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JOIN US AT TECHPR2008, TECHNOLOGY IN EDUCATION CONFERENCE

“ONLINE EDUCATION AND THE FUTURE OF THE TRADITIONAL CLASSROOM”

WHERE: LA CONCHA RENAISSANCE HOTEL, SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO www.laconcharesort.com

WHO: K-12 and post secondary practitioners and administrators who are directly involved in the delivery of online instruction, those responsible for developing curricula and new modes of delivery, and those working with emerging technologies.

WHAT: The conference will explore, in depth, various scenarios in an immediate future sequence (at 5, 10 and 20 years) regarding the ever increasing uses of technology to produce educational deliverables. Workshops will present some of the most the current updated, intriguing technology uses, and expert keynoters will regale the audience with their futuristic predictions, and “best guess estimates” on the future of the traditional classroom.

Conference participants will explore online educational projects and exchanges between mainland students, at all levels, and Puerto Rico educators and students.

Conference attendees will hear from these confirmed Keynote Presenters and Panelists:

Dr. Robert Altenkirch is President of New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, New Jersey, USA. Prior to that he was Vice President for Research at Mississippi State University (MSU), and served as Dean of College of Engineering and Architecture at Washington State University, and Dean of Engineering at MSU. A mechanical engineer, Altenkirch received the Ph.D. from Purdue, and has hundreds of publications and presentations to his credit. Altenkirch is a fellow of ASME, a member of Phi Eta Sigma, Tau Beta Pi, Sigma Xi, ASEE and the iNEER Board.

Keith R. Krueger is CEO of the Consortium for School Networking (CoSN), a national nonprofit organization that serves as the voice of K-12 technology leaders, especially school district CTO’s, who use technology strategically to ultimately improve teaching and learning.

He serves on the Advisory Boards for eSchool News, and Scholastic Administr@tor Magazine, GetNetWise and Generation Y. He is a past Board Member for the Organizations Concerned about Rural Education (OCRE) and served for many years as Board Member and Treasurer of the National Committee on Technology in Education & Training (NCTET). He has been honored as an eSchool News IMPACT 30 key national leader in educational technology.

Mr. Krueger has a global reputation as a key thought leader. He has represented the National Science Foundation on a joint EU/US committee planning a joint research agenda for eLearning, and served as a delegate to various United Nations and G8 international ICT in education meetings. He has organized senior level U.S. delegations to visit Australia, Asia and Europe to examine best practices in educational technology.

As a Certified Association Executive (CAE), he has a long background in nonprofit/association management and is particularly interested in using information technologies for education, health and libraries. He has a Master of Arts in Public Affairs from the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute at the University of Minnesota.

Dr. Maureen Brown Yoder is the Program Director of the Technology in Education Online master's degree program at Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She has served in this role for the past twelve years developing online courses and programs, advising online students, and mentoring online faculty.

Dr. Yoder teaches “Emerging Technologies”, a course incorporating the newest and most innovative technologies in ways that promote imaginative thought and original creations. Dr. Yoder is passionate about using inquiry-based teaching, and assists educators as they create thought provoking questions, direct students to rich Web resources, and facilitate transformative thinking - in both online and traditional classroom environments. She has written and presented extensively on WebQuests, as well as a variety of constructivist approaches used to inspire and motivate students.

Dr. Yoder has conducted workshops on these topics nationally and internationally, most recently in Austria, South Africa and Argentina. She began her career as an elementary school classroom teacher then taught middle and high school technology classes before becoming a university professor. She received her doctorate at Boston University in Educational Media and Technology.

Ron Packard, Founder and CEO, K12 Inc. - Prior to starting K¹² Inc. in 1999, Ron Packard worked for McKinsey & Company as well as for Goldman Sachs in mergers and acquisitions. He holds a B.A. in Economics and Mechanical Engineering (with honors) from the University of California at Berkeley. As a Hughes scholar, he spent his undergraduate summers writing an image-processing language. He holds an M.B.A. (with honors) from the University of Chicago.

K¹² Inc. is a leading national provider of individualized, one-to-one learning solutions for students in virtual public schools, distance education programs and traditional classrooms. The K¹² program is used by more than 25,000 students and 700 teachers in 17 statewide virtual public schools.

Dr. David Gibson - Professor Gibson is Research Assistant Professor in the College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences, University of Vermont and Executive Director of The Global Challenge (www.globalchallengeaward.org), a team and project-based learning and scholarship program for high school students funded by the National Science Foundation that engages small teams in studying science, technology, engineering and mathematics in order to solve global problems. His research and publications include work on complex systems analysis and modeling of education, Semantic Web applications and the future of learning, and the use of technology to personalize education. His book “Games and Simulations in Online Learning” outlines the potential for games and simulation-based learning.

Dr. John R. Phillipo is Chairman/Chief Executive Officer, Center for Educational Leadership and Technology (CELT). Along with several colleagues, he co-founded CELT in 1991 as an education systems integration provider that brokers technical and implementation assistance to school systems for linking educational reform with the effective use of technology. Dr. Phillipo is nationally recognized as a resource consultant for schools, businesses, and state and federal departments of education on issues related to design and implementation of comprehensive information technology systems. In addition, he has taught graduate courses, authored journal articles, and made numerous presentations on interactive learning technologies and their impact on teaching, learning, and educational management. He coordinated a national research project, funded by the U. S. Department of Education, focused on using web-based electronic decision support systems to assist in the improved development of curriculum and management of learning. Dr. Phillipo is a former science/math teacher and school administrator.

Dr. Wilfredo T. Laboy is in his seventh year as Superintendent of Schools in Lawrence, Massachusetts, where he has used bold leadership to develop broad consensus for educational change. Dr. Laboy has been featured on ABC World News Tonight and has received numerous awards. He has also, been featured on several occasions on The Morning Edition of National Public Radio (NPR). In 2004, he was selected SUPER indent of the Year by The New England League of Middle Schools. In 2005, he was selected President of the Association of Latino Administrators and Superintendent (ALAS), a national affiliate of AASA. In September 2006, Lawrence was profiled in AASA’s School Administrator magazine, as one of the top five urban districts in the country sustaining school reform. In January 2007, he was selected by T-H-E Journal magazine (Technology Horizons in K-12 Education) as one of the Innovators Achievement in Education Fellows, for his leadership in Fiber Optic Wide Area Network (WAN), making Lawrence of the first district in the Commonwealth to accomplish this milestone.

In 2003, Dr. Laboy began the transformative process of converting a large urban comprehensive high school into six small thematic stand alone high schools on a new 25-acre high school state-of-the-arts campus. The first “conversion prototype” in the country, the campus is scheduled to open in September 2007. This work is testimony to Dr. Laboy’s relentless commitment to a K-12 “A College Going Culture for All Students.” Lawrence Public Schools is in the midst of one of the most exciting “High School Conversion and Transformation Project” in the country - -the new frontier of transforming secondary school education in America.

Throughout his three decade career in urban education, Dr. Laboy has been recognized as an expert in instructional leadership, second language acquisition programs, systemic school reform, secondary school reform and conversion strategies, turnaround strategies, professional and leadership development, and interventions for at-risk students and families.

Registration forms or questions:

Ms. Carmen Torres
The Latino Institute, Inc.
973-481-2522
ctorres346@optonline.net 

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