JEA Conference

The Journalism Education Association will be having a convention November 11-14 in Kansas City, Missouri. The keynote addresses will be made by some of the nation’s top newsmakers and reporters. The theme of the conference is K-Converge, and it costs $105 up until October 21, when the price rises by $10.

This activity supports standard 5, substandard a, which states that teachers should: participate in local and global learning communities to explore creative applications of technology to improve student learning; as well as substandard c, which says that teachers need to: evaluate and reflect on current research and professional practice on a regular basis to make effective use of existing and emerging digital tools and resources in support of student learning.

Both of these can be reflected by attending the conference because it is the teacher's responsibility to continually seek out technology that would be beneficial to the education of their students. Conferences hosted by education associations similar to that of the teachers specializations will give the teachers a more focused opportunity to learn about technological advances in their fields.