Tampa, FL - Learning Futures & Tech Media Meeting
When: Feb 25, 2025
Where: Pasco County Schools, Wendell Krinn Technical High School - Media Center, 7650 Orchid Lake Road, New Port Richey, FL 34653
A Meeting to Prepare Educators on Issues & Trends from National Research with live-exercise professional development.
Learning Counsel conducts national surveys on trends and issues, then tours the nation each year to brief educators and provide perspective with several discussion topics.
Invitation Only Speaker Timeslots for local educators are videoed to bring forward good works to our large national audience.
Select edtech companies sponsor and share what’s working by their school and district customers, plus research-based and “science of” learning info in the half-day meeting.
New perspectives on:
- AI types and convergence
- Schooling challenges today
- Attraction and retention of both students and teachers
Agenda
8:00 - 9:30 a.m. - Welcome Breakfast & Ongoing Discussion Rounds
- Alpha Generation Traits. One of the five reasons why students are absent or leave for an alternative has to do with the characteristics of the current K12 student population.
- Perfect for: Any administrator as they consider trend turn-around tactics, and teachers for creating pace-based or project-based learning to personalize for students.
- The Nines. What are the nine types of AI and what happens when they converge? New consumer-focused Generative AI is only one of the nine. Additionally, what are the nine types of human intelligences and should schools pivot to develop them all or stay with the two most focused on since the manufacturing Age?
- Perfect for: Training any educator to understand the meaning of AI in teaching and learning so that practices are not overwhelmed, and administrative policies understand the full picture. Driving new discussion about the often-overlooked co-intelligences of humans in traditional learning that may need to come to the forefront to balance the AI convergence on the horizon.
- The Missing Orderliness of Teacher & Institution Workflow Logic. Three areas of discussion including safety and security workflow, curriculum workflow and tech model workflow.
- Perfect for: Administrators for understanding ideal scenes for each area of discussion as to how they affect the workflow patterns of all stakeholders, and teachers as they consider what’s important amongst all new expectations.
9:30 - 10:00 a.m. – Local Guest Speaker
Dr. Chris Dunning, Principal, Wendell Krinn Technical High School
10:00 - 10:10 a.m. - Break
10:10 – 10:30 a.m. – Guest Speaker
10:30 - 11:30 a.m. - Special Market Briefing “The Soon Future & Flex Learning Logistics AI”
What the converging trends mean for the direction of all schools and “unschooling.” Multiple primary and secondary research studies point out where all this change in education will land. Survey data and context available nowhere else, plus news and newbie intro to the Flex Learning Logistics Project using spatial-temporal AI calendaring.
- Perfect for: Superintendents, Communications Directors, Chief Academic and Innovation Officers, Chiefs and Directors of Operations, Tech, Student and Family Services, Principals and Teachers
Priorities Luncheon for All Educators
11:30 - 12:10 p.m. - Lunch, Video Showcase
12:10 – 1:00 p.m. Experiential Professional Development: Wizarding World Time Turner School Transformation
Join this Harry Potter Wizarding World themed exercise to both learn about and experience the future of how schooling will use time and space differently than the manufacturing-line model as AI comes into play. Special floor game boards and individual “Marauder’s Maps” and magic wands are part of the theme for this special live-exercise professional development introduction to spatial-temporal AI calendaring and Flex Learning Logistics. Stay to discuss applications in project-based learning in any classroom, intersecting live teaching with online learning, how to use this type of AI.
- Perfect for: Superintendents, Communications Directors, Chief Academic and Innovation Officers, Chiefs and Directors of Operations, Tech, Student and Family Services, Principals and Teachers, even students
1:00 – 1:30 p.m. – Local Panel Interview with discussion
Duane Weeks, Chief of Technology & Data Systems, Lake County Schools
1:30 – 2:00 p.m. – Wrap up discussions and How-To Demos for Stayers
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Address:
Pasco County Schools, Wendell Krinn Technical High School - Media Center, 7650 Orchid Lake Road, New Port Richey, FL 34653