February+22,2011Agenda

=February 22, 2011= CAIS Commission on Professional Development

AGENDA

 * 1) Coping with Disruptions
 * 2) Winter Predicament
 * 3) Scheduling in Fall and Spring
 * 4) Localizing Professional Development
 * 5) Electronic Professional Development
 * 6) Digital Conferences
 * 7) Un-conferencing
 * 8) Review of older programs
 * 9) Bullying program
 * 10) Examining new digital resources
 * 11) Helping teachers understand their digital competition
 * 12) Please review one or more of the following videos before meeting
 * 13) [|Vi Hart on Factoring] - rather insulting to math teachers, but fascinating.
 * 14) [|Andrew Watt on Chinese Bureaucracies]
 * 15) [|Sugata Mitra's experiments in self-teaching]
 * 16) [|RSAnimate does Ken Robinson on Teaching]
 * 17) Steven Johnson on [|Where Good Ideas Come From]
 * 18) Brainstorming on programs for 2011-2012.
 * 19) Helping children deal with irrational fears (Maya calendar, 2012, Apophis asteroid, etc.)

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