Designing+for+Learning

=June 16: Designing for Learning=

Session Description:
Designing powerful learning experiences for students can be a tremendous challenge. Balancing mandates, standards, curricular expectations, personal expectations, and the needs of students living in a connected, creation-rich culture can be daunting. This session will lead participants through a process of finding dynamic equilibrium in learning design and challenge the paradigms of traditional instructional design. Asking critical questions about guiding students to understanding, evaluating grading practices, forming guiding principles for learning, and extending student learning experiences through the use of technology, this session will help teachers form a framework of instructional design that focuses on meeting the learning needs of today’s students. The purposes and pedagogy of how and why to use technology will also be explored as teachers spend time developing learning experiences for students that utilize the great potential technology presents.

Presenter Bio: Ben Grey, Barrington, IL
Ben Grey is the Instructional Technology Coordinator for Barrington Community Unit School District 220 in Barrington, IL. He has served in this position for two years. He was a middle school History teacher for three years and a fifth grade teacher for five years prior to taking his current position. He is also an adjunct faculty member at Judson University in the Master of Education in Literacy program where he teaches the course, “Technology in Literacy Instruction.” He believes passionately in finding relevant, meaningful ways to engage students in the process of learning by teaching teachers how to critically examine their own lesson design and engaging the use of technology in learning. Ben holds a Master of Education in Integrating Technology in the Classroom, and he is currently enrolled in a leadership program at Johns Hopkins University for his Administration and Supervision certificate.