Themes I’m looking for at FIE2009

Attending a conference can be hard work. There are hundreds of folks presenting about things they are really interested in and the conference organizers do their best to collect those ideas into themes into 1.5 hour sessions. The problem is that every participant is organizing based on their own theme.

If this was simply a wiki, we could just tag-cloud the heck out of it and everyone would have their own custom schedule. In real life however, there are overhead costs of switching rooms and a bunch of work to plan it all out.

That said, here are the themes I am interested in seeing:

informal learning, contextualized learning, project-based pedagogues, new media (social, interactive, mobile)

So here is the plan for today

Monday 10-11

Start in La Princeta Room

• THE USE OF DIGITAL MANIPULATIVES IN K-12: ROBOTICS, GPS/GIS AND PROGRAMMING

Leave Session early, Jump to La Vista Room

• WORK IN PROGRESS – TOWARDS A TOOL TO ANALYZE QUALITATIVE ASPECTS OF THE RELATIONS AMONG MEMBERS OF SOCIAL NETWORKS
• PATTERNS IN STUDENT ASSESSMENT OF PROBLEM-SOLVING SOFTWARE
• INCORPORATING FLEXIBLE, CONFIGURABLE AND SCALABLE SECURITY TO THE EDUCATION COLLABORATIVE ENVIRONMENTS
• THE IMPORTANCE OF PAIRWORK IN INTERDISCIPLINARY AND EDUCATIONAL INITIATIVES

Monday 2-4

Start in La Condesa East

• INTEGRATING ENGAGEMENT AND FIRST YEAR PROBLEM SOLVING USING GAME CONTROLLER TECHNOLOGY
• APPLICATION OF MODIFIED PERCEIVED LEARNING PROBLEM INVENTORY (PLPI) TO INVESTIGATE PERFORMANCE IN INTRODUCTORY PROGRAMMING

Leave Session, jump to El Mirador West

• PANEL – MEASURING THE IMPACTS OF PROJECT-BASED SERVICE LEARNING IN ENGINEERING EDUCATION

Monday 4:30-6

Start in La Condesa East

• WORK IN PROGRESS – USE OF GUIDED INQUIRY AS AN ACTIVE LEARNING TECHNIQUE IN ENGINEERING
• PRODUCT-BASED LEARNING IN SOFTWARE ENGINEERING EDUCATION
• ACTIVE LEARNING THROUGH PROBLEM BASED LEARNING METHODOLOGY IN ENGINEERING

Move to La Condesa West

• DO FACULTY-STUDENT COLLABORATIONS AFFECT ACHIEVEMENT IN ENGINEERING AND TECHNICAL FIELDS? A LARGE-SCALE ANALYSIS