Screen Smart® - Accelerate E-Learning and Enhance Emotional Intelligence

Speaker: Author, media expert and world-class educator Nicole Dreiske

Sometimes, that rare presenter comes along who can captivate an auditorium full of teachers and give them a take-away that forever changes their lives. Nicole Dreiske is one such educator. The founder and executive director of the International Children’s Media Center, Nicole is one of the most respected pioneers in developing solutions for transforming education and re-humanizing the ways in which kids view, use and engage digital devices. Combining her rich legacy in arts education with 30+ years of e-learning innovation, Nicole shows teachers how to accelerate academic success and SEL whether classes are held on-site or remotely. 

During this innovative and engaging in-service workshop, Nicole will teach educators:

• How to turn screen time into the secret ingredient to improving your students’ literacy skills.
• How to use digital devices to accelerate learning and gain more insight into your students’ thoughts and feelings than you ever thought possible;
• A whole new approach to digital devices that inspires children to take learning home and practice their screen smart skills with their parents
• Vital new ways to connect the classroom to the home and parent environment and leverage the great work you’re doing with them in school.
• A powerful step-by-step technique for practicing close analysis and mindful viewing that draws upon skills you already have as a teacher. If you’ve read a story aloud to children in the classroom, you can do these techniques!
• Vocabulary to help boost the development of neural networks and inferential reasoning during screen use. 
• How to transform screen time into a magical connection time that creates community in the classroom. 
• How to deepen your students’ emotional intelligence, empathetic responses and overall capacity for compassion through a fun, fresh approach to screen time.
• Brain-body techniques and micromovements to help your students with self-regulation and self-control during on-site and remote learning. 

This workshop is not only informative and enlightening, it allows teachers to boost e-learning and close the achievement gap in classrooms with high needs, ELL, gifted and mainstream students. Educators will learn to harness the power of digital devices power for lifelong learning and empathy while helping students develop healthy screen habits.

To book Nicole Dreiske, please contact:

Michelle Zaladonis -  nationaloutreach@icmediacenter.org     773-528-6854