Keynote
Speakers
| Alan
November author
of "Empowering Learners with Technology," published by Skylight Professional Development,
2001. |
Keynote
Session
The
Emerging Culture of Education: Creating a New Culture
of Teaching and Learning
If educators are expected to make the best use of emerging
technologies, then we need to create a new culture of
teaching and
learning, including collegiality, new relationships with family and community,
leadership and decision-making, students who are much
more self-directed and interdependent, and new models of curriculum and assessment
and our concept of time.
Alan
November is recognized internationally as a leader in education technology. He
began his career as an oceanography teacher and dorm counselor at an island reform
school for boys in Boston Harbor. He has been a director of an alternative high
school, computer coordinator, technology consultant, and university lecturer.
As practitioner, designer, and author, Alan has guided schools, government organizations
and industry leaders as they plan to improve quality with technology.
Alan
is well known for applying his humor and wit to inspire us to think about applying
technology to improve learning. His areas of expertise include information and
communication technology, planning across the curriculum, staff development, long-range
planning, building learning communities and leadership development. He has delivered
keynote presentations and workshops in all fifty states, in every province in
Canada, and throughout the UK, Europe and Asia. Alan
was named one of the nation's fifteen most influential thinkers of the decade
by Classroom Computer Learning Magazine. In 2001, he was named one of eight educators
to provide leadership into the future by the Eisenhower National Clearinghouse.
His writing includes dozens of articles and the best-selling book, Empowering
Students with Technology. Alan was co-founder of the Stanford Institute for Educational
Leadership Through Technology and is most proud of being selected as one of the
original five national Christa McAuliffe Educators.
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Jennifer
Evans
President,
Sequentia Communications and technology columnist for the Globe
and Mail.
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Keynote Session
The
Geek Factor: Girls and Technology and Getting the Twain to Meet
Why
are girls less interested than boys in technology? Jennifer Evans,
a onetime self-confessed technophobe, founder of DigitalEve Canada
and president of Sequentia Communications will address the impact of
technology
on youth and how they communicate, how to keep up, and how to use technological
tools to engage students (and particularly female students), facilitate
learning, and encourage technical literacy.
Jennifer
Evans is a Toronto-based entrepreneur, writer, and technologist. Prior
to founding Sequentia, Jen was the Director of Marketing and Communications
for several
companies,
including COGNICASE and a division of AT&T Canada.
Jen
is a technology columnist for the Globe and Mail's online edition and appears
regularly on Report on Business television's Tech Tuesday panel. She founded DigitalEve
Canada, a not for profit association for women and technology, is a member of
the Board of Directors of the White Ribbon Campaign and The Beach School and was
a two-time finalist for the Canadian New Media Awards. Jen teaches a course on
emerging technology for media and communications at the University of Toronto,
and is on the new media advisory panel to Women in Film and Television (WIFT),
Edentity and Health Express. She
is a graduate of Queen's University and her international work experience includes
Bermuda, Tokyo, the US, South America and Korea.
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