K-12 Conference

I viewed the session titled "Probing the Prospects of Paperless Pedagogy" by Jason Neiffer. I had trouble finding a session that would be helpful for my teaching. In this session, the speaker discussed how he made his high school history classes completely paperless. It was very interesting to see how even though it was a lot of work to begin with, everything is so much easier for him year after year. He brought up some good points about paperless classrooms like saving paper, time, and being able to stay up to date on information. He mentioned that usually by the time textbooks are printed, the information in them is already outdated. This way he can easily update or change his readings and activities. He did mention that it is challenging for students without computer access at home, but I think students have that challenge in a paperless classroom or not. While I don't think I'm ready to go completely paperless, I did get some good ideas for how to reduce my usage and do more things on the computer. Of course, having daily computer usage would help greatly.

I like watching the online conference. Going to the actual conference costs a lot of money, is time consuming, and is often times overwhelming. This made it easy to view a list of sessions and pick the one I wanted to view and I could view it at my convenience. It is also such a pain to miss work and leave sub plans, so this made it easy.