What:

Hack the Classroom brings together educators and technologists for one day events to catalyze conversations about how technology can dramatically improve education.  These events are a unique opportunity to talk about technology in schools, the challenges teachers are facing, the tools they are using, and the solutions they are working on to meet students’ needs.

Hosted by:

Featured sessions to include:

• App Workshops: Learn hands on skills to help you maximize Google Docs, iPad Apps, Evernote, and more taught by educators with real classroom applications from how they use apps to hack their classrooms.
• Big Idea Talks: Get inspired by the possibilities of technology through topics like Technology as Core Ciriculuum, Flipping the Classroom, and Teaching Programming as a Second Language.
• Group Discussions: Use tools like Design Thinking to articulate challenges and brainstorm solutions to transform the future of education.

Additional Benefits:

• Earn hours towards your professional development.
• Create community with educators and technologists sharing a passion for technology in the classroom.

When

Saturday, April 13, 2013
8am – 2:30pm

Where

Conrad Hilton Center
Loyola Marymount University
1 Loyola Marymount University Drive
Los Angeles, 90045

Who

Because this event is hosted by Loyola Marymount, this Hack the Classroom focuses on K-12 educators working at Catholic schools in the Los Angeles Archdiocese.  Future Hack The Classroom events will be organized for other educator groups.

Why

Technology poses an opportunity to personalize education for students, improve teacher livelihoods, and help address the great challenges facing education today.  Hack the Classroom seeks to empower educators with the tools they need to “hack their classrooms” and, in doing so, transform the state of education.