Who should attend: Grades K-12 teachers, administrators, learning coaches, trustees, IT members, pre-service teachers, librarians

About this day of learning: This session will introduce you to the Makerspaces movement in education and learn how K-12 schools, teachers and students are creating and designing interactive and hands-on learning experiences through cross curricular competency/project- based approaches.

You will also expand your knowledge of Design Thinking and develop a prototype through a design challenge. This learning opportunity with Dr. Susan Crichton, ETCATA team and K-12 teachers will share the research, impact and strategies for you to develop your own interactive learning opportunities for students in your classroom/at your school.

K-12 teachers - will be introducing their projects (ie. lego, animation, musical recording, MakeyMakey, 3D printing, Genius hour, Innovation week, ePub, iBooks, programming, coding, etc.) during the break-out sessions. Once these teachers and their sessions have been identified, all registered participants will be notified to register for specific breakout sessions.

Cost (Including Lunch and Snacks): $75 | Educational Technology Council Members $100 | Non ETCATA Members

Online Registration: https://event-wizard.com/ETCMakerSpace/0/welcome

Keynote: Professor Susan Crichton is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education at the UBCs Okanagan campus and Director of the Innovative Learning Centre. Dr. Crichton has taught in rural and urban K-12 schools in British Columbia,

California and Australia. She was a faculty member at the University of Calgary in the specialization of Educational Technology. She is a visiting professor with Aga Khan University - Institute of Educational Development, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and a Fellow of the Commonwealth Centre of Education, University of Cambridge.

Sponsored by the Educational Technology Council of the Alberta Teachers Association

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Monday, September 29, 2014 from 8:15am - 3:30pmATA Barnett House, 11010 - 142 Street, Edmonton, Alberta

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Faculty of education undergraduate students are eligible for a free membership in ETCATA.

First 50 registrations will receive two registrations for the price of one!