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Keynote: Jamie McKenzieJamie McKenzie is the Editor of From Now On - The Educational Technology Journal, a Webbased "ZINE" published online since 1991. In this journal, he has argued for increased commitment to professional development along with networks to support student exploration and reasoning. Jamie was a contributing editor to eSchool News until June of 2000 and continues as a guest columnist for the Classroom Connect newsletter. His articles have also appeared in Kappan, Educational Leadership, Electronic School and other magazines.
Prior to devoting himself to full time speaking and writing in 1997, Jamie was the Director of Libraries, Media and Technology for the Bellingham (WA) Public Schools - a district of 18 schools and 10,000 students fully networked with 2000 PCs all tied to the Internet by 1994-95. He has now moved on to support technology efforts in schools across North America, Australia and New Zealand.
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Keynote: Elliot SolowayFor the past 10 years, Soloway and his colleagues in the Center for Highly Interactive Computing in Education (hi-ce) — now composed of over 60 undergraduate and graduate students - have been exploring the ways in which computing and communications technologies can be the catalyst in bringing a constructivist, project-based pedagogy to science classrooms.
The hi-ce group is developing science curricula that embeds technology into the everyday experiences of students and teachers. As well, the hi-ce group is developing professional development workshops and materials that support teachers in carrying out these project-based, technology-pervasive curricula in their classrooms.
Attempting to integrate theory and practice in public schools, hi-ce now works in over 20 schools in cities such as Detroit MI and towns such as Pleasantville NJ.
There is an
opportunity now for making major changes in education, with technology
as the Trojan Mouse. He and his colleagues are working full-tilt to take
advantage of this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
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