John Spencer | Educator and Author of "Launch", "Empower", and "Vintage Innovation"

John Spencer

Educator and Author of "Launch", "Empower", and "Vintage Innovation"

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John Spencer is a former middle school teacher and current college professor on a quest to transform schools into bastions of creativity and wonder. He is the co-author of the bestselling books Launch and Empower. He is also the founder of two educational technology start-ups. In 2013, he spoke at the White House, sharing a vision for how to empower students to be future-ready through creativity and design thinking.

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Empowering Students with Voice and Choice - Keynote

Student choice is about more than just a menu option. It’s about student ownership. This includes ownership of the processes, the assessment, the strategies, and the metacognition. But how do we make this happen? How do we fit this into our standards and our curriculum map?

This is the Future of Education - Keynote

For all the talk of gadgets and apps, the future of education won’t center around a new content delivery system. The future is in your classroom. It’s with your students. Your school is packed with creative potential. In this keynote, we tackle what the future of education will look like as we shift toward creativity and innovation.

The Eight Stages in the Teacher Technology Journey - Breakout Session

Using the metaphor of a journey, this session takes educators through the phases that many teachers go through from “tech tourism” to “tech assimilation” to “tech integration” and eventually “tech citizenship” (including media criticism). The idea here is to develop reflective questions we could ask teachers in each phase so that they could progress toward a deeper understanding of the nature of technology. Participants will reflect on their own journey through technology integration while also developing reflective coaching questions they can use with their colleagues.

Vintage Innovation - Keynote

The best way to prepare students for the future is to empower them in the present. In this keynote or workshop, we explore what it means to use vintage ideas, tools, and strategies in new and relevant ways. Here, we focus on innovation as a focus on “what is best” rather than “what is next.”

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