Summer break is still nearly five months away, but Cardinal High School Science teacher Ben Clutter already has big plans! Clutter was recently informed that he will be presenting at the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) Conference and Expo in Denver, Colorado in June.
The expo is the premier forum for exploring and exchanging ideas about education technology, attracting more than 18,000 educators and education leaders from around the world.
Clutter says the possibility came to be during the summer institute for College Ready Ohio, where he and other educators felt it would be a beneficial experience to attend a conference like ISTE and present. The group submitted proposals and found out in December that two were accepted.
Clutter and his group will present two separate, two-hour poster sessions. One session is entitled, “Using Google Hangouts to Enhance Your Distance PLC,” and the other is, “Social Media: Taboo or Allowed in Edu.?”
The ISTE aims to help learners flourish in a world that’s connected to technology by encouraging educators to adopt a set of Standards. The ISTE Standards are the definitive framework for successfully implementing digital strategies to positively impact learning, teaching, and leading in our technology-powered world.
Clutter says he has been using the ISTE standards in his college classes and is also incorporating them into his high school science classes. He is excited to share his experiences with others at the ISTE expo this summer.
“I have learned so much about technology integration in the classroom through College Ready Ohio that I really felt called to show other teachers how to transform their teaching,” says Clutter. “I feel that my teaching has gone through major changes in the past 18 months and the exciting thing about it is that I am only a part of the way through the transformation, there is still so much left to do.”
