Ignite17

Having no historical precedent, the current speed of technological breakthroughs has lead to the coming age of workplace automation, dramatically altering the world of work that our students will enter upon graduation. With the vast disparities of inequity that have existed for centuries, all that is known about how students learn, and the predictions regarding the world that our students will face tomorrow, utilizing a traditional, one-size-fits-all approach to teaching and learning is educational malpractice. Built upon the foundation of leadership and school culture, a redesigned learning experience fundamentally shifts the teaching and learning paradigm to one that is personal, while altering the use of authentic assessments, how technology is leveraged, the spaces in which the learning occurs, the way educators grow professionally, how schools collaborate with the community, and ultimately, the sustainability of the system as a whole. In this session, Murray will dissect these eight keys, which each serve as a puzzle piece for redesigning the learning experience, to unlock tomorrow’s schools so that today’s modern learners leave ready to create new industries, find new cures, and solve world problems. We must create tomorrow’s schools today and you are part of the solution.

In education, far too long, have we done the same old things in our classroom. It's time that we think different and stop making excuses. It's time that we look at education through a childlike lens and allow ourselves some creative freedoms. Let's eliminate the boundaries and titles and see to do what's best for kids.

Explore Like a Pirate
Join classroom game designer and author Michael Matera on a journey into the new world of education. A world that flourishes on collaboration and creativity. Inspire and empower your students to take control of their learning and leave a lasting legacy. Matera will serve as your experienced guide to help you apply the most motivational techniques of gameplay to your classroom using strategies that work with and enhance (rather than replace) your current curriculum. Ready yourself for learners who will request more of these opportunities to define their talents, their passions, and their desires to leave legacies. And then brace yourself, matey, for the thrill it will ignite in you as you follow the call to imagine, design, and grow within a content-filled and experience-rich classroom in the New World. Now, what will your story be?Explore Like a Pirate