

In this session, Jamie will introduce the group to reading strategies that will enhance the comprehension of students, taking advantage of the highlighting, note-adding and linking capacities of eBooks.

Studying Complex Concepts such as Beauty, Truth and Courage in Depth

Students are rarely challenged to dig down deep in order to create rich definitions of complex ideas. In this session Jamie shows how teachers can use a series of digital explorations to deepen and extend students' understanding of such concepts. Students learn that dictionaries usually pay short shrift to complex ideas, and they even learn to improve the definitions they encounter.

Tuesday

8:45 AM - Registration

9:00 AM - 3:00 PM (with lunch on your own from noon to 1:30)

Laptop Writing and Thinking:
Secrets of Success

An entire day devoted to serious research on a challenging question.

If you believe that the best professional development involves learning by doing, then this is the perfect workshop for you.

Designed with teachers of upper elementary, middle and high school in mind, this session will focus especially on persuasive writing across several disciplines — science, social studies, language arts, the arts, etc.

Laptops and iPads could make a huge difference in the quality of student writing, but it takes some cleverness and strategy to realize that promise. Schools with iPads and laptops will see a major improvement in student writing when they teach students how idea processing and word processing can combine effectively and persuasively.

Jamie will involve the group in a process that takes advantage of mind mapping software, idea generators and synthesis strategies along with concept attainment, enrichment of vocabulary and the Traits of Effective Writing — all tailored to exploit the potential of iPad, laptops and electronic text.

You will experience first hand a mix of writing and thinking techniques that turn a laptop into a powerful tool for expression.




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Costs

Full Conference - $350.00 USD (about 280 Euros)

Single Day - $200.00 USD (about 160 Euros)

Coffee and lunch are not provided as part of the package.

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