Add questions INTO video instruction for an engaging and accountable flipped / blended environment.

Your Name and Title: Benjamin Levy, Founder & CEO and former-teacher

School or Organization Name: eduCanon

Co-Presenter Name(s): Swaroop Raju

Area of the World from Which You Will Present: Boston, MA USA

Language in Which You Will Present: English

Target Audience(s): Teachers (K-HigherEd)

Short Session Description (one line):

Add questions INTO video instruction for an engaging and accountable flipped / blended environment.

Full Session Description (as long as you would like):

Video is an integral part of our lives and the future of education, but it falls short. Video is a passive viewing experience, lacking strong teaching pedagogy; students zone-out, skip through content, and lack controlled guidance. As a teacher, I wanted a platform that makes video work for me and my best practices, including student interactivity, guided delivery, and actionable analytics.

In this session, Ben and Swaroop will introduce eduCanon--a free platform that empowers teachers to transform video into an engaging, active learning experience by adding questions INTO video (YouTube) instruction. Whether in a flipped or blended environment, eduCanon’s analytics help you understand student learning, remediate misconceptions, and plan tomorrow’s lesson!

Hey Lucy,

We are a for-profit company. Though I consider myself an educator--I taught 8th grade science in Richmond, CA. OUr platform is not, in my mind, simply a tool to improve a teachers' efficacy in flipped and blended settings. I see eduCanon fostering relationships and collaboration between teachers across the globe. With our platform any teacher can create a lesson from any video. Then, this modular amalgam of questions and video content is share with students and the larger educator community. Teachers that like the lesson use, modifying its modular components to meet their students' needs and then resubmitting it to the global community to be interactively improved and, in this process, crowdsourcing the canon of subject material curated and collaboratively created by the global community of educators. eduCanon offers the medium through which lessons can effectively be shared and delivered--in a way that lesson plans can not.

I see eduCanon's presentation touching on these strands:

-showing teachers concrete examples of global collaborative projects

-elaborating the steps needed to participate in existing projects or to design projects

-describing profession development efforts to help teachers and students become globally competent

Best,

Ben

Replies

Co-Chair

Lucy Gray November 15, 2013 at 7:19pm

Hi Ben -

Thanks for your proposal.... I have two questions. First, are you representing a for profit company? and secondly, how does this relate to the mission of the conference? Technology is not our primary focus.

http://www.globaleducationconference.com/notes/The_GEC_Mission_Stat...

http://www.globaleducationconference.com/page/2013-conference-strands

Thanks,

Lucy Gray

Conference Co-Chair
- Benjamin Levy > Lucy Gray November 17, 2013 at 8:32pm
  
  Hey Lucy,
  
  We are a for-profit company. Though I consider myself an educator--I taught 8th grade science in Richmond, CA. OUr platform is not, in my mind, simply a tool to improve a teachers' efficacy in flipped and blended settings. I see eduCanon fostering relationships and collaboration between teachers across the globe. With our platform any teacher can create a lesson from any video. Then, this modular amalgam of questions and video content is share with students and the larger educator community. Teachers that like the lesson use, modifying its modular components to meet their students' needs and then resubmitting it to the global community to be interactively improved and, in this process, crowdsourcing the canon of subject material curated and collaboratively created by the global community of educators. eduCanon offers the medium through which lessons can effectively be shared and delivered--in a way that lesson plans can not.
  
  I see eduCanon's presentation touching on these strands:
  
  -showing teachers concrete examples of global collaborative projects
  
  -elaborating the steps needed to participate in existing projects or to design projects
  
  -describing profession development efforts to help teachers and students become globally competent
  
  Best,
  
  Ben
  - Co-Chair
    
    Lucy Gray > Benjamin Levy November 17, 2013 at 8:36pm
    
    Sounds like a great tool, but as I just mentioned in an email, we have a policy on for profit companies regarding presenting.
    
    LG
    - Benjamin Levy > Lucy Gray November 17, 2013 at 8:38pm
      
      Does that include having the main presenter be a teacher presenting on the topic?
      - Co-Chair
        
        Lucy Gray > Benjamin Levy November 17, 2013 at 8:48pm
        
        Yes, it does. Commercial pitches require sponsorship. Please talk to Steve if you have any questions: steve@hargadon.com.
        
        Co-Chair
        
        Lucy Gray > Lucy Gray November 17, 2013 at 8:49pm
        
        And, just an FYI, this is not a technology conference. It is an event focused on global collaboration, global connections and the discussion of policies that increase education for all.
        
        LG

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