2024 Indiana Connected Educators Conference

This session will bring the rules of improv and collective effervescence into professional learning networks, plan your lessons, and encourage students with group activities in your classroom. The simple rules of collaboration can improve engagement in your classroom and lead to legendary activities.

This presentation emphasizes the importance of engagement in school and offers several strategies for fostering it. Seth suggests that engagement is not just about keeping students busy, but rather about creating an environment where students feel valued, challenged, and supported. Strategies for fostering engagement include incorporating student voice, teacher vulnerability, and choice, building strong relationships, and using technology thoughtfully.

Teach Better. Work Less. EduProtocols are instructional lesson frames that are designed to engage students in learning through critical thinking, collaboration, communication, and creativity. EduProtocols can be used for any subject and grade level. I love sharing ways I use EduProtocols in computer science, engineering, classroom culture, and more.
This session will share ways beginners can use EduProtocols and experienced educators can scaffold different EduProtocols.

Join this 101 session to learn the basics of Merlyn Origin, the award-winning, voice-enabled classroom assistant purpose-built for K12 classrooms.
Classroom teachers and school leaders will walk away with a high-level understanding of how Merlyn works seamlessly across commonly used technologies, plus key features for getting started.