Since working at KS I have had the
privilege of attending various trainings and conferences, but the one that
resonated the most with me was the Ed Tech Conference on June 4-5 hosted by our
very own IT Department. This conference
was fun and entertaining including interesting speakers, breakout sessions and
little challenges in between!
The three keynote speakers gave
some of the best presentations I have ever seen. They had interesting and
motivating stories, which made me laugh and even tear up! The story that had
the most impact on me was by Nirvan Mullick a filmmaker who made Cane’s Arcade,
a story about a 9-year-old boy who created his own arcade out of cardboard. The
response to this film was phenomenal and because of it’s success the
Imagination Foundation was created to “find, foster, and fund creativity
and entrepreneurship in more kids like Caine.”
This film proved that creativity still exists in young
children even with the emerging technologies of today that sometimes hinders
kids being kids.
I enjoyed the breakout sessions at this conference because
they all incorporated ways of mixing technology and education. As a student
studying communications and instructional design, I learned valuable tools that
helped me to use creativity and technology to make learning fun. As an
instructional designer at Kamehameha I’m always looking for new and innovative
ways to teach students, faculty and staff so that they learn to the best of
their abilities, but also have fun doing it!
As a whole, our department can use the things we’ve learned
at this conference to better our modules/course by making them more exciting, creative,
fun, and interactive with all of the
programs that are available at our finger tips! The main point I took from this conference is
the opportunity to make learning fun. Creativity
and learning should never stop not matter what age we are!
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