Wednesday
B1: Open and Shared Content Movement – Are You Part of It?
Dr. Barbara -Bobbi- Kurshan, Executive Director, Curriki (DC)
Imagine a world where teachers could create, collect and work with free, high quality, classroom-proven resources from across the education community that meet their students’ needs. Where teachers could connect with exemplary teachers working in similar classrooms without regard to location to solve problems and learn new approaches. Where teachers would be able to watch other teachers deliver great lessons and learn from them. Why shouldn’t the power of Web 2.0 – of Wikipedia, Facebook and YouTube – be harnessed for the benefit of education? Are you part of this open and shared network of educators that supports becoming an “active planner” who employs rigorously evaluated, standards-aligned, open and shared resources in designing instruction? Then this session is for you! 
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B2: Empowering the 21st Century Leader: Change Is Good...You Go First
Dr. Howie DiBlasi, Retired C.I.O. (Chief Information Officer) for the Durango School District, CO
This session will demonstrate how educational leaders can be the “Agents of Change” alongside the students. We can transform teaching and learning into an active process by learning how to use the Digital Tools that our Digital Kids use every day. This process enables students to easily go beyond the narrow confines of the ‘safe’ knowledge base of their academic discipline to applying themselves to whatever they encounter in the post education world. Listen to an Interview.
Thursday
B3: Educating the Mobile Generation: Go Mobile! Go Global!
Dr. Cathleen Norris, Regents Professor, University of North Texas (TX)
Dr. Elliot Soloway, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor, University of Michigan (MI)
There are three major tensions in K-12 education: 20th century curriculum meets 21st century needs; Yesterday’s industrial age dutiful youth versus today’s mobile, restless youth; and classrooms that are isolated islands meet the connected, global marketplace. Which districts will step forward today and lead the America’s schools to “Go Mobile, Go Global”? There is no better time than now to successfully address the major tensions facing K-12 in America today. Come exchange ideas and contribute to the most important conversation of our time: educating the mobile generation. Listen to an Interview.
B4: Global Competitiveness = E 3(SWIM): The Innovations behind the Technology Equation
John Kuglin, Chief Information Officer, Eagle County School District Eagle, Colorado
The United States educational system is at a critical crossroad. A “knowledge-based economy” and globalization continue to challenge the archaic industrial-era assumptions upon which most public schools, curricula, and evaluation mechanisms are based. New interactive digital media are spreading rapidly, fostering a youth media culture. Using space, web, infrastructure and media in a multiplying manner will prepare our students for this new global competition. Learn how the technology equation, E 3(SWIM), answers 21 st Century questions and concerns educators face when preparing students to resolve global issues in Education, Energy, and the Environment. Listen to an Interview.