KCPT’s annual Tech Conference — March 1 at the Kauffman Foundation Conference Center — is fast approaching. If you’re an educator or school administrator looking for innovative tools and strategies, here are five reasons you won’t want to miss this year’s conference:
1) Keynote speaker Syed Amaanullah, Director of Product Management, PBS Education
Get inspired and energized as you hear from a national leader in digital education products. He’ll feature what’s happening at PBS in education and PBS LearningMedia.
2) Network with area educators
Get together with 100 of your fellow educators to exchange knowledge. Your instructors for sessions are teachers and education leaders right here in the metro area.
3) Get ahead of the curve
Topics at this year’s conference — Integrating Technology With Instruction, Think Like a Computer: Coding for Today’s Students, and Design Thinking and Google Suite for Education — will help you master the latest tools. Sessions like Service-Learning: On-Ramps to Workforce Readiness, The Inquiry-Based Classroom and Personalized Learning via Technology will ensure you’re preparing your students for 21st century success.
4) Earn professional development credit
Receive five hours of professional development credit plus .5 CEU credit from Park University.
5) Get strategies on using media
Sessions such as Lights, Camera, Teach!, Student Views & Voices, PBS LearningMedia, Free Digital Resources for Your Classroom and Bringing The Vietnam War to the Home Front for Students all illustrate how both students and teachers can learn a lot from media.
Register online now for the 13th-annual Tech Conference: “Empowering Teachers Today and Tomorrow,” and follow the conference and topics on Twitter through #kcpttech18.
