Join your colleagues in an online book study course to explore ways to integrate curiosity and critical thinking into the classroom. Participants will be using Ditch That Textbook throughout the course. Be sure to get it before the course starts.
Fostering Curiosity to Empower Critical Thinking
Course Number 181915
Webinar with Matt Miller will be held on Feb. 20 from 1 - 3 p.m.
Did you miss the webinar with Eric Curts?
No worries! Watch the recording here.
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Heart of Innovation Summer Summit - June 10, 2020
Recertification Credit will be an option this year!
Professional Learning Opportunities
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Building a Collaborative Learning Environment For All with Eric Curts
Jan. 9, 2020
9 - 10:30 a.m.
Register at this link: http://bit.ly/2QGfuty
And Coming Soon!
Fostering Curiosity to Empower Critical Thinking with Matt Miller
Feb. 6, 2020
This online book study course is designed to help educators find ways to integrate curiosity and critical thinking into their classrooms. Ditch That Textbook: Free Your Teaching and Revolutionize Your Classroom by Matt Miller will be the focus.
Register at this link: http://bit.ly/2QFOnyJ Course #181915
Save the date for Matt’s webinar on Feb. 20 from 1 - 3 p.m.
This professional learning opportunity is designed to help educators find ways to integrate collaboration into their classrooms. It includes a webinar with nationally-known blogger Eric Curts (Control Alt Achieve), as well as blog posts and podcasts from other educational leaders.
Study begins online Dec. 19 with a webinar with Eric Curts on Jan. 9. Register at this link: http://bit.ly/2OLj3O7 course 181854.
There is no book to accompany this track; we will be using Curts’ blog, Control Alt Achieve.
All work is done via Canvas and can be done on your own time!
Wait! There's More!
Check out ed tech face-to-face workshops, online courses and webinars coming up in the next couple of months in the latest Heartland AEA Instructional Technology Newsletter.
This class is designed to help educators find ways to integrate collaboration into their classrooms. It includes a webinar with nationally-known blogger Eric Curts (Ctrl Alt Achieve) as well as blog posts and podcasts from other educational leaders. This is the third course in Heartland AEA’s webinar series, designed to assist teachers in developing innovative methods of using technology to foster the 4C’s (Collaboration, Creativity, Critical Thinking, Communication).
If you would enjoy working in a collaborative network of teaching and discover ways of using technology purposefully, this is the class for you!
Begins online Dec. 19. Register at this link: http://bit.ly/34savSh
Wait! There's More!
Check out ed tech face-to-face workshops, online courses and webinars coming up in the next couple of months in the latest Heartland AEA Instructional Technology Newsletter. Here are some highlights:
- Computer Science Workshop - No cost event! A day designed for school leaders to get the lowdown on Iowa's computer science standards, K-12 frameworks, district-level resources and upcoming opportunities! Dec. 6, 2019 from 12:30 - 3 p.m. at Heartland AEA in Johnston. Sign up here!
- Take advantage of our Girls Who Code partnership and launch a FREE Club! We are partnering with Girls Who Code to bring free computer science opportunities to students across our community and would love for your school to host a Club! Girls Who Code Clubs are FREE programs for 3-5 or 6-12 grade students to join collaborate with supportive peers and role models and use computer science to change the world. To learn more about Girls Who Code programs, you can sign up for a Girls Who Code Webinar here.
This class is designed to help educators find ways to integrate collaboration into their classrooms. It includes a webinar, hosted in Zoom, with nationally-known blogger Eric Curts whose blog, Ctrl Alt Achieve, as well as blog posts and podcasts from other educational leaders, will be the focus of the course. This is the third course in Heartland AEA’s webinar series, designed to assist teachers in developing innovative methods of using technology to foster the 4C’s (Collaboration, Creativity, Critical Thinking, Communication). This course is a hybrid course; all activities are offered online asynchronously with optional face-to-face opportunities. If you would enjoy working in a collaborative network of teaching and discover ways of using technology purposefully, this is the class for you!
Begins online Dec. 19
Register at this link: http://bit.ly/34savSh
