Designing Great Digital Lessons
How can we create lessons that take advantage of rich digital resources while challenging our students to wrestle with difficult questions and issues?

Participants will bring their own wireless laptops as many of the activities will be hands-on.

This seminar is aimed at Year 3 on up, though some teachers of younger students might also be able to modify what they learn for their students. The lesson building strategies work especially well for any students capable of reading, right up to and including university students.
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Bring your wireless equipped laptop as many activities will involve use of online resources and participants will be asked to work in pairs or trios sharing laptops.

Schedule of Events
Most participants will leave with five new lessons created by the end of the day.

1:30 PM  - 2:00 PM
Coffee, Tea and Registration

2:00 PM  -  3:00 PM 
The NoTime Slam Dunk Digital Lesson
Introduction
Learn how to construct highly demanding lessons in no time at all, combining challenging questions with fertile digital resources. These brief 30-40 minute lessons are meant to slide comfortably into existing units of study where they enhance learning. They are designed to match the busy work life of teachers, allowing lesson development on a Tuesday night for Wednesday morning.

3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
The NoTime Slam Dunk Digital Lesson
Creation of Visual Slam Dunk Digital Lessons
Participants will build lessons using paintings, photographs and other visual images requiring interpretation, analysis, synthesis and inference.

4:00 PM  -  4:15 PM
Break

4:15 PM - 6:00 PM The NoTime Slam Dunk Digital Lesson
Creation of Numerical and Text Based Slam Dunk Digital Lessons
Participants will build lessons using data sets, statistics and text sources such as news articles, poetry and literature.