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Luncheon Speakers
Connecting Classrooms to Prepare the “Millennial” Generation for the Conceptual Age Economy
Wednesday, October 17, 2007 - Noon – 1:30 pm
Dave MasterClassrooms that tap into today’s “flat” world of anywhere-anytime access can prepare students to succeed in the conceptual age economy. Now, using the internet, teachers can harness their students’ enthusiasm for social interaction and self-expression and channel it toward meaningful engagement in the disciplinary standards, effective communication and responsible behavior. When K-12 classrooms connect to communities of professionals, field experts, aspiring college students and college educators, their students have a learning outlet for their ideas and creativity. It gives them unlimited opportunity to assess their work against college standards and world-class expectations. Teachers take their My Space/YouTube generation students from empty chat time toward aspiration-building, meaningful skill-development and principled interaction. Teachers learn the latest industry standards also! Presentation includes results from one 200-classroom model and a discussion of scalable, sustainable applications in other fields.
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How to Choose Tools for Analyzing Data
Thursday, October 18, 2007 - Noon – 1:30 pm
Victoria BernhardtVictoria L. Bernhardt, Ph.D., is Executive Director of the Education for the Future Initiative, a not-for-profit organization whose mission is to build the capacity of all learning organizations at all levels to gather, analyze, and use data to continuously improve learning for all students. She is also a Professor (currently on leave) in the Department of Professional Studies in Education, College of Communication and Education, at California State University, Chico. Dr. Bernhardt is passionate about her mission of helping all educators continuously improve student learning in classrooms, schools, districts, states, provinces, and countries by gathering, analyzing, and using actual data—as opposed to using hunches and "gut-level" feelings. She has made numerous presentations at professional meetings and conducts workshops on the school portfolio, data analysis, data warehousing, and school improvement at local, state, regional, national, and international levels.
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