Highlights Foundation Retreat 2016 Agenda

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[highlight]Sunday, April 24, 2016[/highlight]

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Kate Wilson, CEO, Nosy Crow

2:00 – 5:00 PM Arrive. Check into your room, pick up workshop materials. Please note that this agenda should be considered a draft; and may be altered during the workshop session, depending on the group.

5:00 Greetings, Welcome and Introductions. Overview of the agenda.  What magic looks like and demos of the 2016 BolognaRagazzi Digitial Award winners by Warren Buckleitner.

6:00 Dinner

7:00 An evening with the Nosy Crow’s Kate Wilson. The leader in digital storytelling knows how to work within a narrative structure to weave interactive elements that increase engagement. Here’s a closer look at the recipe for an award winning app. See Kate’s comments on a panel from last year in Bologna.

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caterpillar-solo[highlight]Monday, April 25, 2016[/highlight]

8:00 AM Breakfast

9:00 Demos: 50 apps in 60 minutes. Language and literacy apps that everyone needs to know. We can’t take you to Bologna, but we can bring some of the apps to Pennsylvania. Here’s a closer look at what the 2016 BRDA jurors discovered this year.

  • Fiction vs. non-fiction techniques.
  • Innovative interactive design strategies.
  • Android, Apple, Kindle, Windows and other platforms

10:00  Katie Paciga: Old Theory Meets New Technology.  A fresh look at new technology from the point of view of old literacy theory: e.g., whole language vs. phonics in an iPad age.

 

12:00 Lunch

1:00 Group photo & Walking Tour, A walking tour of the Highlights Farmhouse with Kent Brown. See where the first issues of Highlights for Children magazine were conceived.

Lovely_Gailheadshot2:00 Gail Lovely: Technology for Language Enrichment in Schools and Libraries

  • Introducing apps to young children for the first time
  • Using a tablet in the classroom
  • Using a tablet in the library
  • Apps that use the camera
  • Augmented reality apps

 

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Lisa Guernsey3:30 Michael Levine and Lisa Guernsey: What we learned when we wrote “Tap, Click and Read: Growing Readers in a World of Screens.”

 

5:00 Break

 

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7:00 And evening with Daren Carstens: Inneraction vs. Interaction. Thoughts on interactive design that increases (rather than decreases) engagement with the concept. Daren will demonstrate Math Doodles and illustrate his unique creative process.

9:00 Reviewing the reviewers (optiona); and a frank and informal look at some dusty apps, with some help from some Teachers With Apps.

 

[highlight]Tuesday, April 26, 2016[/highlight]

8:00 Breakfast
9:00 Q/A with Michael Levine and Lisa Guernsey
10:30 Writing  and Encoding Apps

  • Apps to help with fine motor development
  • Apps for verbal development
  • Making movies and digital creativity experiences.

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11:30 Review

 

12:00 Lunch

1:30 Evaluation and depart

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