Power Learning 2.0 : Beyond Interpretation to Synthesis

I came across this hands-on workshop which is designed to give educators and learners an experience creating new ideas while employing various information literacies – understanding in service to invention.
Here are the expected outcomes of this Power Learning 2.0:

* Experience firsthand the challenge of moving beyond interpretation and understanding to synthesis – the actual construction of new ideas.
* Learn how to focus classroom investigations around decisions and problems drawn from the community and the global neighborhood. Engage students in making their own meaning (constructivism) from the vast new information landscape that is made readily and rapidly available thanks to new technologies.
* Consider how the role of classroom teacher changes in such a program.
* Witness how we may provide structure and scaffolding to maintain quality and focus.
* Explore how students can learn to build their own new meanings and solutions upon conventional wisdom, contributing fresh thinking to important social issues or scientific challenges.
* Begin to develop a personal repertoire of synthesis skills.
* Identify opportunities to teach to curriculum standards by emphasizing decision making and problem solving.
* Taste the power of Inspiration™ to support this kind
of thinking, investigating and inventing.
* Consider the benefits of teams sharing wireless laptops.

Go to freepress.com to see learn more.