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Educated by Design:  Designing the Space to Cultivate Creative Capacity

In today’s world, we have an incredible opportunity to provide students with resources and experiences that will help them develop strong creative and critical thinking skills to solve interesting problems in the world. Opportunities to leverage academic skills and knowledge to practice entrepreneurship in order to create meaningful experiences that can positively impact those around them. In this session, Michael will share what that innovative practice looks like and how it can advance forward to new frontiers that can better prepare our students for a future that is unscripted and unknown.

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Using Design Thinking and Technology to Foster Creative Problem Solving 

Design thinking is a powerful framework that, when used, can help students create real impact in the world. In this session, participants will learn about how design thinking and technology can help build and improve communities both in school and beyond. Using a design-driven experience curriculum, administrators and education leaders will learn how to introduce this approach in their classrooms to help students use academic skills and knowledge to ideate the solutions to help communities around them.

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App Smashing with Amanda Jones and Heather White (Livingston Parish Schools)

• Our Two Cents: App Smashing (Video)
• Our Two Cents: App Smasing (Slide Deck)

Terry Perry-Copponex
Kristen Manning
Chanel Maronge
Susan Gauthier, @sgauthier

East Baton Rouge Parish librarians share activities and resources to reinforce science, math, and engineering concepts through children's literature. 

• Presentation on You Tube 

Dr. Tammy Seneca
@Drtamssen

Project-based Learning in a Virtual Environment

• Project-based Learning in a Virtual Environment Video (You Tube)
• Project-based Leanring in a Virtual Environment Slide Deck 

Innovative Ways to do Virtual Field Trips

• Virtual Field Trips Video (You Tube)
• Virtual Field Trips Slide Deck 
• Copy of Google Expeditions + HyperDoc Template

Innovative Ways to Use Drones 

The links below are two drone activities that West Baton Rouge completed with our Engineering students.  These activities used drones and iRovers! 

• We Fly and Know Things! (Game of Thrones Theme)
• The Search for the Infinity Stones

Lindsey Keely, Lafayette Parish Schools; Area 4 Director

@lkkeely716

Spice Up Slides In a Gif-fy!

• Spice Up Slides Webinar
• Spice Up Slides Slide Deck

Code Across the Curriculum

Amanda Reulet, West Baton Rouge Parish Schools

• Code Across the Curriculum Webinar

Tyler Colson, East Baton Rouge Parish Schools
@tylerlovesteach 

Design Challenge

This session focuses on the advantages of design challenges in the classroom and how teachers can implement into their curriculum.

• Design Challenge Webinar